Stewart,

really, you should come on out one day when me and Deniz Tek and Jim
Dickson are in a mood and pulling our records from the library and trying
to make the sun burn a little brighter... just add a bottle of good
wine......

Stewart Mason wrote:

> > Not to change the subject, but some of our albums are made up of
> > songs
> > from very different periods. Not to say they are an after thought at
> > all.
> > Just the opposite. I know what songs are going to fit together. Just
> > because a song on an album was started ten years earlier, and a
> > completely different version of the band finished the song, doesn't
> > mean
> > it doesn't belong on the album it appeared.
>
> Well, no, I see what you're saying, but I don't always get the idea
> that the Stones thought so much about it.  Honestly, the reason
> METAMORPHOSIS doesn't bother me as much as it does some people is that
> if Oldham had released it in '66 or whenever, it wouldn't have sounded
> much more slapdash than OUT OF OUR HEADS

oh, now I will call you on a very wrong assumption. Out Of Our Heads is a
real landmark for the Stones, unlike Metomorph, which is mostly not the
Stones.

> did, and EMOTIONAL RESCUE is
> so clearly just leftovers from SOME GIRLS that I swear it must have
> taken about half an hour to assemble the album!  (Someone on another
> list I frequent recently made the cogent point that "Emotional
> Rescue," the song, is basically just the spoken-word section of "Miss
> You" extended to five or six minutes.)

I'll have to check dates there, cause I don't buy this either. And that
song of Keith's is so good, as are Summer Romance and a few others...
this and Some Girls fall into my Stones "two great albums and a live one"
theory. No,no, no no, don't be dissing the good stuff. Next thing, you'll
be tellin me Mooney Suzuki are good...:>)

>
>
>
>
> Sorry, it's just that there are a few folks from the older contingent
> of Auditeers who truly seem to think that anyone who doesn't
> personally remember Neil Armstrong's first step on the moon -- which
> happened when I was 20 days old -- has no business commenting on the
> music of the '60s, and by the way, our taste in music sucks.  It grows
> tiresome.

Yes and no.... as I tried to point out, there were many more factors.
It's like the people who try to say that we need the 50's values based on
Leave It To Beaver. You had to be there to know that might not really be
the case. I sure know there are some great blues records, but I have very
little "incontext" idea about it, except they are fab slabs of music. It
was a surprise when my parents said, "oh you like BB King" we know who he
is. These were people who'd borrow our records and then say, "get lost,
we're having a party".

And, if you look at what I said, I never said your taste in music sucks.
No I would hardly say that, unless you said Dave Matthews or John Meyer
were better than the Stones.... (or like the kid who tried to tell me
that GFR's version of Gimme Shelter was better than the Stones; in 1973)
And even then I don't know, I just don't like 'em. I just thought some
people's assessment of the ole Stones was a bit off the mark... I was
just trying to impart MY excitement about the Stones at the time the
records came out. I still remember my older cousin changing the station
when 19th Nervous Breakdown came on, and grumbling about "the darn
Rollin' Stones".

>
>
> For the record, I was thoroughly exposed to the Stones from the crib
> onwards, courtesy of my sister Rozann, who's 12 years older than I am.
> However, I was sussed enough even as a kid to know that the stuff they
> were doing currently was no match to what was on HOT ROCKS and the two
> BIG HITS volumes.

Yeah, but the sky ain't as blue as it used to be, and  tv was much better
in black and white and Coke was actually good in a bottle and you got a 5
cent refund for the bottle... But I bet you never thought about obscure
newer tracks like Fancy Man Blues, or Cook Cook Blues, The Moon Is Up or
a few other gems. Damn, Highwire is a good live album and some of the
other gigs from this era are shockingly good. The vid I saw of the last
tour was stupidly great, even with Mick and his wardrobe on stage. Great
songs, and Woody really doing the stuff.

If I can try to like the new Dwight Twilly album... and I bought the Blue
Ash double you surely can cut the Stones some slack. Jeez. most of them
are still alive... and pretty funny on occasion.  As we say on the radio,
"when in doubt, play the stones".

Look, if I were a guy who never went out to see music, old or new, or
never bought anything new, or old, I'd not be so feisty, but as I still
have the same passions I had in 1959 I don't concede so easy.

that's entertainment

RS

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