Rolling Stones (Page 2): Tri-X, that poster is hilarious. I still listen to the Stones. But I'd rather watch a The Warning concert. They're much easier on the eyes! They write headier...

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Tri-X, that poster is hilarious. I still listen to the Stones. But I'd rather watch a The Warning concert. They're much easier on the eyes! They write headier lyrics, too.

https://youtu.be/s6b_FgQnXL8?

Unfortunately, they haven't announced any tour dates near me for this year.

As for the Stones playing a jazz festival, well... The John Coltrane* Jazz and Blues festival is held every Labor Day Weekend in the park across the lake from my neighborhood. We're going again this year. My wife likes to hit up the food trucks during the blues performances. I like it all.

*John Coltrane grew up in High Point. He is a legend here.

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

burkphoto wrote:

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"Tri-X, that poster is hilarious. I still listen to the Stones. But I'd rather watch a The Warning concert. They're much easier on the eyes! They write headier lyrics, too."

I still listen to Exile on Main St once in a while. Here's Tom Waits excellent tribute to the Stones and Satisfaction.

Tom Waits - "Satisfied"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHn_Kb4Dz40&t=17s

TriX Loc: Raleigh, NC

Texcaster wrote:

"Tri-X, that poster is hilarious. I still listen to the Stones. But I'd rather watch a The Warning concert. They're much easier on the eyes! They write headier lyrics, too."

I still listen to Exile on Main St once in a while. Here's Tom Waits excellent tribute to the Stones and Satisfaction.

Tom Waits - "Satisfied"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHn_Kb4Dz40&t=17s

Love Tom Waits.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Texcaster wrote:

"Tri-X, that poster is hilarious. I still listen to the Stones. But I'd rather watch a The Warning concert. They're much easier on the eyes! They write headier lyrics, too."

I still listen to Exile on Main St once in a while. Here's Tom Waits excellent tribute to the Stones and Satisfaction.

Tom Waits - "Satisfied"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xHn_Kb4Dz40&t=17s

Okay, that was pretty weird, but he does have some of Jagger's moves down cold.

For all the critical acclaim given to Exile on Main St, I never got past the heavy audio compression and tinny vocal mix of it. I thought it was the worst mastered Stones album. I bought three copies of it — two versions of vinyl and a CD. I didn't like either vinyl, and the CD isn't much better. I really like Beggars' Banquet, Sticky Fingers, Get Your Ya-Yas Out, and Goats' Head Soup.

Quite a few remastered videos of their early movies and British TV specials have surfaced on YouTube recently. Here's an oldie but goodie:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ruTMp4_sy1E&list=PLKEOCWQDKovctKOmf25SYuykiI6MUv83r

Texcaster Loc: Queensland

burkphoto wrote:

Okay, that was pretty weird, but he does have some... (show quote)

OK you're into audio in a way I'd certainly like to be.

I'd like to hear this lady's playing through something better than my computer speakers. She's a jazzer with a good blues/rock sensibility and ... tone and soul you could spread like butter.

Molly Miller Trio- "The Weight" (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI0sPoOxh1M

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Texcaster wrote:

OK you're into audio in a way I'd certainly like to be.

I'd like to hear this lady's playing through something better than my computer speakers. She's a jazzer with a good blues/rock sensibility and ... tone and soul you could spread like butter.

Molly Miller Trio- "The Weight" (Official Video)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GI0sPoOxh1M

She can play! Nice dirty bar blues guitar sound on my Sony MDR-7506 headphones. That's quite a bass amp they're using.

The Nitty Gritty Dirt Band played at Davidson when I was a student there in the mid-1970s. I ran sound for them when they popped into the student union bar after their concert and played a few songs. Here's a slide from that after-concert show. John McEuen is off to the left, out of frame, on fiddle. Robbie Robertson was not on that tour, but I saw him with Bob Dylan and The Band in 1974.

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JohnSwanda Loc: San Francisco

burkphoto wrote:

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I developed my love of music from car radios, cheap record players, and transistor radios. Exile on Main Street is one of my favorite Stones album, along with Aftermath (first LP I ever bought) and Let it Bleed. I'm glad I don't have a sensitivity to sound quality that would keep me from enjoying it.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

JohnSwanda wrote:

I developed my love of music from car radios, cheap record players, and transistor radios. Exile on Main Street is one of my favorite Stones album, along with Aftermath (first LP I ever bought) and Let it Bleed. I'm glad I don't have a sensitivity to sound quality that would keep me from enjoying it.

Don't get me wrong, I enjoy it on some levels. I guess I hate-enjoy being annoyed by the mix.

It's sort of like watching a concert someone recorded on their smartphone. It's better than nothing. But you long for something pristinely mixed from virgin sound sources (every mic and every line output from a pedal board or amp or keyboard recorded separately for mix down in post production, the same way albums are mixed in a studio). Better concert videos and films have been created that way for decades.

I linked a Rolling Stones concert above from 1968. It was filmed for TV, and recorded separately on analog multitrack tape, probably mixed live on site for the film. Even 56 years ago, the film company knew how to do it right. But for that one Exile on Main Street album, the producer went Lo-Fi on us. Maybe it was a creative choice. Maybe it was the wrong choice.

Harry02 Loc: Gardena, CA

My wife was a Beatles vinyl wearer outerer. Her and the nieces know all the words, all the songs.
*I* was a solid Stones fan. The Beatles were just pubescent female pap.
Actually, one of the reasons we've gotton along all this time.
We didn't really know enough about the other's music to argue about it.
Even now. Since menopause hit like a switch, she moved from soft rock to classical.
50 years ago played that.
I listen to the jazz station just a couple clicks from KUSC

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

jerryc41 wrote:

I mean the group, not the fun activity.

While they are a good group I’m not much of a fan. I’ll listen to a few songs. I’m much of a Pink Floyd fan. I have been since my days at Montauk Junior High School and still am. The highlight of my last vacation was visiting Pompeii.

burkphoto Loc: High Point, NC

Scruples wrote:

While they are a good group I’m not much of a fan. I’ll listen to a few songs. I’m much of a Pink Floyd fan. I have been since my days at Montauk Junior High School and still am. The highlight of my last vacation was visiting Pompeii.

https://youtu.be/ZDGudWVhjaU? — Pink Floyd, Live at Pompeii

I remember seeing that movie at midnight one COLD January morning in 1975.

It means a lot more now, after briefly touring Pompeii in 2022. It's an AMAZING place.

I'm a huge fan of progressive rock in general, especially Yes and Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Frank Zappa, Supertramp, Alan Parsons Project, Genesis, King Crimson, ELP, Premiata Forneria Marconi, Mike Oldfield, Strawbs...

Scruples Loc: Brooklyn, New York

I recall Syd Barrett and his unfortunate dismissal from the band. I recall the bitter arguments between David Gilmore and Roger Waters. I will miss Richard Wright and one of my many photography inspirations, Storm Thurgerson.

I enjoy much of the same music. Having seen these bands in concert and listening over many years, there are several on my list

Laramie Loc: Tempe

I never liked the Beatles, and only like Exile on Mail Street from the Stones. But I do love Tom Waits. Wish he'd tour again.