🎧 The Rolling Stones, "Between the Buttons (UK)". Full disclosure, not a Stones fan. Deep respect, of course, and acknowledgement of their gigantic contribution, but never my cuppa. I think Keef is a shit guitarist, and Mick has zero emotional depth as a singer, but hey he's got moves like...himself. Bill Wyman just plain sucked. Every so often I need to hear or see something to re-educate or remind myself why I hold a particular opinion on it. I never got the Stones.
@tgraph52 Yeah I get you. I played in bands that did both. It's two completely different music schools. My brother, who is a top-flight guitarist, knew how to play the Stones stuff "correctly" using the chord voicings Keef used (Midnight Rambler is deceptively simple). If you looks at songs like "Sympathy" and "YCAGWYW" they are rudimentary progressions. The Beatles were just on a different plane of existence, compositionally. Look at the meters in "All You Need Is Love" or "Good Morning". Nuts.
At our first paid job, a Valentine's Day dance in a college cafeteria for $100, our guitarist/singer starts into Brown Sugar. We'd never even fooled around with that... We're like... what fucking key are we in??? But I doubt anyone in the audience even knew... Stupid audiences, 😜 We were very good at faking it and that catalogue is just in people's DNA it seems.
@tgraph52 Exactly - they hear the FM radio version no matter who is playing it. I was in an Allman Brothers tribute band - those guys are insane. We'd have guys come up after and say stuff like "that was cool how played the Watkins Glen version of One Way Out but the second solo was from the Fillmore West bootleg...nice.." Or, "you wanna be playing that solo in C#min NINTH if you're gonna do the A&R Studios version, bud..." It's a damned cult.
for a bunch of backwoods hillbillies, the Allman Brothers could really play 😀
Berry Oakley was definitely an inspiration
but yeah.. the fans 😍
@MPCavalier I am a Stones fan, but the people who cite "Between The Buttons" as an underrated album are farting into the wind as far as I'm concerned. It's very hard to sit through, they'd taken the pop thing as far as they could one album earlier, and the oft-hated psychedelic album that followed actually felt like a step up from this.
@lustforlaughs
It was, until a few minutes ago, one of the few Stones albums from before 1980 that i was unfamiliar with. So I figured I'd give it a go. Agreed, Aftermath is a stronger record. I'm listening to the UK versions so all of the "hit singles" are missing. A purer listen, but a more difficult one. Prior to Beggars Banquet, I consider them a singles band. Some good ones in there.
@MPCavalier
way back when, I was in the Beatles camp of the Beatles/Stones debate. But when I was in a band, we could, and did, play Stones songs all night long without 'learning' any of them and never tried anything by the Beatles. Not sure if that means they were just shit easy songs, or what.
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