WTF Moments in Music

[raticus_usm]

Chaotic Discord did a song dedicated to cliff Richard... at the end they sample cliff and it sounds like he is saying c@@t on repeat




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[Spearman]

Great story. Two weeks is a long time to wait when there's money to be spent right there and then, lol. I'm pretty sure Keith only used it on that tour. I can't recall seeing it anywhere else, except possibly...does he play it on the Marquee set from '71?

He had two, the prototype and another. I think in 69 it was only the prototype. They both got stolen during EOMS sessions in France. I haven't watched that Marquee vid for a long while. The difference between the two is the color of the pickup. Definitely an iconic guitar.
Back on topic...WTF moments
Keith belting a stage invader with his (also iconic) black tele.

He actually bailed the guy out of jail after the show. And the guitar stayed in tune.

 

[Professor Knowall]

Richards is a huge old country fan. There are outtakes of him by himself doing Hank Williams etc. He was best mates with Gram Parsons in the 60s until he died. Gram hung out in France with them a while during Exile period. Wild Horses has some juicy KR country licks in the solo.
Country Honk has a great fiddle part throughout by some country guy. Story is he recorded it outside the actual studio building on street. lol
I think that is a big part of why I love the Stones sound, particularly during that period BB to EOMS. Chuck Berry mixed with acoustics, and some blues and country solos.

I very nearly posted something eerily si Ilaria to this some 2 months back but got side-tracked and ultimately forgot about it until I checked back here today. Yes, Richards has long been a huge country music fan. I posted the following a few years back now on Gram Parsons (post # 560) in that crazy country music history thread -
"... Richards has long credited Parsons with introducing him to the pleasures of classic country music, which has since remained his chief love and passion when not earning his money (and, unlike me, he's become a real expert on country music history). He also introduced Parsons to Mick Jagger, and what had up to then basically been a "rocked-up" blues band, by taking on-board the other parent of rock'n'roll, country music, and incorporating it into their sound, reached their artistic peak in their "Sticky Fingers" album. ...".

And just 3 weeks ago, Richards was on stage with Vince Gill and Gram Parson's former protege, Emmylou Harris at the Country Music Association's (CMA) Awards, performing Parsons' 'I Can't Dance' (from his 1974 Grevious Angel album - Emmylou Harris provided harmony backing for Parson's original). Here's a snippet of Richards guitar solo -

 

[No eye deer]

They hit a level during that period that seldom few - if any - have matched. I certainly don't think any other rock act made 4 consecutive albums of such quality, with the glorious Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out right in the middle of it. Don't get me wrong, I adore the earlier Brian Jones era Stones just as much, but they hit an incredible run of form with the addition of Mick Taylor.

And have not gotten close to it since he left. Have you read Stanley Booth's True Adventures Of The Rolling Stones ?

Awesome run of albums, play them all constantly, to this day.
Fantastic book as well. Young Stanley certainly had a crack at keeping up with them on the party front!

 

[Hoos]

Awesome run of albums, play them all constantly, to this day.

As do I. I'd also add Goat's Head Soup to the run as well. Not quite at the same incredible level, but it's a very underrated album with no weak tracks and a couple of great ones.

Fantastic book as well. Young Stanley certainly had a crack at keeping up with them on the party front!

And it cost him didn't it. He became a junkie, broke his back, and took 15 years to finish the book.

 

[sherb]

The Osmonds shed their boy band image and go heavy.

 

[ExileOnArdenStreet]

Booth's book came out in 1984. It was partly a first hand chronicle on the Stones 1969 U.S tour (Booth travelled with them for the entire tour, including Altamont), and partly a bio of their career up to that point. The book pretty much ends when the tour does, apart from a brief, almost throwaway summation of everything they did after that.

It's an incredible book. Best I've read on the Stones and probably the best music bio I've read.

I've read that book about 10 times. It's fantastic.

 

[Hoos]

I've read that book about 10 times. It's fantastic.

Yep. I always go back to it.

 

[Gough]

I very nearly posted something eerily si Ilaria to this some 2 months back but got side-tracked and ultimately forgot about it until I checked back here today. Yes, Richards has long been a huge country music fan. I posted the following a few years back now on Gram Parsons (post # 560) in that crazy country music history thread -
"... Richards has long credited Parsons with introducing him to the pleasures of classic country music, which has since remained his chief love and passion when not earning his money (and, unlike me, he's become a real expert on country music history). He also introduced Parsons to Mick Jagger, and what had up to then basically been a "rocked-up" blues band, by taking on-board the other parent of rock'n'roll, country music, and incorporating it into their sound, reached their artistic peak in their "Sticky Fingers" album. ...".

And just 3 weeks ago, Richards was on stage with Vince Gill and Gram Parson's former protege, Emmylou Harris at the Country Music Association's (CMA) Awards, performing Parsons' 'I Can't Dance' (from his 1974 Grevious Angel album - Emmylou Harris provided harmony backing for Parson's original). Here's a snippet of Richards guitar solo -

This is just lovely.

 

[Hoos]

He also introduced Parsons to Mick Jagger, and what had up to then basically been a "rocked-up" blues band, by taking on-board the other parent of rock'n'roll, country music, and incorporating it into their sound, reached their artistic peak in their "Sticky Fingers" album. ...".

The Stones' country influence was there earlier than that. "High And Dry" from Aftermath sounds like a precursor to half the tracks on Beggars Banquet two years later.



And even earlier, they did a bluesy live rendition - compete with slide guitar from Brian Jones - of Hank Snow's "I'm Moving On". It appeared on the U.S version of Out Of Our Heads and the UK only release of the Got Live If You Want It! EP in 1965.

 

[Spearman]

The Osmonds shed their boy band image and go heavy.

That was actually a decent song by them, especially without the video. The Donny and Marie Show went through my high school years, not that I watched, so that I have a strong pop culture memory. That is until I watched QI and now this is my first thought when I hear 'Osmonds'.

 

[Soldier Of Misfortune]

There's a few great covers of Crazy Horses out there as well - it's a solid metal tune. Lawnmower Deth and KMFDM have both done it well.

 

[sherb]

That was actually a decent song by them, especially without the video. The Donny and Marie Show went through my high school years, not that I watched, so that I have a strong pop culture memory. That is until I watched QI and now this is my first thought when I hear 'Osmonds'.

I've always loved the video, it's such fun.

It was one of the early songs to make a statement about the environment too.

It just goes to show what talented musos can do when they are allowed to break free from the image that has been cultivated by them and/or for them. (And the Osmonds were talented).

Sherbet did the same thing in 1980 when they released this song. If it weren't for Daryl Braithwaite's distinctive voice, I would never have guessed it was them.

 

[Soldier Of Misfortune]

It just goes to show what talented musos can do when they are allowed to break free from the image that has been cultivated by them and/or for them. (And the Osmonds were talented).

Reminds me of The Sweet - they had some killer stuff written for them and then went on to write some killer stuff themselves. (they definitely declined in the last few albums but hey, that happens to lots of bands). Still makes my inner child smile when I watch the following video of them, impressed that the tv studio didn't flinch about the back of Steve's jacket:

 

[sherb]

Reminds me of The Sweet - they had some killer stuff written for them and then went on to write some killer stuff themselves. (they definitely declined in the last few albums but hey, that happens to lots of bands). Still makes my inner child smile when I watch the following video of them, impressed that the tv studio didn't flinch about the back of Steve's jacket:

The Sweet were very interesting, to me they had three phases with their hit singles.

1 - The Chinn/Chapman pop/bubblegum phase - eg Funny Funny, Co-Co, Poppa Joe
2 - The Chinn/Chapman heavier pop phase - eg Blockbuster, Hell Raiser, Ballroom Blitz
3 - The self-penned phase - eg Fox On The Run, Action, Love Is Like Oxygen

 

[GhostofJimJess]

I very nearly posted something eerily si Ilaria to this some 2 months back but got side-tracked and ultimately forgot about it until I checked back here today. Yes, Richards has long been a huge country music fan. I posted the following a few years back now on Gram Parsons (post # 560) in that crazy country music history thread -
"... Richards has long credited Parsons with introducing him to the pleasures of classic country music, which has since remained his chief love and passion when not earning his money (and, unlike me, he's become a real expert on country music history). He also introduced Parsons to Mick Jagger, and what had up to then basically been a "rocked-up" blues band, by taking on-board the other parent of rock'n'roll, country music, and incorporating it into their sound, reached their artistic peak in their "Sticky Fingers" album. ...".

And just 3 weeks ago, Richards was on stage with Vince Gill and Gram Parson's former protege, Emmylou Harris at the Country Music Association's (CMA) Awards, performing Parsons' 'I Can't Dance' (from his 1974 Grevious Angel album - Emmylou Harris provided harmony backing for Parson's original). Here's a snippet of Richards guitar solo -

I've always been a total sucker for Keith's vocals. His songs have always been amongst my very favourites on Stones records.

 

[Spearman]

The Sweet were very interesting, to me they had three phases with their hit singles.

1 - The Chinn/Chapman pop/bubblegum phase - eg Funny Funny, Co-Co, Poppa Joe
2 - The Chinn/Chapman heavier pop phase - eg Blockbuster, Hell Raiser, Ballroom Blitz
3 - The self-penned phase - eg Fox On The Run, Action, Love Is Like Oxygen

Fox on the Run brings back 70s memories of the VW with tweeters in door and thumpers in the back, and being stoneder than a beejeezus belt.

 

[Spearman]

I've always been a total sucker for Keith's vocals. His songs have always been amongst my very favourites on Stones records.

Was just listening to some odds and sods Stones stuff at work. A lot of his lead vocal songs that aren't rockers are straight country songs.

He recorded a bunch in Toronto after the bust and he couldn't leave the country.


Wild Horses was the first song of theirs that grabbed me when I was a kid. In the solo was the first lick I figured out, and I never knew it was a pure country lick as well.

 

[sherb]

Fox on the Run brings back 70s memories of the VW with tweeters in door and thumpers in the back, and being stoneder than a beejeezus belt.

It was actually Australia's #1 single for the year of 1975. It was massive here.

 

[Gough]

You AmI doing a great version.

 

[HugeJohnson]

Jesus Christ.








Surely it's time to start wearing a shirt, Iggy

 

[Soldier Of Misfortune]

Something kinda cool with the continued confrontation of an ugly body against society though.

 

[Hoos]

Something kinda cool with the continued confrontation of an ugly body against society though.

Or in this case, just put a f**king shirt on Iggy. Nobody wants to see that shit.