Magazine of the Week #13

The November-December 1977 issue of RECORD REVIEW features "THE ROLLING STONES: A Complete Retrospective" by STEVEN ROSEN. The story is six pages and gives a basic rundown on The Stones and their record releases up to "Love You Live", which the article says "is the quintet's third live album and quite easily its worst".


It gives a nice basic overview of their records, even though it states that the "12 x 5" LP was "titled Ready, Steady, Go! in England"!






The whole magazine is a great read, lots of record reviews,
including jazz and classical.

ROD STEWART, LINDA RONSTADT (again in Cub Scout uniform!), RANDY NEWMAN, CHEAP TRICK, TOM PETTY, JEAN-LUC PONTY, and a lot more.

Happy Birthday Eric

Here are two tracks for ERIC CLAPTON's 61st birthday.

The first one is EC playing with the ROLLING STONES on an early unreleased version of "Brown Sugar" (with great harmonies from KEITH!).

The second track, also unreleased, is from THE DIRTY MAC, featuring Clapton, JOHN LENNON, KEITH RICHARDS, and MITCH MITCHELL, at the Stones' "Rock and Roll Circus" in December 1968, and is commonly known as "Dirty Mac Jam".

BROWN SUGAR (STONES WITH CLAPTON)

DIRTY MAC JAM

Rocket 88

Released in March 1981, this month marks the 25th anniversary of the release of the "ROCKET 88" LP. Recorded live in Hanover, West Germany in 1979, "Rocket 88" is, as described in producer IAN STEWART's liner notes, "a straight-forward, mainly instrumental blues album with boogie woogie as its foundation".

The band includes ALEXIS KORNER on guitar, JACK BRUCE on bass, and CHARLIE WATTS on drums, which technically makes it a BLUES INCORPORATED reunion. Stu plays on one track, "Swindon Swing".

You'd think there would have been a 25th anniversary CD release, but no such luck, so here it is, sourced from my old vinyl copy. For credits, label scans, and Stu's liner notes, click here.

side one

1. ROCKET 88
2. WAITING FOR THE CALL
3. ST. LOUIS BLUES

side two

4. ROLL 'EM PETE
5. SWINDON SWING
6. ROADHOUSE BOOGIE
7. TALKING ABOUT LOUISE

Geoff Emerick

ANDRE GARDNER has posted an MP3 of his recent half-hour interview with BEATLES engineer GEOFF EMERICK. They discuss, you guessed it, recording with The Beatles. Very nice.

Here's the page:

GEOFF EMERICK INTERVIEW - MARCH 7, 2006

Geoff has a new book out, called "Here, There and Everywhere : My Life Recording the Music of the Beatles".

Those Were The Days

Thirty-seven years ago today, during an interview for Dutch radio in the midst of the Amsterdam "Bed-In", JOHN LENNON breaks into a short acoustic "Don't Let Me Down", then goes right into a silly version of MARY HOPKIN's recent-at-the-time, MCCARTNEY-produced, Apple hit single "Those Were The Days":

DON'T LET ME DOWN/THOSE WERE THE DAYS (3/29/69)

The Nicky Hopkins Story

BBC Radio has produced some great rock music documentaries over the last few years. One of the current programs on Radio 2 is "DIAMOND TIARAS - THE NICKY HOPKINS STORY", where "Bob Harris tells the story of one of rock’s greatest session men, pianist Nicky Hopkins".

Its about an hour long and its well worth a listen:

BBC RADIO 2 - THE NICKY HOPKINS STORY

Chris Goes Rock

The CHRIS GOES ROCK blog has been posting some nice STONES-related stuff lately. They have a great two-volume Tribute to the Stones CD, and a live FACES soundboard recording from 1973. Also, some cool DYLAN boots, and lots more:

TRIBUTE TO THE ROLLING STONES

FACES LIVE 1973

Tattoo You

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Belated Birthday Wishes

Happy birthday Reg!

I knew I was forgetting something. Yesterday was ELTON JOHN's 59th birthday. Here are a couple of tracks to celebrate.

A considerably younger pre-superstardom Elton singing PAUL MCCARTNEY's "Come and Get It", and also Elton at perhaps his peak, performing live with the ROLLING STONES in Fort Collins, CO on July 19, 1975:

COME AND GET IT (ELTON JOHN)

HONKY TONK WOMEN (STONES WITH ELTON 7/19/75)

Face Lift

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Boy Howdy!

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Out Of Time

I'm sure you all know the feeling - you wake up on a Saturday morning and think to yourself, "Gee, I sure wish I could see a video of CHRIS FARLOWE's 1966 version of "Out Of Time"."

Well, guess what? Today's your lucky day! SONIC POLLUTIONS is a '60s music video blog, and that's one of the things they posted last week:

CHRIS FARLOWE "OUT OF TIME" VIDEO

Platinum Weirdness

You all remember PLATINUM WEIRD, don't you? Their debut gig was in the 1970s at MICK JAGGER's birthday party, and they got signed by ELTON JOHN. Read more here.

Anyway, it looks like DAVE STEWART is having quite a bit of fun with this, and there's a new "old" version of GEORGE HARRISON's "This Guitar (can't keep from crying)", actually sung by George Harrison!

If you haven't already, you've got to check this out. Here's the "official site", the one with the Harrison song:

WWW.PLATINUMWEIRD.COM

And here's the "Untold Story", with quotes from Jagger, Elton, and Stevie Nicks:

THE UNTOLD STORY

Thailand Jack Flash

BUBBLEGUM FINK is an extremely cool blog that routinely features stuff that you just won't see anywhere else.

One of those things is this picture sleeve for a vinyl EP from Thailand, which has "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and three other hits from 1968:

MORE FROM THAILAND

Polka Jack Flash

There's nothing like getting your Friday started with a good polka.

Here's SCOTT CHAPIN, "Poseur of Polka", from his "Friday Morning Polka Party" with the rollicking "Jumpin Jack Flash - Iron Man Polka":

JUMPIN' JACK FLASH - IRON MAN POLKA

If you like what you hear (and how could you not?), he's got a page with a bunch of polka-style covers, including "Octopus' Garden" and "In-A-Gadda-Da-Vida".

The page is here:

POSEUR OF POLKA

Magazine of the Week #12

Another issue of CREEM??? Get used to it, there are still a few more to come! This one's the January 1978 issue.

The cover story is "Jagger Jaw Session" by BARBARA CHARONE. JAGGER discusses the new "Punk" scene, "Love You Live", KEITH's pending legal issues, and MINK DEVILLE, among other fascinating subjects.

Lots of interesting stuff throughout the magazine: full-page ads for CLAPTON's "Slowhand" ("His new album is here!"), THE BEATLES' "Love Songs" ("Now in one fabulous gift album!"), SEX PISTOLS, THE JAM, THE RAMONES, ALICE COOPER, ELVIS COSTELLO's "My Aim Is True", and ROD STEWART's "Foot Loose and Fancy Free".

In "The Christgau Consumer Guide", critic ROBERT CHRISTGAU gives "Love You Live" a C+, PETE TOWNSHEND and RONNIE LANE's "Rough Mix" a B+, and "TALKING HEADS '77" an A-.

There's a piece on the LYNYRD SKYNYRD plane crash, and photos of LIONEL RITCHIE with a serious Afro. Also, STEVE MARTIN, ELVIN BISHOP, and BLUE OYSTER CULT.








And "The Creem Dreem" is LINDA RONSTADT, in a Cub Scout uniform!

Be sure to click on the images to enlarge!

Ringo and Zimmy

Here's an odd one that keeps popping up. An unreleased track from an aborted LP by RINGO STARR, "Wish I Knew Now (What I Knew Then)", featuring BOB DYLAN. Recorded in Memphis, TN, in April 1987. Taken from the bootleg "Lost and Found":

WISH I KNEW NOW (WHAT I KNEW THEN)

Mr. Lennon

I just have to mention that ILL FOLKS has one-hit-wonder FREDDIE LENNON's 1965 single, "That's My Life".

That's right, SEAN's granddad.

Here's the page:

FREDDIE AT ILL FOLKS

Country Dan

Here's the DAN WHITAKER COUNTRY BAND with a live version of "Country Honk", from October 13, 2005:

COUNTRY HONK (DWCB)

For more from the DWCB, go here:

DAN WHITAKER AT LIVE MUSIC ARCHIVE

March 20, 1969

Mash-ups, part 3

By popular demand, here are two more BEATLES-related mash-ups. I still haven't managed to come up with any ROLLING STONES mash-ups - come on you guys, somebody's got to have something!!!

Anyway, the first is a great, but short, "Stand By Me" LENNON vs MCCARTNEY mash, again from GO HOME PRODUCTIONS. The second is SOUNDHOG's mash-up of BEATLES vs SOULSEARCHER, called "Eleanor Can't Get Enough".

STAND BY ME (LENNON VS MCCARTNEY)

ELEANOR CAN'T GET ENOUGH (BEATLES VS SOULSEARCHER)

Expecting Dylan

Here's a link to a great site, EXPECTING RAIN.
Hundreds, yes hundreds, of DYLAN boots.
Including, of course, a few shows from1984 featuring MICK TAYLOR and IAN MCLAGAN:

EXPECTING RAIN FORUM

Back To The Irish

To celebrate ST. PATRICK'S DAY, here's WINGS with the instrumental version of "Give Ireland Back To The Irish", called "Give Ireland Back To The Irish (Version)". Not available on CD, as far as I can tell.

The single was released in February 1972, with the vocal version on the A-side and the instrumental version on the B-side. It was banned by the BBC, and later the same year the BBC would also ban their "Hi Hi Hi" single. That crazy MCCARTNEY - always controversial!!!

GIVE IRELAND BACK TO THE IRISH (VERSION)

Magazine of the Week #11-and-a-half

"I'm definitely not going to have plastic surgery. I think it's a sickness."
- Jerry Hall

Since you were all so good about Magazine of the Week #11, here's an extra treat, an "11-and-a-half". Its the March 1985 issue of VANITY FAIR, with a great JERRY HALL cover, photographed by ANNIE LEIBOVITZ.


Not only does this somehow seem to tie in with "Magazine of the Week #11", it also seems to tie in with Jerry's remarks the other day where she was quoted as saying, "I'm definitely not going to have plastic surgery. I think it's a sickness. I see people who have had work done and I don't even recognise them! They're like monsters! Scary!" See story here.

















The cover story is "From Rags To Rio, the Jerry Hall memoirs, written with Christopher Hemphill". There's a nice photo of Jerry and "the littlest Jagger", ELIZABETH SCARLETT, who, as Jerry reveals, MICK calls "Sausage". (And apparently Annie likes to take photos that show off Jerry's hair!)

Magazine of the Week #11

I guess this one should have been "Magazine of the Week" back around Valentine's Day. Better late than never!

The February 1983 issue of PLAYGIRL (where'd this come from, anyway?!) has an interview with MICK that's actually fairly entertaining.

In an exclusive interview with DUNCAN FALLOWELL, Mick talks about success, money, Paris, films, and how he and HAL ASHBY are going to make a film of GORE VIDAL's "Kalki". Elsewhere in the issue are reviews of LPs by LINDA RONSTADT and JONI MITCHELL, an article on TV's new hot young actors (including DENZEL WASHINGTON and DAVID HASSELHOFF), and lots of, uh, other, uh, photos.....



And be sure to click on the images to enlarge.

(or should I say "for natural enhancement"?)

Let's Make It

There's a new blog called LET'S MAKE IT, and they're posting some great stuff, including the STONES' "Satanic Sessions":

LET'S MAKE IT

Hundred-Dollar Covers

"I'll donate a hundred dollars if you play 'Under Assistant West Coast Promotion Man'."

Now there's something you don't hear every day. But apparently someone said just that last week!

YO LA TENGO played live "covers by request" for a WFMU fundraiser, each cover costing the requestor a hundred-dollar-or-more donation. The YOU AIN'T NO PICASSO blog was kind enough to start posting the MP3s. Some of the other hundred-dollar covers available now are "Dead Flowers", "Instant Karma", "Something In The Air", "Lay Lady Lay", "The Batman Theme", and more, with lots more to come, and all done in that inimitable Yo La Tengo style!

So head on over, have a listen, read some more about it, check out some of the other cool stuff they have, and maybe even make a donation while you're there.

Here's the page:

YO LA TENGO ON WFMU AT YOU AIN'T NO PICASSO

Black and Blue with Ulf

Its coming up on the 30th anniversary of "Black And Blue" (how can that be???) and ULF has some outtakes:

ULF - BLACK AND BLUE OUTTAKES

Peter Tosh: March 13, 1979

On March 13, 1979, PETER TOSH played another great show, this time at THE BAYOU in Washington, DC.

Here's the whole show, totalling about 73 minutes:

01 400 YEARS / STEPPIN RAZOR
02 PICK MYSELF UP / AFRICAN
03 BURIAL
04 SOON COME
05 I'M THE TOUGHEST / BUSH DOCTOR
06 DON'T LOOK BACK
07 GET UP STAND UP
08 LEGALIZE IT

Satisfaction, part 3

She's no CICCIOLINA, but the one-and-only PHYLLIS DILLER also has a sexy cover version of "Satisfaction", which even includes a little stand-up comedy.



From her LP "Born To Sing":

SATISFACTION (PHYLLIS DILLER)

Like The Rolling Stones

Even though their periods with the ROLLING STONES didn't overlap, there's still something kinda cool about MICK TAYLOR and IAN MCLAGAN playing on a song about BRIAN JONES.

In 1984 Mick and Mac toured with BOB DYLAN and one of the songs played was Dylan's "Ballad Of A Thin Man", a song allegedly about Brian. Or as Dylan says at the end of the track, "for a friend of mine". At one point Dylan had said it was written about a reporter for the Village Voice, but its also said that Brian himself took it personally. Who knows? Anyway, some nice guitar playing from Mr. Taylor on this one, from Brussels, June 7, 1984.

From the same show, we also have the song that would later be covered by The Stones, "Like A Rolling Stone", where Mac gets to do the classic AL KOOPER organ part.

The complete line-up is: Bob Dylan (vocal & guitar), Mick Taylor (guitar), Ian McLagan (keyboards), Greg Sutton (bass), Colin Allen (drums).

Here are the songs:

BALLAD OF A THIN MAN

LIKE A ROLLING STONE

And thanks to the original uploader!

Beatle Covers Medley at Bedazzled

This is a must-see video, over at BEDAZZLED. From the HOLLYWOOD PALACE TV show in 1969, a medley of Beatles' songs with Bing Crosby, Gwen Verdon, Bobbie Gentry, Engelbert Humperdinck, and Dick Shawn.

Yes, really! Simply amazing. Its here:

BEDAZZLED - "HOLLYWOOD PALACE" BEATLES MEDLEY

They also have a video of HARRY NILSSON's "Coconut" from the BBC in 1971:

BEDAZZLED - NILSSON BBC 1971

Magazine of the Week #10

The March 1985 issue of GUITAR WORLD features a great in-depth interview with RON WOOD. Woody talks about his work with JEFF BECK (who's also interviewed in this issue!) and how ROD and NICKY didn't get along with Jeff. And how JIMI HENDRIX once gave him a basset hound.


And of course he talks about Rod and THE FACES, and THE STONES, and his solo career. He talks about guitars, playing pedal steel, songwriting, etc.







There's a Woody discography, and "A Ron Wood Axology", and the "Collector's Choice" centerfold is Woody's custom ZEMAITIS "METALFRONT" guitar.
All that and a full-page ad "Ron Wood for ESP" (Electric Sound Products).



Very nice! Every Woody fan should have a copy of this mag!

Claudine

RATO RECORDS BLOG has a couple of CLAUDINE LONGET LPs, including her 1972 release "Let's Spend The Night Together", on which she also covers MCCARTNEY's "Every Night" and a medley of LENNON's "Jealous Guy" and "Don't Let Me Down". Also songs by LEONARD COHEN, NEIL YOUNG, BRIAN WILSON, KRIS KRISTOFFERSON, and GRAHAM NASH. The page is here:

.Rato Records Blog: CLAUDINE 72

Don't By-Pass '72 Stones!

THE BY-PASS CONTROL has some live '72 STONES - Fort Worth/Houston and Mobile, AL.

Like the page says, its "a little taste of the best Stones period ever"....

The page is here:

STONES AT THE BY-PASS CONTROL

More Max

Okay, okay. It was a KEITH co-produced single, so here's the title track from MAX ROMEO's "Holding Out My Love To You", and the track that was the B-side, "No Loafin'" (both sourced from the vinyl LP):

HOLDING OUT MY LOVE TO YOU

NO LOAFIN'

Happy now?

(Late-comers click here for more)

Peter Tosh at the Bottom Line

March 8, 1979.

Twenty-seven years ago tonight, PETER TOSH played at THE BOTTOM LINE in New York, and it was broadcast on WNEW-FM radio. It was a great show and included this smokin' version of "Get Up Stand Up":

GET UP STAND UP (3/8/79)

(The photo above is from a show in Zurich, three months later)

UPDATE: The file was misnamed as being from March 3rd, but it is really from March 8th. Sorry. Mea culpa!

Master Musicians of MySpace

MASTER MUSICIANS OF JOUJOUKA have a new MySpace page, with a new version of their song "Brian Jones Joujouka Very Stoned".

As it says on the page: "Their first album was produced in 1968 by Rolling Stones founder and lead guitarist Brian Jones and is commonly regarded as the first "World Music" album. The Master Musicians have collaborated, performed and recorded with artists as diverse as Ornette Coleman, Marianne Faithfull, Scanner, Lee Renaldo and Bill Laswell."

To read more, and to hear some of their music, visit their Myspace page here:

MASTER MUSICIANS OF JOUJOUKA

MP3s of "Brian Jones Presents The Pipes Of Pan At Joujouka" are still available here:

GREY LODGE OCCULT REVIEW

Splinter on Cyprus Avenue

GEORGE HARRISON, BILLY PRESTON, ALVIN LEE, KLAUS VOORMAN, JIM KELTNER, GARY WRIGHT...............

Yes, its SPLINTER! BILL ELLIOT and BOB PURVIS, as "Splinter", released three LPs on Harrison's DARK HORSE label in the 1970s, and the "Down On Cyprus Avenue" blog has them:

SPLINTER

Bossa n' Stones

Just got a copy of this 2005 CD and I have to say it is fun stuff! I'm not going to post any of it because its recent and obviously still commercially available.

How can you pass up Bossa Nova versions of "Fool To Cry", "Out Of Time", "Miss You", etc? And what a great cover!!!

Volume Two, which came out last week, is just as good and includes "She's So Cold", "Mixed Emotions" and more.

Available at Amazon.com, click here:

BOSSA N' STONES

Happy Birthday David Gilmour, part 2

Here's one more for Mr. GILMOUR's big six-oh today. Its his home-recording of BOB DYLAN's "Like A Rolling Stone", as he played it on the air during a BBC radio interview some years ago:


LIKE A ROLLING STONE (DAVID GILMOUR)

Happy Birthday David Gilmour, part 1

Born on this date in 1946, today marks DAVID GILMOUR's 60th birthday. Not only is his third solo album, "On An Island" released today, but so is the new CHRIS JAGGER CD which also features Gilmour.

But for now, thanks to a loyal reader, we'll go back to 1966, to the five-song vinyl EP from Gilmour's pre-FLOYD band JOKERS WILD:

WHY DO FOOLS FALL IN LOVE
WALK LIKE A MAN
DON'T ASK ME
BIG GIRLS DON'T CRY
BEAUTIFUL DELILAH

PSA: Stones in Brazil

This is a Culpa Direct Public Service Announcement:

THE ROLLING STONES show from Copacabana Beach, Rio de Janeiro, Brazil, February 18, 2006, is available here:

XYPLEX STONES COPACABANA

Keith and Max

In 1980, reggae legend MAX ROMEO turned up on the STONES' "Emotional Rescue" LP, doing some back-up vocals on "Dance".

Then KEITH RICHARDS co-produced Max's 1981 Shanachie Records LP "Holding Out My Love To You", and played lead guitar on it (or at least on some of it). The other co-producers were GEOFFREY CHUNG (pictured here with Keith), and EARL "CHINNA" SMITH, who also plays rhythm guitar. Bass and drums are by SLY DUNBAR and ROBBIE SHAKESPEARE, respectively.












The LP does not seem to be available on CD, so here are a couple of (what I think are) the better tracks, both of which feature Keith's lead guitar.

BELL THE CAT

NICE 'N' EASY

If there's enough interest, I'll post the entire LP.

Magazine of the Week #9

"Two Decades of Decadent Rock'n'Roll".

"Two decades"? Is that all???

Well, apparently way back in 1984 that was a big deal. Here we have the January 1984 issue of FACES magazine, which was, according to the "Editor's Letter", the "wild and wacky third issue.....a study in supergroups...". There's a 2-page center spread pic of the STONES from the 1981 tour, plus a 3-page article on them and their "stunning contract with the CBS Records Group for 28 million bucks".

We also learn that MICK is "attempting to produce GORE VIDAL's "Kalki" and completing a screenplay entitled "The Tin Soldier". Oh really?!

Also included are interviews with members of ASIA ("Courtesy of MTV"), ABBA's AGNETHA, SUPERTRAMP, and more! Click on images to enlarge.

Rolling on the BBC

The "8 DAYS IN APRIL" blog has the 2-CD set "Beat Beat Beat At The Beeb (1963-1965)", the (nearly?) complete ROLLING STONES BBC recordings.

Also on the page is the "Psychedelic Lollipop" LP by BLUES MAGOOS, and an EPSILON LP with a cover of "Paint It Black". Pretty cool stuff!

Here's the page:

8 DAYS IN APRIL

I Am Chet Baker

Okay, one more by request - here's BUD SHANK and CHET BAKER covering "I Am The Walrus". Its from their long out-of-print 1967 LP "Magical Mystery", which was recently posted on another blog. And of course thanks to the original uploader!

I AM THE WALRUS (SHANK AND BAKER)

Westerberg Does Zimmerman

By request, here's PAUL WESTERBERG doing BOB DYLAN's "It Takes A Lot To Laugh, It Takes A Train To Cry". I don't know anything else about this track - if its commercially available, let me know and I'll take it down (I'm used to Westerberg's best stuff not being commercially available!). And thanks to the original uploader, whoever you are!

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