Exciting update; The Rolling Stones have just premiered their official video for "Scarlet" on YouTube. The track is one of three previously-unheard tracks on the forthcoming Goats Head Soup deluxe reissue:
While we are focused on The Rolling Stones, check out rocker Michael Ubaldini's new "The Ballad of Brian Jones" video too:
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Thursday, August 06, 2020
Saturday, May 09, 2020
Video Premiere: Michael Ubaldini's 'The Ballad of Brian Jones'
Rock 'n' Roll poet Michael Ubaldini's new album Music Notes from the Underground doesn't arrive until May 19 but you can check out the wonderful music video for "The Ballad Of Brian Jones" now. The blues-meets-Americana soundscape features Ubaldini singing about the legacy of the founder of The Rolling Stones (Jones sadly died at age 27 on July 3, 1969). The video features plenty of historic images of Brian Jones taken by legendary rock and roll photographer Gered Mankowitz. You can get more information on Ubaldini and pre-order his forthcoming album via his official website.
Wednesday, August 28, 2019
The Rolling Stones thrill in long-awaited return to the Valley of the Sun
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| From left, The Rolling Stones' guitarist Ronnie Wood, drummer Charlie Watts, singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards. |
That doesn't mean rock music lovers take the existence of one of the planet's greatest ever rock 'n' roll bands for granted.
Earlier this year the group's "No Filter Tour" was postponed when singer Mick Jagger, 76, had to undergo a heart valve replacement procedure. That was the latest in a long series of bona fide challenges dating back to the death of original guitarist/founding member Brian Jones in July 1969. Indeed, the band's original keyboardist Ian Stewart had a heart attack and died in December 1985; founding bassist Bill Wyman left the band in 1993 (to be replaced by "unofficial" bassist Daryl Jones), and drummer Charlie Watts was diagnosed with throat cancer (which was treated with radiotherapy and is currently in remission) in June 2004.
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| Mick Jagger, left, and Keith Richards at State Farm Stadium. Photo: Kim Kinsler |
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| Drummer Charlie Watts, and guitarists Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards performing on August 26, 2019. Photo: Robert Kinsler |
To be sure The Rolling Stones (whose official line-up includes Jagger, Watts, and guitarists Keith Richards, guitarist Ronnie Wood) have embarked on frequent tours over the years, this concert at the home of the NFL's Arizona Cardinals was the troupe's first performance in the greater Phoenix area in more than a decade. Few would argue the band's commanding and inspired performance was worth the wait.
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| Mick Jagger, left, dueling with Ronnie Wood while drummer Charlie Watts keeps time behind his kit. Photo: Robert Kinsler |
Following a wonderfully loose performance of "Tumbling Dice," Jagger proclaimed: "It's great to be back in the sun. Who else would come to Arizona in August?"
The Rolling Stones had opened the show minutes earlier with their 1968 hit "Jumpin' Jack Flash." It was the first of 19 classic cuts the band would unleash, each offering a myriad of reasons to celebrate this night.
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| Keith Richards, left, with bassist Daryl Jones. Photo: Robert Kinsler |
Here are some of the standout moments from the two-hour performance:
- "Tumbling Dice" offered an early chance for Jagger to journey out onto the floor via a long elevated ramp to sing, dance and spur the crowd to get into the festive atmosphere. The song's triumphant ending celebrated the talents of the band and a talented touring group of singers and musicians.
- While the majority of songs performed in Glendale came from the Stones' '60s and '70s albums, fans of their more recent material were treated to "Sad Sad Sad" from 1989's outstanding Steel Wheels LP. It was a straight-up rocker and featured some of Richards' most rousing and exciting lead guitar work of the night.
- An intimate mini-set featuring Jagger, Richards, Watts and Wood performed out at the end of the ramp positioned on the floor. A countrified blues version of "Sweet Virginia" and rootsy take on "Dead Flowers" were magical.
- A wonderful detour featuring Richards on lead vocals included the acoustic gem "You Got The Silver," with Wood's shining slide work bolstering the track. A decidedly more rocking take on the Some Girls favorite "Before They Make Me Run" followed.
- During the opening moments of "Symphony for the Devil," Jagger came out to stage in a green glitter-adorned jacket complete with tails and a stylish hat and twirled a number of times to the delight of the crowd.
- The Stones only played one disco-flavored track on this night, but it was a great one. The extended take on "Miss You" not only found Jagger playing guitar but singing in a high-flying falsetto that drew resounding cheers from the entire crowd. The classic also found Jones impressing with his cunning skills on the bass guitar.
- It's easy to forget that the Stones were originally rooted in blues. That changed in an instant when the group tore through an incredible version of "Midnite Rambler," complete with Jagger playing some fiery blues harp.
- Few fans left the concert early, so the majority of concertgoers were rewarded with a potent two-song encore including a marathon-length reading of "Gimme Shelter" where Jagger brought singer Sasha Allen out and the two nailed the emotive peaks of the song. Finally, the band closed things out with their most iconic hit, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction," elevating a special night to even greater heights.
While there are few guarantees in life, this is one Rolling Stones fan hoping there is at least one more tour in their future.
Editor's Note: The Rolling Stones have rescheduled their final show of the "No Filter Tour" at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami to Friday, August 30, 2019 in the wake of the news about the arrival of Hurricane Dorian.
Review by Robert Kinsler
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| Mick Jagger in Glendale, AZ. Photo: Robert Kinsler |
The Rolling Stones - 'No Filter Tour' setlist at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ on Monday, August 26, 2019
"Jumpin' Jack Flash"
"Let's Spend the Night Together"
"Tumbling Dice"
"Sad Sad Sad"
"Get Off of My Cloud"
"You Can't Always Get What You Want"
B-Stage/Acoustic set
"Sweet Virginia"
"Dead Flowers"
"Sympathy for the Devil"
"Honky Tonk Women"
"You Got the Silver"
"Before They Make Me Run"
"Miss You"
"Midnight Rambler"
"Paint It Black"
"Start Me Up"
"Brown Sugar"
Encore
"Gimme Shelter"
"(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
Thursday, August 03, 2017
The Rolling Stones' THEIR SATANIC MAJESTIES REQUEST – 50th ANNIVERSARY SPECIAL EDITION coming September 22 from ABKCO
The Rolling Stones continue to give their dedicated fans reason to celebrate through an ongoing series of great and expanded reissues, as well as live concert DVD/Blu-ray releases. With 2017 marking the 50th anniversary of the release of 'Their Satanic Majesties Request,' this news is perfectly timed...
LANDMARK 1967 ALBUM TO RECEIVE DOUBLE VINYL / DOUBLE HYBRID SACD TREATMENT, INCLUDING MONO AND STEREO VERSIONS WITH RESTORED ORIGINAL LENTICULAR COVER ART
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To commemorate the 50th anniversary of The Rolling Stones album Their Satanic Majesties Request, ABKCO Music is releasing a limited edition deluxe double vinyl/double hybrid Super Audio CD (compatible with all CD players) package on September 22, 2017. The set contains both the stereo and mono versions of every song, all newly remastered by Bob Ludwig. Their Satanic Majesties Request - 50th Anniversary Special Edition will include Michael Cooper’s original 3-D lenticular cover photograph, featuring the band in peak psychedelic regalia.
The Rolling Stones: Their Satanic Majesties Request – 50th Anniversary Special Edition pre-order links:
Originally released in December of 1967, Their Satanic Majesties Request is the first self-produced album in the Stones’ vast catalog. Experimental in nature, it was such a departure from the band’s rhythm & blues roots that it threw critics for a loop. Initially derided by Rolling Stone Magazine for being “too infused with the pretentions of their musical inferiors” (namely the Beatles), the record was simultaneously lauded by DownBeat with a five star review declaring the album “a revolutionary event in modern pop music.”* Over the ensuing decades, it has proven to be a highly influential body of work; generations of bands have covered Satanic songs, from punk legends The Damned, Bad Brains, and Redd Kross, to hard rockers KISS and Monster Magnet, as well as indie taste makers Cibo Matto and Arcade Fire. Music from the album can be heard in Wes Anderson’s directorial debut Bottle Rocket.
The title was derived from a pun based on the inside of British passports at the time which read, “Her Britannic Majesties Principal Secretary of State for Foreign Affairs Requests and Requires . . .” Their Satanic Majesties Request was recorded in pieces between February and October of 1967. It was a tumultuous period for the Rolling Stones – Mick Jagger, Keith Richards and Brian Jones were arrested for drug possession, with Jones spending three weeks in a nursing home. The Stones’ original manager/producer Andrew Loog Oldham quit halfway through recording sessions, leaving the band to finish the album on their own. A chaotic spring European tour that involved a riot in Poland also interrupted work flow. Very rarely were all five members in the studio at the same time but despite these impediments, Charlie Watts recalled, “The sessions were a lot of fun because you could do anything. It was so druggy—acid and all that.”
Grammy award winning music historian Rob Bowman writes in the liner notes for the new set, “Their Satanic Majesties Request should be recognized as an important stepping stone in The Rolling Stones’ development from an r&b-inspired band to the inventors of modern rock for the 1970s.” Falling between Between the Buttons and Beggars Banquet, it was the first of their albums to have identical tracklists in the U.S. and UK. Satanic Majesties’ ten tunes are saturated with studio effects, non-traditional instruments such as mellotron and theremin, ambient sounds created using oscillators, string arrangements by John Paul Jones (who went on to help establish Led Zeppelin the following year) and more percussive devices than can be named. “Citadel” foreshadowed the direction towards straight-forward rock the Stones would take, while “2000 Light Years From Home” and “She’s a Rainbow” (a minor hit in the U.S.) capture the band in all its psychedelic glory at that moment in time. They remain the only two songs from the album the band has ever played live. “Sing This All Together,” its looser reprise “Sing This All Together (See What Happens),” “Gomper” and “On With the Show” transition from traditional song structure to free form freakout – a trademark of that era, also heard on records by the Mothers of Invention and Pink Floyd.
Offered as a single just before the album’s release, “In Another Land” is the only song in The Rolling Stones canon both written and sung by Bill Wyman, who took advantage of the fact that he was the lone member who showed up to the studio one day. The Small Faces happened to be recording next door, so Steve Marriott and Ronnie Lane were invited to contribute backing vocals, with Marriott also providing 12-string acoustic guitar. With Brian Jones on mellotron, Stones cohort Nicky Hopkins on harpsichord and Charlie Watts on drums, Mick and Keith laid down backing vocals, making it a complete Stones affair.
Michael Cooper, who had created the immaculate art for the Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band earlier in 1967, was hired by the Stones to make something equally striking for the cover of Their Satanic Majesties Request. All four Beatles’ likenesses can be seen popping out of flowers, surrounding a photograph of Charlie, Keith, Mick, Brian and Bill in technicolor garb. Cooper used a rare 3-D camera, employing lenticular technology – when the cover is tilted, the image changes, and every member except for wizard-hatted Mick appear to be moving their heads. Reproduction of the lenticular cover proved costly, and it was eliminated from many subsequent pressings of the album, being replaced by a still image. Their Satanic Majesties Request - 50th Anniversary Special Edition restores the original lenticular art, and the discs are housed in a bespoke fold out album limited edition numbered package with a 20 page book including more of Michael Cooper’s photos from the original session, expanding on what the record-buying public saw in 1967.
Their Satanic Majesties Request was originally mixed in both stereo and mono, as was standard practice in 1967. The limited edition 50th anniversary edition will include the entire album on 180 gram vinyl in stereo, another 180 gram vinyl record in mono, and two hybrid Super Audio CDs (one in stereo and one in mono). Each of these discs includes the entire musical content in both Super Audio CD (SACD) as well as standard CD, providing for complete backward and forward hardware compatibility. The discs will play flawlessly on any SACD compatible or standard CD player. In an SACD player, the laser pick-up automatically reads the SACD layer in Direct Stream Digital (DSD) format, while a standard CD player’s laser pick-up will automatically read through the SACD layer to the CD layer in Pulse Code Modulation (PCM) format. Recently remastered by eleven time Grammy winner Bob Ludwig at Gateway Mastering Studios, the SACD audio is the exact product of his work.
*DownBeat
Vol. 35, No. 11
May 30, 1968
Page 30, review of The Rolling Stones’ Their Satanic Majesties Request by Mark Wolf
Their Satanic Majesties Request - 50th Anniversary Special Edition track list:
Vinyl
Side A (stereo)
1) Sing This All Together
2) Citadel
3) In Another Land
4) 2000 Man
5) Sing This All Together (See What Happens)
Side B (stereo)
1) She’s a Rainbow
2) The Lantern
3) Gomper
4) 2000 Light Years from Home
5) On with the Show
Side C (mono)
1) Sing This All Together
2) Citadel
3) In Another Land
4) 2000 Man
5) Sing This All Together (See What Happens)
Side D (mono)
1) She’s a Rainbow
2) The Lantern
3) Gomper
4) 2000 Light Years from Home
5) On with the Show
Hybrid SACD
Disc 1 (stereo)
1) Sing This All Together
2) Citadel
3) In Another Land
4) 2000 Man
5) Sing This All Together (See What Happens)
6) She’s a Rainbow
7) The Lantern
8) Gomper
9) 2000 Light Years from Home
10) On with the Show
Disc 2 (mono)
1) Sing This All Together
2) Citadel
3) In Another Land
4) 2000 Man
5) Sing This All Together (See What Happens)
6) She’s a Rainbow
7) The Lantern
8) Gomper
9) 2000 Light Years from Home
10) On with the Show
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Tuesday, July 21, 2015
New releases provide time machine-worthy ride
From the ’50s rock ‘n’ roll-minded cult classic flick Daddy-O featured on Mystery Science Theater 3000 and a stunning look back at The Rolling Stones to the final release from power-pop champions The Knack and an ambitious look at the Continental Drifters, July has racked up an eclectic wealth of sonic riches.
Artist: The Rolling StonesTitle: From the Vault – Hyde Park Live 1969 (Eagle Rock Entertainment)
You might like if you enjoy: The Rolling Stones, Mick Taylor, Keith Richards
Tell me more: While the release of The Rolling Stones' From The Vault: The Marquee – Live in 1971 earlier this summer captured the band performing at an intimate club in 1971, the new From the Vault – Hyde Park Live 1969 (available on DVD and Blu-ray) features the same stellar Stones line-up of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Mick Taylor and Bill Wyman in their first public performance together. Captured at London's Hyde Park on July 5, 1969 (and only two days after the death of former Stones guitarist Brian Jones), the concert also marked the Rolling Stones' first full-length concert appearance in two years. From the Vault – Hyde Park Live 1969 is more than a concert, offering up the full 8-song set along with fascinating crowd footage (look closely and you can catch Paul McCartney), interviews with a young Mick Jagger and the debut of young lead guitar great Mick Taylor. A fascinating and essential moment in the Rolling Stones' impressive career. Information: eagle-rock.com.
Get 'From the Vault: Hyde Park 1969' here
DVD Title: Mystery Science Theater 3000: XXXIII (Shout! Factory)
You might like if you enjoy: Mystery Science Theater 3000, Svengoolie
Tell me more: What possible reason would compel any sane person to watch Daddy-O, an awful 1958 movie that somehow tapped into the explosion of early rock 'n' roll and hot rod culture while getting it all horribly wrong. Look no further than the first of four must-see films skewered on the newly-released Mystery Science Theater 3000: XXXIII collection. On Daddy-O, aspiring rock singer Phil "Daddy-O" Sandifer (played by singer-actor Dick Contino) somehow is able to pick up on girls, get pulled into a drug-running scheme and lose his best friend thanks to a solid story that somehow never flies on film. The most noteworthy aspect of the movie itself is that it provided young composer John Williams with his first-ever feature film score, while Joel and his two bots are able to entertain via their sharp-witted zingers and commentary. The other three films that get a well-deserved Satellite of Love treatment include Earth Vs. The Spider, Teen-Age Crime Wave and Agent for H.A.R.M. Information: shoutfactory.com.
Purchase 'Mystery Science Theater 3000: XXXIII' here
Artist: The KnackTitle: Live From the Rock 'n' Roll Fun House (Omnivore Recordings)
You might like if you enjoy: The Knack, Fountains of Wayne
Tell me more: Providing the final chapter in The Knack's long and acclaimed career, 2001's Live from the Rock 'n' Roll Fun House has been lovingly reissued and expanded courtesy of Omnivore Recordings. While the 17-song set includes the Los Angeles-based quartet's biggest hits ("That's What the Little Girls Do," "Good Girls Don't" "My Sharona"), the high-octane performance also shines via career-spanning material including the melodic "Can I Borrow a Kiss," driving "Pop Is Dead" and the set-ending rollicking medley of "Tequila"/"Break On Through." Sadly, Live From the Rock 'n' Roll Fun House would mark The Knack's final release; lead singer-rhythm guitarist Doug Fieger died after a long battle with cancer on Feb. 14, 2010. Information: omnivorerecordings.com.
Get 'Live From The Rock 'n' Roll Fun House' here
Artist: Continental DriftersTitle: Drifted: In The Beginning & Beyond (Omnivore Recordings)
You might like if you enjoy: Dawes, the dB's, the Jayhawks
Tell me more: The two-disc Continental Drifters compilation Drifted: In The Beginning & Beyond is astounding, with the Americana-styled collective's early course captured perfectly via a number of sweet demos, alternate tracks, live recordings and more. Featuring a number of talented members over the decade-long history of the group, the far-flung material ranges from the rousing folk rock-tinged "Who We Are, Where We Live" (featuring Vicki Peterson's strong soprano) and Southern rocker "Side Steppin' the Fire" to a freewheeling take on Gram Parsons' "A Song For You" (featuring Peter Holsapple and Susan Cowsill providing lead and harmony vocals) and harmony-filled enthralling take on Neil Young's wonderful "When You Dance I Can Really Love." The one bond that magically binds all the material across the 33-track collection is the strength of song craft and gifted touch used by the musicians to bring these songs to life. Information: omnivorerecordings.com.
Robert Kinsler
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