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    Such lists are never definitive but this one includes sound clips and background info on the recordings, so it's worth a listen even if you would make different choices

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    not bad...tho i would have included she's so cold...classic keith mxr analog delay (green box) tone...

    the stones always being a 2 guitar driven band...keith has always said he loves for the two guitars to weave in and out together...brian jones and ronnie were perfect for that...with mick t it was a bit more lead/rhythm

    so many great tunes


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    Quote Originally Posted by neatomic
    not bad...tho i would have included she's so cold...classic keith mxr analog delay (green box) tone...

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    That’s not a bad list. Agreed with most of the placements. No 1 especially. Might’ve found room for ‘it’s only rock and roll’ but I don’t think Keith is on that one.


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    Quote Originally Posted by MarkRhodes
    keith and bill with the aluminum neck travis bean guitars..big $$$ these days

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    Good to see the rarely-mentioned Monkey Man. Love the playing in that.

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    Couple things from the list that I hadn't heard in a while. Always loved "Sway."

    About "Sticky Fingers". My older brother talked someone at the local record store into giving him the cardboard display of the cover. (The whole thing was Mick, with the cover placed where it would be.) It was at least 4 feet tall, maybe 5.



    Always loved the guitar interplay on this. Played this on the jukebox in a 'dairy bar' I went to after little league games. (I was 9.)


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    Really? jazz guitar?

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    Quote Originally Posted by dlew919
    That’s not a bad list. Agreed with most of the placements. No 1 especially. Might’ve found room for ‘it’s only rock and roll’ but I don’t think Keith is on that one.


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    That's a good one too. Apparently the backing track was recorded as a jam at Ronnie Woods house with the Faces playing the main track and David Bowie singing backup for Jagger. They liked the track so much they kept it, and Keef did some overdubs for the final track.

    It is a really raunchy guitar sound, and one of the reasons they went with Ronnie to replace Mick Taylor, who was not playing with the band at that time.

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    Quote Originally Posted by ronjazz
    Really? jazz guitar?
    No, but "Can't You Hear Me Knockin" is pretty close.

    And I too love - "Sway".

    Mick Taylor would seem to be the difference maker, yes?

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    Quote Originally Posted by neatomic
    not bad...tho i would have included she's so cold...classic keith mxr analog delay (green box) tone...

    the stones always being a 2 guitar driven band...keith has always said he loves for the two guitars to weave in and out together...brian jones and ronnie were perfect for that...with mick t it was a bit more lead/rhythm

    so many great tunes


    cheers
    Not to be controversial, but Stones with Ron Wood weaving thing makes the band sound pretty flat, mediocre even. When Keith was just a rhythm gtr focused on rhythm and Mick playing amazing leads that was a great band. Lets just admit it, Ron Wood is there because he fits image wise.

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    - 1. ;o)

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    Quote Originally Posted by GTRMan
    No, but "Can't You Hear Me Knockin" is pretty close.

    And I too love - "Sway".

    Mick Taylor would seem to be the difference maker, yes?
    Absolutely

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    Quote Originally Posted by Hep To The Jive
    Not to be controversial, but Stones with Ron Wood weaving thing makes the band sound pretty flat, mediocre even. When Keith was just a rhythm gtr focused on rhythm and Mick playing amazing leads that was a great band. Lets just admit it, Ron Wood is there because he fits image wise.
    Absolutely

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    In defence of Ron:

    1. Mick Taylor was a hard act to follow

    2. Ron was the perfect foil for Rod Stewart in The Faces, always complementing with tasteful lines, simple solos (Maggie May - wonderful solo - just perfect for the song) and good ensemble playing. He was never a lead guitarist.

    3. I enjoy - sometimes - not being able to discern if he or Keith is playing, as in Love Is Strong. A form of ancient weaving is how Keith somewhat fancifully describes it. It's not all about Rhythm and Lead.

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    Where's the intro to "Rocks off?"

    That's like the best opening to a rock album in history.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rob MacKillop
    In defence of Ron:

    1. Mick Taylor was a hard act to follow

    2. Ron was the perfect foil for Rod Stewart in The Faces, always complementing with tasteful lines, simple solos (Maggie May - wonderful solo - just perfect for the song) and good ensemble playing. He was never a lead guitarist.

    3. I enjoy - sometimes - not being able to discern if he or Keith is playing, as in Love Is Strong. A form of ancient weaving is how Keith somewhat fancifully describes it. It's not all about Rhythm and Lead.
    Agreed, Rob. And for starters, Mick Taylor left the Stones. (I don't blame him: they wouldn't give him any songwriting credit, something they later denied Ronnie Wood, though in that case they finally came to their senses.) The band had to move on.

    Mick (Jagger) and Keith had known Ronnie a long time. (Ronnie plays on "It's Only Rock'n'Roll" even though he wasn't in the band at the time. The "Scarlet" track---the subject of another thread hereabouts--was recorded at Ronnie's.) Ronnie fits the image and also, apparently, gets along with Jagger and Richards. (Keith and Mick Taylor did not get along. It may be that Keith resented Mick being a better soloist, I don't know.) And Ronnie has held down that spot for decades longer than either Brian or Mick Taylor did. Hell, he's been a Stone longer than Bill Wyman was.

    Mick Taylor was only with them for 5 years. Admittedly, that may have been the best five-year-run in the band's history, but they have done a lot better without him than he has done without them. Jagger and Richards were in their creative primes then too.

    And the Stones were never a guitar-solo intensive band. The rhythm parts of their songs are often the best: "Happy", "Beast Of Burden", "Start Me Up" (-does that even have a solo?), "Brown Sugar" (sax solo, yes, but it's the intro that kills), "Shattered", "Before They Make Me Run", "Rocks Off," "Sweet Virginia"...

    As for Ronnie never being a lead guitarist, I get your point, but I think the Stones were never really a lead-guitar band. You don't go to see the Stones to hear killer solos. That was not their thing. At their best, the rhythm guitar parts lead the way. I'm sure you are familiar with the old quotes from Bill Wyman ("Our band does not follow the drummer, it follows the rhythm guitarist") and Charlie Watts ("I play the drums for Keith and Mick. I don't play them for me.") But others may not be, so...

    I think Ronnie's first album with the band ("Some Girls") was one of their best. The "weaving" on "Beast Of Burden" is much more Stones-y than the long (wonderful) interlude on "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'" where Mick Taylor shines. " (And THAT song kills from the beginning with Keith's rhythm part in open G.)





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    Quote Originally Posted by mr. beaumont
    Where's the intro to "Rocks off?"

    That's like the best opening to a rock album in history.
    Yeah, that's my favorite. And I also love the line in that song, "The sunshine bores the daylights out of me."

    That song and "Happy" (same album) are favorite examples of how when Keith gets the rhythm cranked up at the beginning, it's like the main work of the song is already done. ("Start Me Up" is another one as is "Little T&A") "Before They Make Me Run." I could go on.... ;o)




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    Forgive me, I can't help it:


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    Quote Originally Posted by Rob MacKillop
    Forgive me, I can't help it:
    That's what I'm talking about! "Tumblin' Dice," "Can't You Hear Me Knockin'", "Honky Tonk Women," "Brown Sugar", "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
    Fun stuff.

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    Quote Originally Posted by Rob MacKillop
    Forgive me, I can't help it:

    Excellent! Plus, I could tell you were having fun doing it.

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    stones..mxr phaser guitar era...on st marks place, nyc...with sonny rollins takin the solo



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    right on rob...people don't realize how much the g tuning is essential to stones tunes...all those bar band covers in reg tuning were always so far off

    keith (as well as many others) got the g tuning idea from the great ry cooder...cooder jammed with them early on...jammin with edward and performance sessions

    of course keith dropped the low d and made it a 5 string! keiths famous quip being- "ah, the five string guitar: it's five strings, three notes, two hands and one asshole."

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    I loved "Jamming with Edward" - oh, many many years ago. And Ry Cooder and Mick Jagger together = magic!


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    In defense of Ron Wood: I saw The Faces a couple of times in the 1970-1972 period. The last time the opening act was Deep Purple. I went to see The Faces. My friends were there to see Deep Purple, who were on their Machine Head tour.

    I was completely blown away by Deep Purple. I remember thinking, "How are The Faces possibly going to follow that?" Well, my friends ended up being blown away by The Faces. They went in with low expectations and got a big surprise.

    Ron Wood is certainly no Richie Blackmoore, but I have a vague, hazy memory of Wood standing on stage alone playing a slide guitar solo that held a few thousand drugged up hippies absolutely mesmerized. Wood is better than he gets credit for.