James Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 ..defined, IMHO. Guitars flying all over the place. So great : youtube.com/watch?v=oBlLbNVBKCc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted February 14, 2016 Author Share Posted February 14, 2016 This one could do the job also:youtube.com/watch?v=kCYbyEChS_4 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katariina Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 They are amazing. I remember, they had concert in Tallinn ( my hometown) in august 1998, the Eastern Europ tour " Bridges of Babylon" started in here. Newspapers wrote long time about the show, the energy they have on stage (they were ~50 years old then). Obviously once a Rock Star, always a Rock Star no matter how old you are. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted February 14, 2016 Author Share Posted February 14, 2016 It´s true Katariina, many of the "old" guys are still doing it at a very high level. Some at even higher levels than back in "their day". We probably wouldn´t have forcasted that back when we were kids. On another note, the rebel element of rock & roll is one of its great allures. To me there´s even a liberating feel to rock & roll. Sometimes it seems fans from Eastern Europe, and even Latin American fans, appreciate rock & roll, "get" rock & roll, even moreso than we from Western Europe and the U.S do.,...probably for obvious reasons. The crowds in Argentina and Brazil can be really awesome, they really get into it. It would have been cool, back in Soviet days, to go to an underground bar type place, in Eastern Europe or even Russia itself, and watch a rebel band illegally playing what the authorities considered illicit Western rock & roll. That would have been a rush for me. Putting up the middle finger to oppressors is always a gratifying thing to do. :-) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katariina Posted February 14, 2016 Share Posted February 14, 2016 Well, James, this "cool" underground bar type places were highly observed, and it wasn´t surprise, that those middle finger-guys ended in interrogation for many days. So called illegal music was underground (many people got free-world music from their escaped relatives, from Sweden od Finland, from Canada/ some of those LPs were confiscated, but many ended in peoples homes), and people shared it on cassettes (tiny tapes, it was more comfortable), and most important was lyrics. Lyrics held the freedom-message (but other topics, as sex, drugs... were not allowed as well), and this was truly high risk for power of the states (politics). But then students in universitys started to play this risk musik on their partys and meetings. It was more difficult to handle with crowd than one or two persons, who pointed middle finger in underground bar . Perhaps these nations, who were opressed, felt this amazing freedom feeling throug the rock&roll, but in U.S and Western Europe, the same music had little different meaning. Who knows I was just a child then, but I remember those papers with poems - song lyrics in my home as well, lyrics of russian bards, forbidden things. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted February 15, 2016 Author Share Posted February 15, 2016 Thanks for that post Katariina. There are a lot of middle-finger-pointing heroes over in that part of the world (and all over the world for that matter), who stood up (or are currently standing up) to the bad guys, took the risk, often suffered the consequences, but whose names will never appear in the newspapers, in books, etc. I think about these anonymous people,.. they inspire me in what I´m doing now. I´m a little loco (crazy). True. :-) 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Katariina Posted February 15, 2016 Share Posted February 15, 2016 People are standing infront of the music-shop, hoping to buy LPs . This picture is from 70s. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
PaulMaul Posted February 18, 2016 Share Posted February 18, 2016 I much prefer the Stones during the Jones period. Their best albums are Flowers, Satanic, Between the Buttons and Let it Bleed. 1 Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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James Posted February 21, 2016 Author Share Posted February 21, 2016 They had some beautiful songs, along with the rock & roll. "Waiting on a Friend", "Wild Horses", "Fool to Cry" are 3 that some to mind, each one is exceptional. This one may be the best though, from the álbum "Black and Blue", this live versión has Dave Matthews joining in :youtube.com/watch?v=Cowl02DXx3A Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
James Posted February 21, 2016 Author Share Posted February 21, 2016 Here´s "Fool to Cry", from the same album, and to me so very beautiful and soulful. This is a powerful live version. I´ll always remember this song as one of the songs from the soundtrack from our Summer of 1976. I love the keyboard sound that came out of this album. So great :youtube.com/watch?v=UqxEPzOSRZM Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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