I've listened to a **** ton of the Beatles. Let it Be, Get back, Yellow Submarine, I wanna hold your hand, Strawberry Fields etc. I mean it's okay, but it's just your standard pop fare but its being performed by people who had way more talent than todays pop stars, so it sounds better. I just don't feel it. But the opening 30 seconds of Jumping Jack Flash by the Stones........goosebumps.
Preferred the Stones over the Beatles because their roots are more bluesy. Watts was largely overlooked as a drummer but he was a bedrock for the Stones. 5 stones tracks that prove he was more were, Sympathy for the Devil, Gimme Shelter, Stray Cat Blues, Honky Tonk Woman & Start me up. Could even throw in Tumbling Dice for good measure.
Most folk don’t get beyond their hits. But I reckon you might like their more blues orientated stuff. Let it Bleed is a good place to start and check out the vid I posted earlier with Muddy Waters
Stones over The Beatles any day. Like Beatles songs but done by others. Father in Laws claim to fame, his band opened for both bands amongst many others. He has a great photo of him and Jagger, cutting into a big cake for the first anniversary of a club they played at in Birmingham.
Paint It Black with Brian Jones playing the sitar is one of the most iconic guitar / strings tracks I've ever heard ... Also love The Last Time Sympathy for the Devil Ruby Tuesday Mother's Little Helper She's a Rainbow Angie ... could go on but I'll stop there
Let it Bleed at quick glance looks like a simple chord progression with capo on third, poss A, D and E, something I might try for fun but wouldn't take seriously. Muddy Waters, nice vocal around 20sec...but I don't sing. Only bit I would attempt out of all that starts at 8 mins.
The very opening of paint it black sounds like something Ennio Morricone should have composed. Anyway on that note...
Listened to an interview with Stewart Copeland from the Police on the way to work this morning. He was saying how Watts had a style where he would play on the beat, but slightly delay the snare, it gave him his signature edge and that distinctive stones sound. Quote of the day from Copeland ‘Take Watts out of the equation and it ain’t the stones anymore’
I absolutely love Morricone... Once Upon A Time In The West blew me away the first time I ever saw it ... each of the main characters having their own individual score; genius ... plus the Clint trilogy ... and Chi Mai was absolutely wonderful... what a composer.
I remember my dad telling me that once! Jagger's ego got ahead of him at one point and Watts had to keep him grounded, literally, on his ass
The performance at Glastonbury had many rock fans skating him as a drummer. Wondering why he didn’t have a bigger kit, more flamboyant fills. But Watts, Starr and Wren all have a style and swagger about them that’s hard to beat, my personal favourites.
Not many bands have such good footballing knowledge either. Hanson were the first ones to identify MBoppe as a future star. They tipped PSG off.
