Stones at Glastonbury

[David Johnson]

Great stuff. I liked the way that they stretched the 3 minute songs from the Sixties out to much longer. Gave the opportunity to see the great musicianship from the likes of Mick Taylor. Good to hear Bobby Keys on sax again to.

As for Mick "Twinkle Toes" Jagger, just shows that care in the community and a fitness regime actually works!!

[Jonone]

I thought that only Tumblin' Dice was a bit ropey from the tracks that were on tv. The rest were good.

[Dave Wells]

Just watched it on the iplayer and FUCKING AWESOME isn't a great enough description. Midnight Rambler with Mick Taylor was just superb. Well done boys, keep rocking !

[David Johnson]

Yeah, couldn't agree more.

I read Keith Richard's biography My Life and was expecting it to be basically a sex, drugs, rock and roll read, but it wasn't, though there were components of that.

The main component was the music, in particular the way in which the band members in the very early days used to devour US blues imports from their heroes and try to work out the chord structures and setup.

In many ways the Stones are like the old American blues guys they worshipped. Their music has credibility and judging from the audience response on Saturday, they went down a storm. They see no reason why they shouldn't play it in their seventies just like the blues guys like John Lee Hooker. It's not as if they need their dosh.

All power to them.

[max_tranmere]

It's interesting when people talk about 'The Stones'. Of the original 6 members (including Ian Stewart) only 3 are left. Jagger and Richards get far too much credit for the original sound of the band, it was Brian Jones who was responsible for that back in the 1960's, he decided what sort of band it would be and basically employed the others. The set on Saturday was good to watch, I saw the whole thing on TV as it was broadcast. Mick Taylor being back in the band for two songs every night on this tour is interesting. He was in the band for 6 years and left in 1975. According to Bill Wyman in his book 'Stone Alone' Taylor got fed up with the strangle-hold Jagger and Richards had on the band in the 1970's. Bill Wyman, along with Charlie Watts and Brian Jones were apparently fed up with it too during both the 60's and 70's. Incidentally, Bill Wyman was at Glastonbury at the weekend, according to something said on the BBC. I wonder what he thought of his old band playing there, and I wonder if he watched them.

[MrTickle]

Shame we never got to see the whole setlist but i'm guessing it will be out on DVD in time for Christmas.

[spider]

The poor old sods have got to make a living don't they?

[Sam Slater]

I also heard that when the Stones hit America they refused to play on a few shows unless people like Buddy Guy and Howlin' Wolf got slots on the shows too.

White America was mostly dismissive of the old Black folk music and even Black Americans had got bored with it and moved onto soul & R&B. It was The Stones, Yardbirds and whatnot that made it accessible and cool again, and gave these old Blues legends a second go at it all.

It was nice to see Mick Taylor playing. His feel is fantastic. Richards looked a bit overwhelmed by it all, I thought. Jagger is leaner and fitter than most 30 year olds these days.

[David Johnson]

Yeah, Keith Richards in a BBC documentary, Can Blues people play the whites, or something like that, tells an endearing story of a bunch of spotty, white kids from Dartford who wanted to be Muddy Waters.

[Sam Slater]

I saw a documentary on Howlin' Wolf where I got that info. From Howlin' Wolf's daughters if I remember correctly.