Topic: Clapton to appear on new Rolling Stones album
Read about it here. http://www.planetrock.com/news/rock-new … nes-album/ 
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Re: Clapton to appear on new Rolling Stones album
Sweet!!!
I'm really looking forward to that new Stones album. They are truly a blues band, at heart.
Re: Clapton to appear on new Rolling Stones album
I'm down with it!
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4 2016-10-06 14:03:55 (edited by ahsmith33 2016-10-06 14:12:56)
Re: Clapton to appear on new Rolling Stones album
Blue & Lonesome, due out Dec 2........ I just listened to a snippet of Just Your Fool and it sounds very decent, Mick breaking out the harmonica
Ha, who knew ? it's a Little Walter cover........back to basic blues so it looks
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Re: Clapton to appear on new Rolling Stones album
I don't have high hopes. The last decent album they released was Tattoo You in 1981 and that contained many outtakes from the seventies. Mind you, I'm a great Stones fan but they did their best work in the Mick Taylor years. Every album after Tattoo you was a disappointment to me. I don't mean to be cynical but they're definitely has-beens.
Re: Clapton to appear on new Rolling Stones album
EC on two tracks, "Everybody Knows About My Good Thing" and "I Can't Quit You Baby."
I'm anticipating this, sounds like its gonna be good
Re: Clapton to appear on new Rolling Stones album
Bluesbreaker wrote:
I don't have high hopes. The last decent album they released was Tattoo You in 1981 and that contained many outtakes from the seventies. Mind you, I'm a great Stones fan but they did their best work in the Mick Taylor years. Every album after Tattoo you was a disappointment to me. I don't mean to be cynical but they're definitely has-beens.
A lot of people agree that the Taylor years were the best, and many have "cutoff" points for the last one they really liked, but some don't. My cutoff was at Goats Head Soup, I became distant on everything after it. But the body of work is remarkable to me, even if it has been over 10 years since a studio effort. This one looks very promising, I will buy it in a heartbeat. You can definitely say they are over the hill, they would laugh and agree I think. But they will never be has-beens until they call it quits.
As corn through a goose, so are the days of our lives
Re: Clapton to appear on new Rolling Stones album
Bluesbreaker wrote:
I don't have high hopes. The last decent album they released was Tattoo You in 1981 and that contained many outtakes from the seventies. Mind you, I'm a great Stones fan but they did their best work in the Mick Taylor years. Every album after Tattoo you was a disappointment to me. I don't mean to be cynical but they're definitely has-beens.
Most won't argue it's been along time since their best work.
But given this is a blues cover album you have to look at it on a different light as it's not material written by them.
You never know with covers may be great or so so or a combination based on the track.
Either way if your a fan it's much anticipated.
Your rock candy baby
Your hard sweet and sticky
Your hard sweet and sticky
Re: Clapton to appear on new Rolling Stones album
gary wrote:
Bluesbreaker wrote:I don't have high hopes. The last decent album they released was Tattoo You in 1981 and that contained many outtakes from the seventies. Mind you, I'm a great Stones fan but they did their best work in the Mick Taylor years. Every album after Tattoo you was a disappointment to me. I don't mean to be cynical but they're definitely has-beens.
Most won't argue it's been along time since their best work.
But given this is a blues cover album you have to look at it on a different light as it's not material written by them.
You never know with covers may be great or so so or a combination based on the track.
Either way if your a fan it's much anticipated.
Re-reading my post I realise I'm more cynical than I intended to be. I've always been a great Stones fan and I want to like their later albums. It's just that I've been underwhelmed with everything they have produced since the early 80s. And I miss albums with real stand-out tracks (the last one was 'Start me up'). A cover album with Blues standards will not deliver any original material that sticks out.