Keith Richards Trashes Beatles’ ‘Sgt. Pepper’ as ‘Rubbish’
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moptops:
Hendrix Ibsen:
I don't get the comparison of The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. Of course there are similarities, it's the beat boom of the early 60s... but The Stones is more about the blues. There is not so much Muddy Waters in the music of The Beatles. And The Beatles is a harmony group, The Stones have a lead singer. It makes no more sense to me than The Beatles vs. The Kinks. They all have similarities but also different flavors. The Stones is not a Beatles tribute band. They did not copy and paste The Beatles.
It's much more than that, but your points are basically it in a nutshell. I agree.
Yeah, I find it difficult to push The Rolling Stones in the background and say; forget about them, there is The Beatles.
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One of the many things that I love about the bands from the 60's is that no bands sounded alike!!! No one sounded like The Mamas And The Papas, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green Era.), Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Cream and Deep Purple just to name a few, these bands all had a style of their own!!!
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jl4761:
RMartinez:
jl4761:
RMartinez:
jl4761:
RMartinez:
Ha ha!! HILARIOUS how ANGRY some of you are getting over this really non-issue of a comment.
Actually, we're just having a lot of fun picking on Keith!!
You might be. But plenty of folks are seriously bothered and offended. It makes me laugh! Keith's plan is working.
I guess that Keith is going through heavy measures in promoting his new album, however, I never take what he says seriously. I am a Stones fan but Keith will always envy The Beatles because The Beatles are the ultimate all-time greatest band ever!!
Ha ha! Ok.
Don't you agree?
I think the Beatles are the greatest. It just does not effect me in any way if Keith Richards makes some loaded comment about the Beatles. I GET what he is doing. I don't feel a need to defend the Beatles or criticize Keith over such non issues. He once said something like, "All you need is love? Try livin' off of it!" I mean, so what? It is what Keith is SUPPOSED to do. What should he do, say "I love the Beatles! I Want To Hold Your Hand was a great song, because that's all I want to do with a girl, is hold her hand." He's Keith Frickin' Richards!
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I totally agree. There was a lot of pioneering spirit. More focus on character than to fit on the assembly line. As a music lover, I love 60s. Not only the music but the spirit. I can't explain it, it's just something romantic about it, the period, like in centuries of classcial music, you can always find good music, at any time, but you have these periods where composers like Bach and Mozart and Beetwhoven shows up. Glorious eras. Somethimng about the quote went wrong. It was meant be an answer to this: One of the many things that I love about the bands from the 60's is that no bands sounded alike!!! No one sounded like The Mamas And The Papas, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green Era.), Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Cream and Deep Purple just to name a few, these bands all had a style of their own!!!
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jl4761:
One of the many things that I love about the bands from the 60's is that no bands sounded alike!!! No one sounded like The Mamas And The Papas, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green Era.), Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Cream and Deep Purple just to name a few, these bands all had a style of their own!!!
Real people playing real instruments (as George Harrison would say.) Yep, play a record even back then and hear the different bass players styles, the different lead players etc...drummers. Especially the British bands.
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I love the 50's, 40's, 30's and 20's pretty much for similar reasons. Real people playing real instruments. And many diverse styles of music even within genres. Great vocalists - great arrangements. Blues, Jazz, through Big Bands, Swing, Rock... Billy May, Skip Martin, Jenkins, Riddle etc...classic. But I digress...
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moptops:
jl4761:
One of the many things that I love about the bands from the 60's is that no bands sounded alike!!! No one sounded like The Mamas And The Papas, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green Era.), Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Cream and Deep Purple just to name a few, these bands all had a style of their own!!!
Real people playing real instruments (as George Harrison would say.) Yep, play a record even back then and hear the different bass players styles, the different lead players etc...drummers. Especially the British bands.
I agree. I love character. But the "political correctness" that dress everything up in the same uniform rules the world right now.
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RMartinez:
jl4761:
RMartinez:
jl4761:
RMartinez:
jl4761:
RMartinez:
Ha ha!! HILARIOUS how ANGRY some of you are getting over this really non-issue of a comment.
Actually, we're just having a lot of fun picking on Keith!!
You might be. But plenty of folks are seriously bothered and offended. It makes me laugh! Keith's plan is working.
I guess that Keith is going through heavy measures in promoting his new album, however, I never take what he says seriously. I am a Stones fan but Keith will always envy The Beatles because The Beatles are the ultimate all-time greatest band ever!!
Ha ha! Ok.
Don't you agree?
I think the Beatles are the greatest. It just does not effect me in any way if Keith Richards makes some loaded comment about the Beatles. I GET what he is doing. I don't feel a need to defend the Beatles or criticize Keith over such non issues. He once said something like, "All you need is love? Try livin' off of it!" I mean, so what? It is what Keith is SUPPOSED to do. What should he do, say "I love the Beatles! I Want To Hold Your Hand was a great song, because that's all I want to do with a girl, is hold her hand." He's Keith Frickin' Richards!
Keith Frickin' Richards he is my friend!!!
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Hendrix Ibsen:
I totally agree. There was a lot of pioneering spirit. More focus on character than to fit on the assembly line. As a music lover, I love 60s. Not only the music but the spirit. I can't explain it, it's just something romantic about it, the period, like in centuries of classcial music, you can always find good music, at any time, but you have these periods where composers like Bach and Mozart and Beetwhoven shows up. Glorious eras. Somethimng about the quote went wrong. It was meant be an answer to this: One of the many things that I love about the bands from the 60's is that no bands sounded alike!!! No one sounded like The Mamas And The Papas, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green Era.), Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Cream and Deep Purple just to name a few, these bands all had a style of their own!!!
Right on Hendrix Ibsen, thank you.
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moptops:
jl4761:
One of the many things that I love about the bands from the 60's is that no bands sounded alike!!! No one sounded like The Mamas And The Papas, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Stones, The Kinks, The Who, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fleetwood Mac (Peter Green Era.), Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Cream and Deep Purple just to name a few, these bands all had a style of their own!!!
Real people playing real instruments (as George Harrison would say.) Yep, play a record even back then and hear the different bass players styles, the different lead players etc...drummers. Especially the British bands.
Well said moptops!!!
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moptops:
I love the 50's, 40's, 30's and 20's pretty much for similar reasons. Real people playing real instruments. And many diverse styles of music even within genres. Great vocalists - great arrangements. Blues, Jazz, through Big Bands, Swing, Rock... Billy May, Skip Martin, Jenkins, Riddle etc...classic. But I digress...
I think you can always find good music, past, present and future, everywhere a musician find something to bang a rhythm on, music will be played as long as there are people on earth. Classical, jazz, pop.. the genres never ends. To me, I think when Elvis enters the stage in 1954, it introduce a period of exitment that will last until when Kurt Cobain shoots rock & roll in the head 40 years later. It happens about the same time as the computer era makes its entrance.
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jl4761:
The Stones will always be second to The Beatles!!!! Actually, Led Zeppelin should be second to The Beatles!!!
Led Zeppelin just like The Beatles stopped when the band began to fragment more individually. They have a tight discography where everything is ROCK. There's no "As Tears Go By" or anything that tries to vary or do something new just to keep it interesting. They were a rock band in rock's golden age in the 70s. Where they begin and end. I'm still more fond of The Rolling Stones though, personally.
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jl4761:
Nancy R:
Hendrix Ibsen:
Nancy R:
The only Stones record I have is the 45 of I Can't Get No Satisfaction! I never saw the appeal for them.
I think I read somewhere else that you liked Tom Jones. Maybe you like "pretty looking" guys. The smooth guys.
Tom Jones was handsome and sexy, not "pretty." But yeah, I like Paul (and I always thought John was sexy prior to 196 I didn't think any of the Stones were good-looking.
I guess that Mike Love is out of the question?
I never thought much about him until I met him! My (male) cousins were the big Beach Boys fans! I always liked their music though.
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Nancy R:
jl4761:
Nancy R:
Hendrix Ibsen:
Nancy R:
The only Stones record I have is the 45 of I Can't Get No Satisfaction! I never saw the appeal for them.
I think I read somewhere else that you liked Tom Jones. Maybe you like "pretty looking" guys. The smooth guys.
Tom Jones was handsome and sexy, not "pretty." But yeah, I like Paul (and I always thought John was sexy prior to 196 I didn't think any of the Stones were good-looking.
I guess that Mike Love is out of the question?
I never thought much about him until I met him! My (male) cousins were the big Beach Boys fans! I always liked their music though.
Ha-ha, Mike Love, he is famously known as the most unsympathetic character in modern pop history. The band member where legend has it that he worked against "Pet Sounds" to happen. And "Smile". It was not commercial enough... How is he to meet?
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Hendrix Ibsen:
Nancy R:
jl4761:
Nancy R:
Hendrix Ibsen:
Nancy R:
The only Stones record I have is the 45 of I Can't Get No Satisfaction! I never saw the appeal for them.
I think I read somewhere else that you liked Tom Jones. Maybe you like "pretty looking" guys. The smooth guys.
Tom Jones was handsome and sexy, not "pretty." But yeah, I like Paul (and I always thought John was sexy prior to 196 I didn't think any of the Stones were good-looking.
I guess that Mike Love is out of the question?
I never thought much about him until I met him! My (male) cousins were the big Beach Boys fans! I always liked their music though.
Ha-ha, Mike Love, he is famously known as the most unsympathetic character in modern pop history. The band member where legend has it that he worked against "Pet Sounds" to happen. And "Smile". It was not commercial enough... How is he to meet?
LONG story, but he was fabulous! This was in 1978.
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Okay, to give him a from my side (surely something he appreciates ), I like better Mike Love's The Beach Boys album "M.I.U. Album" (197 better now than when I first heard it in the 80s. I think they were better in the 70s than rumor has it. Although some of it perhaps lacks Brian Wilson's originality. When he was busy doin' nothing.
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Nancy R:
jl4761:
Nancy R:
Hendrix Ibsen:
Nancy R:
The only Stones record I have is the 45 of I Can't Get No Satisfaction! I never saw the appeal for them.
I think I read somewhere else that you liked Tom Jones. Maybe you like "pretty looking" guys. The smooth guys.
Tom Jones was handsome and sexy, not "pretty." But yeah, I like Paul (and I always thought John was sexy prior to 196 I didn't think any of the Stones were good-looking.
I guess that Mike Love is out of the question?
I never thought much about him until I met him! My (male) cousins were the big Beach Boys fans! I always liked their music though.
Mike Love has always been good to the ladies, he's just never been good to his male friends or family!!!
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Hendrix Ibsen:
Nancy R:
jl4761:
Nancy R:
Hendrix Ibsen:
Nancy R:
The only Stones record I have is the 45 of I Can't Get No Satisfaction! I never saw the appeal for them.
I think I read somewhere else that you liked Tom Jones. Maybe you like "pretty looking" guys. The smooth guys.
Tom Jones was handsome and sexy, not "pretty." But yeah, I like Paul (and I always thought John was sexy prior to 196 I didn't think any of the Stones were good-looking.
I guess that Mike Love is out of the question?
I never thought much about him until I met him! My (male) cousins were the big Beach Boys fans! I always liked their music though.
Ha-ha, Mike Love, he is famously known as the most unsympathetic character in modern pop history. The band member where legend has it that he worked against "Pet Sounds" to happen. And "Smile". It was not commercial enough... How is he to meet?
Forgive me for saying this but Mike Love is an a*shole!!! I know, I met him in 1981, the same year I met Dennis Wilson. When I met Mike Love at a party, we got into a fight!!!
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jl4761:
Hendrix Ibsen:
Nancy R:
jl4761:
Nancy R:
Hendrix Ibsen:
Nancy R:
The only Stones record I have is the 45 of I Can't Get No Satisfaction! I never saw the appeal for them.
I think I read somewhere else that you liked Tom Jones. Maybe you like "pretty looking" guys. The smooth guys.
Tom Jones was handsome and sexy, not "pretty." But yeah, I like Paul (and I always thought John was sexy prior to 196 I didn't think any of the Stones were good-looking.
I guess that Mike Love is out of the question?
I never thought much about him until I met him! My (male) cousins were the big Beach Boys fans! I always liked their music though.
Ha-ha, Mike Love, he is famously known as the most unsympathetic character in modern pop history. The band member where legend has it that he worked against "Pet Sounds" to happen. And "Smile". It was not commercial enough... How is he to meet?
Forgive me for saying this but Mike Love is an a*shole!!! I know, I met him in 1981, the same year I met Dennis Wilson. When I met Mike Love at a party, we got into a fight!!!
Sorry that happened to you. It was Dennis who was the a-hole in 1978 when I met him! Carl, Al and Bruce were real nice guys too. I saw Mike again in 2005 and he was very nice to me.
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I can imagine Mike Love trying to impress the ladies with success and money. Rumour has it that he is hell to work with, at least if you think outside the box. Must have been fun to meet these guys. At a party... They were members of a mythical band.