Here's a question. I'm listening to Do Do Do Heartbreaker with headphones. The funky wah wah on one channel sorta sounds like an distorted, electric piano with a wah wah pedal, or is it a guitar? Calling Guitar Geek.
Here's a question. I'm listening to Do Do Do Heartbreaker with headphones. The funky wah wah on one channel sorta sounds like an distorted, electric piano with a wah wah pedal, or is it a guitar? Calling Guitar Geek.
It's electric piano yeah. One of few songs which is not driven by Richards' riffing.
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I'm impressed also by their Motown covers (Ain't Too Proud To Beg, Just My Imagination). They kept pure R&R honest, and still do.
Billy Preston wasn't a huge star here in the US but he has the destinction of having been the fifth Beatle, and a contributing member of the Stones. He's Nicky Hopkins, and Ian Stewart. RIP.
He also had a few hits during the 70's under his own name, e.g. That's The Way God Planned It, Nothing From Nothing, Space Race, etc. But during the 80's, he sort of disappeared off the face of the Earth, it seemed, in part to the "changing times", but also, I think because of his personal issues.
A lot of people thought that was a guitar. I think he said it's a Wurlitzer played through an MXR Flanger and the same stock Marshall amp that Eddie used for recording guitar (I emphasize that it's stock, because for a long time he went around telling people that all these mods had been done to it, but I remember reading in Guitar World, I think it was, back in the early 90's, some famous amp tech did some restoration work on it, and he said that nothing beyond basic maintenance had ever been done to it).
Similarly, there's a bit in the studio version of Low Spark Of High Heeled Boys itself, by Traffic, that a lot people thought was a synth or sax being played through a distortion pedal. Steve Winwood said it was an organ. Then there's the "sax" solos on While You See A Chance, which was synth.
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Well, I'm sort of on this Stones binge, but I'm hearing some classic albums I've never heard before. Currently listening to Rod.....Every Picture Tells A Story. I've heard the hits, just never heard the album. Great album. The Brits interpreted Americana music so great.
Rod's early solo albums and the four Faces albums are just terrific. Loose, soulful, and just a lot of balls. And reportedly heroic amounts of drinking.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
And now I'm listening to Never A Dull Moment. Just as good as the previous album.
I like Rod Stewart all the way up to 'I Was Only Joking', but there was too much bandwagon-chasing commerciality for my taste after that. But hey, it worked for him- even now, in the UK at least, he's one of the few rock stars of a certain age who still sells big numbers of his 'new' albums. Most of them put an album out and after the first week the sales fall away big time. I believe The Stones did reasonably good business with that Blue And Lonesome covers album though.
Stewart is going to be playing in Vegas when we are going to be out there this fall and I am considering going to see him. Never seen him before, and like others here, I like a lot of his early stuff. Looking youtube clips it looks like his voice is still in pretty good shape and he still has a good band. Still have not decided for sure yet.
I should say of his 80s hits, I like 'Young Turks' and 'Baby Jane'. The latter has some regrettable 80s tropes and screechy session sax but I like it despite myself. The likes of 'Infatuation', 'Love Touch' etc., not so much.
The Faces have a ton of BBC sessions that have not been released. The 1971 live session with a very long version of 'You're My Girl' is particularly strong. Others have some oddities which they didn't record in the studio like a cover of Free's 'The Stealer'. (That track was released but not much else from that concert has been.)
I'd definitely recommend the first two Rod Stewart albums, An Old Raincoat... (or The Rod Stewart Album as it was known in the US) and Gasoline Alley. The title track of the latter is one of the best things Stewart/Wood ever recorded.
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She'll be standing on the bar soon
With a fish head and a harpoon
and a fake beard plastered on her brow.
I actually rather liked Infatuation, but then, what do you expect my reaction to a guitar based song, with a solo from Rod The Mod's former boss (who was doing a lot of sessions at the time, playing on records by people like Tina Turner, Mick Jagger, Stanley Clarke and others)? Also liked the music video, which had both Kay Lenz and B-movie legend Dick Miller in it.
The one that I thought wasn't too good was his version of All Right Now. That one goes on the worst covers ever list.
Young Turks was a coo song. I liked the way they took what was essentially a Springsteen wannabe song an slathered it in synths. And there's a nice twangy, sort of quasi-Duane Eddy guitar solo too. The girl in the video is E.G. Daly, who was later in one of my favorite movies, Valley Girl.
As for Baby Jane, I recall in the video both of the guitarists played Telecasters, but the song itself was way, way, way too MOR for my tastes.
Last edited by GuitarGeek; 06-04-2019 at 05:28 PM.
Billy Preston definitely had some personal issues. It's a sad story. Just read his wiki page: sexually abused as a child, cuckholded by Sly Stone, addicted to alcohol and cocaine, busted for being caught with a teenage boy, etc. It is speculated that he turned to drugs to deal with his faith conflicting with his sexual orientation. He left the Stones in 1977 after a money dispute. That was before being a sideman in the Stones became a good paying gig.
I don't like country music, but I don't mean to denigrate those who do. And for the people who like country music, denigrate means 'put down.'- Bob Newhart
I friend of mine is one of the top illustrators in the world. He just posted this caricature of Keith. I thought I'd share it here.
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