Members harold heckuba Posted April 20, 2012 Members Share Posted April 20, 2012 My favorite Stones albums are "Some Girls" and "Black and Blue".Each album has some cuts that certainly seem like country music. Songs like "Before They Make Me Run", "When The Whip Comes Down","Memory Motel" and even "Crazy Mama" and "Hand of Fate". Strange dichotomy, they sound like country while todays "country" bandssound nothing at all like country. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members goslats Posted April 20, 2012 Members Share Posted April 20, 2012 Good call! If you get a chance listen to Faraway Eyes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members blazingblake Posted April 20, 2012 Members Share Posted April 20, 2012 Yeah your so right many so called coountry bands are country rock which I dont mind but the lines are blurred lol. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Doctor49 Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Mick Jagger, 1995: "I love Country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek. The harmonic thing is very different from the blues. It doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak." Mick Jagger, 2003: "The 'Country' songs we recorded later, like Dead Flowers on Sticky Fingers or Far Away Eyes on Some Girls, are slightly different (than our earlier ones). The actual music is played completely straight, but it's me who's not going legit with the whole thing, because I think I'm a blues singer not a country singer - I think it's more suited to Keith's voice than mine." He always wanted to be Merle. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tlbonehead Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 they are a great country blues band when they delve into that stuff. Like a more modern version of Hank Sr. [video=youtube;pBq3fnyJX3A]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=pBq3fnyJX3A Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members DaveAronow Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Mick Jagger, 1995: "I love Country music, but I find it very hard to take it seriously. I also think a lot of country music is sung with the tongue in cheek, so I do it tongue in cheek. The harmonic thing is very different from the blues. It doesn't bend notes in the same way, so I suppose it's very English, really. Even though it's been very Americanized, it feels very close to me, to my roots, so to speak."Mick Jagger, 2003: "The 'Country' songs we recorded later, like Dead Flowers on Sticky Fingers or Far Away Eyes on Some Girls, are slightly different (than our earlier ones). The actual music is played completely straight, but it's me who's not going legit with the whole thing, because I think I'm a blues singer not a country singer - I think it's more suited to Keith's voice than mine." He always wanted to be Merle. Lol. Mock Jagger, the goofiest most spastic and funniest clown of a front man i'm the history of music, finds it hard to take country music seriously. I like the stones, I do, but seriousness? All that is missing for Mock is the red rubber nose and the big red floppy shoes. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tlbonehead Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 [video=youtube;2eqOi3jtpv8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2eqOi3jtpv8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tlbonehead Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 [video=youtube;GNTH9zmleBE]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GNTH9zmleBE&feature=fvwrel Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members tlbonehead Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 here's a killer version of Dead Flowers. [video=youtube;0ojXKbYFnus]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0ojXKbYFnus Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members BoneNut Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 My favorite Stones albums are "Some Girls"... Agree 1000% Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members deanmass Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Agree 1000% +1 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GAS Man Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 The Stones are great! The worst they ever achieved in their music was "average". I can handle a little average mixed in with my awesome. One of the most obvious country tinged RS songs [video=youtube;4Cxsgn2UzQ0] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GAS Man Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Here's one of their earliest country sounding riffs. The opening riffs is total Western style. They do blend in R&B with it, but with the guitar part by itself, you'd get a whoop and a holler at Gilley's [video=youtube;yXLn1L1w6uA]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yXLn1L1w6uA Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members MKSkud Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Old country music wasn't country music... I was just plain ol rock n roll. Johnny Cash, George Jones, and what have you. The Stones had swagger and early country music was all swagger and honkey tonk. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Angry Tele Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 um, no. [video=youtube;tvY6RmmUGJ8]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tvY6RmmUGJ8 Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members OldGuitarPlayer Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 No. This is the best country band....ever. [video=youtube;HiVunqkZ1RM]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HiVunqkZ1RM&feature=related Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Yer Blues Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 cKMoO0v-Ht4 They had a lot of influences and melded them together seamlessly. I saw a Gram Parsons documentary. In the documentary Keith Richards said he learned a lot about country music from Gram, while Gram learned a lot about early rock n' roll from Keith. This was around the time the Stones were living in France in 1971 during Exile on Main St. (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exile_on_Main_St.). So, according to Keith a lot of the Stones country influence was a result of Gram Parsons. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members outtahear Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 ++++++++++1 on Gram Parsons. Man invented the country/rock genera and no-one's done it better since.Modern "Country" owes Gram a check.. (and a HUGE {censored}in' apology.) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members HeatherAnnePeel Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Indeed, they are! [video=youtube;3b-bComz_d8] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members STRANDMAN Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Love the Stones when they do Country. But, best ever? Nah. There's a whole lot of difference between being great at playing Country and actually being Country. I caught this guys act in a club in Dallas back in the eighties and haven't gotten over it since. [video=youtube;U-p0zn3PijY]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=U-p0zn3PijY Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aenemated Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 i don't really consider many country artists as "bands" really. like, my very favorite country artist is waylon jennings; and waylon woulda been waylon regardless of who he was playing with. i'd say the same for the other "real" guys posted in here - merle, jerry reed, willie, gram (though i would possibly give credit to the flying burrito brothers as maybe fitting as a band, but really ... it was gram), etc. that said, i'd have to argue that the best country "band" would have to be buck owens and the buckaroos; simply because as great as buck himself was - he wouldn't have sounded the same without don rich. ps - i love the stones. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members STRANDMAN Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 i don't really consider many country artists as "bands" really. like, my very favorite country artist is waylon jennings; and waylon woulda been waylon regardless of who he was playing with. i'd say the same for the other "real" guys posted in here - merle, jerry reed, willie, gram (though i would possibly give credit to the flying burrito brothers as maybe fitting as a band, but really ... it was gram), etc. that said, i'd have to argue that the best country "band" would have to be buck owens and the buckaroos; simply because as great as buck himself was - he wouldn't have sounded the same without don rich.ps - i love the stones. I think in general you're right about that but I also think there are a some exceptions. Skynyrd, Asleep at the Wheel, and Bob Wills Texas Playboys are a few examples that come to mind of Country bands that became as famous in their own right as their front men and if push came to shove could have continued their success and remained a vital part of the scene without them. In fact I would venture to say that there is a good possibility that the front men of those bands wouldn't have become what they did without in large part being taken there by the success of their bands. In any case with bands like these at the very least the front man and the band are so tied together that they run the risk of losing it without each other. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members aenemated Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 a good point. who knows if we'd have ever heard of gram where it not for his work with the byrds. who most certainly shouldn't be discounted from this. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members STRANDMAN Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 Oh yes, the Birds, one of my all time favorites. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members GAS Man Posted April 21, 2012 Members Share Posted April 21, 2012 i don't really consider many country artists as "bands" really. like, my very favorite country artist is waylon jennings Me too Possibly my fave song by Waylon - [video=youtube;hnEtRUcKGwc]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hnEtRUcKGwc but I also loved the whimsy in his lyrics [video=youtube;_inuzvyz6Oc] Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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