• Rock,  Video

    Yer Blues by the Dirty Mac

    / December 4, 2007

    Since I signed up for Netflix a few months ago, I’ve been catching up on all the essential music movies of the past. The latest DVD to hit my doorstep is the The Rolling Stones – Rock and Roll Circus. Here’s just a little portion of rock & roll history from the 1968 film…

    The song: “Yer Blues”
    The band: The Dirty Mac (Eric Clapton, guitar; John Lennon, vocals, guitar; Keith Richards, bass; Mitch Mitchell, drums).

    Not too shabby of a lineup, eh?

  • Faces
    Rock

    Faces / Stones Synergy

    / August 11, 2007

    In the “It’s Sort of Silly” department, it’s sort of silly that I haven’t yet taken the time to jump into the music of Faces. Thanks to a Radio Free Wohlman podcast (which has been turning me on to some great music – highly recommended), I heard this live Faces version of the Stones’ “Love in Vain.” It’s one of my favorite Stones songs from one of my favorite albums, Let It Bleed.

    How cool it is to hear this loose, bluesy, raw version with a young Rod Stewart on vocals.

    Faces:

    Rod Stewart – vocals
    Ronnie Lane – bass
    Ronnie Wood – guitar
    Kenny Jones – drums
    Ian McLagan – keyboards

    Faces – Love in Vain – live – from the Faces box set, Five Guys Walk into a Bar….

    Here’s another great blues number, with Keith Richards joining in. This is after Ronnie Lane left the group and was replaced on bass by Tetsu Yamauchi.

    “I’d Rather Go Blind”:

    P.S. How did we ever survive without YouTube?

  • Rock

    Keith Keith in the Coconut Tree

    / May 8, 2006
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    Oh Keith, what are we gonna do with you, man? I guess you’ve been unpleasantly reminded that – as immortal as you have proven to be – you’re no spring chicken any more. You’re 62 years old now. You can still rock out on stage my friend, but you, as a 62 year old man, should probably not be climbing palm trees to loosen the coconuts, and you should probably lay off the jet skis. Sure, 60 is the new 40, but pal, that doesn’t apply to you.

    That being said, I’m glad you’re going to be okay. It’s been a rough few weeks. Why not take what you will away from this experience and go back in the studio for another solo album? We haven’t had one from you since 1992 when you released ‘Main Offender‘, a great, raw, rootsy rock & reggae album; much like your 1988 solo debut, ‘Talk is Cheap‘.

    I think you need to be cheered up, Keith. Listen to this 1993 show from your ‘Main Offender’ tour. Take it in… get well, and EASY DOES IT!

    Keith Richards
    Live from the 1993 Tour – “The Vampire Strikes Back”

    Download ZIP (mp3)

    1. 999
    2. Wicked as it Seems
    3. Eileen
    4. Yap Yap
    5. Body Talk
    6. Hate it when you Leave
    7. Will But You Won’t
    8. Demon
    9. Before They Make me Run
    10. Happy
    11. Gimme Shelter
    12. Time is on my Side