The main reason I hate it.
That’s blood money. It absolutely makes my ears bleed.
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McCartney will burn in hell for Mull of fucking Kintyre.
Oh I’m aware, but he should be paying people to listen to it.
The choir of children sing their song
Ding dong ding dong ding dong
What’s wrong with that, I’d like to know.
At the risk of giving you goons some leverage I’ll admit that the song of his that I cannot stand is Let 'Em In.
And despite my liking (or loving) most all Beatles songs, even the ones no one else likes, I fucking HATE Hey Jude. I’m starting to get angry right now just thinking about it.
Ding dong ding dong ding dong
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Hey Jude is an excellent answer to my original question.
I didn’t mean to turn this into a “shit on Paul” thread, but here we are (I’m mad at him for not making the second stanza or whatever they’re called of Band on the Run longer, that’s a bitching guitar riff, “if I ever get out of here”…)
Maybe we move on to the Rolling Stones next?
I can literally be moved to tears simply by listening to Paul’s bass lines, and still often am. But holy fuck does Hey Jude infuriate me.
The Rolling Stones? I have some thoughts. Best record? Hard to say. My favorite? Right now, Some Girls. Favorite moment? The drum shuffle at the end of Tumbling Dice that someone else had to play because Charlie sucked.
Favorite Stones adjacent story? My band was hanging out backstage before an unusually well attended show at Coney Island High. We were downstairs and there was a group of three or four girls that I didn’t know hanging around. There was a large space with a big table and a narrow room off to the side with mirrors and lights above the long counter, just the sort of place you might imagine the owner of a beauty pageant entering with the aim of interfering with the contestants. I went in there with my 335 and warmed up my voice. After I was done I emerged and joined the group at the table outside. Todd, the drummer, was looking at me strangely. That was good, he said, talking about my singing. He was not a great compliment giver.
He runs a drum company now, Barton Drums. He also loves Trump last I checked so shop wisely.
I sat down with everyone else and listened to the conversation that was going on over the music that was being played in the room. Maybe it was the same music that was being played upstairs in the main room, I don’t know. Some of the young ladies around the table were fairly opinionated. I listened. The song Memory Motel from Black and Blue began to play.
My bandmates and I, we didn’t really hang out. I knew them, they knew me, I knew that Todd loved Clem Burke and that John loved the Ramones, but we didn’t sit around together hanging out in our down time. The three of us are sitting there around this table listening to these women talk about god knows what and then when the part where Keith begins to sing we without any sort of mutual acknowledgement of any kind each of us begins to sing She got a miiiiind of her own and she uuuse it welll, yeah.
The rest of the table was momentarily silent, and then one of the more outspoken ladies remarked I’ve never even heard this fucking song and these guys all just fucking start singing!
We didn’t have an abundance of moments of band unity and I have no idea if the other guys remember this the way I do or even at all, but there you go.
She got a mind of her own and she use it well, yeah, she’s one of a kind.
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I have periods where I really listen to a lot of the Stones, then go months, if not years without. I’ve always been a fan of Let It Bleed. And I have to say, one of my favorite songs is Waiting on a Friend. Just a cool, laid back Caribbean vibe, and Sonny Rollins on saxophone…just puts me in a good mood.
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That’s a great song. The opening chords are so mellow and it fades even mellower with the sax.
There are large portions of their catalog that I can take or leave, but they have some sublime tracks as well.
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From Beggars Banquet through Emotional Rescue the Stones were inarguably the greatest rock-n-roll band in the world. Tattoo You is a pretty good album but since that one they seemed to have moved into the category of old guys making mediocre records but still putting on good live shows. That being said, their most recent release blows the doors off that trite song McCartney and Star recently did.
ETA: I think Hackney Diamonds is pretty good and a lot of fun.
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The opening has a quick F6 chord (a very underrated chord, btw) right in the middle, which gives it that mellow vibe. It’s just the right amount of “tension”, but in a “what’s up” kind of way.
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I’ve got a lot of sitting around time and I really want a new guitar. I think I’m gonna buy me either a 335 or a Casino. Help me decide.
A Casino is very creamy sounding, small neck. I had one for a while but didn’t play it as much as I thought I would.
I don’t have a 335, but i have an Ibanez John Scofield and love it. Waaaaay heavier than the Casino. Great neck, nicely appointed. Not a 335, but close and a lot less expensive.
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I’ll probably get a 335 because it seems to be a lot easier to find used 335s than used Casinos
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There are a lot of Casinos on Reverb if you don’t mind buying online.
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I’ve always like semi hollowbodies. One of my first guitars was a Ric 330, a really nice guitar, but I couldn’t get it to obey me with the setup I had at the time. I ended up trading it to a bandmate, and although I’d like to have it back, he definitely got a lot more use out of it than I ever would have, so I’m happy to see a superior instrument put to its proper use.
I lucked into my 335, bought it from a crazy bandmate, that and a perfectly respectable Japanese made Strat, both for $900, which was an inconceivably large amount of money for me at the time. I own a whole bunch of guitars, but it’s hard to imagine I’ll ever find a better guitar anywhere. It sounds good unamplified even.
I would definitely just roam around from guitar shop to guitar shop and check out what they have. You never know what sort of treasure you’ll stumble across. The search is half the fun, anyway, and I suspect there is no lack of guitar shops in central Texas.
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I got a copy of their first album from 1978. They’re great, I can’t believe I had missed out on them all these years. They’re currently my short duration personal favorite band for the day.
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Nice! It’s a great album. My favorite, though, is the 1979 follow up “Even Serpents Shine”.
“Inbetweens” is my favorite track, but it’s a close call.
[Warning] You might want to have something lined up to listen o after this. Something cheery, like The Smiths or Joy Division.
Also, “Someone Who Cares” is brutal once you realize that the line “I hope you find someone who cares” can be read two ways.
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My wife and I saw El Mató last night. They were great, of course. As we were walking through the casino to get to the venue one of the band’s guitar players was walking in the other direction. I stopped him to say hello and he was quite surprised to be recognized. My wife loves the band at least as much as I do and she launches in to an explanation of her ardor and was speaking of having heard them on the radio in Panama and at this point the guy, Gustavo is his name, Gustavo says Panama? and she says Yes and continues and he again says Panama? Radio in Panama? and she says Yes and continues and he looks over at me and says You’re the guy who was at our show in Austin.
Guilty as charged. He was referring to their first ever US show which happened in conjunction with SXSW under a tailgating tent in the back yard of an old house turned law office a couple of blocks east of Lamar in 2013. Apparently when some Spanish speaking kook appears unexpectedly raving about how much he loves your (then all but unknown in the US) band it makes a lasting impression. I couldn’t believe he remembered me and the exchange. I mean, I could, sort of, since coming to the US for the first time and playing your first shows here and everything associated must create some lasting memories, but these guys play in front of as many people as they want in Latin America and in Argentina in particular. Spain, too. They sell out multiple nights at Luna Park in Buenos Aires. My wife’s and my fandom is wholly irrelevant to their ongoing enterprise. But he remembered and the other guys did, too, it turned out. They could not have been more gracious and more accommodating. More importantly, they’re really, really good, and they keep getting better, and it’s a privilege to be able to listen to them.
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