@@ryangunwitch-black Keith joked in an interview that he was probably a better bassist than a guitar player. I love his bass lines on Stones tracks, such as Sympathy for the Devil. The song wouldn't have been the same with Bill on bass.
The Mick Taylor era was fantastic. I saw the concert movie Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones in a theater sometime in the early 80s and I have to say it's my favorite concert movie ever.
Great episode, Exile is my favorite Stones album but Let It Bleed is a close second. Monkey Man and Gimme Shelter are two of the coolest songs ever by anyone. Midnight Rambler has this dark haunting atmosphere on here that the live versions never quite recapture.
In 1972 I was working in the cellar of Beverly Hills oldest bookstore. The intercom phone buzzed. "Stockroom" I said. "Dennis", said the phone, "the Rolling Stones are on the floor" and I ran up to the sales floor, acted cool, and saw Mick Taylor, who I had seen with the Bluesbreakers in 1969 (and he tore the roof offa the joint). Charlie Watts was browsing the art section. Mick bought a first edition of Alice in Wonderland, Charlie a bunch of art books, huge and expensive.
I love how all the acoustic blues and country songs the Stones recorded in this era make me feel like I'm sitting on the front porch of a little old house in some dusty town in Mississippi or Tennessee, listening to the music as the sun goes down. I think the Stones are underrated as musical chameleons (second only to maybe the Beatles among '60s bands) considering that "Love in Vain" and "Country Honk" share the album with songs like "Gimme Shelter" and "Monkey Man"; and that many of the songs they had recorded a year or two before were psychedelic and heavy on studio experimentation. What a great band, and what a great album "Let it Bleed" is. Maybe I'll pay my homage by taking tea at three today.
Nailed it! Brian Jones was a true genius and _the_ musical wild card in this group. They were never the same without him. That said, Keith carries this album admirably in Brian's near absence. Keith's lead playing on Gimme Shelter is exceptional. You Got the Silver may be in response to Anita's tryst with Mick, so Keith's emotions are raw and real. Some of Brian's final and most beautiful parts are played on wistful songs like You Got the Silver, No Expectations, and Child of the Moon. A deeply flawed person that played like an angel.
Yea they weren’t the same without Jones, they were way better. Let It Bleed pretty much without anything from Jones - 2 songs with minimal impact, then Sticky Fingers, Exile, Goats…. They were a blues and pop band with Jones and became a true rock band with Taylor and later Wood. Jones contributions other than forming the band are vastly overrated. Bill and Charlie were as important as him
@@flyingburritobro68 Mick Taylor has his moments. It's a bit silly to say they were better with him though. Too many people disagree with that for it to hold water. I think Taylor is the one who is overrated. The Stones weren't meant to be a lead/rhythm guitar group.
@@flyingburritobro68 Taylor was always the best fit for the Stones. He played off Keith perfectly. As much as I love Ron Wood, he’s similar enough to Keith that it made the music far less interesting.
@@BlueSky...f you like to listen to Stones pop and quasi Beatles stuff than the Jones period is for you. If not than the Taylor period of gritty blues based rock is the ticket. The Taylor years were their most successful as far as album sales and legacy with both Sticky Fingers and Exile in the top 10-15 albums of all time in any reputable publication like RS. Exile has appeared as high as number two. Who mentions Decembers Children or Between The Buttons or for God sakes Satanic Majesties Reauest?
Glyn Johns and Jimmy Miller sure new how to record / produce an act like the Stones from this era. The sonic colors Jimmy brought to LIB were nothing short of Brilliant!
Listen to the first Traffic album (preferably the American one) or the second album and you'll understand why the Stones wanted Jimmy Miller! Put your headphones on!
Wow finally a sort of Vinyl History Channel that is actually good. Absolutly LOVE your Videos. Keep it up. I collect Vinyls myself, especially Rolling Stones. M favorite Song will always be Wild Horses. I wrote a short Story sorrounding that song. The death of Brian Jones was so fucking tragic. Can't imagine what the Stones would have been like if Brian didn't die. I came to Vinyls and Vinyl collecting through a co-worker. He has a GIANT collection and is 74 now. I'm 30 and i consider him not only to be a good friend but also sort of a replacement Grandfather.
This album was given to me as a gift from my friends of my family. It was and is the very first Rolling Stones album that I own. I got this album around the time that I had first seen the concert documentary film “Gimme Shelter.”All in all,another great video on a classic album.Nice job as always Abby!!!
While I was already a big fan of the mid '60s Stones in the early '80s I knew pretty much nothing of the big 4 LPs. In 1982 I joined a small film production at a farm house west of Brisbane. Partly this was to be in a movie (I had one line and that was replaced by the director redubbing it, so I ended up playing a smirk) and partly it was to evade Brisbane's Commonwealth Games. Anyway, the big empty loungeroom at the house had an old stereo and about ten records. Two that got played the most were a Monty Python sketch album and Let it Bleed. I chucked it on from curiosity and near played it smooth. The epic cinematic quality of the whole thing (that brooding intro to Gimme Shelter and the Oscar worthy scream by Merry Clayton tearing loose after the solo!) the growling slide at the start of the title track, the big and scary Midnight Rambler right to the end of Get What You Want which, yes, does sound like the end of a movie. I had no idea the Stones could make country so accessible (I was post punk then and Nashville was a no no). It was that for me, that massive tide of shared weariness and celebration of those gone and those surviving. Back in Brisbane I found a second hand copy for about 50c and played it smooth to the rest of my flatmates who, same age as me, loved it instantly. Since then I've never not had a copy. As usual, great vid with some thought provoking musings. For which, thanks.
One of their best. You Can’t … is a masterpiece, plain and simple. And glad you called out Monkey Man, such a fantastic track! Love your Vinyl Mondays!
Gimme the "Beggars (Dear Doctor for goodness sake!), Bleed, Sticky, Exile" Stones! That stretch of Stones music has always done it for me! I would even say that "Bleed" is my favorite of the bunch. Strong material, sit ins by Ry Cooder, Nicky Hopkins, Keys, Mick Taylor, Leon, Al Kooper, among others, and what's not to love?! Couple of really strong artists mentioned there that I'd love to see you dive into: Ry Cooder and Leon Russell!!
Great job as always. If you listen to the CD version or streaming (I know, I know, I love vinyl as well, but hear me, ok) with headphones, you can actually faintly hear Keith and Mick say, yeahhhh, in sheer amazement of Mary's voice. Also, love, I mean love, love love that blouse. I have thing for paisley.
Spot on assessment. I'm a huge fan of this album as I was going through my own decadence and hedonism in the late 70's when I moved out on my own with a roommate. It was an awakening of sex, drugs, alcohol, and of course r and r, and this album was the soundtrack to that time. It was played so often it got all scratched up. I replaced it, but still have that old copy as a reminder of my (not so) misspent youth. Anyway, I loved this video! It took me back in time for a time.
Keith Richards has been my rock 'n' roll hero since forever. He can do it all and at times he's had to do it all in the studio. Well done, Abigail. Aircraft noise? Logan Airport?
Always loved this record since I was a kid back in the 70s. One thing I noticed many years later was just how many of the songs on this album are used during important and memorable moments in landmark films. Thinking specifically about Monkey Man in Goodfellas, You Can't Always Get What You Want in The Big Chill, and Gimme Shelter in The Departed (Scorsese obviously a huge Stones fan). There's something about the tone and timbre of the Stones in the late 60s, and pretty much all through the 70s on into Tattoo You, that really lends itself well to the visual storytelling of great cinema. Furthermore Abby, I think your channel might be my favorite thing on YT. Keep 'em coming, please!
Fabulous review! I've said for 40+ years that, if Keith had joined the "27-Club", we would consider him a genius because of Let It Bleed. It's my second favourite album next to Exile.
Deila Smith became a big TV star in her own right with her cookery programmes from the 1970s to the 2000s for the BBC, and becoming a majority shareholder in the English football team Norwich City. When the BBC celebrated his 50th Birthday in 2007, Stephen Fry (also a Norwich City supporter) did a programme about his guilty pleasures, and one of them was his friend Deila, stating that so many Christmas were made easier because of her recipes, and I think you can find that programme on here, plus possibly some of her programmes as well.
This came out in my senior year at college. The context of that space in time was Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam. The dark tone of Let It Bleed meshed with the horror of each day's news and the dread of becoming a soldier in an illegitimate war. Mick & Co. helped us all cope.
Mary Clayton and Clare Tory were complete mind blowers when we were all listening Janis too. 68 to 73 in popular music FM radio, and a couple of bucks concert tickets was a phenomenal time to grow up learning to love music.
this is a really excellent and astute review.......well done. i'm not even a very big 'Stones fan, but i appreciate this detailed look at a Classic Album. thx, wb
Another epic episode, featuring my favorite band ! These deep dives are so amazing, and your comedy style is gold. I got to see Keith sing "You Got the Silver" live at Churchill Downs in 2006. I countdown to the next episode every week and cannot wait for you to get a harmonica.
Another lovely video, Abi. And you did it again! ... every time I watch one of your reviews, I just have to go and play the album you've been talking about!!
This was my intro into the Stones beyond the singles and their weird late 70s early 80s work and I love it! It's the harder, heavier Stones, leading into the raw direction of their 70s era. My favorite rendition of "Gimme Shelter" is, in fact, the one from Altamont with the wow and flutter mangling the opening chords, Wyman's blown out bass hitting this wrong note at just the right time - it's the death of the 60s right fucking there! It sounds so doomed! Favorite tracks are "Midnight Rambler", "Monkey Man", "Live With Me" (way better live, though), "Let It Bleed" and "Gimme Shelter"!
Let it bleed is probably my favorite stones album. (Maybe just behind Satanic Majesties) When I first listened to Let it bleed, it was my first time listening to the stones deep cuts. When I first listened to it I heard a U.K. mono copy I had just bought. I was disappointed to learn it was a fold down but I still love my mono copy! Let it bleed will always be one of my favorite albums.
Great stuff Abigail, one of my favorite albums. So much of the album almost feels like dark delirious country music. Only thing I’d change is I wish the album had the live version of ‘Love in Vain’ absolutely smokes the studio version.
I think You've got the hang of this vinyl thing. When a band goes into a studio to record an album, they might have a feeling that they have some good material, but they don't know how it's going to go over. What makes a good album? a great album? How about 54 years later? This one has got what it takes. All the band members are doing their small part, and it equals a very memorable rock feeling that does Have a message. And Mick reaches down and pulls out his heart and spills it all over the stage...I've always wanted a Rolling Stones collection, 60's through early 80's.
Beggar's Banqtue Let it bleed and Sticky Fingers were the Stones records of my high school years and still some of my favorites. Thanks for your videos!
I taught for 37 years in a high school. I cant tell you how many times I quoted to students, "you don't always get what you want, you only get what you need"...enjoyed the video.
Great episode Abby. I think this is my favorite of yours. This was a big album when I was playing with my band and living in our rehearsal house 1979-80. When the party was about to go off the rails and the “candy” was about to kick in, we’d put on side one of Let It Bleed. The opening of Gimme Shelter would bond the band like some tribal horn!!!! The riff Keith plays just right before the vocal line always reminded us of Keith’s adrenaline reaching its peak and surging through his veins enough to slightly blow the timing …. But it all the better for the sloppiness.
@16:46 ? Just add that the Manson murders factored in in a major way as well, during the era. I was 1 year old at that point, for context. I am of the 'born 10 years too late'....much like you, I suppose. 🚬😎👍
Great choice, Abby! This was the first Stones album I got, and it's still my favorite (although I love so many Stones albums). Gimme Shelter is one of the great openers. Let It Bleed is the anti-Let It Be. You Can't Always Get What You Want might be the best closer EVER. And the country, folk blues of Love in Vain and Country Honk became hugely influential on 70's country/rock. In my opinion, this is also one of the rare perfect albums. No filler, not a bit (Live With Me is NOT filler, just tossed off, brilliantly subtle rock, as only the Stones can do it).
yes thank you!! live with me isn't filler, it's just subtle! not everything can be so bombastic, it'd become exhausting to listen to. only thing missing is honky tonk women, would've loved to see that on here
@@abigaildevoe this is not related to your video, but Jeff Beck passed a few days ago, so I listened to Truth for the first time. It would be a great podcast, because of how much it influenced Zeppelin. And it's a terrific record, right up your alley. Wonderful guitarist.
If you came from Old England (which I sensibly swapped out for New England) you might be amused by a little back story to the cover of (what is my favorite Stones record of all time as well as being one of my all time favorite records) Let It Bleed. Arguably the most celebrated television chef in the UK is a lady now of a certain age called Delia Smith. No nonsense, easy to follow, great recipes, more interested in cooking than being famous. Everybody loved Delia for just being Delia (and a great cook). She’s like a UK equivalent of Julia Childs although a bit younger… Anyway, in the UK if you want to check your ingredients before cooking something you haven’t cooked for a while you Google ‘Delia Smith Fish Pie’ or whatever. It will tell you what you need to know. She’s a national treasure but totally not Rock and Roll. So it came as a surprise to me the day I discovered it was none other than a very young (17 years old), unknown Delia Smith who baked that cake for the album cover! London was so full of talent back then. For the record Monkey Man is my all time favorite Stones song (so soulful) with You Can’t Always Get What You Want running a close second. The rest of the album is merely average genius! A truly great record.
Some of the songs on this Let It Bleed LP are just so time capsule sounding and great. You can just hear the era in the music and I love that! It really a feeling inside of a person even if they weren't around back then or they were too young to know anything about music. There's some really iconic music on this album and Lord knows The Rolling Stones could have made a living just off of the movies that have used some of the music through the years. Enjoyed your video and breakdown of Let It Bleed 👍 Brian in Fort Worth 🎶
Love what you're doing on the channel here. Great deep dive into the histories of the albums you've reviewed. Would highly recommend you do one of these on the album 'Forever Changes' by the band Love. 1967. Thanks.
Whew! Finally binged and caught up with all the Vinyl Mondays so now I'm up to date! Since you're using Circle Sky as your new interlude thing (which I love) I hope Monkees albums are in your future! Perhaps kick things off with Headquarters? 'Cause if you're gonna do HEAD, make sure it's the one with the 4:00 Porpoise Song version---not the 2:00 minute one, damnit! Other than that, love yer stuff. Keep it up! So until then I'll just chill........to the next episode.
man thanks for the vinyl monday binge! you might be more familiar with the running jokes and lore than i am!! would love to do a video on head or pisces aquarius capricorn & jones in the future, just have to get either one in my collection first
Great stuff and I'm glad "You Got the Silver" is finally taking its place among the immortals. This is my favorite Stones album, by a hair over "Beggar's Banquet". Tip from an oldster: for guilty fun, seek out Tony Sanchez' snitchy tell-all "Up and Down with The Rolling Stones".
I'm not a Stones fan, but I did borrow this album from my local library a few months ago (jeez, that makes me sound weird in this streaming era...). Absolutely loved it. For me, the highlight is how good an album it is -- it is hard for me to pick up single songs, as it all seems to just fit together so well.
Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed and Exile On Main St. are my fav Stones albums. Also the era when Mick Taylor steps in for Brian Jones that changed Keiths playing.
There has always been a country element to the Stones music. Tell Me is most likely one of the first country rock songs. Good Times Bad Times is another fine example.
Such a good one, Abby. Are you Ute you weren’t there with us in the ‘60s? I was and was, and remain, thoroughly saturated in the music of the time….music truly was the fabric of those times.there literally would be 2 or 3 “must have” album releases every month…….at least. Then sit around at nights with a bag of smokes and your community and absorb the album. This of course was before internet and I. The first days of Rolling Stone. So a lot of news for the counter culture would end up being shared community and not through media. So these album sharing “unboxings” really did tend often to wind up as communal events around the herb. Those days were quite heady until the reality of things like Kent State and Weather Undergound (and Altamont) crept in. On a lighter note, in the lore of Beatles/Stones interplay, here are two… -“Let It Bleed a tongue in cheek response to “Let It Be” -the Beatles getting all pissed off with Phil Spector overdubbing a female choir on “Long and Winding Road”’and in response the Stones just invited in the London Bach Choir to sing on “You Can’t Always Gwt What You Want”
I really enjoyed this, Abigail presents really well and has a great personality and is a great storyteller. She has obviously researched a lot for this video and I found it both interesting and entertaining.
Oh yeah !!! Loved the 'CIRCLE SKY' drop...your humor and overall taste in music is most pleasing to me. btw, 'GOMPER' swings . Keep up the good work, Abbey Road Devoe.
my fav song from this album is "you can't always get what you want" because it's the unofficial theme for the best tv show of the early 2000's: House M.D
Dude you are so cool. Definitely an acquired taste even though i already thought u were pretty neat at first. I love the deep dives you do; your passion shows and it’s always a great watch. Have an awesome weekend!!!! 🎉❤
I think Gimmie Shelter and You Can't Always Get What You Want are great songs from that album. I love the choir arrangement that opens the song. It really makes you think about yourself. It's a very true sentiment. I don't know if sentiment is the correct word but you stop and think about it. I have a copy of the reissue. It is packed away at the moment.
Another great video, Abby. I bought this one the day it came out. Honky Tonk Women was HUGE that summer, all over the radio. It’s in my DNA, man. Looking forward to the GRRR Live release coming next month.
I've always been struck by the poignancy of Brian's last performance on a Stones record (aside from the killer percussion added to Midnight Rambler) being the auto harp on You Got The Silver. It's the perfect melodic finishing touch to Keith's classic love song (also lead singing debut) to the woman who had been, and almost certainly still was, the love of Brian's life as well. It's hard enough to lose a girlfriend you really love; even worse to lose her to your bandmate/guitar partner. Much pain, sadness and love in that beautiful autoharp overdub. As Keith rather cruelly put it in his 2011 memoir Life, "a last flair from the sinking shipwreck". (Unless you count the traces of Brian's "Pipes of Pan At Joujoka" project on Goats Head Soup's "Can You Hear The Music".) Oh well! No one ever said love is not a mofo. Always great getting your very perceptive takes on the really iconic l.p.'s Abby. Thanks for another one! ♥
Just discovered your channel and i love it, I think I'll be watching all your videos as you clearly know what you are talking about and you present it in a fun way. For me, this album is one of the Stones' best, along with Sticky Fingers, Exile, Beggars and Some Girls. Thank you Abigail.
thank you so much! i don’t often see some girls in the list of best stones albums (it is the disco record after all) but it’s got some great tracks, i’ll be getting to all the records on that list soon. already got to sticky fingers actually!
@@abigaildevoe There's really only one disco song on it, Miss You which is great. It's more punk influenced, Respectable is one of my all time fave Stones tracks. It's still got the obligatory faux Country track, Far Away Eyes which is another classic for me.
Difficult times, Mick joined the marches in 68 London (bit of a showcase) that were naff but forceful against vietnam. It was chaos that year. The band were lost not just to themselves but to what they could achieve They just did and awful things happened. But they went ahead did great and created their best music after Let it bleed. Beggars etc …you sum it up perfectly. For that Abbie as always, thank you. 😊 brilliant summary.
To me, this is the album where comparing The Beatles and The Stones should end. You get hints of it leading up to Let It Bleed but to me this is the album that distinguishes The Stones from The Beatles and is second of a run of albums that might be the apex in all of music from Beggar's Banquet prior to Let It Bleed to Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main Street that follow, Steven Van Zandt comments on this a good bit. If Beggar's Banquet didn't distinguish The Stones enough with songs like "Sympathy For The Devil," "Stray Cat Blues," and "Street Fighting Man," Let It Bleed opens with the seminal song that to me is the greatest Stones song ever. The Stones - Gimme Shelter a song about war, murder, rape, and fear when you listen to the lyrics is extremely powerful, but the blues rock song opening guitar riff that sets the mood. The album possesses The Stones passions in the blues and western music, and the seminal hit "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is one of music's iconic songs that will endure the test of time.
I'll have to watch this one later, but I know it will be good. Jeff Beck RIP. Saw him once in concert with Simon Phillips on drums. Fantastic. Go Abby!
By this era, Keith had no time for Brian & essentially given up on him. Although Keith says on one hand that he was glad to do whatever had to be done to complete a given song for the album in Brian's abscence ? (Which is to be admired....) He clearly points it out repeatedly in his book, Life- which kinda undelines his resentment toward the situation that Brian created. A certain passive-aggressive tone permeates that section of his book; a lot of "hey, pal...." type of sentiment to be found there. Abs, wasn't there a session drummer playing on YCAGWYW in Charlie's stead ? IF memory serves....or maybe that is Can't You Hear Me Knockin' ? that I'm thinking of ?.... Groovy outfit, Chickie ❣ 🚬😎👍
Abby D. It's the season of the witch. All sunshine and supermen. Ok, I have to sit and spend some quality time with this record as its the unloved middle chile. I listen to Beggars and Fingers but usually do other stuff when let it bleed is on. My 'off the top of me head' thoughts: Shelter. Amazing. Always thought that. Country Honk? When I was a teenager it was funny. I just keep waiting for that guitar lock to come that leads into the chorus but it never does. You Can't Always.... I always thought it was a classic and a band I was in in around 1990 used to do that tune mainly because I told them to. I got the R&R Circus on vhs back then too when it was finally allowed out. The only thing about that song is Watt's inventive but never 'resolving' beat. I have to focus on the maracas because the drum beat is like a headache that never goes away. The Dead had more to do with the Angels at Altamont. I've read their long strange trip numerous times. 1969 was just a bad tasting year. Woodstock is just a rose coloured film spectacle. Lots of great music but bad events. You should get some dna of Keef and Glyn and make copies and keep them as concubines.
Just found out about your channel thanks for the great video. You break it down for easy understanding about the album. Keep up the great work and your gorgeous as well : )
I get what you're saying Abbi, as far as not including the original " Honky Tonk Woman" on this LP. To me as much as you say Gimmee Shelter is a perfect single from this album, Honky Tonk Woman is the other perfect single fom the Stones. In the same way I always wanted the original "Revolution" to appear with "Revolution 1" on the Beatles White album. (The first is more Rock n Roll the other more "head music") Thanks for all your hard work in research on Vinyl Mondays. I learn a lot and I'm an old boomer!. Best always!
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If Gimme Shelter doesn’t give you chills or bring you to tears, you’re a stone statue. The opening alone makes the skin on the back of the neck tingle
As a bass player, Keith Richards' bass riffs on 'Live With Me' are just phenomenal. That song made we want to learn to play the bass.
i totally forgot he played bass on live with me!! thank you for pointing that out
Keith also played bass on Jumping Jack Flash: ruclips.net/video/V7aBSWdgAOo/видео.html @@abigaildevoe
Yeah! Keef is a killer bassist.
@@ryangunwitch-black Keith joked in an interview that he was probably a better bassist than a guitar player. I love his bass lines on Stones tracks, such as Sympathy for the Devil. The song wouldn't have been the same with Bill on bass.
I love jamming to that bass line
The Mick Taylor era was fantastic. I saw the concert movie Ladies and Gentlemen, the Rolling Stones in a theater sometime in the early 80s and I have to say it's my favorite concert movie ever.
Agreed. Mick Taylor era is my favorite Rolling Stones era.
Viva Mick Taylor
Also, around this time, don't forget "Get Your Ya Ya's Out."
Probably the best Live Stones album ever.
Peace on earth.
Great episode, Exile is my favorite Stones album but Let It Bleed is a close second. Monkey Man and Gimme Shelter are two of the coolest songs ever by anyone. Midnight Rambler has this dark haunting atmosphere on here that the live versions never quite recapture.
In 1972 I was working in the cellar of Beverly Hills oldest bookstore. The intercom phone buzzed. "Stockroom" I said. "Dennis", said the phone, "the Rolling Stones are on the floor" and I ran up to the sales floor, acted cool, and saw Mick Taylor, who I had seen with the Bluesbreakers in 1969 (and he tore the roof offa the joint). Charlie Watts was browsing the art section. Mick bought a first edition of Alice in Wonderland, Charlie a bunch of art books, huge and expensive.
I love how all the acoustic blues and country songs the Stones recorded in this era make me feel like I'm sitting on the front porch of a little old house in some dusty town in Mississippi or Tennessee, listening to the music as the sun goes down. I think the Stones are underrated as musical chameleons (second only to maybe the Beatles among '60s bands) considering that "Love in Vain" and "Country Honk" share the album with songs like "Gimme Shelter" and "Monkey Man"; and that many of the songs they had recorded a year or two before were psychedelic and heavy on studio experimentation. What a great band, and what a great album "Let it Bleed" is. Maybe I'll pay my homage by taking tea at three today.
Nailed it! Brian Jones was a true genius and _the_ musical wild card in this group. They were never the same without him. That said, Keith carries this album admirably in Brian's near absence. Keith's lead playing on Gimme Shelter is exceptional. You Got the Silver may be in response to Anita's tryst with Mick, so Keith's emotions are raw and real. Some of Brian's final and most beautiful parts are played on wistful songs like You Got the Silver, No Expectations, and Child of the Moon. A deeply flawed person that played like an angel.
Yea they weren’t the same without Jones, they were way better. Let It Bleed pretty much without anything from Jones - 2 songs with minimal impact, then Sticky Fingers, Exile, Goats…. They were a blues and pop band with Jones and became a true rock band with Taylor and later Wood. Jones contributions other than forming the band are vastly overrated. Bill and Charlie were as important as him
@@flyingburritobro68 Mick Taylor has his moments. It's a bit silly to say they were better with him though. Too many people disagree with that for it to hold water. I think Taylor is the one who is overrated. The Stones weren't meant to be a lead/rhythm guitar group.
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Taylor was always the best fit for the Stones. He played off Keith perfectly. As much as I love Ron Wood, he’s similar enough to Keith that it made the music far less interesting.
@@BlueSky...f you like to listen to Stones pop and quasi Beatles stuff than the Jones period is for you. If not than the Taylor period of gritty blues based rock is the ticket. The Taylor years were their most successful as far as album sales and legacy with both Sticky Fingers and Exile in the top 10-15 albums of all time in any reputable publication like RS. Exile has appeared as high as number two. Who mentions Decembers Children or Between The Buttons or for God sakes Satanic Majesties Reauest?
@@flyingburritobro68 No, your comparisons aren't valid and the Stones recorded blues-based stuff with Brian as well as Mick T.
Glyn Johns and Jimmy Miller sure new how to record / produce an act like the Stones from this era. The sonic colors Jimmy brought to LIB were nothing short of Brilliant!
Listen to the first Traffic album (preferably the American one) or the second album and you'll understand why the Stones wanted Jimmy Miller! Put your headphones on!
Wow finally a sort of Vinyl History Channel that is actually good. Absolutly LOVE your Videos. Keep it up. I collect Vinyls myself, especially Rolling Stones. M favorite Song will always be Wild Horses. I wrote a short Story sorrounding that song. The death of Brian Jones was so fucking tragic. Can't imagine what the Stones would have been like if Brian didn't die. I came to Vinyls and Vinyl collecting through a co-worker. He has a GIANT collection and is 74 now. I'm 30 and i consider him not only to be a good friend but also sort of a replacement Grandfather.
This album was given to me as a gift from my friends of my family. It was and is the very first Rolling Stones album that I own. I got this album around the time that I had first seen the concert documentary film “Gimme Shelter.”All in all,another great video on a classic album.Nice job as always Abby!!!
My girlfriend gave me this album back in 1982, for my 17th birthday. You just made me listen to it for the billionth time.☺️👍👍
While I was already a big fan of the mid '60s Stones in the early '80s I knew pretty much nothing of the big 4 LPs. In 1982 I joined a small film production at a farm house west of Brisbane. Partly this was to be in a movie (I had one line and that was replaced by the director redubbing it, so I ended up playing a smirk) and partly it was to evade Brisbane's Commonwealth Games. Anyway, the big empty loungeroom at the house had an old stereo and about ten records. Two that got played the most were a Monty Python sketch album and Let it Bleed. I chucked it on from curiosity and near played it smooth. The epic cinematic quality of the whole thing (that brooding intro to Gimme Shelter and the Oscar worthy scream by Merry Clayton tearing loose after the solo!) the growling slide at the start of the title track, the big and scary Midnight Rambler right to the end of Get What You Want which, yes, does sound like the end of a movie. I had no idea the Stones could make country so accessible (I was post punk then and Nashville was a no no). It was that for me, that massive tide of shared weariness and celebration of those gone and those surviving. Back in Brisbane I found a second hand copy for about 50c and played it smooth to the rest of my flatmates who, same age as me, loved it instantly. Since then I've never not had a copy. As usual, great vid with some thought provoking musings. For which, thanks.
I just played this album today, about 4 or 5 hours ago. Then I had the pleasure of seeing this video. I love this channel.
One of their best. You Can’t … is a masterpiece, plain and simple. And glad you called out Monkey Man, such a fantastic track! Love your Vinyl Mondays!
Gimme the "Beggars (Dear Doctor for goodness sake!), Bleed, Sticky, Exile" Stones! That stretch of Stones music has always done it for me! I would even say that "Bleed" is my favorite of the bunch. Strong material, sit ins by Ry Cooder, Nicky Hopkins, Keys, Mick Taylor, Leon, Al Kooper, among others, and what's not to love?! Couple of really strong artists mentioned there that I'd love to see you dive into: Ry Cooder and Leon Russell!!
Great job as always. If you listen to the CD version or streaming (I know, I know, I love vinyl as well, but hear me, ok) with headphones, you can actually faintly hear Keith and Mick say, yeahhhh, in sheer amazement of Mary's voice.
Also, love, I mean love, love love that blouse. I have thing for paisley.
yes i've heard it! i love when stuff like that is kept in
Spot on assessment. I'm a huge fan of this album as I was going through my own decadence and hedonism in the late 70's when I moved out on my own with a roommate.
It was an awakening of sex, drugs, alcohol, and of course r and r, and this album was the soundtrack to that time.
It was played so often it got all scratched up. I replaced it, but still have that old copy as a reminder of my (not so) misspent youth.
Anyway, I loved this video!
It took me back in time for a time.
Keith Richards has been my rock 'n' roll hero since forever. He can do it all and at times he's had to do it all in the studio. Well done, Abigail. Aircraft noise? Logan Airport?
Always loved this record since I was a kid back in the 70s. One thing I noticed many years later was just how many of the songs on this album are used during important and memorable moments in landmark films. Thinking specifically about Monkey Man in Goodfellas, You Can't Always Get What You Want in The Big Chill, and Gimme Shelter in The Departed (Scorsese obviously a huge Stones fan). There's something about the tone and timbre of the Stones in the late 60s, and pretty much all through the 70s on into Tattoo You, that really lends itself well to the visual storytelling of great cinema. Furthermore Abby, I think your channel might be my favorite thing on YT. Keep 'em coming, please!
Fabulous review! I've said for 40+ years that, if Keith had joined the "27-Club", we would consider him a genius because of Let It Bleed. It's my second favourite album next to Exile.
“You can’t always get what you want”. Such a great song….
Deila Smith became a big TV star in her own right with her cookery programmes from the 1970s to the 2000s for the BBC, and becoming a majority shareholder in the English football team Norwich City. When the BBC celebrated his 50th Birthday in 2007, Stephen Fry (also a Norwich City supporter) did a programme about his guilty pleasures, and one of them was his friend Deila, stating that so many Christmas were made easier because of her recipes, and I think you can find that programme on here, plus possibly some of her programmes as well.
This came out in my senior year at college. The context of that space in time was Vietnam, Vietnam, Vietnam. The dark tone of Let It Bleed meshed with the horror of each day's news and the dread of becoming a soldier in an illegitimate war. Mick & Co. helped us all cope.
Mary Clayton and Clare Tory were complete mind blowers when we were all listening Janis too. 68 to 73 in popular music FM radio, and a couple of bucks concert tickets was a phenomenal time to grow up learning to love music.
this is a really excellent and astute review.......well done. i'm not even a very big 'Stones fan, but i appreciate this detailed look at a Classic Album. thx, wb
Great job, Abigail! It still blows my mind that you have any awareness of these great albums and how you nail the deep tracks.
Love this channel. I'm twice her age and know not even half as much as she does about these albums.
Another epic episode, featuring my favorite band ! These deep dives are so amazing, and your comedy style is gold. I got to see Keith sing "You Got the Silver" live at Churchill Downs in 2006.
I countdown to the next episode every week and cannot wait for you to get a harmonica.
thanks so much! you're so lucky you got to see YGTS live. i'll notify the good people of this channel as soon as i get a harmonica
Another lovely video, Abi. And you did it again! ... every time I watch one of your reviews, I just have to go and play the album you've been talking about!!
thanks, enjoy the listen!
Monkey Man intro is SO Bowie. Lifelong fave intro, never put them together. Genius.
A great album, my favourite by the Stones. 1969 was a real high point for rock albums.
This was my intro into the Stones beyond the singles and their weird late 70s early 80s work and I love it! It's the harder, heavier Stones, leading into the raw direction of their 70s era. My favorite rendition of "Gimme Shelter" is, in fact, the one from Altamont with the wow and flutter mangling the opening chords, Wyman's blown out bass hitting this wrong note at just the right time - it's the death of the 60s right fucking there! It sounds so doomed!
Favorite tracks are "Midnight Rambler", "Monkey Man", "Live With Me" (way better live, though), "Let It Bleed" and "Gimme Shelter"!
Let it bleed is probably my favorite stones album. (Maybe just behind Satanic Majesties) When I first listened to Let it bleed, it was my first time listening to the stones deep cuts. When I first listened to it I heard a U.K. mono copy I had just bought. I was disappointed to learn it was a fold down but I still love my mono copy! Let it bleed will always be one of my favorite albums.
I like satanic too … it’s the album that freed up the band and led to there classic rum of albums …
Great stuff Abigail, one of my favorite albums. So much of the album almost feels like dark delirious country music. Only thing I’d change is I wish the album had the live version of ‘Love in Vain’ absolutely smokes the studio version.
I think You've got the hang of this vinyl thing. When a band goes into a studio to record an album, they might have a feeling that they have some good material, but they don't know how it's going to go over. What makes a good album? a great album? How about 54 years later? This one has got what it takes. All the band members are doing their small part, and it equals a very memorable rock feeling that does Have a message. And Mick reaches down and pulls out his heart and spills it all over the stage...I've always wanted a Rolling Stones collection, 60's through early 80's.
Beggar's Banqtue Let it bleed and Sticky Fingers were the Stones records of my high school years and still some of my favorites. Thanks for your videos!
I taught for 37 years in a high school. I cant tell you how many times I quoted to students, "you don't always get what you want, you only get what you need"...enjoyed the video.
Great episode Abby. I think this is my favorite of yours.
This was a big album when I was playing with my band and living in our rehearsal house 1979-80.
When the party was about to go off the rails and the “candy” was about to kick in, we’d put on side one of Let It Bleed. The opening of Gimme Shelter would bond the band like some tribal horn!!!!
The riff Keith plays just right before the vocal line always reminded us of Keith’s adrenaline reaching its peak and surging through his veins enough to slightly blow the timing …. But it all the better for the sloppiness.
I absolutely love you got the silver
@16:46 ? Just add that the Manson murders factored in in a major way as well, during the era.
I was 1 year old at that point, for context. I am of the 'born 10 years too late'....much like you, I suppose.
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Great choice, Abby! This was the first Stones album I got, and it's still my favorite (although I love so many Stones albums). Gimme Shelter is one of the great openers. Let It Bleed is the anti-Let It Be. You Can't Always Get What You Want might be the best closer EVER. And the country, folk blues of Love in Vain and Country Honk became hugely influential on 70's country/rock. In my opinion, this is also one of the rare perfect albums. No filler, not a bit (Live With Me is NOT filler, just tossed off, brilliantly subtle rock, as only the Stones can do it).
yes thank you!! live with me isn't filler, it's just subtle! not everything can be so bombastic, it'd become exhausting to listen to. only thing missing is honky tonk women, would've loved to see that on here
@@abigaildevoe this is not related to your video, but Jeff Beck passed a few days ago, so I listened to Truth for the first time. It would be a great podcast, because of how much it influenced Zeppelin. And it's a terrific record, right up your alley. Wonderful guitarist.
If you came from Old England (which I sensibly swapped out for New England) you might be amused by a little back story to the cover of (what is my favorite Stones record of all time as well as being one of my all time favorite records) Let It Bleed. Arguably the most celebrated television chef in the UK is a lady now of a certain age called Delia Smith. No nonsense, easy to follow, great recipes, more interested in cooking than being famous. Everybody loved Delia for just being Delia (and a great cook). She’s like a UK equivalent of Julia Childs although a bit younger… Anyway, in the UK if you want to check your ingredients before cooking something you haven’t cooked for a while you Google ‘Delia Smith Fish Pie’ or whatever. It will tell you what you need to know. She’s a national treasure but totally not Rock and Roll. So it came as a surprise to me the day I discovered it was none other than a very young (17 years old), unknown Delia Smith who baked that cake for the album cover! London was so full of talent back then.
For the record Monkey Man is my all time favorite Stones song (so soulful) with You Can’t Always Get What You Want running a close second. The rest of the album is merely average genius! A truly great record.
I pretty much know all of this already - but so fun to watch! great job
I have always loved this album but I have given it a rest for a few years I will revisit soon
Some of the songs on this Let It Bleed LP are just so time capsule sounding and great. You can just hear the era in the music and I love that! It really a feeling inside of a person even if they weren't around back then or they were too young to know anything about music. There's some really iconic music on this album and Lord knows The Rolling Stones could have made a living just off of the movies that have used some of the music through the years. Enjoyed your video and breakdown of Let It Bleed 👍
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I was just going to say I'm new to the channel and a large Stones fan so thank you very much.
Oh my LP of Broken English has the same alternate cover art as yours! Hope we get Marianne on a Vinyl Monday :D. Captivating video once again!
that’s alternate cover art?? and i just didn’t know??
Love what you're doing on the channel here. Great deep dive into the histories of the albums you've reviewed. Would highly recommend you do one of these on the album 'Forever Changes' by the band Love. 1967. Thanks.
forever changes is my most requested album by a long shot - there's a long list of albums to get through but forever changes is on my radar
Whew! Finally binged and caught up with all the Vinyl Mondays so now I'm up to date! Since you're using Circle Sky as your new interlude thing (which I love) I hope Monkees albums are in your future! Perhaps kick things off with Headquarters? 'Cause if you're gonna do HEAD, make sure it's the one with the 4:00 Porpoise Song version---not the 2:00 minute one, damnit! Other than that, love yer stuff. Keep it up! So until then I'll just chill........to the next episode.
man thanks for the vinyl monday binge! you might be more familiar with the running jokes and lore than i am!! would love to do a video on head or pisces aquarius capricorn & jones in the future, just have to get either one in my collection first
Great stuff and I'm glad "You Got the Silver" is finally taking its place among the immortals. This is my favorite Stones album, by a hair over "Beggar's Banquet". Tip from an oldster: for guilty fun, seek out Tony Sanchez' snitchy tell-all "Up and Down with The Rolling Stones".
I'm not a Stones fan, but I did borrow this album from my local library a few months ago (jeez, that makes me sound weird in this streaming era...). Absolutely loved it. For me, the highlight is how good an album it is -- it is hard for me to pick up single songs, as it all seems to just fit together so well.
not gonna lie to you...i had no idea you could still check out an album from the library! i have a couple library castoffs in my collection
Beggars Banquet, Let it Bleed and Exile On Main St. are my fav Stones albums. Also the era when Mick Taylor steps in for Brian Jones that changed Keiths playing.
There has always been a country element to the Stones music. Tell Me is most likely one of the first country rock songs. Good Times Bad Times is another fine example.
Another epic episode of Vinyl Mondays! The routine with the big sunglasses was hilarious! Please show the outtakes!?
there are no outtakes of the let it bleed but, i got that one the first time
Abby,,you are GOOD!!!!!!!,everything I've been thinking 🤔😕
I love to make fun of Jagger too. You're in good company Abby!
Superb Abi, superb!
Such a good one, Abby. Are you Ute you weren’t there with us in the ‘60s? I was and was, and remain, thoroughly saturated in the music of the time….music truly was the fabric of those times.there literally would be 2 or 3 “must have” album releases every month…….at least. Then sit around at nights with a bag of smokes and your community and absorb the album. This of course was before internet and I. The first days of Rolling Stone. So a lot of news for the counter culture would end up being shared community and not through media. So these album sharing “unboxings” really did tend often to wind up as communal events around the herb. Those days were quite heady until the reality of things like Kent State and Weather Undergound (and Altamont) crept in. On a lighter note, in the lore of Beatles/Stones interplay, here are two…
-“Let It Bleed a tongue in cheek response to “Let It Be”
-the Beatles getting all pissed off with Phil Spector overdubbing a female choir on “Long and Winding Road”’and in response the Stones just invited in the London Bach Choir to sing on “You Can’t Always Gwt What You Want”
I really enjoyed this, Abigail presents really well and has a great personality and is a great storyteller. She has obviously researched a lot for this video and I found it both interesting and entertaining.
thank you so much!
I enjoy hearing what you have to say, you have a great knowledge.
Oh yeah !!! Loved the 'CIRCLE SKY' drop...your humor and overall taste in music is most pleasing to me. btw, 'GOMPER' swings . Keep up the good work, Abbey Road Devoe.
Great album! Monkey Man is easily my favorite cut
Yeah…My girlfriend is from New England too and has the mouth of a sailor. She’s awesome. (I know the store you’re talking about in Bethel.)
This Album is a total masterpiece !!!!
I love it!! one of my Top 5 Stones albums ever.
Your intro always makes me feel like I'm at the DOCTORS office, its comforting
masterpiece-my favorite stones album is "beggars banquet" another masterpiece !!!! great video Abby !!!😉😇🥰
my fav song from this album is "you can't always get what you want" because it's the unofficial theme for the best tv show of the early 2000's: House M.D
Dude you are so cool. Definitely an acquired taste even though i already thought u were pretty neat at first. I love the deep dives you do; your passion shows and it’s always a great watch. Have an awesome weekend!!!! 🎉❤
Another so impressive album review and time capsule.
I think Gimmie Shelter and You Can't Always Get What You Want are great songs from that album. I love the choir arrangement that opens the song. It really makes you think about yourself. It's a very true sentiment. I don't know if sentiment is the correct word but you stop and think about it. I have a copy of the reissue. It is packed away at the moment.
Great album. Every song is a classic. The beginning of the Mick Taylor era which is my favorite.
Another great video, Abby. I bought this one the day it came out. Honky Tonk Women was HUGE that summer, all over the radio. It’s in my DNA, man. Looking forward to the GRRR Live release coming next month.
love the choice of transition music!
George Lucas was one of the cameramen at Altamont filming the show for Gimmie Shelter
That was a fantastic video Abigail :)
I agree with your comment near the end, it sounds like the end of the 60s and sets up what they would do starting in the 70s
Excellent. You rock!
I've always been struck by the poignancy of Brian's last performance on a Stones record (aside from the killer percussion added to Midnight Rambler) being the auto harp on You Got The Silver. It's the perfect melodic finishing touch to Keith's classic love song (also lead singing debut) to the woman who had been, and almost certainly still was, the love of Brian's life as well. It's hard enough to lose a girlfriend you really love; even worse to lose her to your bandmate/guitar partner. Much pain, sadness and love in that beautiful autoharp overdub. As Keith rather cruelly put it in his 2011 memoir Life, "a last flair from the sinking shipwreck". (Unless you count the traces of Brian's "Pipes of Pan At Joujoka" project on Goats Head Soup's "Can You Hear The Music".) Oh well! No one ever said love is not a mofo.
Always great getting your very perceptive takes on the really iconic l.p.'s Abby. Thanks for another one! ♥
Just discovered your channel and i love it, I think I'll be watching all your videos as you clearly know what you are talking about and you present it in a fun way. For me, this album is one of the Stones' best, along with Sticky Fingers, Exile, Beggars and Some Girls. Thank you Abigail.
thank you so much!
i don’t often see some girls in the list of best stones albums (it is the disco record after all) but it’s got some great tracks, i’ll be getting to all the records on that list soon. already got to sticky fingers actually!
@@abigaildevoe There's really only one disco song on it, Miss You which is great. It's more punk influenced, Respectable is one of my all time fave Stones tracks. It's still got the obligatory faux Country track, Far Away Eyes which is another classic for me.
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Totally in my wheelhouse. I’m excited. I’ll drop my Odessa track list tonight.
Great job.
Spent lots of long nights and longer days with this album. Love the album and love your video! You are absolutely amazing (and gorgeous too!)😘💕💕
Difficult times, Mick joined the marches in 68 London (bit of a showcase) that were naff but forceful against vietnam. It was chaos that year. The band were lost not just to themselves but to what they could achieve They just did and awful things happened. But they went ahead did great and created their best music after Let it bleed. Beggars etc …you sum it up perfectly. For that Abbie as always, thank you. 😊 brilliant summary.
To me, this is the album where comparing The Beatles and The Stones should end. You get hints of it leading up to Let It Bleed but to me this is the album that distinguishes The Stones from The Beatles and is second of a run of albums that might be the apex in all of music from Beggar's Banquet prior to Let It Bleed to Sticky Fingers, Exile On Main Street that follow, Steven Van Zandt comments on this a good bit.
If Beggar's Banquet didn't distinguish The Stones enough with songs like "Sympathy For The Devil," "Stray Cat Blues," and "Street Fighting Man," Let It Bleed opens with the seminal song that to me is the greatest Stones song ever.
The Stones - Gimme Shelter a song about war, murder, rape, and fear when you listen to the lyrics is extremely powerful, but the blues rock song opening guitar riff that sets the mood.
The album possesses The Stones passions in the blues and western music, and the seminal hit "You Can't Always Get What You Want" is one of music's iconic songs that will endure the test of time.
What a great review of a great album! Subscribed
I'll have to watch this one later, but I know it will be good. Jeff Beck RIP. Saw him once in concert with Simon Phillips on drums. Fantastic. Go Abby!
I really enjoyed your analysis of one of my favorite Stones albums. You definitely have a new subscriber.
thanks so much! welcome to this long strange trip. it only ramps up from here
Great review. Loved it
By this era, Keith had no time for Brian & essentially given up on him. Although Keith says on one hand that he was glad to do whatever had to be done to complete a given song for the album in Brian's abscence ? (Which is to be admired....)
He clearly points it out repeatedly in his book, Life- which kinda undelines his resentment toward the situation that Brian created.
A certain passive-aggressive tone permeates that section of his book; a lot of "hey, pal...." type of sentiment to be found there.
Abs, wasn't there a session drummer playing on YCAGWYW in Charlie's stead ? IF memory serves....or maybe that is Can't You Hear Me Knockin' ? that I'm thinking of ?....
Groovy outfit, Chickie ❣
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Abby D. It's the season of the witch. All sunshine and supermen.
Ok, I have to sit and spend some quality time with this record as its the unloved middle chile.
I listen to Beggars and Fingers but usually do other stuff when let it bleed is on.
My 'off the top of me head' thoughts:
Shelter. Amazing. Always thought that. Country Honk? When I was a teenager it was funny. I just keep waiting for that guitar lock to come that leads into the chorus but it never does.
You Can't Always.... I always thought it was a classic and a band I was in in around 1990 used to do that tune mainly because I told them to.
I got the R&R Circus on vhs back then too when it was finally allowed out.
The only thing about that song is Watt's inventive but never 'resolving' beat. I have to focus on the maracas because the drum beat is like a headache that never goes away.
The Dead had more to do with the Angels at Altamont. I've read their long strange trip numerous times. 1969 was just a bad tasting year. Woodstock is just a rose coloured film spectacle.
Lots of great music but bad events.
You should get some dna of Keef and Glyn and make copies and keep them as concubines.
Fantastic video let it bleed is an amazing album I love the mick Jagger circus clips those made me laugh really loud great video Abbey
it just might be a new running joke on this channel (i PROMISE i won't overuse it!)
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great review as usual. i rate it. 5 stars with few stones others its a sad tale with brian. but rock n roll has many sad tales. luv ur sunnies
That is my favorite Rolling Stones album. I have 2 original copies with the poster insert
It's a good one. Monkey Man and YCAGWYW are some of my favorite songs to play and Chuck Leavell is my hero for keeping Monkey Man alive.
Just found out about your channel thanks for the great video. You break it down for easy understanding about the album. Keep up the great work and your gorgeous as well : )
Let It Bleed is my favorite Stones album.
I get what you're saying Abbi, as far as not including the original " Honky Tonk Woman" on this LP. To me as much as you say Gimmee Shelter is a perfect single from this album, Honky Tonk Woman is the other perfect single fom the Stones. In the same way I always wanted the original "Revolution" to appear with "Revolution 1" on the Beatles White album. (The first is more Rock n Roll the other more "head music") Thanks for all your hard work in research on Vinyl Mondays. I learn a lot and I'm an old boomer!. Best always!
You Got The Silver is one of my favorite Keith songs.
I saw them in concert when this album came out. Chuck Berry opened for them
I love disc & dat!
Love your sense of style.