Randisi
Social climber
Dalian, Liaoning
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Aug 13, 2012 - 06:43pm PT
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One thing we do know, the Stones definitely did disco!
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Fritz
Trad climber
Choss Creek, ID
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Aug 13, 2012 - 06:52pm PT
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http://youtu.be/ouFbOsRPCKE
One of my favs! The Rolling Stones - Dear Doctor
So country-----I need to get drunk!
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Bruce Kay
Gym climber
BC
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Aug 13, 2012 - 06:53pm PT
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I dunno if they ever did total country or not but let me tell you put on some Link Wray and you most assuredly will hear the Stones before the stones were even out of diapers. And that is cross breeding applaachia, gospel, delta blues, straight out of the fifties.
I'll see if i can dig some up.
OK listen to this and tell me the Stones were not influenced strongly by Link Wray ( as were most blues rockers)
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LXrV9mBM7Pk&feature=related
this from Link Wrays Wiki:
Building on the overdriven, distorted electric guitar sound of early electric blues records, his 1958 instrumental hit "Rumble" by Link Wray and his Ray Men introduced "the power chord, the major modus operandi of modern rock guitarists,"[1] making possible "punk and heavy rock."[2] Rolling Stone placed Wray at number 45 of the 100 greatest guitarists of all time.[3]
Sorry to go on about Link instead of the stones but when i think of the Stones I think of Link Wray, and when i think of Link Wray i think of the stones. Wether or not thats country I don't know.
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klk
Trad climber
cali
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Aug 13, 2012 - 07:08pm PT
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KLK- Graham Parson overrated? Shite. Take another listen!
heh
that took awhile
yeah, just another rich hippy emo. he was as country as "shite." (sorry, couldnt resist.)
"grievous angel" is a great song-- but he didnt write it. "sin city" and "hickory wind" are good songs. let's push it a bit and say that "wild horses" is a good song. i don't think so, but i won't fight. that's three decent country songs. that's enough to make him a minor, forgotten song writer.
musically speaking, his rep rests almost entirely on his partying with the stones and the byrds and his partnership with emmylou. their duet on "love hurts" is cool, but it also (in hindsight) pointed the way toward that easy-listening destruction of honyky tonk in the late seventies.
i did like his nudie suit, though.
and back to the ot: "brown sugar" is the most country song the stones ever did.
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Dingus Milktoast
Gym climber
And every fool knows, a dog needs a home, and...
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Aug 13, 2012 - 07:16pm PT
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The Stones could only FAKE their country, lol.
Frickin limeys.
DMT
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 13, 2012 - 09:02pm PT
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+2 Dingus!
Gonna check me out some Link Ray!
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The Warbler
climber
the edge of America
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Aug 13, 2012 - 09:04pm PT
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How'd I fergit that one Rik?
That could be the winner.
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 13, 2012 - 09:27pm PT
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Link Ray at first blush seems more of an influence on Dick Dale than the stones.....
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zBrown
Ice climber
chingadero de chula vista
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Aug 13, 2012 - 09:27pm PT
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Link Wray was an influence on everybody, including Bo and Chuck and Dylan and Townes and ...
Oh yeah Jimi, God, Fahey, Bloomfield, ...
EDIT:
Oh yeah and Timid T -->
Not exactly hi-tech, but I was there (BTW Dick Dale played there too a few years earlier - kept breakin' strings).
Final Rumble, Glendale
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=H0hrobWkonE
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Timid TopRope
Social climber
'used to be Paradise, CA
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Aug 13, 2012 - 09:37pm PT
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That 's it. I 'm adding Rumble to the facelift jerk er I mean jam off. Link cut a country record prior to The Wraymen.
Edit. Gene Clark did as much as GP to create hippy country but gets no credit. He wrote most of the Byrd 's classics and made several good records post FBB.
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Mighty Hiker
climber
Vancouver, B.C.
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Aug 13, 2012 - 09:39pm PT
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Rocky Raccoon. And the Stones did a lot of borrowing from the Beatles.
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drljefe
climber
El Presidio San Augustin del Tucson
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Aug 13, 2012 - 10:37pm PT
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All Over Now
The only song I ever sang on stage with a live rock band.
Killed it.
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t*r
Mountain climber
alis volat propriis
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Aug 13, 2012 - 10:38pm PT
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the stones doing country?
no comment.
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Mike Friedrichs
Sport climber
City of Salt
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Aug 14, 2012 - 07:23am PT
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The Gram Parsons debate is interesting. I saw the documentary awhile ago and came away with the feeling that he was a spoiled, rich boy with no soul. Then I hear songs like A Song For You or Sin City and I think they're great, not good, songs. I mentioned this to Ed and he said, "then where did the soul come from?"
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Jaybro
Social climber
Wolf City, Wyoming
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Topic Author's Reply - Aug 14, 2012 - 07:50am PT
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Encased in rubber, lifted from the Beatles....
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Cragman
Trad climber
June Lake, California....via the Damascus Road
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Aug 14, 2012 - 07:52am PT
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The Stones...gotta love 'em....been doing it all these years.....Fred and Barney...
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