Month: May 2021

Just released! “A Little Bang” is a 5-track EP containing tracks from the upcoming release – “A Bigger Bang – Live On Copacabana Beach“.

This release is only available until July 9 on streaming services.

Here’s the tracklist:

1. Sympathy For The Devil (Live) [08:02]
2. Wild Horses (Live) [05:37]
3. You Got Me Rocking (Live) [03:35]
4. Happy (Live) [03:55]
5. Rough Justice (Live*) [03:35]
   *played at Salt Lake City

ABKCO Music & Records just released two new lyric videos of “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” and and its relatively obscure B-Side “Child of the Moon“

Both tracks are released as lyric videos and as newly remastered tracks digitally on all streaming platforms by twelve-time Grammy-winning mastering engineer Bob Ludwig.

Quote from ABCKO:

“With ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’ being among the greatest Rock ‘n Roll singles of all time we knew we had to create a visual that somehow matched the swagger and excitement of the track,” stated music video directors Tom Readdy and Lucy Dawkins of London-based creative design studio Yes Please Productions. “With that guitar riff and Jagger’s exceptional searing vocal we set out to create animations that hit and emphasized every beat, guitar part and syllable sung. The simplicity of the color palette, along with rough, hand drawn elements all come together to create an energetic visual to accompany the joyful rush of adrenaline that is ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’.”

[…]

Tom Readdy and Lucy Dawkins of Yes Please Productions explained, “Our lyric video for ‘Child Of The Moon’ is inspired by the natural landscape and elements in the promo video for the track from 1968 directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg. The song was unfinished during the sessions for Their Satanic Majesties Request and often seen as the postscript to the psychedelic era of the band. We leant into this vibe to create ‘60s inspired bespoke illustrations of flowers, leaves and patterns that grow in and around the ornate typeface. This typeface incidentally featured on an original 7″ picture sleeve for ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’/‘Child Of The Moon’.”

The fucking greatest band on earth just released 5:39 minutes of Brown Sugar glory!

Played, filmed and recorded at Rio de Janeiro’s Copacabana Beach, you can see and hear The Rolling Stones back in those glory days when Bobby Keyes was still a member of that rat-pack. (Hey Karl [Denson]: absolutely no blame on you! You are indeed and truly in charge of Bobby’s spot in this band!!

So just come on in, get your rocks off and dance to that beat of that gold coast slave ship, bound for cotton fields …

And don’t forget: the next Stones tour is definitely in the making! After all, Alice has scheduled dates for a tour (Cooper, that is), as have the Black Crowes!

Do you really believe, the Stones are going to miss this possibillity of playing live once more and maybe for the last time?

I don’t think so!

Pleaae feel free to leave your comment

The official Rolling Stones site has just released it’s new Sticky Fingers section in celebration of the 50th birthday of this album!

The site experience.rollingstones.com gives you some idea of the aera, the making and generally the history of the album. Of course, there’s videos and interviews about the album, Muscle Shoals (the studio which has a history of it’s own). So they made up a really nice site there.

There’s 9 sections of “The story of the album” you can explore, all with pictures, some videos and infos around the issue of this monster classc rock album. There’s stories about the album (1) the Muscle Shoals (2), the mobile studio (3), the logo (4), the artwork (5), the actual release of the album (6), the lead singe Brown sugar (7), Wild Horses (8) and the album tracks (9)

The band hearing the Wild Horses track taken  and mixed… anything to add or change?

There’s a lot more to see and hear, so just go there an give it another listen! A nice site done in technical perspective, too, by the way.