Friday, August 05, 2016

"Balls!" Said the Queen. "If I Had 'Em I'd Be King!"

She does, and she is.



I had never seen that clip until the other day, and if I ever needed a reminder of why I've loved that woman since before she was famous, that'll suffice.

And she's wearing the album cover shirt and tie, too.


Have a great weekend, everybody.

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8 comments:

  1. edward8/05/2016 12:33 PM

    Clearly we haunt the same blogs. I first saw it the other day, too.

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  2. Jai Guru Dav8/05/2016 1:35 PM

    Maybe it's just me, but the guitars don't sound quite right to me. Did the Stones do it in some kind of open tuning? This sounds like standard tuning, and the voicings don't sound the same. Not as menacing.

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  3. cthulhu8/05/2016 3:15 PM

    She knows how to cover. I still think her version of "So You Want To Be a Rock 'n Roll Star" is the definitive one.

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  4. Peter Power Pop8/05/2016 7:00 PM

    Patti Smith Group - "So You Want To Be (A Rock 'N' Roll Star)"

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  5. Anonymous8/05/2016 9:44 PM

    yes grasshopper...

    Keef... in open E i believe.

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  6. steve simels8/06/2016 10:44 AM

    Gimme Shelter isn't in open E -- Jumping Jack Flash is.

    Trust me....

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  7. Anonymous8/08/2016 2:50 PM

    It's not open E? Sure sounds like the studio version when played that way. Maybe open D, which is kinda the same. The intro is one of the best ever. Perfect. Beyond tasteful use of tremelo, delay, echo.

    My ex (the coke dude) was a superb guitarist. He did the Gimme Shelter intro as a warm up all the time. He played it in open E. Sounded like the record to me.

    Dedicated guitarists have deep relationships with their guitars. A girl needs to understand that. I used to give him an ounce of coke and lock him in his studio and he'd go for days. I'd run the snow-biz while he was in the zone. When he surfaced, we'd fuck like there was no tomorrow and then he'd sleep for a coupla days. Even when he was sleeping he'd have wonderful boners. Such a virile hombre.

    I wonder if it's true that the Australian guitar Keith used for recording the Let It Be album busted at the end of Gimme Shelter? Makes for a good story.

    VR - surf is not up

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  8. Anonymous8/08/2016 2:52 PM

    er that's Let It Bleed not Let It Be.

    VR

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