I didn't mind this--not familiar with the original. Mick is so skinny! Hope they had fun, and hope you can keep from being offended. Bet I am pissing somebody off right now . . .
not offended but I've heard much better versions of Just Your Fool down at the local BBQ joint. That Stones version dragged and the harp does make me cringe a little.. Still it's cool they are playing Little Walter tunes, I got no problem with it even if it sucks hah.
Just shows how much harder it is to play the blues right than people think, you gotta be dye'd in the wool to a large degree IMO.
---------- 4' 4+ 3' 2~~~ -Mike Ziemba Harmonica is Life!
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They started out as a blues band - lots of Muddy & Wolf material, homages like 2120 South Michigan - so this is certainly not a new departure or anything like that.
I do like that earlier stuff of theirs much better than these examples, but whatever.
Will this record help make blues music more popular among Today's Young People? Hmmm .... anybody know what the Stones' demographic is these days?
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i like what he did on the 5 chord, not perfect, but he went for it.
how hard would it be to ask the engineer to loop the 12 bar section and put it on cd. then mick could tool around london in his VW bus, and really work out all the finer details.
he is pretty close to being a very decent harp player, just a little bit of an effort on his part. and he could do this song justice. ---------- .
Gotta agree with Goldbrick, Brian had it down back then. Just have a listen to those two instrumentals "Now I've got a witness" and 2120 South Michigan Ave" He had the harp under control...(apologies if this is this a thread hijack). Here's Brian on harp on 2120...
And this is Mick on this live BBC take...
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I have always liked the harp work on Midnight Rambler. I just think Mick Jagger reduced an iconic harp song to the old in-out, in-out on this one. And it did not start off very well..., "somebody bring me a harmonica, I'm gonna play some Little Walter. Nuthin to it". Really?
Ironic that no one has mentioned how slight the odds would be of this site even existing in the 2010s had these skinny Limeys not rescued the delta blues from oblivion back in the late 60s. America was indifferent, at best, to the art form. Luckily Mick & Keef weren't.
The original Just Your Fool is by Buddy Johnson, not Little Walter. Buddy Johnson and Ella Johnson recorded it in 1953, with songwriting credit to Buddy Johnson.
Little Water didn't record the song until December of 1960.
it even has its own Wikipedia entry: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Just_Your_Fool =========== Winslow
"Although he used lyrics and an eight-bar blues arrangement similar to Buddy Johnson,[5] the song is credited to Little Walter, also known as Walter Jacobs."
So Walter still gets the credits for his version titled "Just Your Fool".
Who are you quoting? It's clearly the same song, with mostly the same lyrics. It's far from the first time a blues artist took writing credit for covering an earlier song. Muddy did it with Mojo, Rice Miller did it with Fattening Frogs for Snakes, etc., etc. =========== Winslow
In regards to the OP. Brutal. Absolutely brutal... I am offended. Not totally. But offended none the less. He could have taken a little effort and learned at minimum 2 cools licks with his available resources or at least invite a seasoned harp player take a solo.
Frequently, "Citizens" don't know quality from crap, musically speaking, but they do respond to whatever the superstars produce, whether good or bad (from our perspective). ---------- The Iceman
And to clarify-The Stones were a huge influence on me growing up I still listen to and play their music almost every day. Just sometimes you gotta give it a rest when its no longer vital
Like Peyton manning it might just be time to walk away or do their side projects
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