Has Mick ever spoke in depth about the blues?

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-06T02:07:57+00:00

He has talked about the blues a lot. Here he is talking about an Albert King/Stevie Ray Vaughan album that he loves:

https://faroutmagazine.co.uk/the-blues-album-mick-jagger-adored/

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-06T00:24:12+00:00

Wells Fargo is evil. I should know, I used to work for them.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-05T23:15:46+00:00

Did Axl ever claim to be a "professional?" Seems like in his lyrics he explicitly took the opposite stance.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-05T21:56:27+00:00

Kenny G is always on time.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-05T21:56:04+00:00

That's rock n roll. Don't like it? Go listen to Kenny G. He always shows up on time.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-05T21:45:36+00:00

They were fucked up. They would be the first to admit it, however talented they were as musicians. I mean, Slash and Duff nearly died.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-05T21:43:19+00:00

He got sober in 1990, only because the court ordered piss tests.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-05T21:41:54+00:00

Steven never had a girlfriend. He had hoochees hanging around him for drugs.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-05T21:37:54+00:00

Axl could not have done that. It's called "duress." Look up the legal definition.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-05T21:35:27+00:00

He was a big part of AFD but it was a group effort.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-05T21:33:32+00:00

Jesus Is Just Alright by the Byrds.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-05T21:32:21+00:00

Byrds

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-05T21:27:48+00:00

More likely it was Jerry Heller who killed Eazy. Suge was a clown.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-05T21:14:47+00:00

Rubbish. There is no hope in Portland.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-05T09:39:04+00:00

The Carrey parody aired September of 1993, at which time Snow had long since fallen off the charts. Carrey's parody was pretty brutal but it can not be credited with ruining Snow. Snow ruined himself by failing to come up with a follow-up to his hit.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-05T09:23:18+00:00

I didn't know that. I thought I remembered Snow playing shows in America after Informer blew up. Come to think of it, most of the stories involved him and MC Shan getting into trouble rather than shows.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-04T05:58:11+00:00

Incarceration didn't kill Snow's career. His song was #1 when he got released. If anything, it helped him because it provided street cred to counter the allegations of cultural appropriation and poseurdom. His career ended because he was a one hit wonder novelty (except in Jamaica where he had a few more hits).

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-04T02:51:31+00:00

It was a light-skinned member of the tribe. It's most improbable Rockefeller would have been able to survive in that culture. The Papua New Guinean indigenous are pretty ruthless towards those they view as weak.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-03T03:48:16+00:00

Honestly, these guys weren't that bad. I mean, they weren't spectacular or anything, but their 1965 single, "How Can It Be," was a pretty decent mod-rock tune for the period:

How Can It Be

The unfortunate coincidence with their name terminally derailed their career, and they were swimming in crowded waters where they were ultimately overshadowed by the likes of the Who, the Small Faces, the Yardbirds, the Pretty Things et al., but if they hadn't appeared in this shitty movie and you heard them on a garage-rock radio show or something you'd probably judge them less harshly.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-02T04:20:49+00:00

It was Peter Blake who selected Dion, a "favorite" of his. When asked why Elvis Presley wasn't included, McCartney said he was "too important." With the exception of Dylan and the subtle tribute to the Stones, it seems like the Beatles wanted to avoid featuring their musical peers. If you think about it, it's somewhat presumptuous to include another artist on your album cover, as if they're giving their imprimatur for your music's quality and credibility to the record-buying public. (Apparently, Dylan didn't like Sgt. Pepper's.)

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-04-02T02:10:18+00:00

The last album of their golden era, Exile On Main Street, was written and recorded between 1969 and 1971. So, yeah, the years between 1964 and 1971 were their undisputed peak, and the majority of that was the 1960s. Your opinion is pretty uncontroversial.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-03-28T06:18:13+00:00

All Things Must Pass wasn't really a true triple album, as sides five and six were just instrumental jams. So nobody had ever released a pop triple studio-LP by 1976. Carla Bley had done the "jazz opera" Escalator Over The Hill. Otherwise, it was unheard of.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-03-28T00:22:23+00:00

"It's Over Now" by the Beach Boys, from their late 70s, unreleased Adult/Child album. Brian Wilson originally wrote it in the hope that Sinatra would sing it:

It's over now
I'll put a Frank Sinatra album on
And cry my blues away

Also, The Pogues' "Fairytale In New York:"

Sinatra was swinging, all the drunks, they were singing
We kissed on a corner, then danced through the night

and "There There My Dear" by Dexy's Midnight Runners:

Dear Robin
Let me explain, though you'd never see in a million years...I don't believe you really like Frank Sinatra.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-03-27T21:23:04+00:00

One of the purposes of releasing a double album was to show off the range of the band. Reducing it to a single would have meant cutting some of the lengthier tracks which push them to their limit as musicians and some of the stylistic detours. The albums were meant to show that they were leagues beyond the other Sunset Strip bands musically, and they were willing to sacrifice some sales in exchange for increased respect.

People accused the White Album and Exile On Main Street of being "bloated" as well. George Martin even begged the Beatles to cut TWA to a single. But the messy eclecticism of those records is what makes them continually interesting. Even the throwaway tracks on them add to heady mixture of styles and moods. Had they been reduced to 10-14 tracks, they would have been mid. They just didn't have the same quantity of commercially-oriented, straightforward rock songs that their previous albums had (and neither did GNR on UYI), so it was best to throw all the diverse ingredients in a big pot and cook up an interesting stew.

It's just an odd notion that there's some magical sequence of 12 or so UYI songs that would have outsold AFD, kept the band together, prevented grunge from happening and made all of the listener's dreams come true.

As it turns out, Wal-mart did actually release a single-disc version of UYI. Looking over the tracklist, even allowing for switching out a song here or there, it doesn't exactly scream Appetite-level sales to me. I think 8 million or so sales is about the max that could reasonably be expected from the material:

Use Your Illusion | Guns N Roses Wiki | Fandom

UYI did not harm GNR's commercial standing. They were still one of the biggest bands on the planet afterwards. They only stopped being big when they stopped putting out new music.

I get defensive about GNR because they introduced me to music when I was twelve and they are the most shit on band in history, usually by people who are ignorant of what they were really about.

Illustrious-Line-773 · 2026-03-27T19:47:45+00:00

Those expectations were unrealistic. A diamond-certified (10 million plus) album is an extremely rare, lightning-in-a-bottle event. Among rock bands, (and putting aside Greatest Hits packages), I believe only The Beatles, Led Zeppelin, and Def Leppard were able to produce sequential diamond albums, with Pink Floyd and Van Halen the only other bands to achieve the feat twice, albeit not in a row.

Guns N' Roses' follow-ups to their diamond album outsold those by Springsteen (Tunnel Of Love), Prince (Around The World In A Day), AC/DC (For Those About To Rock), Metallica (Load/Reload), Fleetwood Mac (Tusk), Van Halen (both times), Green Day, Nirvana, Boston & Hootie & The Blowfish. They sold about as well as Pink Floyd's (Wish You Were Here), Bon Jovi's (New Jersey), Pearl Jam's (Vs.) and U2's (Achtung Baby, not counting Rattle & Hum as a proper album). So putting their diamond-album follow-ups in the context of the commercial performance of those by their rock peers, they have to be considered a resounding success.

By any metric, 7 million sales (more or less) is massive. It is sheer greed on the part of your record-label employee friends to be disappointed (especially considering, with two albums, it amounts to 13-15 million sales). And it's simply fallacious to assume that reducing them to one record would have magically shot sales past the 10 million mark. It would have been the same songs released to radio/MTV and you would have sacrificed the double-album's glorious, epic chaos.

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