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...Wood and Keith Richards started every number in the same key. But what is left is a raunchy gruffness: stinging solos bashing into bass and drums; sixth and seventh Stones Ian Stewart and Ian MacLagen banging out their honky-tonk keyboards, oblivious to the rest of the band; Jagger demonstarting graphically just what you do with brown sugar...
Everything they say about the Stones in concert is true. Richards, not Jagger, runs the show, beginning songs when he's damn well ready and when he's found someone to light his cigarette. Bill Wyman does not move and may not even have been breathing. And as Keef himself says, "White drummers don't swing, except for Charlie Watts...
...group began to move away from R and B after 1965, but those first three years produced a musical foundation on which Jagger and Richards built the many styles they explored and eventually mastered later on. It is, for instance, the conscious distance of the bluesman from his subject that gives Stones songs their biting irony. And at the same time, it is the reckless abandon of a Chicago blues jam that separates the Stones from those who would polish rock and roll into a smooth, blunt weapon. The band members never saw themselves as a part of a British...
...TRACES the Stones' musical development through the 1960s and 1970s, Dalton also provides a revealing perspective on the private lives and individual psyches that made up the group. He lets Jagger and Jones speak for themselves on their power struggle early on and describes the brilliant efforts of producer Andrew Loog Oldham to package his charges as popular music's bad little mannish boys. And then, once those boys grew up, came the years totally clouded over by drugs, debauchery, and disillusionment, leading ultimately to Brian's death and the rebirth of the others. Struggling to reassert themselves, the Stones...
...succeeds, however, in placing the problem in perspective; it is not, as some critics now seem to imply, the only major concern that has plagued the group in recent years. They still think a lot about making good music, as they have on the current tour. The author quotes Jagger: "What I was doing when I was 18, I'm doing now.... I'm married and have children and all that, but I don't worry about it because I'm doing what I did before.... I only discovered this really by looking at other people in rock and roll...