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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...
...first place where these guys actually came from. As Dalton quickly proves, you can't understand the group unless you're aware of a history that goes back beyond "Brown Sugar," beyond "Honky Tonk Woman," into the murky period before "Satisfaction" was even an embryonic riff ringing from Keef's Stratocaster...
...when it came to music. Repairing wheelchairs, we did nothing but listen to "Sticky Fingers" and sneer at the managers. They hated us, but we hated them, too. And we had "Bitch" and "Sway" and Bob Wier and Captain Trips. We thought Elvis was bullshit. We had Mick and Keef. They saved our skins...
...keef hails...
...Emotional Rescue" is the thematic culmination of the album. The tracks that follow, "She' So Cold," a delightful bopper, and "All About You." a ballad groaned by Keef, only reiterate the misogyny of the rest of the album. Misogyny is somewhat unacceptable these days, in light of the feminist revolution and the general ideological relativism of the 20th Century. But it is by no means a ridiculous or indefensible position. It is, in fact, a fundamentally religious position, which sees a world of the Many distracting man from the One; Jagger only goes further by equating women with the world...