Word: soloed
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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Conspicuously absent from the jacket is bassist Bill Wyman's replacement, Darryl Jones. He seems relegated to the same fold as the usual round of backup vocalists, keyboardists and horn players. It is true that bass was never the glamor solo position in this particular band. The jacket's centerfold portrays a scene of model skeletons that's a direct rip-off from the Black Crowes' second album, "Southern Harmony...
...three decades of Stones music. The first and perhaps the most highly touted song, "Love Is Strong," finds Mick Jagger more low and guttural than ever before. The repetitive and harsh guitar work and drumming brings to mind Keith Richards' "Wicked As It Seems," which he sang with his solo project, the Expensive Winos. "The Worst," the fifth song on the album, also smacks more of Richards' style. It marks the Stones' most definitive return to their beginnings in the Blues...
...VOODOO LOUNGE" CLEARLY indicates that Richards controls the band's overall direction more than anyone else. It appears to be no coincidence that Mick Jagger hasn't had a real solo smash-hit since "Lucky at Love." The problem is that Jagger just doesn't sound right fronting the Expensive Winos...
...well as offering majestic and emotional interpretations of the great Russian and German concerti--Prokofiev, Rachmaninov, Tchaikovsky, Beethoven and Brahms--Cliburn has always had a special affinity for solo piano works. His recording of Chopin have matched those of the late Artur Rubinstein and Claudio Arrau in popularity. Sunday's concert will feature Chopin's C-Sharp Minor Scherzo as well as pieces by Debussy and Szymanowski...
...nearly neurasthenic Cliburn experienced what he called "light-headedness," and the program was delayed while a doctor took his blood pressure. Eventually he returned to the stage, sheepishly informing the audience of 14,000 that he felt unable to play the Rachmaninoff concerto, and so substituted a series of solo encores, including a Szymanowski etude, Liszt's arrangement of Schumann's song Widmung, Debussy's La terrasse des audiences du clair de lune and the Chopin C-sharp minor Scherzo. And then he was gone...