Well, I read Power Pop. Tonight, Crusader AXE glanced at it and got to see a piece of sheer brilliance from their Rolling Stone tribute show. Dear God...this could send them all to a Zen monastery. Except Mick, of course, who is really all about the money. This guy tries to turn "Under My Thumb" into a Archies-romantic ballad. Power Pop is in pain in his comments, and well he should be.
Very few Stones covers are very good. That's really not surprising. Arrowsmith or J.Geils or The Chesterfield Kings could do a mean Stones cover. There have been a few others of course. Susan Tedeschi kills on Silver and Gold; Linda Ronstadt gets a slam dunk on Tumbling Dice. But, the malicious humor that Jagger infuses everything with back in the day along with the really great playing on albums like Aftermath really makes several things apparent. A bunch of American IDOL contestants do not make rock and roll...they make Muzak.
Now, we probably would not be remise to point out that most of the best stuff from the Stones is at least 35 years old. Still...
Very few Stones covers are very good. That's really not surprising. Arrowsmith or J.Geils or The Chesterfield Kings could do a mean Stones cover. There have been a few others of course. Susan Tedeschi kills on Silver and Gold; Linda Ronstadt gets a slam dunk on Tumbling Dice. But, the malicious humor that Jagger infuses everything with back in the day along with the really great playing on albums like Aftermath really makes several things apparent. A bunch of American IDOL contestants do not make rock and roll...they make Muzak.
Now, we probably would not be remise to point out that most of the best stuff from the Stones is at least 35 years old. Still...
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