Capturing the Stones in 1972 in the midst of the North American leg of the Exile On Main St. tour, Ladies & Gentlemen the Rolling Stones is a raucous document of the band at the top of their live...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2022/06/15/ladies-gentlemen-the-rolling-stones/
So long to the mighty Charlie Watts, whose elegant, uncluttered style was as essential to the Rolling Stones' sound as Keith Richards' more lauded guitar work. Flash wasn't Charlie's thing — in...
We don't listen to music for precision—we listen for the moments raw humanity breaks through via sound. Guest contributor Matt Hanson reflects on the "barbaric yawps" that course through rock &...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2020/01/17/shout-wail-murmur-translating-musics-barbaric-yawps/
How you like your Stones? Late seventies debauched and nasty? Us too. Dig this: Rolling Stones: Sympathy for the Disco (outtakes '75-'79). '...a very selective sampling of Ron Wood era outtakes...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2019/09/05/rolling-stones-jah-is-not-dead-1979/
Angelenos: Thursday, December 13, at Beyond Baroque in Venice, noted author, music historian, and friend of Aquarium Drunkard Pat Thomas will host a live Q&A discussion with Ronnie Schneider, man...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2018/12/06/the-rolling-stones-in-1969-beyond-baroque/
For the better part of two decades Odetta established herself as a masterful interpreter in the traditions of folk, country, and blues. Bringing her own rhythmic charms to the early Dylan catalo...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2018/01/11/odetta-no-expectations-rolling-stones/
I grew up in Atlanta, and there was a trail through the woods that led to the back of a shopping center housing a grocery store, named Big Star, that The post Rolling Stones :: STONEDEDED app...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2015/04/20/rolling-stones-stonededed-spotify-playlist/
While it existed as a poorly edited rough cut on rough quality bootlegs for many years, thankfully the historically important and downright amazing Charlie Is My Darling is now available on a co...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2015/01/23/the-rolling-stones-satisfaction-charlie-is-my-darling/
Even though Cocksucker Blues , Robert Frank's legendary film of the Rolling Stones circa 1972, is routinely referred to as a "documentary," that's not quite accurate. Frank himself tips his hand...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2013/03/19/chris-forsyth-the-first-ten-minutes-of-cocksucker-blues/
For reasons unexplained, officially-sanctioned outtakes from the Rolling Stones’ Decca Records (a.k.a. London) period remain as rare as rocking-horse manure. Although to date no fewer than 23 ...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2011/08/17/the-rolling-stones-metamorphosis/
What year is it, again? Within the last twelve months I have picked up the reissue of Exile on Main Street, the Keith biography, Life, and went downtown for a The post The Rolling Stones :: Br...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2010/11/29/the-rolling-stones-brussels-affair-1973/
Any silence on my part per the recent reissue of the Stones Exile On Main Street has more to do with the fact that I've written about the album and its contents so much in The post The Rolli...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2010/07/13/the-rolling-stones-main-street-revisited-mickboy-remasters/
( Sevens , a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.) Due to storage, or the lack thereof here in my L.A. abode, The post Sevens :: I Just Want...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2009/01/28/sevens-i-just-want-to-see-his-face/
February of 2007 saw the long-awaited DVD release of the 1970 psychedelic/schizophrenic gangster-meets-pop star tale, Performance . Famously known as Mick Jagger's on screen debut, Performance ...
https://aquariumdrunkard.com/2008/12/31/performance-memo-from-turner-2/
After first hearing her sing, Rolling Stones manager Andrew Loog Oldham described Marianne Faithfull as "an angel with big tits." The rest of the world would soon come to know her via her take ...