Mick and Keith and Thomas

[Dave Monroe]

The question here was never (to paraphrase The House
of Love) The Beatles or The Stones, but, rather, The
Beatles or The Kinks (for those for whom it was not,
The Beatles or Elvis, The Beatles or Otis, or ...), so
... that being said, my favorite Stones records are
the 60s 45s, esp. "HYSYMBSITS?" and "Dandelion," or
the stray LP track like "2000 Light Years from Home." 
I lose inetrest at Beggar's Banquet (though do see
J.-L. Godard's 1 + 1, a.k.a. Sympathy for the Devil,
and RS/"GS" back-up singer Merry Clayton's own
recording of "Gimme Shelter") and don't pick up again
'til Some Girls, and after that all I get is
"Emotional Rescue," so ...

My favorite Stones story though is, after years of
Mick buying blues, R&B, soul records directly from the
American labels (poor little upper middle class kid
that he was), his particular hero being Muddy waters,
upon the Stones arrival @ Chess Records, they aske
directions from the guy painting the ceiling, who
turned out to be, of course ...

Long John Baldry, by the way, died recently, but he
left behind perhaps the third (maybe fourth) best
version of "Sunshine of Your Love," after Ralph "Soul"
Jackson's and The Fifth Dimension's (and, perhaps,
arguably, Ella Fitzgerald's).  I think Cream comes in
somehwere around seventh or eight ...

--- Joe Allonby <joeallonby at gmail.com> wrote:

> The Rolling Stones started as the antithesis of pop
> music. They were Chicago blues purists ...

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