Mick and Keith and Thomas

[Joe Allonby]

I love the Muddy Waters painting the ceiling story.

I once moved a piano for one of Muddy's shows. Afterwards, the great man
himself apparently went straight back to his hotel, but most of the band
including the venerable Pine Top Perkins ended up in the alley behind the
Paradise blowing reefer. Pine Top was very nice...of course I think it was
my pot, so go figure.

On 7/23/06, Dave Monroe <monropolitan at yahoo.com> wrote:
>
> 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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