Or at least top 3, he really grooves all over this LP and the influence from Motown bassist James Jamerson really shows on here. Just listen to Mothers Little Helper (probably his finest line with the fretless bass), Under My Thumb, Going Home (especially first 3-4 min), Flight 505, Out Of Time, I Am Waiting (really tasteful and good tone) & Take it Or Leave It. Some of his best tone & grooves ever.
I really enjoyed it, little gem.
Why was bill wyman’s bass playing so quiet in the studio before 1978? It seems odd to me, he’s actually a dynamite bass player but on many songs his bass is so burried in the mix but when i listen to his isolated tracks i hear brilliant bass playing.
The weird thing too is that when anyone else would play bass it would be very upfront in the mix (keith, mick taylor, and woody). When wyman played live his bass would be quite loud too and from some girls on his bass on albums was very loud such as “start me up”.
Did the stones not think he was a good bass player? Were his basslines too busy to upfront?
Edit to add: I appreciate his bass playing but he is a shit human being
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Working on the setlist for a cover band audition. They have a couple of Stones tunes on there.
Sympathy for the Devil, okay, fine. Three notes, lots of bouncing along. It make sense. He does this odd flourish a couple of times in the song out of, I guess, boredom. But really kind of fun to play and it does drive the song forward.
Honky Tonk Women, holy sheetrock! I have looked at seven different tabs. Every one of them is different. Multiple cover play-alongs, same thing.
So basically it's a masterclass in finding the root and just improvising, which is pretty much the Stones sound in a nutshell. As long as you hit those roots on time, do whatever man, it will sound like Honky Tonk Women.
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Some of mine are: You Better Move On, Now I’ve Got a Witness, 2120 South Michigan Ave., Everybody Needs Somebody to Love, Off the Hook, Satisfaction, I’m Moving On, Under My Thumb, Let’s Spend the Night Together, In Another Land, Jigsaw Puzzle, Gimme Shelter, Live With Me (Ya Yas), Sway, Stop Breaking Down, Star Star, Luxury, Hot Stuff, Miss You. (One from each album, 63-78, if I were to put all of them it would be too much lol)
I don’t want to say he’s an underrated player because he’s literally in one of the biggest rock bands ever, but he gets overlooked too often. He’s often credited as being the first fretless electric bass player and could groove better than most of his British Invasion contemporaries. He’s also a killer live player, and was an early user of distortion in the early 60’s. (check out Route 66 and I’m moving on live)
Was on BillWyman.com just looking around and saw a link to a soundtrack Bill did for a movie in early 80's called Green Ice. Consensus is this is a very bad movie, but I found the soundtrack on YouTube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2Ksc11gnWX8&list=PLmlKT8S5Y9mzRQ_DdPLRg_PDGUub4Z2Pa&index=1
It's kinda interesting. Maria Mulduar (Midnight at the Oasis) sings a couple of songs and there is an instrumental version of what would turn into the backing track for (Si Si) Je Suis Un Rock Star. Lots of noodling synthesizers all over.
Generally, Bill's website is a trove of information on the band and his solo career, but I really enjoyed reading from his history about his childhood and young adulthood in war time and post-war Britain, a real time capsule - ration cards, National Service call ups, that sort of thing.
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April 23, 1971 – The Rolling Stones: Sticky Fingers is released.
# ALL THINGS MUSIC PLUS+ 5/5 (MUST-HAVE!)
# Original New Musical Express review [by Mick Jagger and Bill Wyman] (see below)
Sticky Fingers is the ninth British and 11th American studio album by The Rolling Stones, released on April 23, 1971, in the UK (April 30 in the US). It topped both the Billboard 200 Top LP's chart (4 weeks) and the UK Albums chart (5 weeks). In 2003, Sticky Fingers was listed as #63 on Rolling Stone magazine's 500 Greatest Albums of All Time.
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The album's artwork emphasizes the suggestive innuendo of the Sticky Fingers title, showing a close-up of a jeans-clad male crotch; the cover of the original (vinyl) release featured a working zipper and mock belt buckle that opened to reveal cotton briefs. The vinyl release displayed the band's name and album title along with the image of the belt; behind the zipper, the white briefs were seemingly rubber-stamped in gold with the name of American pop artist Andy Warhol, below which read "THIS PHOTOGRAPH MAY NOT BE--ETC." While the artwork was conceived by Warhol, photography was by Billy Name and design by Craig Braun.
The cover photo of Joe Dallesandro's crotch clad in tight blue jeans was assumed by many fans to be an image of Mick Jagger, however, the people actually involved at the time of the photoshoot claim that Warhol had several different men photographed (Jagger was not among them) and never revealed which shots he used. Among the candidates, Jed Johnson, Warhol's lover at the time, denied it was his likeness, although his twin brother Jay is a possibility. Those closest to the shoot, and subsequent design, name Factory artist and designer Corey Tippin as the likeliest candidate. After retailers complained that the zipper was causing damage to the vinyl (from stacked shipments of the record), the zipper was "unzipped" slightly to the middle of the record, where damage would be minimized.
The album features the first usage of the band's "tongue & lips" logo, which was originally designed by Ernie Cefalu. Although Ernie's version was used for much of the merchandising and was the design originally shown to the band by Craig Braun, the design used for the album was illustrated by John Pasche.
In 2003, the TV network VH1 named Sticky Fingers th
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