Thursday, January 22, 2015

KLEM FM

Fifty years ago, "The Last Time" was climbing the charts:


This was not the Rolling Stones' first hit but it's the first one credited to the future Glimmer Twins, Jagger and Richards.

Liner notes:

Brian Jones actually played lead guitar on this tune as evident in the video; Keith Richards is just strumming along.

I always like how Bill Wyman held his bass guitar -- almost vertically. When I was a kid, I had a much older cousin who looked like Bill Wyman. But she was a woman.

Charlie Watts looked bored. I must say that his drumming was completely imitable.

Mick Jagger -- look how "preppy" he looked in 1965!  With lyrics like that, any woman who swooned for him deserved what she got if she couldn't see it coming.

Watch for the cameo by Pete Best.

11 comments:

chickelit said...

Watch for the cameo by Pete Best

Err, George Best.

WTH is George Best?

William said...

At the time I thought that the deaths of. Brian Jones and Morrison were tragic and poetic. Guys who weren't afraid to take it to the limit and hang ten over the abyss.. But think about it. They missed out on fifty years of flying on private jets with supermodels to their own tropical resort. Their deaths were stupid and foolish beyond all human comprehension.

edutcher said...

American singers dressed casual.

British singers were stylish, not preppy.

Understandable mistake since we're all used to rockers looking like slobs.

Eric the Fruit Bat said...

"Well she held a bass guitar and she was playing in a band. And she stood just like Bill Wyman, now I am her biggest fan."

from "Behind the Wall of Sleep" by The Smithereens.

Christy said...

How sedate the Sixties look!

Thanks for the alternate link.

ricpic said...

The Stones were raw working class to the Beatles' tame working class.

chickelit said...

ricpic said...The Stones were raw working class to the Beatles' tame working class.

Lemmie disputed that very point:

Everybody thinks the Stones were the hard man and the Beatles were the sissies and it's really opposite. The Beatles were from Liverpool and the Stones were from the London suburbs--you know, going to art school and shit and so it wasn't that way at all. And The Beatles--I always thought were the best band in the world you know? link to quote

ricpic said...

Well Lemmie's wrong!

Seriesly, the Stones' look is much harsher than the Beatles. They may have all gone to Art School but they projected a more hard edge than the Beatles. I mean, jeez, Paul McCartney looked like a choir boy in his youth.

chickelit said...

This is the west, ricpic. When the legend becomes fact, print the legend.

Rabel said...

They're all just "strumming along" in the video. Not that there's anything wrong with that.

ndspinelli said...

Stones or Beatles is supposed to be right up there w/ Coke or Pepsi. Well, I like all 4!