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waugh-bao · 1 year ago

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I can’t say Live By The Sword is going on my favorites list but it was sure nice to hear the snap of that snare starting off. So crisp. I was smiling while listening to it and imagining Charlie play it, but sad at the same time.

Maybe I’m being over dramatic, but I honestly never want to listen to this album again. It makes me viscerally angry that they threw away more than a decade of Charlie’s work, the last of everything he produced as a musician, to put out this piece of soulless, corporate rock trash.

For my money, “Live By The Sword” has one redeeming attribute, and that’s that they only kind of mutilated his drum sound on it (there’s still a bit of cymbal splash and snare), rather than completely destroyed it. As happened on the aptly named “Mess It Up.”

All I got from this experience is that this band has outlived its reason for existence as a creative endeavor.

#I fully admit I went into this thinking I wouldn’t especially like the album #but I’m shocked by how bad it is/how much I hate it #I know they’re obsessed with this idea that all the blues and many of the jazz guys of the old school went on until they died #but a huge part of why that happened wasn’t some aesthetic commitment to the music #many were broke and they couldn’t live without performing. either b/c of bad record deals or lack of large scale success #I’m not saying Mick and Keith and Ronnie should stop playing live #but the Winos could easily come back together (except whatever the fuck Steve did to alienate Charley Drayton) and Ronnie always has sideman #gigs on offer and Mick plernty of solo stuff #it would be a much better and more respectful look to let the Stones as a band go #the rolling stones #hackney diamonds #ask response #anonymous

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