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October 26, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Drummers You Just Can’t Beat: # 13 – Charlie Watts
There’s Mick Jagger and he’s incredible really. At sixty-odd. He’s the Monkey when they perform Monkey Man; he ducks and dives across the stage as the band tears another hole in the tune that was Street Fighting Man and of course we all know which side he takes when they offer Sympathy For The Devil. […]Archive
August 14, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Mr. Dynamite – The Rise of James Brown: DVD
Mr. Dynamite: The Rise of James Brown Director: Alex Gibney HBO/Universal Music Group Alex Gibney’s great skill as documentary-maker – apart from his speed and ability to work on several projects simultaneously – is in unearthing the hard-to-find/previously-unseen footage. Here with his “Dynamite” profile of the making of James Brown it would be a good […]Archive
February 15, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
V/A: VINYL (Music from the HBO Original Series, Vol. 1)
Various Artists: VINYL (Music from the HBO Original Series, Vol. 1) Atlantic Recording Corporation & Warner Bros. Records, Inc/WEA International Inc. The much-hyped Martin Scorsese/Mick Jagger-executive produced VINYL has debuted – bringing with it a first volume of soundtrack recordings. The plan – for a show called VINYL – is to have digital-only releases popping […]Archive
February 4, 2016 by Simon Sweetman
Five Films That Stay With Me: Jimmy Jones
Jimmy Jones is a landscape gardener, constructor, designer etc. He arrived in Sydney 17 years ago via Dunedin, Nelson, Motueka and well NZ in general. He’s never written about music or played in a band but has been surrounded by music, musicians, engineers, producers, writers et al since he was a teenager. His brother Damian […]Archive
September 27, 2015 by Simon Sweetman
Keith Richards: Crosseyed Heart
Keith Richards Crosseyed Heart Republic The third solo album by Keith Richards, his first in over two decades, is easily his best. And while that might not say exactly a whole lot it’s also better – I’m sure of it – than if we’d been given a new Rolling Stones album this year. Okay, okay, […]Archive
August 19, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
Get On Up: Film
Get On Up Director: Tate Taylor Imagine Entertainment/Jagged Films/Wyolah Films This James Brown biopic has been on the cards a while – and then it just seemed to arrive, no real fanfare. And it’s hard to know what to say really – for is it a fairly typical, mostly terrible biopic? And are all Hollywood-infused […]Archive
June 19, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1097
The Rolling Stones, The Rolling Stones [EP] (1964) Here it is – their debut EP and it all went to shit for The Rolling Stones after this. They never did anything better than this right here! Surprised they even had a future. Okay, I am joking of course. But there’s something pretty wonderful about going […]Archive
May 9, 2014 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1130
Nicky Hopkins/Ry Cooder/Mick Jagger/Bill Wyman/Charlie Watts, Jamming With Edward! (1972) I remember, in the mid-90s when this was issued on CD, I was dead keen on it. A pretty keen Rolling Stones fan/collector I figured I must get it. I never did. It wasn’t all that easy to come by – not in the provinces […]Archive
October 11, 2013 by Simon Sweetman
Classic Albums I Can’t Ever Listen To Again: #3 The Rolling Stones, Exile On Main Street
“Exile On Main Street spends its four sides shading the same song in as many variations as there are Rolling Stone readymades to fill them, and if on the one hand they prove the group’s eternal constancy and appeal, it’s on the other that you can leave the album and still feel vaguely unsatisfied, not quite […]Archive
December 9, 2012 by Simon Sweetman
The Vinyl Countdown # 1448
Don Covay & The Good Timers, Mercy! (1965) I just bet Mick Jagger loved the shit out of this record. I know I do anyway. But I’ve had this on vinyl for years – kept it sealed and decided just this weekend to open it up and give it a hoon (I knew the album […]Archive
February 4, 2012 by Simon Sweetman