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Thread #125951   Message #2814923
Posted By: Jack Blandiver
18-Jan-10 - 10:26 AM
Thread Name: Taking on the Big Boys? - classic big long ballads
Subject: RE: Taking on the Big Boys? - classic big long ballads
I've been taking a long hard look at Rolling of the Stones recently myself, a song that has been with me now since 1976 and one which Jim Causeley's rendition prompted a similar reaction to CS (see HERE) for which I received a double tongue-lashing from Diane Easby & Joan Crump who mistook what is a fair & honest appraisal as nastiness. Nothing could be further from the truth - after all, it takes a lot of talented musicianship, professionalism & dedicated hard work to make such wholly dispiriting & soul-destroying music - just listen to Mantovani, or The Carpenters, or even Queen. For my own post-revival version of RotS see HERE.