What about when the Stones were still trying to out-Beatle the Beatles? Their Satanic Majesties Request was something but Exile on Main Street is where the Stones really caught me. Sympathy has always been my favorite Stones song, the bad rap it got from Altamont didn't hurt anything either (even thought it was undeserved).
In Louisville the Kentucky Derby is THE event of the year, having worked at the track for several of them and been around the madness for many more I've developed something of a tradition for the day. This consists of reading "The Kentucky Derby is Decadent and Depraved" by Hunter S Thompson while listening to Dead Flowers repeatedly, always puts me right for dealing with the day. I almost prefer this cover of it to the original though
Wow. That's a serious preparation for the Derby. I may not want to know what you do for the Dumbarton Oaks :)
I'm listening for the second time trying to decide whether it's a cover or a version due to Keith Richards playing. 😂 I've read (unsourced) that Dead Flowers is the most covered song ever.
Hunter S Thompson and Dead Flowers. I like it.
Yeah, I never could decide whether that counted as a cover. Thompson was from Louisville so it just seemed doubly fitting. That is one of my favorite HST quotes!
I didn't know that HST was from Louisville. That is entirely fitting :)
Did you know he bought a Vincent to ride for Fear and Loathing? For that alone he shall forever be one of my heroes. It was the fastest production MC in the world in the early 50s and, well, The HAs Harleys weren't. :) If I hit the lottery I'm buying a Vincent. No question.
We haven't had many ballads here, I offer this: Richard Thompson 1952 Vincent Black Lightning
I may have read that, or be getting it mixed up with when he was running with the Angels. I love that song, although I hadn't heard that version until recently. I spent a lot of time in dive bars listening to music, one of my friend's band used to cover that about every night they played.
Del McCourey (from sorta your part of the world) does a blue grass version that is pretty good.
I'm just stone cold sure that I'd love a place where the band covers that song.
The harmonica player in that band was a former president of the local outlaws chapter, they played it every Monday night. That was a hell of a bar for a while.
I'm mostly familiar with del from his work with Steve Earle, but I will have to give that version a listen