| 30th December 2006 12:12 PM |
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| gimmekeef |
Found this in an Ottawa newspaper...mentions Stones near the end....
A musical preview for 2007
By ALLAN WIGNEY -- Ottawa Sun
Earlier this week, I took a look back, as is required of all self-important music critics, at the best of the year's sounds. Next week, I intend to turn to the best of the year's rock and roll looks. Today, therefore, it's either dealing with the year's best smells -- and in rock and roll, that can be a chore -- or looking ahead to 2007, the year that will begin with us being spared one more embarrassing show from James Brown.
Yeah, I know, but if you caught the late Godfather of Soul's Bluesfest show a few years ago, you'll understand. It's sad to see the man go, but in many ways JB left us a long time ago.
Shame, really.
(And Brown is not the first performer to choose to leave this world rather than fulfill a concert obligation in Ottawa. Blues guitarist Roy Buchanan, for example, chose to hang himself upon realizing that Ottawa was among the next stops on his 1988 tour.)
But at least the one-time Hardest Working Man in Show Business was granted one last triumph at the Apollo Theater. As well he should have been. Oh, and a movie -- though like Ray Charles before him, Brown bowed out of production of his bio-pic too soon.
We won't see Brown's life depicted on the big screen (and/or on the small screen at the World Exchange) until 2008, so the man will otherwise not figure into the coming year, other than in the inevitable flood of hastily-arranged hip-hop tributes.
Also a shame, really.
So what does lie ahead, all you rock and rollers? Well, new music from 2Pac, for a start. And newer and better Idols to make life worthwhile.
Possibly new music from The Rolling Stones, either in the form of a live album or a studio album that Keith Richards will suggest is reminiscent of Exile on Main Street. (In that it is an album by The Rolling Stones.) Meanwhile, former Stones producer Andrew Oldham will attempt to remix old tracks into one continuous piece, to be called Hatred, or something like that.
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