| 8th December 2006 10:00 PM |
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| real wild child |
The Stones sound is amazing thanks to Mick,Keef and the boys...but it´s so great thanks to Nitzsche,Nicky,Billy or Mr. McLagan (etc,etc,etc,) too...who has taking the heart out for the Stones music???...and why???...
P.D: Stu was a Stone...he don´t belong to this tread...
P.D2: and the band only needs Chuck Leavell to remember how the song goes...ohhh!!! and for the setlist... |
| 8th December 2006 10:08 PM |
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| glencar |
Chuck Leavell. |
| 8th December 2006 10:27 PM |
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| Sir Stonesalot |
Either Nicky, Mac, or maybe Gram Parsons.
I'll go with Mac. |
| 8th December 2006 10:35 PM |
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| The_Worst |
Mr. Parsons indeed. |
| 8th December 2006 10:36 PM |
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| VoodooChileInWOnderl |
Nicky Hopkins |
| 8th December 2006 10:37 PM |
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| VoodooChileInWOnderl |
and this is our humble space http://www.rocksoff.org/nicky.htm
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| 8th December 2006 10:51 PM |
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| Dan |
Matt Clifford |
| 8th December 2006 10:55 PM |
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| Mahatma Kane Jeeves |
nicky |
| 8th December 2006 11:02 PM |
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| jpenn11 |
Is Bobby Keys outside or inside? |
| 8th December 2006 11:03 PM |
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| M.O.W.A.T. |
Bobby Keys |
| 8th December 2006 11:09 PM |
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| Altamont |
Amyl Nitrate |
| 8th December 2006 11:39 PM |
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| The Wick |
Jimmy Miller was also an amazing drummer and great musician. But it's the usual suspects: Mac, Hopkins, Bobby Keys,... |
| 8th December 2006 11:53 PM |
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| robpop |
quote:
VoodooChileInWOnderl wrote:
Nicky Hopkins
Voodoo, I concur. |
| 9th December 2006 12:14 AM |
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| Bruno |
Nicky Hopkins. Try to imagine Soul Survivour without him. |
| 9th December 2006 12:36 AM |
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| Brainbell Jangler |
quote:
Bruno wrote:
Nicky Hopkins. Try to imagine Soul Survivour without him.
Or Loving Cup, certainly. Nicky fer sher, though Ry Cooder is right in there. |
| 9th December 2006 05:43 AM |
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| corgi37 |
Sugar Blue |
| 9th December 2006 08:19 AM |
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| Honky Tonk Man |
Nicky Hopkins. He was one of the top session musicians in the 60's alongside Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones. Ray Davis even wrote a song about him called Session Man.
I'd say Ian MacLagan was the coolest. He was in The Small Faces. How can he not be? |
| 9th December 2006 08:49 AM |
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| Back Street Girl |
Bobby Keys |
| 9th December 2006 09:04 AM |
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| Nellcote |
Bobby Keys
Next topic? |
| 9th December 2006 09:23 AM |
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| GotToRollMe |
quote:
VoodooChileInWOnderl wrote:
and this is our humble space http://www.rocksoff.org/nicky.htm
Awesome, Voodoo. You always know about all the good stuff. 
 
[Edited by GotToRollMe] |
| 9th December 2006 09:23 AM |
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| gimmekeef |
Muddy Waters....The name of the band came from his tune and his influence..watch the Chicago 81 DVD...They idolized him.... |
| 9th December 2006 10:08 AM |
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| Mel Belli |
Nicky Hopkins. No one else comes close. |
| 9th December 2006 10:41 AM |
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| Lil Brian |
If you're talking about the best player musicly, I'd go with Billy Preston. He was all about it, a musician's musician.
Billy's passing
BY ROGER FRIEDMAN
6-6-2006
'FIFTH BEATLE' BILLY PRESTON DEAD AT AGE 59
The great singer-songwriter and performer Billy Preston, the real "Fifth Beatle" has died after a long illness as a result of malignant hypertension that resulted in kidney failure and other complications. As a result of a medical insult he'd been in a deep coma since last November 21st, but was still struggling to recover. He died at Shea Scottsdale Hospital in Scottsdale, Arizona where he'd lived for the last couple of years.
Billy was called the Fifth Beatle because he played keyboards on Let it Be, The White Album and Abbey Road. He also played on the Rolling Stones's hit song Miss You, and often played with Eric Clapton. He also did the organ work on Sly & the Family Stone's greatest hits. Preston's own hits included "Nothing from Nothing," "Will it Go Round in Circles," and "You Are So Beautiful," which Joe Cocker turned into an international hit.
Preston was actually mentored by Ray Charles, and acts like Little Richard, Mahalia Jackson, and James Cleveland had a huge impact on him at a young age. In the early 60s, Billy went to Europe with Little Richard who playing in Hamburg. The Beatles were the opening act and as the story goes he was the one who made sure they got fed.
His friendship with them lasted through the 1960s and he was the first act signed to Apple Records thanks to George Harrison. The resulting album is called "That's the Way God Planned It." In 1971, Preston played in "The Concert for Bangla Desh." Last year, in one of his final appearances, he performed at a renuion in Los Angeles for the release of the Bangla Desh DVD with Ringo and Harrison's son Dhani on guitar.
More recently, Billy can be heard on the latest albums by Neil Diamond and Red Hot Chili Peppers. He's also featured on the Starbucks soul album "Believe to My Soul" featuring Mavis Staples and Ann Peebles.
I had the good fortune to know Billy the last few years, and saw him perform--as chronicled in this column--last August at the Mohegan Sun Casino in Connecticut and last October at the Atlantis in the Bahamas. He was one of those spectacular performers who put everything into his show even though he had no working kidneys by then and was receiving dialysis. He was a warm, wonderful human being with a mile wide smile. He was also a genius musician, the likes of whom we will not see again.
Rest in peace, Billy. You deserve it.
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| 9th December 2006 12:16 PM |
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| Ten Thousand Motels |
I want to believe that noone has mentioned Ian Stewart because we all consider him a "real" Rolling Stone. Therefore not an "outside musician." |
| 9th December 2006 12:55 PM |
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| Bruno |
Nobody mentioned Blondie, he plays smokin´ acoustic in 85% of the concerts!  |
| 9th December 2006 03:17 PM |
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| Gazza |
1 Moroccan, 1 Jew and 1 WASP |
| 9th December 2006 04:01 PM |
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| Stonesthrow |
If Bobby Keys is not an insider, he's the best. If he's an insider, then Nicky Hopkins.
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| 9th December 2006 04:06 PM |
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| MikeyC613 |
Rocky Dijon by 6 lengths |
| 9th December 2006 04:39 PM |
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| MrPleasant |
I sang along (yelled drunk) with them, when they came to México. When are they hiring me?
[Edited by MrPleasant] |
| 9th December 2006 07:56 PM |
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| ShaneJazz |
Mick Taylor - The poor guy always felt like an outsider.
For legitimate outsiders, I vote for Preston or Hopkins. |
