A Brief Note from Doug Draper
“I can’t get no, I can’t get no … no satisfaction, no satisfaction! ”
Those words were among the first heard around the world by a London, England-based band called The Rolling Stones.
A cpver of one of their earliest albums
It was 50 years ago this July that The Rolling Stones, fronted by Mick Jagger, an ever-menacing survivor and blues/rock guitarist and composer Keith Richards, the late Brian Jones, bassist Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts, played their first gig in a club in their hometown of London. A couple of years later, they were performing their gritty brand of rock and blues around the world.
I will forever believe that The Beatles were the best rock band ever, but The Rolling Stones, along with The Beach Boys, The Yardbirds, The Animals and a New York City group called The Rascals were right up there near the top during that greatest of all rock and pop music decade of the 1960s.
If you don’t believe that The Rolling Stones were and still are one of the greatest of all rock bands, find an old album (available on CD) called Big Hits (High Tide and Green Grass). Take a listen to songs like Satisfaction, The Last Time, As Tears Goes By, Time Is On My Side, Get Off My Cloud and 19th Nervous Breakdown, and name me any other band other than The Beatles that cranked out an amazing catalogue of tunes like that over a two or three year period of time. And they have continued cranking out some pretty damn good music to this day.
If you only have ten CDs you can take to a desert island, you could not do much better than to include Bit Hits (High Tide and Green Grass) among them if you are a lover of rock marinated in the blues. So thank you Rolling Stones for 50 great rock and rolling years, and may there be at least a few more before you, like some of the rest of us who remember when (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction first hit the charts, fade away.
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What a feast for those who where around, to hear all the great music that splilled out of the 1960s, it was so good the music still holds up, even today, those bands worked hard at their craft and drew inspiration from life and the tumulteous time they were living in, the cold war, Vietnam and baby boomers, some of us got satisfaction.
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