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On Tue, 1 Sep 2026 15:28:42 -0500
Bryan Simmons <
bryangsimmons@gmail.com> wrote:
On 8/31/2026 11:47 PM, frying air wrote:
On Mon, 31 Aug 2026 19:02:18 -0500
Bryan Simmons <bryangsimmons@gmail.com> wrote:
For the past at least 40 years, I consistently thought of Sticky
Fingers as my favorite record, and the two Taylor songs are my two
favorites, Sway and Moonlight Mile.
100% on "Sway", that is top ten for undervalued Stones songs.
"Memo From Turner" is #1 least valued.
Memo From Turner isn't valued by me. That's not the Stones, but just
Jagger making a bad movie.
WTF, the slide runs alone are classic Stones...but with Ry Cooder:
https://youtu.be/yCoCgB3eIU4?list=RDyCoCgB3eIU4
Recording DetailsSong: "Memo from Turner"Artist: Mick Jagger (solo
single from the movie Performance)Slide Guitar: Ry CooderOther
Musicians: Russ Titelman (guitar), Randy Newman (piano/organ), Jerry Scheff/Steve Winwood (bass), and Gene Parsons/Jim Capaldi (drums)
depending on the specific session version.
They released that dog, and buried Rock
and Roll Circus, which was enjoyable. IMO, it should have been the
other way around.
Oh please, who is "they"?
"AI Overview
The The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus concert
film and album were produced by Jimmy Miller, Jody Klein, and Lenne
Allik. (1968)
Performance—which features the song "Memo from Turner"—was produced by Sanford Lieberson.(in 1970)"
Not everything has to be a blame game.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rolling_Stones_Rock_and_Roll_Circus
The film was meant to be aired on the BBC, but the Rolling Stones
withheld it, contending that they did so because they felt their
performance was substandard; they were clearly exhausted after 15 hours
of filming (and some indulgence in drugs).[6] It was Brian Jones' last appearance with the Rolling Stones; he drowned some seven months later
while the film was being edited. Some speculate that another reason for
not releasing the film was that the Who, who were fresh off a concert
tour, upstaged the Stones on their own production.[7] The show was not
released commercially until October 1996.
Of course, at least it wasn't as bad as that movie
that Bowie made.
"The Man Who Fell To Earth?"
Predictive of Musk.
https://letterboxd.com/joshmatthews/film/the-man-who-fell-to-earth/
The scenario is that the David Bowie character, an alien from an advanced civilization, has crashed on Earth by accident. He has no way to get back to his planet or communicate with his species. What's he supposed to do? Worse, he's haunted by dreams of his nuclear family whom he had to abandon in order to help save his species, as he was on a scouting mission. We see those dreams throughout the film.
This character becomes a sort-of Elon Musk figure. To craft a spaceship that can get him back home, he needs to advance Earth to the point at which it's capable of producing such a craft. That means he's got to scale up the entire economy of Earth, advance material science by tenfold, scale up the energy output, etc.
What a coup for Earth, but the alien, alas, is not fit for life on
another planet. He doesn't age much at all -- his human counterparts
age much faster than him, and since this movie spans decades, there's
kind of a Benjamin-Button effect going on -- and yet his health does
suffer badly.
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