Can't You Here Me Knocking

Ever since I’ve been Aware of The Rolling Stones which is since the early to mid eighties I guess, they’ve always been described as a dinosaur rock band. They were in in their forties and considered has-beens who don‘t sell any records but can sell out stadiums. Oasis took that route too. The members of Radiohead are now in their forties but are considered as relevant as they always have been. Maybe that’s because unlike The Rolling Stones they have continued to make relevant music. But REM haven’t made a good record for years (think you will still be listening to their latest so called return to form a year from now? Doubt it) but I’ve never heard them being called dinosaurs. Maybe its because the bands from the sixties were the first ones to grow old, and The Rolling Stones are still touring every now and then so they retain the dinosaur mantle.
I have no intention of seeing The Stones on their next cash cow tour but whenever I go and visit my folks I usually pull out a vinyl Stones record and place it under the needle. Usually its one from the Mick Taylor era, and more often than not the album Sticky Fingers. Partly because of the cover (the original one with an actual zip on the cover) and partly to hear my favourite stones song. Not the two that get played the most Brown Sugar and Wild Horses but the seven brilliant minuets of Can’t You Here Me Knocking. It kicks of with a classic Keith Richards riff and ends with a sublime Mick Taylor solo that comes in after a saxophone solo. With Taylor on guitar they really were at their peak. He’s a much under rated guitar player and Can’t You Hear Me Knocking is one of The Rolling Stones most underrated songs.

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