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If there are diverse kinds of knowledge and ways of knowing place, then we need to learn to value the different ways each of us sees a single place that is significant, but differently so, for each perspective.
adrift on a sea of information at a time when the world's night is a destitute time. In the age of the world's night, the abyss of the world must be endured.
--Adelaide is home. Relaxation is Victor Harbor. I'm a frustrated photographer who has lost his way in life.I have trouble coping in the technological mode of being of our complex digital world.
looking for something firm in a world of chaotic flux
Rolling Stones: Foret Nationale Concert, 1973
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August 18, 2009
I returned to exploring Wolfgang's Vault last night after a photographic excursion down and around the new development along the Port River estuary. I was feeling nostalgic.
This was after Exile on Main St. and Goat Head's Soup ---ie., the Mick Taylor era of the Rolling Stones. The band is energetic, on top of their game, the sound is good. Surprisingly there is the conventional delineation between rhythm (Richards) and lead guitar (Taylor) parts.
This period of '69-'74 is the musical highpoint of the Rolling Stones as a live band--- as opposed to image and celebrity. This Foret Nationale concert is better than Get Your Ya Ya's Out of 1970. It has been a popular bootleg amongst fans ( it is known as "Brussels Affair" and/or Bedspring Symphony) is in superb stereo sound, and is often considered a 'lost classic'.
Taylor left the band after It's Only Rock 'n' Roll, and the group recorded their next album as they auditioned new lead guitarists before settling on Ron Wood. The music was never as good as then:
The Stones were a guitar driven band but Richard's classic riffs need a lead counter-point and Mick Taylor was it.
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