Take the drummer, keyboardist/bassist and guitarist out of band one
Jonathan Fire*eater - When the Curtain Calls For You
Add the vocalist and keyboard/bassist of band two.
The Recoys - Song of the Paper Dolls
And here's what you get......as described by YouTube commenter Marty Nozz- Five guys dressed like they're on their way to Sunday dinner at Mom's, melt the faces off of the audience at the Conan O'Brien show and the drummer wore long sleeves just to rub it in.
The connection between the first two bands is that Jonathan Fire*eater's keyboard/bassist Walter Martin is the cousin of The Recoys vocalist Hamilton Leithauser.
In the lyrics of the first song there is an indirect reference to a celestial event that occurred in 1997. Any guesses?
One of my earliest recollections of hearing the Rolling Stones was on a family vacation in 1971. We had traveled to a rental house on Lake Michigan for the first week of summer vacation in June of that year. The weather was cold and rainy and the lake temperature was probably about 50 F, as a result we spent most of the week inside. Luckily my siblings had found the cottage owner's record collection and a crash course in the era's rock filled my 9 year old ears and mind. It was the first time I heard the Beatles whole Sgt, Pepper album and the 'Let it Bleed' LP by the Rolling Stones.
I wasn't aware of it at the time but sadly the Stones' songwriters Keith Richards and Mick Jagger were quickly approaching age 30, the age when all songwriters start becoming a shadow of their glorious past.
Here are three interpretations of Jagger and Richards compositions.
Cub - She's Like a Rainbow
Wilco with Bob Weir - Dead Flowers
This last song is Bittersweet Symphony by the Verve. The band sampled a orchestral arrangement of the Stones' song 'The Last Time' as the melody for the song. Turns out lawyers determined they used too large of a sample and Jagger and Richards were given credit as song writers and 100% of royalties,
Lead singer of the Verve Richard Ashcroft said at the time the lawsuit was settled "It's the best song the Rolling Stones have written in 20 years". To this day they still haven't written anything worthwhile since the early 70's, If you like 'Bittersweet Symphony' and have it in your collection head on over to iTunes and buy a different Verve song so that they get paid something.
