Greetings once again from the Hot Wax Social Club, this is Logues.

Great things have been happening at the Club since we spoke last. Several after-hours sessions have been dedicated to beefing up our Nostr know-how, with pizza and D12 on the PA system.

That’s right, we’ve been studying protocols and increasing our entropy.

Pausing only as long as necessary to get updates on Maxi Madness.

Speaking of Maxi Madness, congrats to Rev Hodl for winning Nostr’s maxi madness.

And congratulations also goes to Casey Rodarmor, for winning the twitter bracket.

Once again, the Club’s official statement is as follows:

“This was the Club’s first Maxi Madness, and we were just happy to be here.”

Other than that… we’ve been spinning records, writing for this program, getting our 40 hours of bitcoin podcasts per week, and attending our local meetups.

I recently attended a kind of wine social, and I had some great conversations with local bitcoiners.

At one point, I found myself talking to a young man who was not at all familiar with the Rolling Stones. He asked me if they were new, and it really got me thinking.

One, it was a good reminder of generational differences and to always keep some current references in your back pocket for social events. But two, it was interesting, because I don’t think I’ve ever tried to explain the Rolling Stones to someone who didn’t at least know that they exist.

I didn’t go into extreme detail, but I think I did good job.

Now.

At the risk of being dismissed by you guys as some sort of Hard Rock Cafe propaganda and boomer slop, I want to talk about the Rolling Stones, because they are really important to the identity of this podcast and the Club in general.

One of the pillars of the Hot Wax Club is the preservation of musical traditions. It’s noticing the connections between artists and the stuff they create. It’s noticing the cultural exchange that happens when we listen to music and when we make it.

It both is that deep, and it’s not that deep.

It’s also just about music that feels good when you listen to it, and wondering where it came from. How did they do that? What was going on with these people that makes the music sound and feel the way that it does? And its about having the curiosity to follow those questions, and if you feel so inclined, maybe throwing your hat in the ring. Taking that next step from consuming, to producing.

And before you know it, you’re the troubadour now, dude.

So to that point , who demonstrates that better than the rolling stones?

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The band loved their influences so much, that they made consistent and deliberate efforts to bring attention, status, and money to American artists who weren’t getting enough respect in their own country, let alone worldwide.

Unlike some the other British invasion bands that were getting gassed up on American music and acting like they invented the thing, the Rolling Stones talked about their influences constantly.

As the Rolling stones got bigger they started making unique career choices to shine a spotlight on black American artists that were mostly unknown to white audiences obsessed with these British bands and having no idea about the great music that was going on in their own back yard.

Everybody knows the band named themselves after a Muddy Waters song of course, and through the 60s and 70s they constantly talked about him in interviews.

They once insisted they would not do a certain TV performance unless the organizers also got Howlin Wolf on too.

In the late 60s, they invited artists like Ike and Tina Turner and BB King to tour with them.

Not to mention all of the covers the stones recorded, that started putting royalties in the pockets of living artists and the estates of dead ones like Slim Harpo and Robert Johnson.

This led to rediscovery of these artists by labels, promoters, and fans allowing them to rally comebacks, raise their fees and play bigger venues and further establish their legends.

And they did this, all while blending these same influences into their artistry to make a one-of-a-kind sound and expanding the genre of rock n roll through cultural connections into other genres including country music.

This is vibe history of course, but I can’t understate their reach. Everywhere you look in the written and unwritten books of rock, there’s either some direct or once removed connection to the Rolling Stones.

Their paths cross with James Brown, Bo Diddley. Chuck Berry. You name it.

Take what you read with a grain of salt perhaps, but Keith Richard’s autobiography has a lot of interesting stories of this era.

Long before the Jagger Bowie crossover, the Rolling Stones were introducing the world to upcoming artists in Stevie Wonder and ZZ Top.

Early stages of the The Eagles and Santana opened for the stones. And there’s probably more I can’t even think of.

The album we’re discussing today is called Some Girls

It’s not their best album, and it’s not my favorite album. But it’s one of my favorites.

Musically, I consider Some Girls to be a Rolling Stones starter pack.

A trip to go, if you will.

It might be their most accessible record, but maybe that depends on your sense of humor.

But let me get some people up to speed.

Vibe History

For the uninitiated, where do I start?

The Rolling Stones. These days they’re the Rolling Bones. And by these days, I mean since the 80s.

They’re not bad for some geriatrics.

They’re gangster dude.

Before their ascension to Rolling Stones^(TM) , they were really about that life. Even now, it shines through a little bit here and there, but you have to look a little harder.

It would take me several episodes to emphasize just how significant their impact to music is, especially rock n roll. Greatest of all time levels of songwriting, performance, technique, and style. There’s a lot of game tapes to study here.

No one likes to be told what is and isn’t cool by their resident boomer, and 80’s babies launched their own rejection of bands that were “institutions” of prior eras. The Rolling Stones are one of those artists that built a brand so large that it can be cartoonish at times. You can only here Start Me Up so many times before you feel like “I get it I get it I get it”.

Before the Stones earned their place in the pantheon of Applebees rock, they were 5 dirty dudes running around London.

I probably don’t even have to introduce Mick Jagger to most of you, or Keith Richards to at least a lot of you. They are of course, the singer and most important guitar player, respectively. They are also pimps and jokers.

Charlie Watts on drums, RIP to a king. Possibly a bigger pimp then Mick and Keith combined.

Brian Jones, often forgotten, played a little bit of everything and was very important to the founding of the band, as well as the direction and sound of the music in the earlier days. But he died a long time ago.

And Bill Wyman on bass. Bill of course has one of the most creative family trees of all time. If you know, you know.

Supposedly they all shared a tiny apartment for a while, I can’t even imagine what that smelled like.

This is also the era of skiffle. Skiffle was a genre. and it was like LARPing for blues music. Young British musicians were trying to emulate American blues artists, but instead of buying instruments, probably because they couldn’t afford it after WW2, they just found random objects to make musical…likes brooms and boxes and shit…. both as a practical measure but also a way to be more “authentic” to the origin of the blues.

You know lads, the REAL blues.

That’s all I know about skiffle, so that’s optional homework if you want is. There’s a wikipedia article for that. When I think of this era of the Stones, I always think about that scene in Spinal Tap where they playing their song Gimme Some Money. I’ll put a link in the companion.

The first few records were all over the place, reflecting their transition from covers of Blues and RnB songs to begin writing original material in various flavors of rock, including psychedelic which was very in vogue in the 60s.

They did their thing. Their management advertised them as sorta like the Beatles but edgier, the first of many details in the band’s mythos that they would eventually just absorb entirely.

Many of their songs explore sex, drugs, relationships, and social taboos. Sometimes with humor and irony, and often from the perspective of characters that inhabit the songs. They put a lot of work into pushing boundaries with their material, marketing, and live performances. But eventually they didn’t have to try.

The band transcended their own legend, with the band members (especially Mick and Keith) fusing their actual selves with their fan and critic based mythology.

Brian Jones passed away, and the band continued with Mick Taylor on lead guitar. So just be clear, there’s 2 Micks now (rack ’em!)

And suddenly it was there golden era. They produced some fire music, became veterans of the road, lived some serious controversies, and pioneered a long list of rock star cliches.

Eventually I’ll talk about this history more with the albums Beggar’s Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers, and Exile on Main Street.

But for the purposes of discussing Some Girls, all you need to know for now is that the Stones climbed that mountain.

We’re well into the 1970s and Blues is out. For some, the Rolling Stones are getting kinda dusty.

Disco is king now. Mainstream audiences want music for dancing in the clubs, and at the same time, there’s a new wave of punk bands in the underground. Some critics and fans are thinking, perhaps for the first time, that the Rolling Stones ain’t got that dog in em. If they’re thinking about them at all. Mick Jagger is like 34 at this point. In rock years, that’s old as hell!

Richards has been dope sick on heroin for years. Mick Taylor is fed up and leaves the band, taking that mojo with him. So the rest of the guys take some time to get weird in the Caribbean and recuperate. They do some try outs for a new lead guitar player, ultimately deciding on Ronnie Wood (well known for his work with the band Faces). And they got to work on their comeback. Enter Some Girls, in 1978….

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