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Talkin' to some rich folk that you know
Well I hope you won't see me in my ragged company
Well, you know I could never be alone
Take me down little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
Well when you're sitting back in your rose pink Cadillac
Making bets on Kentucky Derby Day
Ah, I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon
And another girl to take my pain away
Take me down little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the mail
Send me dead flowers to my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
Take me down little Susie, take me down
I know you think you're the queen of the underground
And you can send me dead flowers every morning
Send me dead flowers by the U.S. Mail
Say it with dead flowers in my wedding
And I won't forget to put roses on your grave
No, I won't forget to put roses on your grave
itsme_bygolly wrote:
This is a Townes Van Zandt cover. The Stones did take cues.
xknox wrote:
A TVZ cover? I believe this one was written by Keith and Mick.
Um yea, Jagger/Richards song. Do some research sunshine.
just cuz it is the Stones doesn't mean its any good . . . .
Then hit the "skip button"! ...problem solved! A lot of RP listeners think that this is a GREAT TUNE!!
That's the genesis!
According to Wiki, it was written by Keith & Mick, who were inspired by Graham Parsons. Townes Van Zandt did a COVER of this song!
Correct.
A TVZ cover? I believe this one was written by Keith and Mick.
According to Wiki, it was written by Keith & Mick, who were inspired by Graham Parsons. Townes Van Zandt did a COVER of this song!
although I think buffalo springfield started the whole darn thing
This is a Townes Van Zandt cover. The Stones did take cues.
A TVZ cover? I believe this one was written by Keith and Mick.
ROCK's Greatest Band.
The Stones never slavishly followed trends but were keenly attuned to and influenced by what went on in their midst as they rolled around the world for 60+ years.
This is a Townes Van Zandt cover. The Stones did take cues.
ROCK's Greatest Band.
The Stones never slavishly followed trends but were keenly attuned to and influenced by what went on in their midst as they rolled around the world for 60+ years.
1972. My first Rock & Roll cover band was playing maybe our 2nd or 3rd gig. We rented the American Legion Hall in Granbury, Texas, for $25, drew up our own flyers and plastered them all over town. Our gig was on Homecoming weekend - we had no idea if anyone would show up. Damn near the whole town did (at least the kids). Our girlfriends stamped hands at the door, $1 per person, $1.50 a couple. By the middle of the first set the place was packed. Our GF's quit taking money and were dancing with the crowd. We were nervous but excited at the turnout. We were a real Rock & Roll band!
We played ZZ Top, Rolling Stones, Beatles, The Who, Santana, 10 Years After, old blues. Midway through the gig a bunch of local young cowboys (goat ropers we called them back in the day) showed up, got right up in our faces demanding that we play country music or they'd kick our asses. We had no reason to doubt it.
We huddled at the back of the stage - okay we need to come up with something. We decided to play "Dead Flowers", already a little bit country by The Stones, and country it up a whole lot more. So we kicked it off a little bit slower, a little bit more twangy, punched up our Texas accents, and took off. All that was missing was a pedal steel guitar (where's Jerry Garcia when you need him!).
It was a hit! The cowboys hooted and hollered, swung their cowboy hats, grabbed their gals and danced their asses off! After that we went into a blues medley, with our lead guitarist on the harp stomping his cowboy boots....Rollin & Tumblin', Crossroads, I don't know what all. The band just kept up with our leader for a 20-minute jam. I had just turned 19, having the time of my life.
One of those nights I'll never forget.
What a great story! And well written. Thanks for posting!
I always loved this version:
Can you find a cover(s) of this song by other band(s) and play them?
Album cover designed by Andy Warhol.
ROCK'S GREATEST BAND
Firmly based in the Blues and comfortable enough with those roots to be influenced, yet never the one's to slavishly follow trends.
Here, they make American country & western their bitch.
You're welcome.
1972. My first Rock & Roll cover band was playing maybe our 2nd or 3rd gig. We rented the American Legion Hall in Granbury, Texas, for $25, drew up our own flyers and plastered them all over town. Our gig was on Homecoming weekend - we had no idea if anyone would show up. Damn near the whole town did (at least the kids). Our girlfriends stamped hands at the door, $1 per person, $1.50 a couple. By the middle of the first set the place was packed. Our GF's quit taking money and were dancing with the crowd. We were nervous but excited at the turnout. We were a real Rock & Roll band!
We played ZZ Top, Rolling Stones, Beatles, The Who, Santana, 10 Years After, old blues. Midway through the gig a bunch of local young cowboys (goat ropers we called them back in the day) showed up, got right up in our faces demanding that we play country music or they'd kick our asses. We had no reason to doubt it.
We huddled at the back of the stage - okay we need to come up with something. We decided to play "Dead Flowers", already a little bit country by The Stones, and country it up a whole lot more. So we kicked it off a little bit slower, a little bit more twangy, punched up our Texas accents, and took off. All that was missing was a pedal steel guitar (where's Jerry Garcia when you need him!).
It was a hit! The cowboys hooted and hollered, swung their cowboy hats, grabbed their gals and danced their asses off! After that we went into a blues medley, with our lead guitarist on the harp stomping his cowboy boots....Rollin & Tumblin', Crossroads, I don't know what all. The band just kept up with our leader for a 20-minute jam. I had just turned 19, having the time of my life.
One of those nights I'll never forget.
You didn't play the theme to Rawhide?
We played ZZ Top, Rolling Stones, Beatles, The Who, Santana, 10 Years After, old blues. Midway through the gig a bunch of local young cowboys (goat ropers we called them back in the day) showed up, got right up in our faces demanding that we play country music or they'd kick our asses. We had no reason to doubt it.
We huddled at the back of the stage - okay we need to come up with something. We decided to play "Dead Flowers", already a little bit country by The Stones, and country it up a whole lot more. So we kicked it off a little bit slower, a little bit more twangy, punched up our Texas accents, and took off. All that was missing was a pedal steel guitar (where's Jerry Garcia when you need him!).
It was a hit! The cowboys hooted and hollered, swung their cowboy hats, grabbed their gals and danced their asses off! After that we went into a blues medley, with our lead guitarist on the harp stomping his cowboy boots....Rollin & Tumblin', Crossroads, I don't know what all. The band just kept up with our leader for a 20-minute jam. I had just turned 19, having the time of my life.
One of those nights I'll never forget.
Great story!
...of which i pulled down in my late teens to see if anything was back there...disappointed
...of which i pulled down in my late teens to see if anything was back there...disappointed
not even close
But "Dead Flowers" is making my hair stand on end as I listen and type
Ya gotta laugh at Mick's "hillbilly accent"
... or at someone putting quotes around the words hillbilly accent.
We played ZZ Top, Rolling Stones, Beatles, The Who, Santana, 10 Years After, old blues. Midway through the gig a bunch of local young cowboys (goat ropers we called them back in the day) showed up, got right up in our faces demanding that we play country music or they'd kick our asses. We had no reason to doubt it.
We huddled at the back of the stage - okay we need to come up with something. We decided to play "Dead Flowers", already a little bit country by The Stones, and country it up a whole lot more. So we kicked it off a little bit slower, a little bit more twangy, punched up our Texas accents, and took off. All that was missing was a pedal steel guitar (where's Jerry Garcia when you need him!).
It was a hit! The cowboys hooted and hollered, swung their cowboy hats, grabbed their gals and danced their asses off! After that we went into a blues medley, with our lead guitarist on the harp stomping his cowboy boots....Rollin & Tumblin', Crossroads, I don't know what all. The band just kept up with our leader for a 20-minute jam. I had just turned 19, having the time of my life.
One of those nights I'll never forget.
...but did you have a fiddle in the band?
Great story!
I see what you mean. Interesting interpretation from the young Canadian. Here's a pretty good version:
Agreed. The guitars save this song. If you're going to do a parody, it helps to be more interesting or funnier than the original stuff. Mick as a cowboy is riduckulous.
I find it as (if not more) interesting and funnier than "the original stuff". This song isn't a "parody", it's a style of music they genuinely liked and emulated on a number of songs over the years. "Tongue-in-cheek" perhaps, but not a parody - parodies are performed by people like Stan Freberg or Al Yankovic.
We played ZZ Top, Rolling Stones, Beatles, The Who, Santana, 10 Years After, old blues. Midway through the gig a bunch of local young cowboys (goat ropers we called them back in the day) showed up, got right up in our faces demanding that we play country music or they'd kick our asses. We had no reason to doubt it.
We huddled at the back of the stage - okay we need to come up with something. We decided to play "Dead Flowers", already a little bit country by The Stones, and country it up a whole lot more. So we kicked it off a little bit slower, a little bit more twangy, punched up our Texas accents, and took off. All that was missing was a pedal steel guitar (where's Jerry Garcia when you need him!).
It was a hit! The cowboys hooted and hollered, swung their cowboy hats, grabbed their gals and danced their asses off! After that we went into a blues medley, with our lead guitarist on the harp stomping his cowboy boots....Rollin & Tumblin', Crossroads, I don't know what all. The band just kept up with our leader for a 20-minute jam. I had just turned 19, having the time of my life.
One of those nights I'll never forget.
this remembers me the blues brothers
Thank you Gram Parsons!
hey Foot,
With all due respect, I've concluded that Buffalo Springfield was the first "country rock" band, circa 1967?
Yeah baby...country rock lives!
lovin itKeith and Gram Parsons at Nellcote
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We played ZZ Top, Rolling Stones, Beatles, The Who, Santana, 10 Years After, old blues. Midway through the gig a bunch of local young cowboys (goat ropers we called them back in the day) showed up, got right up in our faces demanding that we play country music or they'd kick our asses. We had no reason to doubt it.
We huddled at the back of the stage - okay we need to come up with something. We decided to play "Dead Flowers", already a little bit country by The Stones, and country it up a whole lot more. So we kicked it off a little bit slower, a little bit more twangy, punched up our Texas accents, and took off. All that was missing was a pedal steel guitar (where's Jerry Garcia when you need him!).
It was a hit! The cowboys hooted and hollered, swung their cowboy hats, grabbed their gals and danced their asses off! After that we went into a blues medley, with our lead guitarist on the harp stomping his cowboy boots....Rollin & Tumblin', Crossroads, I don't know what all. The band just kept up with our leader for a 20-minute jam. I had just turned 19, having the time of my life.
One of those nights I'll never forget.
One of the best stories I've read on RP. Thank you.
thewiseking wrote:
Ya gotta laugh at Mick's "hillbilly accent"
Agreed. The guitars save this song. If you're going to do a parody, it helps to be more interesting or funnier than the original stuff. Mick as a cowboy is riduckulous.
Couldn't disagree more
Ya gotta laugh at Mick's "hillbilly accent"
One of those nights I'll never forget.
Very vivid story! Thanks for sharing. Just a bright little story in this dull morning.
We played ZZ Top, Rolling Stones, Beatles, The Who, Santana, 10 Years After, old blues. Midway through the gig a bunch of local young cowboys (goat ropers we called them back in the day) showed up, got right up in our faces demanding that we play country music or they'd kick our asses. We had no reason to doubt it.
We huddled at the back of the stage - okay we need to come up with something. We decided to play "Dead Flowers", already a little bit country by The Stones, and country it up a whole lot more. So we kicked it off a little bit slower, a little bit more twangy, punched up our Texas accents, and took off. All that was missing was a pedal steel guitar (where's Jerry Garcia when you need him!).
It was a hit! The cowboys hooted and hollered, swung their cowboy hats, grabbed their gals and danced their asses off! After that we went into a blues medley, with our lead guitarist on the harp stomping his cowboy boots....Rollin & Tumblin', Crossroads, I don't know what all. The band just kept up with our leader for a 20-minute jam. I had just turned 19, having the time of my life.
One of those nights I'll never forget.
HA HA HA.
They're about to release another album. The 30th Stones. A bluesy collection. Let's conjure a title. ...
Exile on Bourbon Street. Tame Horses. (This Will Really Be) The Last Time.
Thank you Gram Parsons!
actually Gram Parsons hated the term country rock
he said he made Cosmic American Music
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.btw, Merle Haggard died today
and he called Gram Parsons a pussy
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RIP Merle but i love Gram
Yeah baby...country rock lives!
Thank you Gram Parsons!
Virtualearthman wrote:
... or head back into the studio in 2016 to record a new album (their 25th in 52 years) right on the heels of their latest sell out concert tour. Whichever......
Rejected FTD Flowers slogans-
1) "Say It With Dead Flowers"
Beyond awesome.
I don't know why but this is one of my favorite Stones songs. Always puts me in a beer at the pub kind of mood.
Why would you wish death on a band?
Keith will OUTLIVE US ALL!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Certainly ones with just the zipper cover are not worth too much... check out EBay
The album's artwork emphasizes the suggestive innuendo of the Sticky Fingers title, showing a close-up of a jeans-clad male crotchwith the visible outline of a large penis; the cover of the original (vinyl) release featured a working zipper and mock belt buckle that opened to reveal cotton briefs. The vinyl release displayed the band's name and album title along the image of the belt; behind the zipper the white briefs were seemingly rubber stamped in gold with the name of American pop artist Andy Warhol, below which read "THIS PHOTOGRAPH MAY NOT BE--ETC." While the artwork was conceived by Warhol, photography was by Billy Name and design by Craig Braun.
The cover photo of a male model's crotch clad in tight blue jeans was assumed by many fans to be an image of Mick Jagger, but the people actually involved at the time of the photo shoot claim that Warhol had several different men photographed (Jagger was not among them) and never revealed which shots he used. Among the candidates, Jed Johnson, Warhol's lover at the time, denied it was his likeness, although his twin brother Jay is a possibility. Those closest to the shoot, and subsequent design, name Factory artist and designer Corey Tippin as the likeliest candidate. Warhol "superstar" Joe Dallesandro claims to have been the model.
After retailers complained that the zipper was causing damage to the vinyl (from stacked shipments of the record), the zipper was "unzipped" slightly to the middle of the record, where damage would be minimized.
The album features the first usage of the band's "tongue & lips" logo, which was originally designed by Ernie Cefalu. Although Ernie's version was used for much of the merchandising and was the design originally shown to the band by Craig Braun, the design used for the album was illustrated by John Pasche.
Everybody in my church loves this song...
I hope she still has it .. you can see an earlier post I made about this cover. The one released in Europe — only 500 of them — you could pull the zipper down and observe a relatively large Organ of Extreme Delight and Punishment .... They are worth upwards of $100,000 when you can find one ...
Good right after Prine.
Was that " Little Jo " on the cover ?
Yeah baby...country rock lives!
Good right after Prine.
Trivia: anyone know the controversy about this album cover?
Wow, it seems that the new draft of Mick Jagger "SuperHeavy" overlapped the new draft of the Rolling Stones!
Parody, in my opinion. They did a couple of other "country" tunes, perhaps as a gentle slap to the colonies ... ? Why else would they even bother with this genre?
Now that is just a plain ol' ignaramoose statement.
Country music has a deep, long and rich history and deserves as much respect as any other genre. The only genre of music that one can even consider blanketly disrespecting is commercial pop. Parody, in my opinion. They did a couple of other "country" tunes, perhaps as a gentle slap to the colonies ... ? Why else would they even bother with this genre?
Because... they enjoyed it?
Parody, in my opinion. They did a couple of other "country" tunes, perhaps as a gentle slap to the colonies ... ? Why else would they even bother with this genre?
Perhaps because they enjoyed "this genre"? They did more than a couple of "country tunes". They were hanging around with Gram Parsons around the time this (and "Wild Horses") was recorded.
I'm with you. I don't want to have to scroll through pages and pages of generic pictures of Keith Richards' ugly mug just to get to some song comments. Come on Calypsus, ease off the gas just a little, dude.
Others like it just the way it is. Carry on Calypsus.
I'm with you. I don't want to have to scroll through pages and pages of generic pictures of Keith Richards' ugly mug just to get to some song comments. Come on Calypsus, ease off the gas just a little, dude.
Parody, in my opinion. They did a couple of other "country" tunes, perhaps as a gentle slap to the colonies ... ? Why else would they even bother with this genre?
Rolling Stones by bp fallon
https://www.flickr.com/photos/bpfallon/
Phil Spector & Gene Pitney & Andrew Loog Oldham & The Rolling Stones at the 'Not Fade Away' sessions London 1964
Photographer unknown.
Note how the very famous American record producer/songwriter/millionaire/then-diety Phil Spector is the main man in the studio with this exciting hot English combo that everyone's talking about. The brilliant Stones manager and producer Andrew Oldham - in shades of course and the youngest in the room - worships Spector. American pop star Gene Pitney wrote 'He's A Rebel' which Spector produced by The Crystals, making more millions. The first-ever Jagger-Richards hit song was 'That Girl Belongs To Yesterday' recorded by Gene Pitney. Mick doesn't look wildly happy. Both Spector and Pitney play on the first Stones album and on the much-bootlegged Stones track 'Andrew's Blues' which features lewd-lyrics lead vocals by Spector and Jagger before Phil launches into a mad filthy rap about the delighted Stones manager, with fierce twanging by Brian and Keith and pumping piano by Ian Stewart. Raw, vulgar and excellent. ~bp fallon
All rights reservedCalypsus and Romeotuma are in a dead heat in the competition to see who can use up the most RP bandwidth. I hope they are paying double the usual rate.
Keith Richards by rising70
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"I wish they had've miked Willie's guitar. Willie Nelson is a terrific guitar player. This proves again that Keith can still bring it!" PeteTSSF
Keith by =FireCaster
©2008-2010 =FireCaster
I never thought the very first dude that I would add in my portraits gallery would be Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones. I was browsing through my sister's Time magazine when I saw this monumental photo of Keith in a hotel room, posing for Louis Vuitton (for the guitar case). Fuck it's the smallest reference I had to work on!
I would like to remain cool when I grow old, but not looking like this.
2H, H, B, HB, 2B and 8B pencils. To be consistent with the creases on his face I didn't use my smudge stick. Bleh.
Normally i dont like this style of Drawings. But this one of Keith is perfect!
I still haven't figured out why I love this song, or why I turn it up whenever I hear it. Maybe it's because I live in a cow-town and I actually might have country music flowing through my veins. Or, maybe it's because it's the Rolling Stones. Or, more likely, it's because I'm a simple dork and I just like what I like and can't explain why. Feh.
It's sort of an accomplishment just to grow old.
Pharlap wrote:
Keith by =FireCaster
©2008-2010 =FireCaster
I never thought the very first dude that I would add in my portraits gallery would be Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones. I was browsing through my sister's Time magazine when I saw this monumental photo of Keith in a hotel room, posing for Louis Vuitton (for the guitar case). Fuck it's the smallest reference I had to work on!
I would like to remain cool when I grow old, but not looking like this.
2H, H, B, HB, 2B and 8B pencils. To be consistent with the creases on his face I didn't use my smudge stick. Bleh.
- Mick Jagger - lead vocals, acoustic and electric guitar, percussion
- Keith Richards - electric guitar, 6 & 12 string acoustic guitar and backing vocals
- Mick Taylor - electric, acoustic, and slide guitar
- Charlie Watts - drums
- Bill Wyman - bass guitar, electric piano
- Additional musicians
- Paul Buckmaster - string arrangement
- Ry Cooder - slide guitar
- Jim Dickinson - piano
- Rocky Dijon - congas
- Nicky Hopkins - piano
- Bobby Keys - saxophone
- Ronnie Lane - vocals
- Jimmy Miller - percussion
- Billy Nicholls - vocals
- Jack Nitzsche - piano
- Billy Preston - organ
- Jim Price - trumpet, piano
- Ian Stewart - piano
- Pete Townshend - vocals
Why it's Y'Alternative!
Gotta disagree! This is one of the best beer drinking with your buddies sing along songs ever!
Now I just have to hope I actually get to fulfill it...
Whatever ... they're both desert island records.
i would add beggar's banquet too. but i am a stone's kinda guy.
Whatever ... they're both desert island records.
lmic wrote:
Yep. Pretty much the whole album.
Yep. Pretty much the whole album.
Sure, why not? I can't take it with me, that's for sure. It's just green pieces of paper with some old white slave holder's picture on it, anyway.
I'm not here to tell anyone what to do with their cash, but those old white slave holders would sure help some poor young people in africa, or heck in the US. i'm just sayin'