The Rolling Stones and Philosophy: It's Just a Thought Away by Luke Dick & George A. Reisch

Author:Luke Dick & George A. Reisch [Dick, Luke & Reisch, George A.]
Language: eng
Format: epub
ISBN: 9780812697599
Google: Z6bfFvoKNb8C
Publisher: Open Court Publishing
Published: 2011-11-07T05:00:00+00:00

In the Court of the Satanic Majesty

The Stones were no strangers to other manifestations of Pepperism in popular culture. While the debate raged over just how much experimentalism rock music could bear, Jagger himself was a part of cinematic experiments undertaken by Nicholas Roeg and Kenneth Anger.39 And at the historic Hyde Park concert in 1969 to commemorate the life and sudden death of Brian Jones, one of the opening bands was King Crimson who delivered what was by all accounts a mind-blow-ing performance. While Crimson’s In the Court of the Crimson King would become a classic of experimental and progressive rock, The Stones’ ragged performance at this concert pointed to the turn they would soon take—away from Pepperism and back to the blues that was, and remains, the band’s first and guiding love.

Yet, for all that, Satanic Majesties can and should be seen as a great Stones album. In fact, it should be understood as The Stones’ only album in so far as it really strives, following Sgt. Pepper, to stand as more than a collection of independent songs unified only by the period in which they were written, the sound the producers and engineers were going for, the kinds of guitars (or drugs) Keith was using, or the women in The Stones’ lives. Let it be said: Satanic Majesties is not only a concept album, it’s a concepts album that prog rock fans, as well as Stones fans, should pay attention to.

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