Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
The floods is threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away
Gimme Shelter (original lyrics Rolling Stones)
qwerty
Posted on: 10/04/2011 20:55
Well that was pretty good alright but if you're really going to do a bang-up job of that song you need to have Lisa Fisher singing in it
.
MikePaterson
Posted on: 10/05/2011 11:22
Playing For Change gets my vote... hands down.
Kimmio
Posted on: 10/05/2011 11:42
I was thinking "how could they be better than the Stones?" who I've seen live twice in the late 80's early 90's (awesome and timeless even then)...but after watching, I vote for Playing for Change too! Thanks, LB.
qwerty
Posted on: 10/05/2011 20:23
Yes, yes ... the Playing for Change version is all very wholesome. Lots of natural fibre. It wears nice sensible shoes (or no shoes at all) and uses mostly nice green recyclable instruments made from wholesome organic materials. Its as eco-friendly and tranquil as a Muskoka Lake. They don't even have to start up an extra turbine at the Niagara Falls generating station when the musicians crank their amps up to eleven (because their amps don't go to eleven). It melds the inclusiveness of "world music" with the political correctness of fair trade coffee. It is sedate and modulated and never seems angry or wild. It is responsible and reassuring like the good cause it aids. When you listen to this song you know that in contrast to the suggestion of the lyric, everything is going to work out ...
However ...
... It doesn't have Lisa Fisher's powerful soaring vocal exploding like a roman candle above Mick and the band (and if you haven't noticed, ALL their amps go to eleven). The song is so full of wild whirling erotic energy (thanks in large part to Lisa) that it can truly be said that the performance of the song embodies the message of the song and overcomes by the erotic power of the vocal delivery the menacing darkness and storm embodied by Keith's looming power cords and riffs and Mick and his sung parts (the very result the lyrics predict ).
Every time I hear this song I get a chill when Lisa Fisher and her powerful vocal comes exploding out of the wings ...
... but it probably wouldn't fit as a musical interlude during the Sunday service at the local United Church as well as the Playing for Change one would.
MikePaterson
Posted on: 10/05/2011 16:52
Sorry, Qwerty, the Stones make my flesh crawl... I'm surprised at the sneers about sensible shoes and "nice green recyclable instruments": they're beneath you in the needful world... pointless and unpersuasive; they just make you look infantile.
It is the statement that needs to be heard! Basic human needs are being denied a great great portion of humanity. That fact needs desperately to change but the songs I hear coming from most people are whines about frustrated self interest.
qwerty
Posted on: 10/05/2011 20:19
Well no matter which version of that song you like Mike, it was written by Jagger & Richards otherwise known as "The Rolling Stones". I thought the lyrics got the story and the feeling just about right Mike and so I guess did LB Muskoka as well as the people at Playing for Change.
As far as sensible shoes are concerned Mike, "sensible shoes" are a metaphor ... Miss Marple wears sensible shoes Mike... "Sensible shoes" its not a "sneer" about ethnicity or poverty, its more about style, attack, enthusiasm and risk taking (or lack of it). You've been around Mike and I read somewhere you had a way with words so I thought you knew that already.
In any case, even though the Stones make your skin crawl Mike, I have always admired them because even after all these years they can still (as long in the tooth as they themselves have become) manage to totally piss off "the older generation". In any case ... I know its only rock and roll ... but I like it!. Yes I do. I Iike it!
qwerty
Posted on: 10/05/2011 23:27
They need shelter all over the world it seems. So now at the risk of totally alienating any curmudgeons who might not like the Rolling Stones, here is a pretty amazing performance of Gimme Shelter in Shanghai in 2006 ... where (even there) the crowd seemed to find Lisa Fisher's duet with Mick pretty electrifying ...
qwerty
Posted on: 10/05/2011 23:24
There are other versions by other artists ... they're all good. Its a good song.
Okay I'll stop now.
LBmuskoka
Posted on: 10/06/2011 05:59
If I may interject in my own thread ;-)
What makes Playing for Change remarkable and interesting to this aging geek, is that they use performers from around the world, united in a single song, to send a united message.
The geek part is the recordings are done in "real time", each singer no matter their location can hear the voice of the other singers - the world becomes a recording studio!
It was also through Playing for Change that I discovered that my favourite harmonica player of all time had not been swept away in the raging waters of Katrina but that is another story....
Music can unite us even if some sing out of tune
LB
-------------------------
In Times Of Trouble Take One Or Two Jazz-Pills.
Al Hotchkiss
Birthstone
Posted on: 10/06/2011 07:03
Yep. I love PFC, and this song too was a nice addition. Qwerty - PFC is as you describe, and is wonderful for being that way. The Stones rock, but they make my skin crawl too.
An awesome example: We have the Shine the Light DVD, and Buddy Guy comes out to play Champagne and Reefer with the Mick and the boys. At the end, after Buddy just wipes the stage with them, like, completely cleans their clock, Richards looks at him, bows his head, removes his guitar from his shoulders and in humility and gratitude, offers it to Buddy. There is no doubt which performer rocked the stage that night!
I kinda like Aerosmith, myself!
If you haven't seen the DVD from PFC 1 yet, then give it a try - its a fantastic documentary with awesome music. Gimme Shelter isn't on it but it is really good.
Here is Vusi Mahlasela, (not a PFC video)... (one of) my favourites :) Maybe Lb you can embed it for me??
qwerty
Posted on: 10/06/2011 07:06
Okay LB I did get that ... that everyone is standing in their own place to add to the song. In that way the method and means of performance also illustrates the meaning of the song and implements the solution it suggests. Nice. ... and of course you get a different kind of performance, one that is somewhat more intellectual (which is probably why Mike appreciates it more than I do) and symbolic and somewhat less emotional and spontaneous and chaotic ...
I hasten to add that the more subdued nature of the "world sourced" performance is due to the limitations of our technology (good as it has become) and not of our hearts. It does introduce a new spirit of eclecticism though.
Geez! I think I'm going to have to apply for a job at Rolling Stone!
Hey LB did you know I used to be able to do most of Taj Mahal's licks on a harp? I have his first album (and if you can find a turntable with a functioning needle I can let you listen to it)
qwerty
Posted on: 10/06/2011 07:17
Oh yeah ... here is the link to playing for change which is an organization that promotes education in arts and music around the world.
Technological limitations? Technology's the secret of the Stones' success?
I think even Mick Jagger would want to think about that.
qwerty
Posted on: 10/06/2011 09:27
It's only rock and roll ...
MikePaterson
Posted on: 10/06/2011 12:37
What's rock with rock and roll, Querty? It beats the hell out of country red-neck and, at its best, is only a little less creative, interesting and musically satisfying than punk.
Kimmio
Posted on: 10/07/2011 02:17
I'm on the fence here. I love the Rolling Stones, especially vintage Rolling Stones. They don't make my skin crawl...but I wouldn't really want their lifestyle.
The Rolling Stones are true rock n'roll....and I like it too.
I also like the 'sensible shoes' message of Playing for Change's version. I like it more because it has added social value to the Stone's version in the bigger picture. I am becoming more of a sensible shoes type I guess....but can still dance around to loud Rolling Stones music while I clean house.
Exile on Main Street is one of my favourite albums.
LBmuskoka
Posted on: 10/07/2011 04:25
Qwerty, Three Little Birds is a particular favourite of mine. It makes me dance in my chair and any song that does it all right in my music book. "Every little thing is gonna be alright....
As far as the Stones go, I was always a fan. They're the bad boys of rock 'n' roll and I always have a soft spot for the bad uns. My mantra for my life is
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You just might find
You get what you need, ah yes...
For you Birthstone...
LBmuskoka
Posted on: 10/07/2011 04:38
And for Qwerty, not harmonica but Taj Mahal still swingin' smooth as honey...
Ooh rock me to my soul, oh rock me to my soul
Go on get up and dance
LBmuskoka
Posted on: 10/07/2011 05:00
And for me, Grandpa Elliott as I remember him, sitting on the corner of Royal Street, New Orleans, playing harmonica ....
With any luck, he'll be on the corner in 2012 because I'm going back next year!
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Keith Richards
Comments
LBmuskoka
Posted on: 10/02/2011 09:45
Oh, a storm is threat'ning
My very life today
If I don't get some shelter
Oh yeah, I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
Ooh, see the fire is sweepin'
Our very street today
Burns like a red coal carpet
Mad bull lost its way
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
The floods is threat'ning
My very life today
Gimme, gimme shelter
Or I'm gonna fade away
War, children, it's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
It's just a shot away
I tell you love, sister, it's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
It's just a kiss away
Kiss away, kiss away
Gimme Shelter (original lyrics Rolling Stones)
qwerty
Posted on: 10/04/2011 20:55
Well that was pretty good alright but if you're really going to do a bang-up job of that song you need to have Lisa Fisher singing in it
.
MikePaterson
Posted on: 10/05/2011 11:22
Playing For Change gets my vote... hands down.
Kimmio
Posted on: 10/05/2011 11:42
I was thinking "how could they be better than the Stones?" who I've seen live twice in the late 80's early 90's (awesome and timeless even then)...but after watching, I vote for Playing for Change too! Thanks, LB.
qwerty
Posted on: 10/05/2011 20:23
Yes, yes ... the Playing for Change version is all very wholesome. Lots of natural fibre. It wears nice sensible shoes (or no shoes at all) and uses mostly nice green recyclable instruments made from wholesome organic materials. Its as eco-friendly and tranquil as a Muskoka Lake. They don't even have to start up an extra turbine at the Niagara Falls generating station when the musicians crank their amps up to eleven (because their amps don't go to eleven). It melds the inclusiveness of "world music" with the political correctness of fair trade coffee. It is sedate and modulated and never seems angry or wild. It is responsible and reassuring like the good cause it aids. When you listen to this song you know that in contrast to the suggestion of the lyric, everything is going to work out ...
However ...
... It doesn't have Lisa Fisher's powerful soaring vocal exploding like a roman candle above Mick and the band (and if you haven't noticed, ALL their amps go to eleven). The song is so full of wild whirling erotic energy (thanks in large part to Lisa) that it can truly be said that the performance of the song embodies the message of the song and overcomes by the erotic power of the vocal delivery the menacing darkness and storm embodied by Keith's looming power cords and riffs and Mick and his sung parts (the very result the lyrics predict ).
Every time I hear this song I get a chill when Lisa Fisher and her powerful vocal comes exploding out of the wings ...
... but it probably wouldn't fit as a musical interlude during the Sunday service at the local United Church as well as the Playing for Change one would.
MikePaterson
Posted on: 10/05/2011 16:52
Sorry, Qwerty, the Stones make my flesh crawl... I'm surprised at the sneers about sensible shoes and "nice green recyclable instruments": they're beneath you in the needful world... pointless and unpersuasive; they just make you look infantile.
It is the statement that needs to be heard! Basic human needs are being denied a great great portion of humanity. That fact needs desperately to change but the songs I hear coming from most people are whines about frustrated self interest.
qwerty
Posted on: 10/05/2011 20:19
Well no matter which version of that song you like Mike, it was written by Jagger & Richards otherwise known as "The Rolling Stones". I thought the lyrics got the story and the feeling just about right Mike and so I guess did LB Muskoka as well as the people at Playing for Change.
As far as sensible shoes are concerned Mike, "sensible shoes" are a metaphor ... Miss Marple wears sensible shoes Mike... "Sensible shoes" its not a "sneer" about ethnicity or poverty, its more about style, attack, enthusiasm and risk taking (or lack of it). You've been around Mike and I read somewhere you had a way with words so I thought you knew that already.
In any case, even though the Stones make your skin crawl Mike, I have always admired them because even after all these years they can still (as long in the tooth as they themselves have become) manage to totally piss off "the older generation". In any case ... I know its only rock and roll ... but I like it!. Yes I do. I Iike it!
qwerty
Posted on: 10/05/2011 23:27
They need shelter all over the world it seems. So now at the risk of totally alienating any curmudgeons who might not like the Rolling Stones, here is a pretty amazing performance of Gimme Shelter in Shanghai in 2006 ... where (even there) the crowd seemed to find Lisa Fisher's duet with Mick pretty electrifying ...
qwerty
Posted on: 10/05/2011 23:24
There are other versions by other artists ... they're all good. Its a good song.
Okay I'll stop now.
LBmuskoka
Posted on: 10/06/2011 05:59
If I may interject in my own thread ;-)
What makes Playing for Change remarkable and interesting to this aging geek, is that they use performers from around the world, united in a single song, to send a united message.
The geek part is the recordings are done in "real time", each singer no matter their location can hear the voice of the other singers - the world becomes a recording studio!
It was also through Playing for Change that I discovered that my favourite harmonica player of all time had not been swept away in the raging waters of Katrina but that is another story....
Music can unite us even if some sing out of tune
LB
-------------------------
In Times Of Trouble Take One Or Two Jazz-Pills.
Al Hotchkiss
Birthstone
Posted on: 10/06/2011 07:03
Yep. I love PFC, and this song too was a nice addition. Qwerty - PFC is as you describe, and is wonderful for being that way. The Stones rock, but they make my skin crawl too.
An awesome example: We have the Shine the Light DVD, and Buddy Guy comes out to play Champagne and Reefer with the Mick and the boys. At the end, after Buddy just wipes the stage with them, like, completely cleans their clock, Richards looks at him, bows his head, removes his guitar from his shoulders and in humility and gratitude, offers it to Buddy. There is no doubt which performer rocked the stage that night!
I kinda like Aerosmith, myself!
If you haven't seen the DVD from PFC 1 yet, then give it a try - its a fantastic documentary with awesome music. Gimme Shelter isn't on it but it is really good.
Here is Vusi Mahlasela, (not a PFC video)... (one of) my favourites :) Maybe Lb you can embed it for me??
qwerty
Posted on: 10/06/2011 07:06
Okay LB I did get that ... that everyone is standing in their own place to add to the song. In that way the method and means of performance also illustrates the meaning of the song and implements the solution it suggests. Nice. ... and of course you get a different kind of performance, one that is somewhat more intellectual (which is probably why Mike appreciates it more than I do) and symbolic and somewhat less emotional and spontaneous and chaotic ...
I hasten to add that the more subdued nature of the "world sourced" performance is due to the limitations of our technology (good as it has become) and not of our hearts. It does introduce a new spirit of eclecticism though.
Geez! I think I'm going to have to apply for a job at Rolling Stone!
Hey LB did you know I used to be able to do most of Taj Mahal's licks on a harp? I have his first album (and if you can find a turntable with a functioning needle I can let you listen to it)
qwerty
Posted on: 10/06/2011 07:17
Oh yeah ... here is the link to playing for change which is an organization that promotes education in arts and music around the world.
There is lots of great music on their site. http://playingforchange.org/
Here is another one I particularly like ...
MikePaterson
Posted on: 10/06/2011 08:36
Technological limitations? Technology's the secret of the Stones' success?
I think even Mick Jagger would want to think about that.
qwerty
Posted on: 10/06/2011 09:27
It's only rock and roll ...
MikePaterson
Posted on: 10/06/2011 12:37
What's rock with rock and roll, Querty? It beats the hell out of country red-neck and, at its best, is only a little less creative, interesting and musically satisfying than punk.
Kimmio
Posted on: 10/07/2011 02:17
I'm on the fence here. I love the Rolling Stones, especially vintage Rolling Stones. They don't make my skin crawl...but I wouldn't really want their lifestyle.
The Rolling Stones are true rock n'roll....and I like it too.
I also like the 'sensible shoes' message of Playing for Change's version. I like it more because it has added social value to the Stone's version in the bigger picture. I am becoming more of a sensible shoes type I guess....but can still dance around to loud Rolling Stones music while I clean house.
Exile on Main Street is one of my favourite albums.
LBmuskoka
Posted on: 10/07/2011 04:25
Qwerty, Three Little Birds is a particular favourite of mine. It makes me dance in my chair and any song that does it all right in my music book. "Every little thing is gonna be alright....
As far as the Stones go, I was always a fan. They're the bad boys of rock 'n' roll and I always have a soft spot for the bad uns. My mantra for my life is
You can't always get what you want
But if you try sometimes you just might find
You just might find
You get what you need, ah yes...
For you Birthstone...
LBmuskoka
Posted on: 10/07/2011 04:38
And for Qwerty, not harmonica but Taj Mahal still swingin' smooth as honey...
Ooh rock me to my soul, oh rock me to my soul
Go on get up and dance
LBmuskoka
Posted on: 10/07/2011 05:00
And for me, Grandpa Elliott as I remember him, sitting on the corner of Royal Street, New Orleans, playing harmonica ....
With any luck, he'll be on the corner in 2012 because I'm going back next year!
If you don't know the blues... there's no point in picking up the guitar and playing rock and roll or any other form of popular music.
Keith Richards