Thanks for your comments, everybody! Yeah, Sam, actually we did. We're just a little shy.

Well, here's a few from Paris. - Hey there Marcus. You stoned? The most beautiful woman on the planet.

Thanks for your contribution Magic Sam - many interesting points. PM sent!

Yeah, it's really hard to tell. Here's a couple of old pics of B. B. King. Lucille must be singing her ass off!

Could this be B. B. King?

There you go Sarah.

Happens to all of us!

Yeah, well, it was an afterthought basically, my first post could have been clearer.

^ ^ I should have added a clause there: The Stones were never as good as The Who at their best, - that's what I meant.

They were unbelievable songwriters - three of them. Sgt. Pepper's is their strongest album I think, because there are noticeably weaker songs on some of the other albums that come to mind. ('Honey Pie' is dreadful, as is 'Bungalow Bill', etc.) Rubber Soul comes close though. Sgt. Pepper's is just such a unified artistic achievement - despite all the diversity - and the songs are generally very strong. I loved especially their earlier albums when I was a little kid (ca. 1973-74), and I guess because of that I wouldn't listen seriously to them for quite a while after that, but I started listening to them again in the 80s. It was a totally different experience then. One of the things I discovered then was Harrison's songs, and still today his 'Something' (Abbey Road) and 'While My Guitar Gently Weeps' (White Album) are among my all-time favorite songs. And I mustn't forget 'Birthday' - what a great rock song that is.

I don't really count the Stones among my all-time favorite bands - but I like them a lot, and know their music very well, used to listen to them a lot. In my opinion (agree with Rock Action & others) they came into their own during the period when Mick Taylor joined them - it wasn't just Taylor's own fabulous guitar-playing, the collaboration just brought out such great things in Keith as well. Let It Bleed was an incredibly strong album, and Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out, Exile and Sticky Fingers are all very good too. Leading into that period, Beggar's Banquet was pretty strong too. The Brian Jones period, after they started writing their own songs, certainly has a lot of charm as well, but in a slightly erratic kind of way I feel. Their Satanic Majesties Request is a good example: there are wonderful songs on that album, but the arrangements to me are not - psychedelic Stones don't sound very convincing to me. Aftermath has a great many good songs, but it's like thy're still struggling trying to find their own direction in their own songwriting - which is hardly unnatural. Speaking for myself anyway, generally the Stones were a damn good band - but never as good as The Beatles or The Who, let alone Led Zeppelin.

Echo and the Bunnymen, Crystal Days - CD no. 1 (a 4CD boxed set).

No prob!

It has a chronology of the band (not always accurate), but mainly consists of photos, and yeah, it's nice to have. I would recommend Led Zeppelin: Heaven and Hell even more strongly though (if you don't have it already) - that's a wonderful large format hardback book, out of print, but easily ordered used online. And of course Neal Preston's Led Zeppelin book - still available on Amazon and elsewhere I think.

Of course you did.

A new scan.

A new scan.

Some new scans of mine.

And wonderful pictures everybody!

Thanks Celia, I did! And thanks Nine & Lilith. Ev! Great to see you mate!

Happy new year everyone! Spent the holidays in Paris with my friend. These were taken at the Museé d'Orsay - I started goofing, and she didn't know....

I just have to quote this one!

Oh, you didn't see that thread then, Sarah? It's right here Great photos!