She's a Rainbow

[Les]

According to a poster on the usenet newsgroup, Luke Arnott, Lindsey may have also covered the Stones' She's A Rainbow. This is one that wasn't among the leaked GOS tunes. If true, perhaps we'll see this one on the album....??

She's A Rainbow
By Jagger/Richards

She comes in colors ev'rywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colors in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colors
She comes in colors ev'rywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colors in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colors

Have you seen her dressed in blue?
See the sky in front of you
And her face is like a sail
Speck of white so fair and pale
Have you seen a lady fairer?

She comes in colors ev'rywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colors in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colors

Have you seen her all in gold?
Like a queen in days of old
She shoots her colors all around
Like a sunset going down
Have you seen a lady fairer?

She comes in colors ev'rywhere
She combs her hair
She's like a rainbow
Coming, colors in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colors

She's like a rainbow
Coming, colors in the air
Oh, everywhere
She comes in colors

[chiliD]

Hmmmm...well, that's interesting. A "well-known" Stones tune covered. Cool! I wonder if Lindsey kept the "ooh-la-la, ooh-la-la-la-la"s from the Stones version???

Still awaiting a release of Lindsey's cover of Joni Mitchell's "Big Yellow Taxi"...just from the 30 sec clip that was well-distributed a few years ago, I can tell it was pretty good.

[CarneVaca]

I salivate just thinking about what Lindsey could do with the quirkiness of "She's a Rainbow." Don't tease us like that.

[chiliD]

Or just about anything the Stones did from "Flowers" to "Satanic Majesties Request"...


Hmmm, just from a songtitle standpoint, wouldn't "Child Of The Moon" from SMR fit on a Fleetwood Mac album??? :laugh:

[wondergirl9847]

...it sounds stupid to me...I'm no Stones fan so I really don't like any of the covers Lindsey did on GOS, except She Smiled Sweetly, but it's really his delivery that I love so much about that one.

Just reading the lyrics to this rainbow song, I'm like WTH?? They bite. :rolleyes: I'm hoping and praying to GOD that they don't cover ANY songs on the new album (but I'm sure they will). I'm like chilid with Come, PLEASE GOD, NO COVERS!! :distress::mad::(

I want Come on the album, I LOVE it to death, as well as Red Rover. PLEASE GOD, LET COME AND RED ROVER BE ON THERE!! :nod::D

[sodascouts]

Originally posted by wondergirl9847
Just reading the lyrics to this rainbow song, I'm like WTH?? They bite. :rolleyes: I'm hoping and praying to GOD that they don't cover ANY songs on the new album


LOL! I've never heard the song either - I thought I was the only one who wasn't too impressed with the lyrics, although I suppose the music adds to them or something.

I'm with you, however, about the covers. When the GOS demos came out with so many RS covers I'm like "What's up with this?" I mean, sure, one, but he's got half a dozen! I'm sure he won't use all of them but I've got to wonder at his fascination with covering songs by them. Usually you pick a song to cover, it seems like he's picked a GROUP to cover!

I hope "Try for the Sun" is there and if they do a RS cover I'd love "Singer Not the Song." However, any more covers - especially from the same group! - is weird for an established band like Fleetwood Mac and I hope they don't go that route. Off the top of my head, I'm hard-pressed to think of anyone who covers 2 or more songs from the same group on an album, unless it's a deliberate take-off like Camper Van Beethoven's Tusk.

One Stone is plenty!

[Cristian]

"She's A Rainbow" is a fantastic song, really. It would be interesting to hear what Lindsey did with it. :)


Song of the moment - Straight Back

[estranged4life]

that he picked such a known Stones song to do...Should be interesting to hear Linds' take of it...I wonder what Beatles song Lindsey would try to do a cover of if he wanted to?...Brian J.

[CarneVaca]

Folks, let's not get too carried away. This remains in the realm of speculation. She's a Rainbow is one of my favorite Rolling Stones songs. I wouldn't mind seeing Lindsey cover something like Sweet Virginia either. Hell, I've got a whole list of Stones songs I could send him to cover. It's a fantastic song. If you haven't heard it, before you knock it, go give it a listen. You might change your mind. If you don't, go ahead and knock all you want.

[chiliD]

I wonder what Beatles song Lindsey would try to do a cover of if he wanted to?...

PLEASE, NO! Not after hearing the debacle that was "Here Comes The Sun"!! YIKES!!!

Let's hope that IF he ever does another Beatle tune, he's in a better mental state...and he has the use of his entire studio &/or a full-band of backing musicians...not a solo acoustic thing.

[Cristian]

I think he should not do any more Beatles songs at all... I mean, I respected the "Here Comes The Sun" cover because it was him, and because it was for George... at the moment. But listening to it right now it seems... a debacle as you said.

Although he could do a mean "Don't Let Me Down" backed up by Stevie and of course the FM rhythm section... ;)


Song of the moment - Just Crazy Love

[seteca]

Originally posted by CarneVaca
I salivate just thinking about what Lindsey could do with the quirkiness of "She's a Rainbow." Don't tease us like that.

Haha! I share that sentiment!

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:

[Les]

Of course I'd love to hear She's a Rainbow too, but I sort of like that the others that he's covered are really sort of forgotten old tunes that others perhaps wouldn't have noticed, but he did.

As an aside, National Public Radio was running a review of the Stones' new best of collection last week and the newly remastered back catalog. The review was a glowing one overall. The commentator talked about being able to hear stuff that he'd never heard before. Humorously, he also discussed how the remastering highlighted how very, very out of tune the Stones were on some of the older forgotten stuff. As it happens, to demonstrate this, he played a segment of The Singer Not the Song. It was excruciatingly out of tune musically and vocally in several places. I appreciated all over again that Lindsey would select that song and do to it what he did to it in his cover.

[wondergirl9847]

Carne, I took your advice and gave it a listen...the song bites, IMO. It sounds like a music box at times and the music overpowered Mick's voice...since I'm no fan of his anyways, I was actually happy about that. LOL Anywho, I hope Lindsey does NO covers (Rolling Stones...OR Beatles!!)!!

[Skylark]

Yikkkes!!!! :mad:Really Lindsey ...I know you've been very busy
since the wife and kids andall but...pleeasse...those lyrics
sound like a bar song when the Stones were stoned!;) :D
Mick said in an interview... just wait until you hear... the
Stones on the new album! Like that's really great! Yukkky!Sky;)

ps...Read the interview on Jessica's Official Lindsey Site!

[sodascouts]

I had a listen...it was tolerable, but certainly not something I'd want Lindsey to cover. I don't really go for that kind of la-de-da sixties happy hippy flower child vibe.

[CarneVaca]

Hey, I'm glad you guys gave it a chance. It's hard to argue tastes, and I actually got a chuckle from your reactions. It remains one of my favorite quirky Stones tunes. I'm a big Stones fan because a lot of times the music just conveys a certain amount of spontaneity that Fleetwood Mac's music lacks. Mrs. Carne said to me recently, "Do you really think the Stones are that good? Their music just sounds like it was thrown together."

Indeed, early on the music was kind of thrown together. Mick and the boys would spend a day or two in the studio and cut three songs. Keith could barely tune his guitar, and sometimes he would record anyway. When the Stones teamed up with Don Was in the studio for Voodoo Lounge, Keith mentioned that sometimes he and the other band members thought they had a song pretty much completed but Don would tell them it needed more work.

But when it comes to listening to the Stones, it really is about the groove and the emotion. When you listen to Street Fighting Man or Wild Horses, the song reaches you at a raw emotional level because of what it conveys. It's a mood thing.

Having said that, I think if you put Lindsey and Keith Richards in the studio together, they would come to blows. They approach music from such different angles. But seeing Lindsey the perfectionist approach a handful of Stones tunes, lending that Lindsey quality to the music, is a fascinating thing. That is why I'd love to see Lindsey tackle She's a Rainbow or, say, even Sympathy for the Devil. What would he do? I believe those would be more challenging than the songs we know he's done.

Lindsey is a Stones fan. And that is all right in my book.

[chiliD]

Being that I really like what I've heard of Lindsey's Stones covers, I'm really glad that he did OBSCURE (or relatively, so) Stones tunes, rather than covering the more "common" ones. The last thing we need is another version of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" or "Honky Tonk Women". :laugh:


I think it's fairly obvious that even on Lindsey's own tunes on "GOS" he was influenced by the Stones sound; especially on "Gift Of Screws" (the horns sound vaguely...VERY vaguely...like something from the Stones' "Exile On Main St" era) & the demo of "Wear You Down" (which unashamedly borrows the melody of the Stones' "Stupid Girl")

[CarneVaca]

Chili, I agree with you about covering well-known songs. The charm of the songs he picked is that they are more obscure. But speaking from a purely academic standpoint, it would be interesting to see what Lindsey would do with such unusual tunes as Sympathy or Rainbow.

[chiliD]

You mean like Eric Clapton covering James Taylor's "Don't Let Me Be Lonely Tonight"? I found it odd that Eric would do that, but he definitely "made the song his own".

In thinking about how Lindsey would deal with "Sympathy For The Devil", I hear something along the lines of "Wrong" or "Tusk".

What I'd REALLY like to hear Lindsey tackle are:

"Jigsaw Puzzle Blues"
"Oh Well, Part 2"
"This Is The Rock"
"Woman Of A Thousand Years"
"Dust"
"She's Changing Me"

[wondergirl9847]

Lindsey doing Woman of a 1000 Years!!!

As Seteca would say...BRILLIANT! ;):laugh:

[estranged4life]

like to hear Lindsey try either "Paint It Black", "19th Nervous Breakdown", "The Last Time" or "Play With Fire" (My fave of the bunch) as cover songs...Brian J.

[Janet]

I think its a beautiful Rolling Stones song..its so cheerful you can't help but skip around to the song!

They had it for the apple computers a while back...like 5 years ago...and thats when I really first heard the song and then the radio would play it more because of that...but I have always liked it.

As for Lindsey doing it...he's quirky so Id think it'd be wonderful!!

On a totally different topic

I wish he'd go produce Kate Bush. She loves quirkiness and electric guitars and I think Linds would be GREAT.

I hear how Eric Clapton did a song for Christine McVie and Kate...and just what he added for both. Lindsey was great for Christine..so I could imagine for Kate!!!

[seteca]

Originally posted by wondergirl9847
Lindsey doing Woman of a 1000 Years!!!

As Seteca would say...BRILLIANT! ;):laugh:

lmao....!

I'll tell you what definitely would be brilliant....!.....that idea of "Oh Well, Part 2"....!!!!

That would be just.....BRILLIANT!!!!!:nod:

:wavey: :wavey: :wavey:

[wondergirl9847]

That is an AWESOME idea!! Lindsey? Ya listenin'? Hehehehe...