{"id":2569,"date":"2010-02-19T16:59:32","date_gmt":"2010-02-19T21:59:32","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-02-19T16:59:32","modified_gmt":"2010-02-19T16:59:32","slug":"what-song-would-you-like-the-stones-to-cover","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-song-would-you-like-the-stones-to-cover\/","title":{"rendered":"What Song Would You Like The Stones to Cover?"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>4ZSad2HmTJE]<\/p>\n<p>I had a friend that used to be a big Stones fan and he always liked their cover songs.  I do too, but he used to just think everything he heard would have been better had The Stones done it.  I&#8217;m thinking in particular that he thought The Stones would have absolutely <i>killed<\/i> <strong>Billy Thorpe<\/strong>&#8216;s &#8220;Children of the Sun.&#8221; I never liked that song, but who knows?<\/p>\n<p>J_wIcNtBNfo]<\/p>\n<p>I know what song I always wanted them to do. I wanted them to do it because I thought it would have kicked ass on <strong>Rod Stewart<\/strong>&#8216;s version, and I like the way Rod did this song. I can just imagine Keith and Mick Taylor slashing through this, and Jagger would have owned this one. Besides, Charlie would have only done a cursory drum solo, letting the guitars get right back to work.<\/p>\n<p>LKO1037uK9E]<\/p>\n<p>I also wish The Stones would have released their version of &#8220;Drift Away&#8221; (I&#8217;ll use an mp3 of it; the YouTube versions seem to cut off early and it&#8217;s been awhile since I shared any of the vaults with you guys), but they recorded it while it was still pretty high in the charts, I think.  Still, it would have been a nice B-side.<\/p>\n<p><strong><a href=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/DriftAway.mp3\" title=\"\">&#8220;Drift Away&#8221;<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n<p><em>What song would you like to see them cover?<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>4ZSad2HmTJE] I had a friend that used to be a big Stones fan and he always liked their cover songs. I do too, but he used to just think everything he heard would have been better had The Stones done it. I&#8217;m thinking in particular that he thought The Stones would have absolutely killed Billy <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/what-song-would-you-like-the-stones-to-cover\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2006,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2006"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2569"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2569\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2569"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2569"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2569"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}