Las 8 mejores intros del Rock

Ya sea por su contundencia, ya sea por su originalidad, pero siempre por su calidad, es seguro que estos temas tienen algunos de los mejores comienzos del rock.

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Gimme Shelter - The Rolling Stones

Keep Yourself Alive - Queen

Getting Better - The Beatles

Sunshine Of Your Love -  Cream

Celebration Day - Led Zeppelin

Won't Get Fooled Again - The Who

Thunderstruck - AC/DC

Siberian Khatru

Ruby Tuesday - The Rolling Stones

Homenajeando a los Rolling que el día de hoy tocan en Madrid. 

Este tema quizás no sea muy representativo del sonido de la banda, pero es uno de los que más me gustan. 

Tema melódico y muy sesentero fue un éxito en el año 1967 aunque fuera cara b del single Let's Spend the Night Together.

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She would never say where she came from

Yesterday don't matter if it's gone

While the sun is bright

Or in the darkest night

No one knows, she comes and goes

Goodbye Ruby Tuesday

Who could hang a name on you?

When you change with every new day

Still I'm gonna miss you

Don't question why she needs to be so free

She'll tell you it's the only way to be

She just can't be chained

To a life where nothings gained

And nothings lost, at such a cost

Goodbye Ruby Tuesday

Who could hang a name on you?

When you change with every new day

Still I'm gonna miss you

"There's no time to lose", I heard her say

Catch your dreams before they slip away

Dying all the time

Lose your dreams and you will lose your mind

Ain't life unkind?

Goodbye Ruby Tuesday

Who could hang a name on you?

When you change with every new day

Still I'm gonna miss you

Goodbye Ruby Tuesday

Who could hang a name on you?

When you change with every new day

Still I'm gonna miss you

Sympathy for the Devil - The Rolling Stones y Hells Angels

Siendo adolescente me compré un CD que formaba parte de un coleccionable de directos míticos del rock. La primera entrega constaba de un recopilatorio donde además de temas de Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin o The Doors, estaba Sympathy for the Devil del tristemente célebre concierto de Altamont que organizaron The Rolling Stones en el que tocaron junto a grupos americanos como Jefferson Airplane o Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young y en el que no se les ocurrió otra cosa que contratar a Los Ángeles del Infierno como personal de seguridad.

En el libreto interno, recuerdo que decía como Keith Richards tocaba un solo de guitarra muy inspirado (ácido decía el libreto) al retomar el concierto tras las palabras de Mick Jagger (Brothers and sisters! Brothers and sisters!) incitando a la calma después de unos altercados. Más tarde supe que uno de los Angelitos apuñaló a un tipo y se montó un cristo del copón.

Mucho tiempo después, leyendo una entrevista a uno de los Hells Angels que estuvo allí (no recuerdo si era el jefe o algo así) contaba que Los Rolling quisieron parar el concierto y que los moteros dijeron que de eso nada, que siguieran tocando. Ante la negativa del grupo a seguir tocando, uno de los tipos encañonó con su pistola a Keith Richards y amenazó con dispararle si paraban de tocar. 

Así que ya sabemos que el mítico guitarrista tocó un solo de guitarra único y muy motivado, porque no morir es una de las más altas motivaciones.

El vídeo pertenece al documental Gimme Shelter y por eso se puede ver a Mick Jagger visionando imágenes del propio concierto.

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Please allow me to introduce myself

I'm a man of wealth and taste

I've been around for a long, long year

Stole many a man's soul and faith

I was 'round when Jesus Christ

Had his moment of doubt and pain

Made damn sure that Pilate

Washed his hands and sealed his fate

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guess my name

But what's puzzling you

Is the nature of my game

I stuck around St. Petersburg

When I saw it was a time for a change

Killed the Tzar and his ministers

Anastasia screamed in vain

I rode a tank

Held a general's rank

When the blitzkrieg raged

And the bodies stank

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guess my name, oh yeah

But what's puzzling you

Is the nature of my game, oh yeah

I watched with glee

While your kings and queens

Fought for ten decades

For the gods they made

I shouted out,

"Who killed the Kennedys?"

When after all

It was you and me

Let me please introduce myself

I'm a man of wealth and taste

And I laid traps for troubadours

Who get killed before they reach Bombay

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah

But what's puzzling you

Is the nature of my game, oh yeah, get down, hit it

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guessed my name, oh yeah

But what's confusing you

Is just the nature of my game

Just as every cop is a criminal

And all the sinners saints

As heads is tails

Just call me Lucifer

Cause I'm in need of some restraint

So if you meet me

Have some courtesy

Have some sympathy, and some taste

Use all your well-learned politesse

Or I'll lay your soul to waste

Um yeah

Pleased to meet you

Hope you guessed my name, um yeah

But what's puzzling you

Is the nature of my game

Um mean it, get down

Woo, who

Oh yeah, get on down

Oh yeah

Oh yeah!

Tell me baby, what's my name

Tell me honey, can ya guess my name

Tell me baby, what's my name

I tell you one time, you're to blame

Ooo, who

Ooo, who

Ooo, who, who

Oh, yeah

What's my name

Tell me, baby, what's my name

Tell me, sweetie, what's my name

It's Only Rock 'N' Roll (But I Like It) - The Rolling Stones

If I could stick my pen in my heart

And spill it all over the stage

Would it satisfy ya, would it slide on by ya

Would you think the boy is strange?

Ain't he strange?

If I could win ya, if I could sing ya

A love song so divine

Would it be enough for your cheating heart

If I broke down and cried?

If I cried?

I said I know it's only rock 'n' roll but I like it

I know it's only rock 'n' roll but I like it, like it, yes, I do

Oh, well, I like it, I like it, I like it

I said can't you see that this old boy has been a lonely?

Under my Thumb - The Rolling Stones

Under my thumb

The girl who once had me down

Under my thumb

The girl who once pushed me around

It's down to me

The difference in the clothes she wears

Down to me, the change has come,

She's under my thumb

Ain't it the truth babe?

Under my thumb

The squirmin' dog who's just had her day

Under my thumb

A girl who has just changed her ways

It's down to me, yes it is

The way she does just what she's told

Down to me, the change has come

She's under my thumb

Ah, ah, say it's alright

Under my thumb

A Siamese cat of a girl

Under my thumb

She's the sweetest, hmmm, pet in the world

It's down to me

The way she talks when she's spoken to

Down to me, the change has come,

She's under my thumb

Ah, take it easy babe

Yeah

It's down to me, oh yeah

The way she talks when she's spoken to

Down to me, the change has come,

She's under my thumb

Yeah, it feels alright

Under my thumb

Her eyes are just kept to herself

Under my thumb, well I

I can still look at someone else

It's down to me, oh that's what I said

The way she talks when she's spoken to

Down to me, the change has come,

She's under my thumb

Say, it's alright.

Say it's all

Say it's all

Take it easy babe

Take it easy babe

Feels alright

Take it, take it easy babe.