Bring out your Dead
The sound quality of the “Betty Boards,” which began circulating in 1987, was exceptional: so good that for the initiates, it nearly reinvented listening. She made her own stereo mix on a separate feed from the house P.A. mix, strictly for posterity, and she considered the mixes from 1977 among her best. (“I want you to be inside the music,” she once said of her audio ideal. “I don’t want stereos playing at you, I want you to be in there, I want it around you.”) The Cornell show was the first widely circulated tape to sound that good.
Anita Pallenberg, Keith Richards & the Rolling Stones in Exile
Photos taken by Dominique Tarlé during Keith Richards’ and Anita Pallenberg’s stay at their rented home, Villa Nellcote, in the South of France in the Spring and Summer of 1971. This was also when The Rolling Stones wrote and recorded most of the astonishingly great “Exile on Main Street”
They had to start from nothing again. And at this time, Keith and Gram were so close, that one side, Mick was trying to get the band as efficient as possible, so that they could be able to go back on tour in the U.S. And each time Mick came down to Ville Nellcote, he saw Keith and Gram singing and playing together, and they were really, really ready to record. It was perfect, you know? I never heard anything like it before or after.
“Gram Parsons is on Exile in spirit.” - Keith Richards
— Phyllis Pollack, “An Interview with Photographer Dominique Tarle”
You must search for happiness in your life,” she counsels. “Don’t get discouraged. Look ahead with hope.
Love and fear don’t go very well together.
Fear tends to take over.
Love, if you give it a change, it will become dominant.
That’s one thing I know.
— Maya Angelou
Good done anywhere,
is eventually, good done everywhere.
— Maya Angelou
THE FOUR AGREEMENTS
1. Be impeccable with your word.
2. Don’t take anything personally.
3. Don’t make assumptions.
4. Always do your best.
— Dr. Toni LaMotta
