From Old Gods Almost Dead by Stephen Davis:

Ry Cooder arrived at the Let It Bleed sessions in May 1969, brought in by Jack Nitzsche to fill out the Stones' sound. Cooder was put up in a little apartment near Earls Court. Some felt he might be asked to join the Stones as a perfect foil for Keith and were disappointed when he wasn't. Playing his fluid slide-guitar themes and original interstellar riffs, bursting with new ideas and approaches to the music, Cooder was involved in long taped jams with Mick, Charlie, Bill, and Nicky Hopkins that contained the germs of many Bleed-era arrangements. (Excerpts would be released 3 years later as Jamming with Edward on the Stones' own label.) On May 16, Cooder played on a band version of Sister Morphine (with different lyrics), as well as adding mandolin to Love in Vain. The Stones also worked on Midnight Rambler and Monkey Man, and Ian Stewart played piano on the fatalistic new Let It Bleed, which seemed to sum up the general gloom at the end of the 1960s. It was the antithesis to the Beatles' quiescent song Let It Be.

Cooder didn't like what was going on. "The Rolling Stones brought me to England under totally false pretenses", he told Rolling Stone a year later. "They weren't playing well and were just messing around in the studio. There were a lot of very weird people hanging around the place, but the music wasn't going anywhere. When there'd be a lull in the so-called rehearsals, I'd start to play my guitar. Keith Richard would leave the room immediately and never return. I thought he didn't like me! But, as I found out later, the tapes would keep rolling. I'd ask when we were going to do some tracks. Mick would say: 'It's all right, Ry, we're not ready yet.'

"In the 4 or 5 weeks I was there, I must have played everything I know. They got it all down on these tapes. Everything. Brian was still alive then, definitely a phased-out person, a sad character. Sometimes when we'd begin playing, Brian would grab a harp and start blowing into a mike. But most of the time he just sat in a corner, sleeping or crying. Jagger was always very contemptuous of Brian and told him he was washed up. They're bloodsuckers, man."

THE ROLLING STONES in a Handicap Match...

And i really mean handicap,because by this time Rocky must be blind,and the Rolling Stones are all in a weel chair or something

(sorry for all the Stones fans,but give me a break,with so much talented guys out there,they must turn to the Stones for a score???)
Nuno Cunha

http://www.pugbus.net/artman/publish/11272006_11_rockysoundtrack.shtml

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I do like alot of the Stones songs but their time is past, now the old geezers of Rock in Roll along with Aerosmith.
Altho Steven Tyler can still belt them out.

hehe

sd

and no one is going to top "Eye of the Tiger"

"Time Is On My Side, or at least it used to be"

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Originally posted by moontrekker:
I do like alot of the Stones songs but their time is past, now the old geezers of Rock in Roll along with Aerosmith.
Altho Steven Tyler can still belt them out.

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Originally posted by nuts_score:
What about Bill Conti?!

And I guess I'm the only one excited for a new Rocky movie? I mean, I hate Rocky V as much as the next guy, but this movie looks like it has generally good intentions in realizing that Balboa is too old for the game. I guess we'll see.

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Count me in! I can't frakkin' wait for this film. The new trailer kicks-a-s-s with "Eye Of The Tiger" at the end, and damn! Bill Conti's score will rock!