Originally Posted by Urban Hatemonger

I`m not so sure thats true.

The Stones were always a blues based band who played pop/rock , maybe with a couple of blues/soul covers thrown in . They experimented with psychadelia on Satanic Majesties & Flowers but when it was obvious that didn`t really suit them they pretty much went back to what they knew with Beggers Banquet & Let it Bleed and give or take the odd song they`ve pretty much stayed with that.

I don`t see much progression between Jones leaving & Taylor joining , there wasn`t that much of a drastic change in sound between Jones last album Beggers Banquet & Let It Bleed which they both played on as opposed to Sticky Fingers & Exile which were all Taylor. In fact if anything they went back to their blues roots on exile.

I certainly don`t think it`s anywhere near the progession the Beatles made between Help through Rubber Soul , Revolver up to the White Album which was a phenominal change in direction, it almost sounds like a different band in some cases.