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Bliss
He would have been 67, not 55, if he were alive today. Perhaps he would look like his sister. She looked quite a bit like him at his funeral. Or he would have looked like hs sons, who are around 50 now.
Just speculating here....If Mick and Keith won't take Mick Taylor back, even though Mick is ready and would love to return, there is no chance in the world that Brian would have been allowed to return, considering what he put the Stones through before they finally ditched him.
Aside from his drug use, Brian was a highly creative person. Being in the stones is tough from that perspective; both Bill and Mick Taylor chafed against not being able to do their own material in the context of the Stones. It's unlikely that Brian would have wanted to continue in that environment, or would have even wanted to stay at all, had he not died or been asked to leave.
Hard to say. I think that he would have lost some of his hair (maybe a bit like David Gilmour) but I don't think he would have gone complete bald. I think that his face would show us that he once had a drug/drinking problem. But I don't think that he would have lost his smile and taste for fancy outfits.Quote
1 - What would Brian have looked like at the age of 67 years old? I could imagine him having gray hair stereotypical of most middle-aged/senior men.
I think that he would remember the earlier recordings with him with joy and the later with pain and suffering. But I don't think that Brian would be especially interested in Stones after he got sacked. The journey they had went through before that moment wasn't a happy one. I think Brian's further interest in the Stones would have depended on how his relation with M&K developed afterwards.Quote
2 - What would he have thought of the Stones' 1969 and later recordings they'd done barring him? He ought to think of songs like "Brown Sugar," "Tumbling Dice," "Angie," "It's Only Rock & Roll (But I Like It)," "Fool to Cry," "Miss You," "Emotional Rescue," "Start Me Up," "Undercover of the Night," their adaptation of Bob & Earl's "Harlem Shuffle," "Mixed Emotions," "Love is Strong," "Anybody Seen My Baby," "Don't Stop" and "Rough Justice."
No, Brian was pretty much clean in 1969 at the time he got sacked (he still drank a lot) but his relation to Mick and Keith was a mess. Maybe they would have buried the axe when they got older and have something nice to say about each other (it would be so great to have Brian here to tell us his side of the story). But don't believe that he would have joined the Stones again.Quote
3 - Would he ever have changed his mind and re-joined his old group sometime during the later '70s or '80s? Providing he cleaned himself up of all the drugs he'd taken that got him (as well as Mick and Keith) arrested in 1967, that is.
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jjflash73
I think he would of been like EC, in several 'super bands' and would have a successful solo career like a Santana. Maybe join G Harrison in the early 70's. A member of the Travelin Willburies,
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I think he would of been like EC, in several 'super bands' and would have a successful solo career like a Santana. Maybe join G Harrison in the early 70's. A member of the Travelin Willburies,
The difference between EC and BJ is that EC was a fantastic musician and a reluctant rock star, and BJ was a fantastic rock star and a reluctant musician.
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[...]EC was a fantastic musician and a reluctant rock star[....]
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SwayStones
And as a non native English woman ,I always thought that you must write "If Brian was still alive."