taken from [www.darryljones.com] (very cool website!)

A Million In Rio

What was it like to play in front of a million and a half people in Rio? TOTALLY F>@^%#G AMAZING!!!!There's no other way to put it. Sorry Mom. First of all, we arrived a few nights before. I watched the stage being finished just across the street from my hotel room window. I then took a taxi ride down the beach to try and get an idea of the size of the space the crowd would be in.It stretched from the stage to the end of the beach! I don't know...maybe a mile away.Maybe more!
On the day of the gig, I awoke to the sound of several hundered thousand people on the beach. It was a constant roar that got louder and louder as the day went on. We left our rooms at about 6pm to go to the dressing area in another part of the hotel.
For those of you who don't know this,there was a bridge built so we could go from the hotel to the stage( and back) on the beach across the street. I'm not sure it's true but I've heard it rumored that it took Lennie Kravitz 2 or 3 hours to get back to the hotel after his gig there a year or so ago. Yes you read correctly The hotel is across the street. That's the reason for the bridge. Trying to get through a crowd that big is nearly impossible.
We hit the stage a bit after 9:30pm. The energy from the crowd was obviously the most intense I've ever felt. What occurred next was pure physics and metaphysics working hand in hand. When Keith started "Jumpin Jack" it was as if the energy coming to the stage went into him and back out to the audience. It was like he was riding a hurricane.When I heard him I felt this spirit shoot up my spine and I jumped in for a breathtaking ride. It seemed like we were all infected with this wave of excitement coming from the crowd. Charlie seemed to be hitting as hard and solid as ever. Mick looked as if he could have been dancing on air. Ronnie was snaking through the typhoon of sound with that plaintive wail I love from him. Chuck was about rockin the piano off it's legs. We were having the kind of gig you'd dream this band would have playing for a million people. ABSOLUTELY MINDBLOWINGLY ELECTRIC!

Stay tuned,

Darryl

From the stage I could see blue lights on the delay towers. And I could see blue lights as far as I could see.


Belgrade-Bucharest-Budapest-Brno

Great read, Lorenz, thanks. Great to read how enthousiastic a musician still can become after all that he has seen with the Stones after more then a decade!

Thank ya Lorenz! ...All fine deep down in Western or (if ya at home) Central Europe?

Yeah, he seems really excited about playing with the Stones
Thanks Peter, everything cool here in Vienna - hope you are alright too!

Just fine.
...Saw there wazz some fuzz 'bout my writin' the other
day "Slaves pickin up a s o n g instead of all the cotton
deep down in Georgia" as a major
break in r'n'r-history... as bein' less politically correct.
Glad I was off-line thru that discussion.
Also glad the thread is closed, and that oool' Elmo
defended me.

yeah darryl is great . he deserve really some credits.
he has been giving the stones in the 1994-2006 the drive
they needed.sure he play a other style than bill,
but imo he replaces bill (i know bill inst replacable for 1964-1990)
very fine.

LORENZ
Yeah, he seems really excited about playing with the Stones smiling smiley


yeah thats right....(it is perhaps not really simple to play with the stones without being a "stone", but after a decade you can say he´s also a stone,IMO)

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Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

thanks....its show's that the boys still have the fire in them....they were great in the states and they will be even better as the tour goes on....you're lucky to get to see them in 06...please come back to philly!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

Thanks Lorenz...Darryl's imagery of the electricity in the air was great.

Very well written blog... nice one, darryl.

mr edward Wrote:
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> Great read, Lorenz, thanks. Great to read how
> enthousiastic a musician still can become after
> all that he has seen with the Stones after more
> then a decade!


Yes, exactly!


the shoot 'em dead, brainbell jangler!

Yes. Indeed. Very interesting description. After reading it I went to AOL and watched one more time JJF, ONNYA, SMU,BS. I try to view with different eyes . The complicity btw Keith and Darryl is fantastic. Something I did not pay attention before is how the others, except Keith highly concentrated, looked after each single move of Mick during JJF, as if he had their destiny on his shoulders.

I felt it too just through AOL!!

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>>When I heard him I felt this spirit shoot up my spine and I jumped in for a breathtaking ride.<<<

Maybe it was the spirit of Brian JONES. LOL.

WOW!!!...Ah just lurv that last paragraph.....cold chill stuff!!!!

Why do they still do it???....well it's all there in those words folks.



ROCKMAN

Are you sure his "blog" was not written by some publicist/PR person, especially that last paragraph?

ok - now i wish i had gone down there for the show.

i met some people in cristiania, copenhagen before the '03 show at parken. they were not stones fan and couldn't believe that darryl, who they thought was such an amazing bass player and had played with miles davis, had "stooped" to the level of playing with the stones. but after reading this, it sounds like darryl is having a good time and not selling out!

>>>>it sounds like darryl is having a good time and not selling out!<<<

Jeeezzz...even if I was on stage playin' the spoons for The Stones I'd be grinnin' like a Tom Cat and havin' real-real time ....YEAH!!!



ROCKMAN

Sell Darryl, Sell!

Chas Wrote:
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> Are you sure his "blog" was not written by some
> publicist/PR person, especially that last
> paragraph?

Yeah, I'm quite sure Darryl writes that by himself. He also is very much involved in the forum on his website, responds personally with lots of stories - very interesting



Belgrade-Bucharest-Budapest-Brno

Damn... Darryl's a Sagittarius too !!

"It's just that demon life has got me in it's sway..."