"A life on the road" is a beautiful book!

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Rockman
The Bockris classic performance is the frantic - rappin'- rave at the tail end of Let It Bleed ....

Sorry about it being out of sync!


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

Bliss wrote >>Stanley, on the other hand, has trouble with his role of biographer. He clearly sees himself as a fellow artist, a musicologist with authentic credentials of a first-hand connection to the Southern blues music that the Stones could only appropriate second-hand.<<

He didn't have trouble with his role at all. they wanted him there. He did write a book, and its not reportage, it's a book. Of course he put himself in it. Somehow I don't think he elevated himself to as important as his subject in doing so; also I don't think anyone in the band became as self -important as you say.

Truman Capote got bored with the Stones in '72. Stanley Booth in 1969 clearly was not a bit bored.

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duke richardson
Stanley Booth is a fine writer, his Stones book "The True Adventures..', and his book 'Keith' are really good. Also check out his 'Rhythm Oil' and if you can find it, a hilarious Playboy interview with Keith, from 1988..

why he's been so inactive recently, I'd like to know..

Agree. I love "Rhythm Oil." He does kiss Keith's ass though. I know he wanted to do a Gram Parsons bio, but there have been two released over the past couple of years by other authors. One very good one by David Meyer that I highly recommend. Once you read Meyer's, it's apparent that there is no need for another Gram bio. I'm sure Booth realized that too.

Robert Greenfield's 'STP -A Journey through America with the Rolling Stones' really captures both the '72 tour and Socio-political times in the United States. It remains the best book I've read on the Stones and one of their tours.