There's a Rolling Stones tribute band in Seattle called "The Rolling Stones".
They've apparently been going for about a year now.

[www.cityartsonline.com]

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I think this tells you all you need to know about how little Jagger cares
about the Rolling Stones brand these days. Let Keith police these things lol.

If Keith were policing it, he would think its the actual band.

how original of them

everybody needs a hobby. some people enjoy collecting "cease and desist" letters

Seattle's Rolling Stones on Playing Like Keith, Partying With Keith, and
Flying in Keith's Learjet
By Erin Thompson Mon., Jun. 6 2011

The Situation It's Friday night and I'm at Capitol Hill's Redwood having
drinks with Seattle's own Rolling Stones--Justin Deary, Devin Welch, Tyler
Swan, sole female Stone Chava Mirel, and the band's Mick Jagger, Jordan
Blilie. (Fifth member Nat Sahlstrom is absent). Blilie's explaining how the
group came together--to him, it essentially just seemed like a good way to
spend the summer.

"I just made a shortlist of who my rawest dogs were," he says, grinning
widely at said raw dogs now surrounding him. (Most of the Stones--
comprising members of Flexions, Whalebones, Truckasaurus, and the former
Blood Brothers--have known each other since junior high).

How They Got Here Playing in a cover band in addition to their "real"
bands, jobs, and personal lives involves a certain balancing act. Mirel,
for example, is a solo reggae musician, and just moved back to Seattle from
New York City. I ask if she moved just to be in this cover band. "Yes!"
cuts in Blilie, answering for her.

"We were all born to be in this band," says Swan, who's got the oldest
Stones pedigree in the group--his parents raised him on the band's music,
and he's seen them in concert twice.

Shop Talk Of the band's origin, Deary tells me, "We never get invited to
any parties, so we decided to make big parties that everyone would want to
come to." Which is exactly what they did, back in March in the Rendezvous'
Grotto, at which they paid homage to the Stones' "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
(But I Like It)" music video by dressing in sailor suits purchased from the
Army/Navy surplus store. The success of that one event garnered them
enough attention to book more shows, including the upcoming Capitol Hill
Block Party. (The hype hasn't been all favorable, though--one Stones fan
site, apparently missing the reference, took a photo from the show and
disdainfully pasted an image of Cracker Jack over Blilie). There will be
more Stones-related outfits, although they won't divulge any further
details.

What you need to know about the music: There won't ever be any recordings.
("I don't think that's even crossed our minds," says Welch. "There's no
point." ) Their collective favorite Stones era is '68-'73; they try to
represent all of the Stones' history and styles in their setlist, although
they skip the "too cover band-y" "Satisfaction." ("If we got offered to
play a party, and they really wanted to hear it, and they offered us, like,
$10,000, then we might think about it," says Deary.)

"The Stones are just the height of what's possible," says Mirel, of the
band's wide appeal. "The Stones are more for grown-ups. It's sexy."

"When you want to sing some nursery rhymes or some shit, you put on the
Beatles," says Blile, agreeing. "When you want to get down, you put on the
Stones."

BTW Blilie says they never considered naming the band anything else other
than the Rolling Stones--and that they don't even like seeing quotation
marks around it. "If me and my friends go out and play basketball, we're
not trying to think of a corny new name for it," he says, shaking his head.
"We don't call it 'hoop-a-loop.'"

As to whether they'll ever get in trouble over the name, Blilie says, "The
only thing I could imagine happening is, Keith finds out about it, sends up
his Learjet to grab us, and makes sure we bring a six-pack, and then we're
in his living room in Jamaica and we're just hanging out and jamming, and
he's got the band together. It just seems like how it'd go down. I can't
imagine any other way it'd go down."

"The Rolling Stones" May Give You Emotional Rescue on NYE
Posted by Dave Segal on Wed, Dec 28, 2011

Ran into Tyler Swan and Devin Welch at Captain Blacks last night, the
“Charlie Watts” and “Keith Richards” of “The Rolling Stones” tribute band.
They’d just finished rehearsing for their Dec. 31 show at the Comet.

I asked them if they were going to add some songs to their thrilling but
perhaps overly familiar repertoire for this big gig. They said yes, but
would not reveal which tracks would make the cut (damn it). I asked Swan if
they were going to do “Hot Stuff,” and though he admitted he loves it and
another Black & Blue piece, "Fool to Cry," they were not going cover the
Stones’ funkiest jam ever (boo). I queried them about doing post-Some Girls
material, and they smiled but remained tight-lipped about the new
additions (damn it)—though they confessed to having some fondness for parts
of Tattoo You and Emotional Rescue.

Regardless of the set list, any “Rolling Stones” show is a riotous party,
and, as I mentioned in this week’s Up & Coming blurb, “In 2011, ‘The
Rolling Stones’ at least equal the real deal.” Here’s hoping against hope
they cover something off Goats Head Soup that’s not "Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo
(Heartbreaker)" or “Angie.”





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The Rolling Stones' Tyler Swan

Whose idea was it to form a Rolling Stones cover band?

Swan: Jordan Blilie and Devon Welch hit me up.

What was your reaction?

I thought it was a joke at first. I was like, “Hell yeah.” Then they hit me
right back with the first four songs to learn and when our first practice
was, and at that point, I knew it wasn’t a joke. When a homie hits me up to
play some Charlie Watts shit, I’m down.

Growing up in Kirkland, what music had the biggest effect on you?

I learned how to play drums listening to Led Zeppelin records. I was a
total Led Zeppelin nerd. My Dad played the Stones and Dylan all the time.
My Mom bumped the Pink Floyd. A lot of these Rolling Stones songs are
engrained in my head. When I was in second grade, my parents surprised me
and pulled me out of school for a day to take me to see the Stones in
Vancouver. It was the Steel Wheels tour. I got to see them with original
bass player Bill Wyman playing. Devon Welch was actually in that class
with me that I got taken out of.

Bill Wyman, who’s wife’s mother is married to his son, right?

Yeah, he’s like his own grandfather or something. I thought he married his
ex-wife’s kid.

Whose idea was it to call your Rolling Stones the Rolling Stones?

It was last summer when we started messing around with it. We’d go down to
Jordan’s rehearsal space in Georgetown, get drunk, and play Stones songs.
We just always called it Stones rehearsal. When it came time to actually
call ourselves something, that seemed like a natural name.

Do the real Rolling Stones know about your Rolling Stones?

I don’t know.

I think they know.

Yeah, Mick Jagger has satellites, and eyes in the sky. They’re watching.

What do you have to say to the real Rolling Stones?

It’s more like see what they say to us. It’s funny, when we realized we
actually had a show, we didn’t want to suck, so we rehearsed a bunch.
Everyone involved, we weren’t going to half ass it. Once we committed to
performing, it got super nerdy. It’s just really @#$%& fun to rock out on
Stones tunes. Growing up, my Dad always talked about how good Charlie
Watts was. I understand more now.

Why is Charlie Watts such a good drummer?

He does more with less. It’s more about pockets and feels, than fancy
fills. He’s one of my favorite drummers by far. And Keith Richards, in my
opinion, is the best rock n’ roll rhythm guitar player ever. If you pick
apart these songs, there’s a reason why people love them so much.

What’s your favorite Rolling Stones story?

I like when Charlie Watts told Mick Jagger that he wasn’t his drummer.
Watts said Mick was his singer. I guess Watts punched him. Who knows how
much is true. And before he punched him, apparently he shaved and cleaned
up, and put on a suit.

Does your being in a Stones cover band change the way you think about them as a band?

I’m a huge Rolling Stones fan. We all are. Picking the songs apart, you
realize why the Stones rule.

Why do they rule?

When you’re playing the songs, you really know when you’re doing it right
because it feels like you have a million dollar song.

What did you think when you saw the Stones in concert? What do you remember?

Living Colour opened. They had that song “Cult of Personality”. I remember
the view from our seats. We were nosebleed.

What is Jordan's take on Mick Jagger?

I think he does a really good job. It’s not a mimicry thing, he’s putting
his own voice into it. He really loves the Stones’ songs, so it’s some
honest shit. We’ve put a lot of time into learning these songs. Figuring
out how they recorded them in a studio, and what the parts are. We looked
at tons of live clips because live, it’s totally different. We nerded out
hard on the material, and put energy into giving the sound our own two cents.

What’s the hardest song to pull off?

“Loving Cup” is tricky. It’s hard to play. There’s more instrumentation on that one.

This doesn’t seem like a Stones cover band, it seems like a group of Seattle based musicians who are friends, playing Rolling Stones songs.

It feels more like a project to me than a gigging band. We have fun, and
that’s the point. We’re not hustling ourselves as a band, we’re playing
Stones songs, and totally having fun doing it. There’s no weight or pressure.

Also this: Seattle's The Rolling Stones Give Fans What Mick and Keith are
No Longer Capable Of

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Interesting footnote that I think confirms my speculation that Jagger is
winking at this...

Turns out this "Rolling Stones" was hired to play at the Hard Rock Seattle
to celebrate the release of the official Rolling Stones 50th anniversary skis...

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I can't possibly be the only one on IORR who finds this whole thing to
be one of Mick's best jokes ever. Even if it is at the expense of the diehards.

They're not so up to date it seems, thinking Keith still lives in Jamaica!

Perhaps Keith could show them the blade.

I live in Seattle and they have played at The Comet right down the street from me, but I haven't seen them. Another band is going to perform Exile in Seattle on May 12.