Source: [www.theguardian.com]

In 1967, the Rolling Stones' guitarist, accompanied by Anita Pallenberg and Marianne Faithfull – all on LSD – visited the colony in Gibraltar en route to meet the rest of the band in Morocco. According to Faithfull's autobiography, Jones decided he wanted to play a tape of music he had made for a film starring Pallenberg to the monkeys. "We approached the troop of monkeys very ceremoniously," she writes, "and told them we were going to play them some wonderful sounds. They listened to all this very attentively, but when Brian turned on the tape recorder, they didn't seem to care for it. They seemed alarmed by it and scampered away shrieking. Brian got very upset. He took it personally. He became hysterical and started sobbing."

Speaking of Gibraltar, is that true the Stones played there without Charlie? Any pictures?

this is exactly the sort of journalism this forum could use right now.

Hey hey we're The Monkeys.

I totally understand how he felt...monkeys hate my special family mac n cheese recipe...it hurts

He should've chased them down and continued playing the music...just for the sake of revenge.

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nightskyman
He should've chased them down and continued playing the music...just for the sake of revenge.

They may have caught up with Mickey Dolenz, but Mike Nesmith was known to be quite elusive.

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The Joker
According to Faithfull's autobiography...

This is where the article lost all credibility.

Don't forget they were taking LSD, which can really be a mood swinger if suddenly something unexpected happens.

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thabo
Don't forget they were taking LSD, which can really be a mood swinger if suddenly something unexpected happens.

If those monkeys didn't like Brian's music even when on LSD, they surely would have disliked it sober. Tough crowd.

The monkeys cited "musical differences."

grrrrrrr......



ROCKMAN

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Wry Cooter
The monkeys cited "musical differences."

I think they didn't see eye to eye with Brian on the discs he was cutting.

Didn't this incident happen when Keith would up making Anita in the Blue Bentley after Brian wound up in hospital? Blew the lid off their affair. Didn't recall Marianne's presence...

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owlbynite
Didn't this incident happen when Keith would up making Anita in the Blue Bentley after Brian wound up in hospital? Blew the lid off their affair. Didn't recall Marianne's presence...

This is after Brian had fallen ill, Keith and Anita bonked, they arrived in Morocco and bonked some more.

Anita went to get Brian, returned to UK with him, he got further check ups etc, then they returned to Morocco. This incident happened during that journey to Morocco.

There are some photos from the start of this journey showing Brian, Anita, Marianne and some guy who's name I forget at Heathrow airport.

They went ape for it .....

He could have played them Their Satanic Majesties and they might have gone suicidal?

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rob51
He could have played them Their Satanic Majesties and they might have gone suicidal?

Can't play an album that hasn't been recorded.

Why cry over it? They were just a bunch of dirty, filthy apes.

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sanQ
Why cry over it? They were just a bunch of dirty, filthy apes.

LSD.

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His Majesty

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sanQ
Why cry over it? They were just a bunch of dirty, filthy apes.

LSD.

Most women well tell ya HM, that you don't need LSD to cry over a dirty, filthy ape.

Good times.

I wonder what their reaction to Monkey Man would have been.