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Wasn't that pretty much the only thing he did? He didn't write any songs, just à few riffs, but wanted to be the star in the band so bad. He was in the band for 7 years (although pretty much absent of the last 2) and the band has been going on for almost 50(!). C'mon, can he still be that important? If he would have lived on he would be forgotten and just be the guy that just couldn't make it in the band. But because of his early death he has become somewhat of a legend, forever young.Quote
Come On
He formed The Rolling Stones for a starter...
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DiscoVolante
I have a really hard time picturing him playing Brown Sugar for an instance. Wouldn't y'all agree?
Didn't Ron Wood play a sitar guitar live on some numbers? Anyway, it's just a matter of taste. The Open G-straight forward rock n roll-guitar weaving sound is the Stones sound I love and that sound has been working for the past 40 years. And except from Under My Thumb, all those tracks belongs to the psychedelic era. Yuck, I'd rather listen to Dirty Work than that Satanic Majesties crap...Quote
Sleepy City
I have an even harder time picturing Mick Taylor (or Ronnie Wood) playing a sitar on Paint It Black / a recorder on Ruby Tuesday / marimbas on Under My Thumb / mellotron on 2000 Light Years From Home / oboe on Dandelion...
Wouldn't y'all agree?
The guy was a musical genius, & the only person with the onstage charisma to rival Jagger.
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DiscoVolante
I can't really say percussion or autoharp is a serious contribution to a record.
I honestly don't think that he would have liked it as he wanted to leave because he didn't like the musical way the Stones were going with Let it Bleed. But could he have played second guitar on that song - yes. Why not?Quote
DiscoVolante
I have a really hard time picturing him playing Brown Sugar for an instance. Wouldn't y'all agree?
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ghostryder13
until 1969 brian was the stones .
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Amsterdamned
When he lost his interest in playing the guitar and started using too much drugs, he digged his own grave.
Apart from that: How can the founder of the Rolling Stones be overrated?
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DiscoVolante
I haven't been on this board for a long time but I was surprised to see that so many fans here adore Brian Jones. Why? Seriously, what did he do that was so great?
Of course he was the founding member, he taught Jagger to play the harmonica and if it wasn't for him the Stones would probably not exist. But I just don't think that's enough for all the rave around him. Sure, he was the front figure in the really early days but how long did that last, a few years, if even that.
Me myself aren't very fond of the Stones early stuff, sure there are some good songs but mostly it was pretty much just covers and later really shitty attempts to psychedelia, which the Stones in my opinion never had anything to do with in the first place. For me, the Stones didn't "become" the Stones until the release of Jumping Jack Flash and Beggars Banquet in 1968, and sure, Brian was on these recordings but was already by then "gone" and when Let it bleed was released he was gone for real, just appearing on two tracks.
We all know the story, he couldn't write songs, and he got bored of the guitar and started to play all these weird foreign instruments instead when he actually showed up to the sessions. Some of you might say that he was a talented "multi-instrumentalist" and I'm sure that he was, it's just that Ron Wood is a way more talented "multi-instrumentalist" and he will never get bored of playing the guitar.
I feel that when they got rid of Brian Jones and got reborn as a group in 1969 with Mick Taylor, the Stones reached a whole new level. It was like Brian was just putting the group on hold, I'm sure it was a relief for everybody to get rid of him.
I'm sure it has to do with the "myth", because he drowned shortly after he got kicked out. What if he had survived and lived on? We could just speculate but I don't think he would do anything creative really, he would become a Syd Barret-type of icon.
Apart from being a well dressed icon of the 60's and a founding member of a band which became so much better when he wasn't in the band, what did he do? Why do so many fans still adore him?
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Amsterdamned
When he lost his interest in playing the guitar and started using too much drugs, he digged his own grave.
Apart from that: How can the founder of the Rolling Stones be overrated?
Actually I thought he was at his best when he lost interest in his guitar & picked up all those other instruments instead.