I'm just wondering.

No, they would be the New York Dolls...

They'd have copied The Beatles like most other American bands did.

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steffiestones
I'm just wondering.

The Kinks.

I'm thinking what if they were born in Australia.

what if they were all born women? Would they have still formed a rock group?

Mick did say the benefit of being English was that he and the Stone listened to the broad spectrum of American music; from blues to Buddy Holly to Tab Hunter to country, whereas if they'd been American they might have focussed more on just their region (if they'd grown up in Bakersfield, say, they would have only been listening to and playing country music like Merle Haggard and Buck Owens).

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mitchflorida1
what if they were all born women? Would they have still formed a rock group?

yes...and they would've been called The Rolling Hormones

They be making cars for Ford.. They weren't cute enough to make it in the States
without their British Accents!! haha..

Tab Hunter???? WTF!!!
...Those Damn Yankees!

Dixie Lullaby is a great book and in a sense touches on these issues, it's a book about Southern Rock but talks about the Rolling Stones quite a bit, if the OP is really interested in this subject, that is a book to read. It is in a number of libraries as well.

They'd have been the Beach Boys.

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Bliss
They'd have been the Beach Boys.

Without the harmonies...

Mick probably would have go for president
Keith does his time in Yale
Brain had died in '68
Bill I think appeared in some x movies
Charlie immigrated to Britain because his wife lives there

MickT and RonW woulden't be in the Stones because they are from Britain

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The Ironic thing is that Growing up as a white person in America at that time would make it less likely for one discover the great blues that was coming from America. That qualifies as irony doesn't it?

It was through Brtish bands like the stones that a lot of American kids learned about blues from their own country.



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Do we have a thread titled 'Stupidest Threads' yet?

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BluzDude
Tab Hunter???? WTF!!!
...Those Damn Yankees!

Mick said he bought Tab Hunter's single RED SAILS IN THE SUNSET. He was making the point that musicians have less snobbery than audience members. "If I like it I'm going to buy it." (He said this in ACCORDING TO THE ROLLING STONES).

Try to picture Mick listening to this. (Did he sway about the room?)

It's doubtful that they would have been as fascinated by blues music.

They would have called themselves "Aerosmith".

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Check out Rhino's 4 cd Nuggets Box Set: it's the first volume with beat music from the USA that highlights just how much USA groups were influenced by the Beatles, Stones, Animals, Them, The Kinks etc.

it would be against the laws of physics. couldn't happen.

american bands around that time period had little knowlege of blues music. probably would of made a few singles and broken up by 1966

...... NO --- The Amish Twins don't have much of a ring to it ...



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Mick would've sang in an American accent.

wait...

Elvis was the original white American to channel black blues music with the early rock beat (other Sun artists could be included but not same magnitude). Culturally, white and black music had been bridged previously in the jazz age and Broadway to a degree.

The Beatles and especially Stones brought the English sensibility to their interpretation of black blues music. There really is no way to compare that to any American band of a similar magnitude besides Elvis (and Scotty, DJ et al). Brian Wilson was no doubt influenced by Berry, but was not a discliple of the blues like the Stones, Clapton, etc. With segregation, race relations, etc. in the US, perhaps whites (besides Elvis) were too culturally removed from the black experience to almost worship it the way the Stones did. Maybe this kind of cultural detachment had to be in place for youngsters like the Beatles, Stones and Clapton to look at black blues music almost mythically, putting people like Robert Johnson on a pedestal.

This influence of black music combined with the English provinical sensibility of the Beatles, and the urban, Dickensonian sensibility of the Stones, gives us such a rich canon. In turn, many American bands were influenced by Brit. invasion, and the American roots music was secondary influence. The exceptions though are the best post-Brit American bands, like the Allman Brothers and Skynyrd, who both have southern US and some country influence, but were on a different wavelength than trying to be Stones wannabes like Aerosmith.

The combo of black American music and that English sensibility was so powerful in the moment in time...a unique artistic and historical situation.



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What if they had actually been born as various ANIMALS?

What if they had actually been born as various ANIMALS?

...probably all just bitches layin' about in The House Of The Rising Sun ...



ROCKMAN

Brian could have played banjo,while the others went out an caught some big ol gators.

They were already influenced so much by american blues that if they were born in america, they'd probably be a full on blues band.

Thank god they were born in Britain though, I love the blues, but I love the Stones Blues Rock style more.

Plus, Mick with an American accent just wouldn't sound right!!

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heedstone
They were already influenced so much by american blues that if they were born in america, they'd probably be a full on blues band.

Thank god they were born in Britain though, I love the blues, but I love the Stones Blues Rock style more.

Plus, Mick with an American accent just wouldn't sound right!!

Have you listened to Faraway Eyes?