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KeithNacho
Is DandelionPowderman Jane Rose?????
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KeithNacho
A big big fan my friend.................just like me...........
Anyway, tell your boss how happy i have been since his music and attitude ruined my life
Tell hi to take care of himself, and tell him to practise a little for the last big performances
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DandelionPowderman
People who know him personally say he's a totally different guy, compared to "Media-Keith". You might say it's stupid to try to keep up being the guy that the fans want to see, but hey, that's what most rock stars do.
People talk very little about carbon touring, saving hospitals, buying guitars to starving black musicians, paying for funerals, letters to fans/fellow musicians who are struggling etc. That would be the "real" Keith Richards, imo.
It's easy to get stuck in "todger gates", drugs, blades, way of speaking etc., but if you must judge, judge the whole man.
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gimmelittledrink
I get it that Keith was pissed by the way Jagger assumed control of the business side of the Stones during a difficult time and it would have been fine for Keith to be critical of that particular issue in his book. But to denigrate his musical partner the way he did was very sad and certainly way beyond the line of decency. It made him look small, petty and vindictive - everything that we hoped he wasn't. And as others have pointed out, he did far more damage to his own reputation than he did to Mick's, who showed real class by declining to respond in public.
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His Majesty
The Ealing Club thread made me dig out the 'Our own story by The Rolling Stones as we told it to Pete Goodman' book.
Interesting how so early on the telling of the story is very much centered on Mick and Keith, that the book begins with Mick and Keith... Brian is called the 3rd stone!
The press obviously have a big influence on how the public percieved The Rolling Stones.
Looking through many artciles I have from 1963 - 1969, Keith is interviewed a lot thus I'm not so sure I buy the notion that Brian was more popular, rather in the press I think things ebbed and flowed dependant on activity of the group, the current hot topics etc etc and... who could be arsed talking to the press.
In the press Brian is percieved as being odd man out quite early on, he looked different, he talks different, he behaves different and it's all mentioned... at same time Keith's status as just a guitar player in The Rolling Stones was quite short.
Cue articles such as this...
Beat Instrumental - 1966
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His Majesty
Quite a contrast bewteen this and the above Keith article...
Rave - 1966
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DandelionPowderman
In all cases, it's hard for journalists to remain objective. And it all depends on the news angle they wanna present. So that might explain some of the totally different focuses in the stories here.
A more Brian-friendly reporter would probably have focused on the brilliant musicianship on Aftermath, and the fact that Brian created new sounds. Instead, it's all about the lost image.
Thanks for posting, Philip. I enjoyed these clips. Never seen them before.
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Green Lady
Music journalism as we now know it didn't really exist in 1966 - it was nearly all aimed at what the editors of those magazines thought teenagers were interested in. Don't forget who the intended readers of that RAVE article were - teenage girls who were assumed not to be all that interested in the music, but only in Brian's personal life and whether he was still "available" as a fantasy boyfriend. The Beat Instrumental article is pretty unusual for its time.
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Doxa
Wow! keep 'em coming, His Majesty!
By the way, I think you should open a thread of its own to all these gems. They will be lost to all the bullshit we are doing here...
- Doxa
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His Majesty
Good, now he can make peace with the original Rolling Stone.
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angee
What about the book makes you say this, Doxa?:
"And the content of LIFE documented pretty clearly that he doesn't care for The Rolling Stones any longer. It's only the legend of KEEF left."
I don't get that from the book.