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It's a great story, though--I bet everyone who read the book remembers it. Go to Bill for the facts, go to Keith for an entertaining larger-than-life tale, with a layer of facts underneath.

Go to Bill for facts and other peoples telling of things dressed as Bill facts.

I've never believed the Charlie story either...
so easily confirmed yet it hasn't been, has it...

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I've never believed the Charlie story either...
so easily confirmed yet it hasn't been, has it...

But it's also never been denied by any of them, which makes me think there is a fair amount of truth there.

Charlie probably pushed Mick who was a bit drunk.
End of story.

The jacket thing is typically something that Keith would make up.
Like Muddy painting the ceiling.

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I've never believed the Charlie story either...
so easily confirmed yet it hasn't been, has it...

But it's also never been denied by any of them, which makes me think there is a fair amount of truth there.

there's no denying that there's been no denying..

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I've never believed the Charlie story either...
so easily confirmed yet it hasn't been, has it...

But it's also never been denied by any of them, which makes me think there is a fair amount of truth there.

there's no denying that there's been no denying..

I deny everything.

talk about denial with a great big 'D'..

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That old line of Keith's about the jacket never sounded true to me, sorry Stoneage. It's too pat and I just can't believe any one garment could be all that important to a multi-millionaire. Sounds like the typical Stones style of propaganda, this time using affable and utterly unthreatening old Charlie Watts as a foil, and I for one have always found the entire story ridiculous.

I think Keith has a "thing" for his jackets. I seem to recall reading in, maybe Stanley Booth's book(?), that the thing that pissed off Keith the most about Altamont was that he had to leave behind at least one, and maybe two (military-style?) jackets. Anybody else recall that?

Yes, you're right. Also, and I have no idea whether the jacket story in his book is true or not, but surely the point about it was that it was his wedding jacket, not just any old jacket? So, IF true, I could understand the "thing" he had about it.

He also joked that he was intentionally late for the Beggars Banquet in 1968 due to him not wanting to have his velvet jacket ruined by the pie throwing.

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LSTNT screencaps ><

That's funny.................

I hate to bring up a done to death subject, but the funniest part is that Mick and Ronnie were the same height back then.

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<<Mick and Ronnie were the same height back then.>>

So Mick's only 5' 9" then? Looking at the photo 4th from the bottom, when you see Mick reflected in the mirror as he holds his watch in Ronnie's face, you see that Mick also has high-rise sneakers on. So, 5' 8" or so, tops.

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i wanna know who the two ladies are in the photo next to ronnie .maybe one of them is jo ?

one of them is Jo



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I seem to recall reading in, maybe Stanley Booth's book(?), that the thing that pissed off Keith the most about Altamont
was that he had to leave behind at least one, and maybe two (military-style?) jackets. Anybody else recall that?

It was indeed STanley Booth's book that states that two of Keith's favourite coats got left behind at Altamont -
a Nazi-officer-style leather greatcoat (seen in photos where Keith's on a motorcycle next to a pool in November 69)
and what Keith described as a gypsy wedding coat, which he's wearing in the photos from the 1969 Isle of Wight festival

He does indeed seem to have something of a "thing" about his jackets and coats.

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He does indeed seem to have something of a "thing" about his jackets and coats.

I left yah a wee message in Hyde Park thread,

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(The Department of Historical Trivia would like to add
that the film of the 1969 Hyde Park show includes audience shots from the Blind Faith show a month earlier.)

Yah sure about that?

The Blind Faith DVD of their concert does include audience footage from the 5th July though.

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Roscoe
I seem to recall reading in, maybe Stanley Booth's book(?), that the thing that pissed off Keith the most about Altamont
was that he had to leave behind at least one, and maybe two (military-style?) jackets. Anybody else recall that?

It was indeed STanley Booth's book that states that two of Keith's favourite coats got left behind at Altamont -
a Nazi-officer-style leather greatcoat (seen in photos where Keith's on a motorcycle next to a pool in November 69)
and what Keith described as a gypsy wedding coat, which he's wearing in the photos from the 1969 Isle of Wight festival

He does indeed seem to have something of a "thing" about his jackets and coats.

I seem to recall a story about Mick throwing one of Keiths leather jackets in the crowd during a show, Keith then being pissed at Mick for not getting it back, and this being the background to the song "Leather jacket". Am I mixing things up?

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I seem to recall reading in, maybe Stanley Booth's book(?), that the thing that pissed off Keith the most about Altamont
was that he had to leave behind at least one, and maybe two (military-style?) jackets. Anybody else recall that?

It was indeed STanley Booth's book that states that two of Keith's favourite coats got left behind at Altamont -
a Nazi-officer-style leather greatcoat (seen in photos where Keith's on a motorcycle next to a pool in November 69)
and what Keith described as a gypsy wedding coat, which he's wearing in the photos from the 1969 Isle of Wight festival

He does indeed seem to have something of a "thing" about his jackets and coats.

I seem to recall a story about Mick throwing one of Keiths leather jackets in the crowd during a show, Keith then being pissed at Mick for not getting it back, and this being the background to the song "Leather jacket". Am I mixing things up?

Probably, because the Rolling Stones version of Leather Jacket is an instrumental, the song was only released by Mick Taylor on his solo-LP ... it´s a Taylor-Song written "for Keith" I suppose !

Aha, I smell a conspiracy: the let's rob Keith of his jacket plot.

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"Music is the frozen tapioca in the ice chest of history."

"Shit!... No shit, awright!"

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