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Spud
From the title it looks like it will all about why they should have split up 30 years ago .
Should meet with approval from many around here
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Rokyfan
"Ain't it time we said goodbye" to Great Britain, not each other. It's a chronicle of the 71 Goodbye to Great Britian Tour (that's what it was billed as back then)
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tornnfrayed
STP is a classic, wonderful book. The book on Exile that came out a few years ago is awful. I saw him give a talk on the book and the period and he just mixed up a lot of details. Not an inspiring book or talk. So I will just re-read STP...
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tornnfrayed
STP is a classic, wonderful book. The book on Exile that came out a few years ago is awful. I saw him give a talk on the book and the period and he just mixed up a lot of details. Not an inspiring book or talk. So I will just re-read STP...
Agree. STP was brilliant in terms of capturing a moment in time. I had recently read Hunter Thompson's Fear and Loathing, on the Campaign Trail, 72...and STP was a great companion piece to that for the era.
Greenfield's Exile book was crap. I was massively disappointed. Unlike the Booth book, Greenfield remained what it should be: a fly-on-the-wall account of a rock and roll tour and everything happening on the sidelines.
This looks interesting - if he writes it as if he's there now.
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tornnfrayed
STP is a classic, wonderful book. The book on Exile that came out a few years ago is awful. I saw him give a talk on the book and the period and he just mixed up a lot of details. Not an inspiring book or talk. So I will just re-read STP...
Agree. STP was brilliant in terms of capturing a moment in time. I had recently read Hunter Thompson's Fear and Loathing, on the Campaign Trail, 72...and STP was a great companion piece to that for the era.
Greenfield's Exile book was crap. I was massively disappointed. Unlike the Booth book, Greenfield remained what it should be: a fly-on-the-wall account of a rock and roll tour and everything happening on the sidelines.
This looks interesting - if he writes it as if he's there now.
Agreed. I've had Booth's book on my Nook for two years now. Every so often I say, maybe I was in the wrong frame of mind, and try to plow on and read it. Nah, I'm not interested in getting to the few scraps of actual, interesting Stones material by wading thru his own personal drama. STP is the one Stones book I can read more than once.
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CousinC
@ Milky Way - I wanted to read "A day in the Life" cause I'm quite interested in some parts and persons.In the end I forgot about it.
You think it's worth looking for?
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CousinC
Knowing a bit of Anita and thinking of Webers looks then I assume the story happened. Didn't Tony Sanchez tell it first?
The early 70's were drugwise very different to today.A lot of young, often rich,good looking people, sometimes jetting around - all on and with drugs Not like the addicts today.For some time it all was part of the counter-culture.
Yes, and Tony told Keith but he said that Weber took advantage of her while she was unconscious. Keith apparently figured out the truth and told Anita something to the effect of "I know you had it off with Tommy. Tony told me!" and then Anita looked at Tony, mumbling under her breath, and Tony was afraid she was putting a spell on him. Keith tried to get tough with Tommy, but backed down and life went on. According to Tony, anyway.Quote
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CousinC
Knowing a bit of Anita and thinking of Webers looks then I assume the story happened. Didn't Tony Sanchez tell it first?
The early 70's were drugwise very different to today.A lot of young, often rich,good looking people, sometimes jetting around - all on and with drugs Not like the addicts today.For some time it all was part of the counter-culture.
Yes I think I first read it in Tonys book Please don´t misunderstand me, it probably happened, but as with everything else in life (at least in the arts), there is that angle you choose to your material. And my criticism is aimed towards the way Greenfield choose to tell his story. His language seems rushed, its narrative shallow and story speculative. And IMHO its the emphasis on stories of the Tommy Weber/Anita kind that partly makes it so.
However, as stated previously, Greenfield should get credit of getting some dates correct, some of which has been erroneous for years, even on trusted Stones sites.
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CousinC
Knowing a bit of Anita and thinking of Webers looks then I assume the story happened. Didn't Tony Sanchez tell it first?
The early 70's were drugwise very different to today.A lot of young, often rich,good looking people, sometimes jetting around - all on and with drugs Not like the addicts today.For some time it all was part of the counter-culture.
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CMH516
STP was a rollicking good ride that makes you feel like you are right in the middle of the chaos and decadence that was the '72 tour. I couldn't put that book down.
The next one was trash. I literally threw it away as soon as I finished it.
Not sure which I hated more, his factual errors or the continual use of amateurish literary devices like "You make ask yourself dear reader...."