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Come On
I'm still waiting for Mick and Keith to give me a call for the bass-work in Stones..I know their songs like a dolphin knows how to swim...and Boy, do I Swing!
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Big Al
They obvsiously took the decision to not officially replace Bill Wyman.
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Tate
He plays on the albums, he plays on the tours. He should be a band member.
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Come On
I'm still waiting for Mick and Keith to give me a call for the bass-work in Stones..I know their songs like a dolphin knows how to swim...and Boy, do I Swing!
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HMS
After 40 years as a working unit they would never offer full membership to somebody after three days of playing with him. The Stones are M, K, R, C - no one could or will ever join this exclusive club of old english gentlemen.
I never thought that they are going to replace Wyman as "full band member", always thought they´d carry on with a "hired gun". Once there were five, then there were four. That´s the line-up.
And Darryl isn´t even british. He isnt even white. He isnt even skinny. No way that he could ever get full-member status. And last, not least it´s about the money.
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From4tilLate
GT of the E Street Band was the first one they called. He said they were terrible, way out of playing shape. (If you're worried about sources, GT told me that himself.) Joey of NRBQ nailed the audition. He was Keith's final choice and he would have been tremendous. Pity. Mick picked Darryl, Charlie broke the tie vote because Darryl played with Miles and that's all Charlie needed to know. The female who tried out was Neshelle Nedgatelo (spelling is all wrong, sorry) and it is said that she asked Keith to turn down his amp. I hear Keith threw her out.
A friend of Jon Grayboff of Ryan Adams's old band told me a great story of a friend of his who auditioned. Jon's friend said he got a call from the Stones office and the caller said, please clear your calendar for the next three days, and you will be called to come to the audition at some point in that time. It could be 10 AM, it could be 2 AM, just be ready.
These were the days before cell phones. Jon's friend stayed by his phone for days. He didn't have "call waiting" so anyone who called him, he quickly grabbed the phone and said, "Can't talk! I'll call you later!" Eventually, the call came. He was asked for his address and was told a car would be waiting outside his apartment in 15 minutes.
So he took his bass (was told there would be an amp waiting for him) and took the ride to SIR Studios in Manhattan. The place was decorated! SIR is usually a drab concrete building with cement floors and bare walls, but now there were couches, table lamps and beefy security. He was shown to a lounge. A Stones employee said it could be a while, are you hungry? He replied, sure, I could eat something. The employee asked, What would you like? Well, what do you have? The employee repeated, What would you like? Okay, said the bass player, sushi? Fine. In no time at all he was brought the best sushi he'd ever tasted.
After a while, the employee came in the lounge and said, You're on! He was escorted into one of the rehearsal rooms, and there, in front of him... were the Rolling Stones! And practically no one else! A few technicians, but basically it was just the band!
Mick acted as spokesman for the band, greeted him, shook his hand and introduced him to the other band members. He was told they would play a couple of songs and told what they were. Would you like to listen to the records first? No thank you, I think I know those two. (I don't know what the songs were.) He said they played the songs, and at a certain point in each song the song fell apart. Either somebody went to the bridge too soon or Mick sang the wrong part or things like that. The band would stop and Keith and Mick would bicker about what went wrong, while Ronnie and Charlie said nothing.
He said Keith had the absolute loudest sound of any musician he had EVER played with. The two songs were done and Mick thanked him for his time and said, You may never hear from us again, then again, you might. And that was it. He left and never heard anything from them ever again.
Another classic story that has long made the rounds in Nashville has been attributed to me as either from GT, or Rick Price of The Georgia Satellites or Howie Epstein from TP and the Heartbreakers. They were playing "Beast of Burden" verrrrrrrry slowly. Ridiculously slow. The bass player boldly decided to worm his way over to beside Charlie, bent down and said, Isn't this a little slow? Charlie turned his head toward him ever so slightly, and said, It'll pick up in from of eighty thousand mate.
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From4tilLate
Mick acted as spokesman for the band, greeted him, shook his hand and introduced him to the other band members. He was told they would play a couple of songs and told what they were. Would you like to listen to the records first? No thank you, I think I know those two. (I don't know what the songs were.)