Tell Me :
Talk
Because their yardstick was the tamed and harmless musical poodles known as the Beatles. That's how the Establishment assessed this new "rock'n roll" phenomenon : give them a MBE and watch them lick your hand.
Had the Liverpool castrates been wilder and more outspoken, the Stones probably wouldn't have been thrown in jail. It's the old saying : if there's just one nail sticking out you hit it hard. If there's a bunch it's much harder to hit them all".
John Lennon's "The Beatles are bigger than Jesus" in 1966 was pretty outspoken, don't you think?
Smoking pot in the bogs at Buckingham Palace before getting their MBE's was pretty radical too.
They accepted it. Therefore they were f@cked/bought by the Establishment.
And the "The Beatles are bigger than Jesus" statement irrated the Bible Belt and nothing more. What would have been a bigger statement would have been : "America is currently performing an unfair and unjust war in Viet-nam. Young people should escape draft".
In 1966 it would have had some weight as the war machine was still rather small.
Talk about your favorite band.
For information about how to use this forum please check out forum help and policies.
Re: The Rolling Stones drug trial on BBC World Service
Posted by:
TheflyingDutchman
()
Date: July 23, 2020 15:27
..
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2020-07-23 15:27 by TheflyingDutchman.
Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2020-07-23 15:27 by TheflyingDutchman.
Re: The Rolling Stones drug trial on BBC World Service
Posted by:
StonedAsiaExile
()
Date: July 24, 2020 06:08
Still amazes me to this day that the 'establishment' felt threatened by a bunch of long haired musicians who wanted to do bit of weed and whatever and have their girlfriend walk around in a rug lol
It surely was an earthquake in Britain, and most of the Western world, at the time.
It surely was an earthquake in Britain, and most of the Western world, at the time.
Re: The Rolling Stones drug trial on BBC World Service
Posted by:
dcba
()
Date: July 24, 2020 11:54
Quote
StonedAsiaExile
Still amazes me to this day that the 'establishment' felt threatened by a bunch of long haired musicians who wanted to do bit of weed and whatever and have their girlfriend walk around in a rug lol
Because their yardstick was the tamed and harmless musical poodles known as the Beatles. That's how the Establishment assessed this new "rock'n roll" phenomenon : give them a MBE and watch them lick your hand.
Had the Liverpool castrates been wilder and more outspoken, the Stones probably wouldn't have been thrown in jail. It's the old saying : if there's just one nail sticking out you hit it hard. If there's a bunch it's much harder to hit them all".
Re: The Rolling Stones drug trial on BBC World Service
Posted by:
Rockman
()
Date: July 24, 2020 12:00
.... Jelly Babies ....
ROCKMAN
ROCKMAN
Re: The Rolling Stones drug trial on BBC World Service
Posted by:
Captain Teague
()
Date: July 25, 2020 16:22
Quote
dcbaQuote
StonedAsiaExile
Still amazes me to this day that the 'establishment' felt threatened by a bunch of long haired musicians who wanted to do bit of weed and whatever and have their girlfriend walk around in a rug lol
Because their yardstick was the tamed and harmless musical poodles known as the Beatles. That's how the Establishment assessed this new "rock'n roll" phenomenon : give them a MBE and watch them lick your hand.
Had the Liverpool castrates been wilder and more outspoken, the Stones probably wouldn't have been thrown in jail. It's the old saying : if there's just one nail sticking out you hit it hard. If there's a bunch it's much harder to hit them all".
John Lennon's "The Beatles are bigger than Jesus" in 1966 was pretty outspoken, don't you think?
Smoking pot in the bogs at Buckingham Palace before getting their MBE's was pretty radical too.
Re: The Rolling Stones drug trial on BBC World Service
Posted by:
dcba
()
Date: July 25, 2020 16:50
Quote
Captain Teague
John Lennon's "The Beatles are bigger than Jesus" in 1966 was pretty outspoken.
Smoking pot in the bogs at Buckingham Palace before getting their MBE's was pretty radical too.
They accepted it. Therefore they were f@cked/bought by the Establishment.
And the "The Beatles are bigger than Jesus" statement irrated the Bible Belt and nothing more. What would have been a bigger statement would have been : "America is currently performing an unfair and unjust war in Viet-nam. Young people should escape draft".
In 1966 it would have had some weight as the war machine was still rather small.
Re: The Rolling Stones drug trial on BBC World Service
Posted by:
The Joker
()
Date: July 25, 2020 17:36
The Stones did drug?
Sorry, only registered users may post in this forum.