Any fans want to feel what it is like to be with the Rolling Stones?? You can but we need your HELP!!
Dear Rolling Stones fans all over the world. If you want to know what it is like to be a part of the Stones family then you CAN but we need your help.
Vinnie was with the Rolling Stones for more than 20 years, as the VERY personal assistant to Ronnie Wood. He was also his brother-in-law via his sister Jo. Vinnie also looked after Keith personally a number before Keith got his own assistant. (there is an amazing story in the book where Keith nearly kills one of the members of Duran Duran whilst Vinnie is looking after him in L.A.)
I have helped Vinnie write down a large amount of stories of his time with Ronnie and the Stones below you will find a few highlights but there are LOTS more in the book.
We have 2 choices, either we write the book our way, which means all the juicy bits, the bits that the Stones have forgotten will stay in the book BUT we can only do that with YOUR help, the fans. We need at least 2.000 fans to pre-order the book on the Kickstarter campaign. If 2.000 fans pre-order the book, we can get 5.000 copies printed. These will be beautiful books with never seen before pictures and stories.
This book will make you feel as if you are right there with the Stones, in the recording studio, at the parties, on tour, dropping the kids of at school, getting drugs in Hells Kitchen for Keith and Ronnie, running the back up tape, turning the recording booth into an aquarium, crashing cars on Sunset Boulevard, Mick getting stuck in a cage on stage, being the last person to speak to John Belushi and these are just some of the highlight. The most important things is that this book will take you there, it will make you feel what it is like to be a member of the Stones family.
OR we accept the offer from Rolling Stones publishing but that means we need to take some of the real rock and roll stuff out. (and the book will become more expensive)
The Kickstarter where you can pre-order the book (only 25 days left) [
www.kickstarter.com]
We hope the fans want to read about what life is like with the Stones, raw and uncensored. Let us know if we are right!
------
(Vinnie doing most of the vocals of Flying with Ronnie and Slash at Shepherds Bush London: [
www.youtube.com]
The BBC interview with Vinnie about the book: [
www.bbc.co.uk])
Here is a cool part about Ronnie buying a guitar for a guy with no money:
"Ronnie was a generous guy you know. I remember going to Tin Pan Alley in New York with him and we go in this guitar shop and of course all the staff are like, oooooh Ron Wood and there is this guy with a Fender just like observing it and I think God he plays really well. Ronnie must have noticed him as well. Ronnie goes: I am interested in a few. I think he bought a Strat and a Tele. Ron goes: how much would you discount? Oh for you Mr Wood; 75% I am going like: you lucky @#$%&, you know what I mean, 75% off ?!? And Ronnie turns around and goes: how much for him? The staff guy goes: what do you mean, how much for him? Ronnie goes: how much does he get? Staff guy; well he doesn't get anything? Ronnie: He has gotta pay full whack for that guitar? Staff guy: Oh yeah Mr. Wood. So Ronnie says: I tell you what, I will have those two guitars at 75% off but I want him to have 75% off or else I don't buy those guitars. This guys face,
Vinnie pulls a beaming expressionThis is my @#$%& lucky day. Because he obviously couldn’t afford it. As we are walking out the door of the guitar shop, this guy goes; Listen I can’t afford it at even 75% off man. Ronnie goes to the staff guy; write his name and address down, I will have that guitar that the guy is playing now and you give me 75% off the whole lot. So the guy got a guitar for free.
Rem - What a nice thing to do."
Vinnie going into Hell's Kitchen to get drugs for Ronnie. The Godfather movie but then for real.
"Or go to the worst places like: Hell's Kitchen or Queens, if we were in New York and Ronnie didn't have any, I used to visit these black geezers, in Hells Kitchen. But I used to be disguised in plain sight. The first time I had done it, I can't remember who sent me up there but they said go up there, Jacaiba. Jacaiba used to be great because you used to go down town for Jacaiba and he’d be in a warehouse and around the perimeter of the warehouse used to be dustbins. Dustbins full of marijuana, hash. He used to open a dustbin lid and go: this is a good grass, good strength, blah blah, like Dicky would want to be like; you will find this pretty good man (Done in a New York accent) So he sent me up to Hell's Kitchen and I come into this apartment and its like bloody, you know, the Godfather. Or like Taxi driver, when somebody is murdered in the @#$%& hallway of a loaded tenement building.
So it's this big fat @#$%& geezer. And he is holding his gun. Not hiding it. He is holding it. And I am like, ohh for @#$%& sake. Another geezer next to him with his face just burnt and he is still free basing, his hair is @#$%& charred away, scars all over from the times he has set fire to himself. Everyone has @#$%& rings on and shit like that and then one guy one goes;
in a gritty NY accentWhat do you do for a living man? Well I work for the Rolling Stones, I am Ronnie Wood's assistant.
Oh man !!
Now in an excited American accentFrom then on I could go into there and be protected because they knew who I was getting it from. Used to be quite fun.
Yeah, Jacaiba, me and Ronnie used to call him; Tossing the. Tossing the Jacaiba ?
- Rem (puzzled)
Jacaiba is the shotball
So we used to call him: Tossing the."
----------
The book is filled with these stories and lots, lots more
[
www.kickstarter.com]
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2020-08-04 01:31 by remdotco.