……………………..……………………………………………..………………… Ian Stewart - RCA Studios Hollywood 6-7 September 1965



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Guitar World --- August 2019



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THE AGE -- 17 June 2019



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Detailing the life of Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman, writer-director Oliver Murray’s documentary The Quiet One offers an appealing stream of photographs and footage, quite a bit of which are culled from the musician’s own formidable archives. Particularly notable are beautiful black-and-white photos that gradually dramatize the Rolling Stones’s ascension from a shaggy blues band to an iconic rock n’ roll act, as well as haunting home footage of Wyman’s father, William Perks, sitting on his lawn with his dog.

Born William Perks Jr. in Lewisham, South London, Wyman was distant with his father, and the aforementioned footage of the elder Perks distills years of alienation and miscommunication into a few singular images. The Quiet One includes other such resonant emotional information, and interviews with various collaborators offer telling encapsulations on the cultural effect of the Rolling Stones.

One person, for instance, remarks that the Beatles made it in America, while America truly made the Rolling Stones, allowing them to connect with the land that nourished their treasured R&B heroes, such as Chuck Berry and Bo Diddley.

Throughout, The Quiet One’s stream of information flows too smoothly, often allowing factoids to drift by unexamined, denying the narrative a dramatic center. Most curiously, Murray imparts virtually no impressions as to what it was like for Wyman to collaborate with the other Stones.

For one, the band’s decision to stop touring for seven years in the 1980s is summed up with a few words to the effect of “Mick and Keith got into an argument.”

Elsewhere, the fascinating story behind the creation of 1972’s Exile on Main Street is reduced to a few seconds of footage—though Murray does include, in an inspired touch, a handful of detailed pictures of the band sweating their asses off in the basement of Keith Richards’s French home, where much of the album was recorded.

Generally, Wyman’s personal life is given even shorter shrift: The beginning, middle, and end of his first two marriages each comprise a few moments of screen time, with elusive remarks that demand elaboration, such as the implication that Wyman’s first wife was unfit to raise their son.

The present-day Wyman is a poignant, commandingly humble presence—he contrasts starkly against the enormous presences, and egos, of Mick Jagger and Richards—yet he’s kept largely off screen until the film’s third and strongest act. At this point, the slideshow slickness of The Quiet One gives way to a bracing study of faces, especially when Wyman begins to cry when recollecting that Ray Charles once invited him to play on an album. Wyman declined, saying that he wasn’t “good enough,” and this willingness to so directly face this insecurity is brave. At this juncture, The Quiet One comes to vibrant life, however briefly.


Perhaps the most egregious of The Quiet One’s missed opportunities is the way that Murray takes much of Wyman’s memorabilia for granted, incorporating it into the film as aural-visual flutter. Early images, of Wyman in his artistic man-cave, recall Errol Morris’s more personal and eccentric The B-Side: Elsa Dorfman’s Portrait Photography, which offered a prolonged and rapturous survey of an artist in her environment.

Morris captured an artist’s interaction with her materials as a source of inspiration, while Murray reduces Wyman’s cultivation to fodder for pillow shots. In the end, the film feels like a sketch that’s been offered in place of a portrait.


Director: Oliver Murray Screenwriter: Oliver Murray Distributor: Sundance Selects Running Time: 98 min Rating: NR Year: 2019

[www.slantmagazine.com]



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Thanks for the posted review, Rockman.

Pleasure Stoneeeeeee….



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……………………..………….. South Michigan Ave --- Chicago 1964



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HELLO! -- June 2019



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………………………………………………………………………………..…………………………………. Point Lonsdale 21 June 2019 ……. photo by Rockeeeeeeeeeeee



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Herald Sun -- 23 June 2019



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Greville St -- Prahran --- Melbourne

Add this to my list of reasons to come to Australia

Carved into the pavement …… Keith loves Jesse Stone ?




Well hey he should for along for along
with a number of other songs Jesse gave
the world ………….. Money Honey & Shake Rattle & Roll


Ahmet Ertegün once stated that
"Jesse Stone did more to develop the basic rock 'n' roll sound than anybody else"



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Add this to my list of reasons to come to Australia


Hey yeah snoopy ole mate ….
........... don't forget we also got beer and kangaroos ….



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When a question about who played piano on Cool, Calm & Collected and then an observation about it being hard to overdub it due to it's role in the music triggers the nasty side of Andrew Loog Oldham.

[glimmerkkp.blogspot.rs]

Latest in the Doctor Bird reissues ….. and its a good one



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Herald Sun -- 27 June 2019



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……………………………….. 1964

The Barron Knights !!!



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UNCUT 267 -- August 2019



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Interesting interview --------------->>>>>>>> [www.youtube.com]



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Review - Michael Doherty …………………..



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Guitar Player -- July 2019




GREAT double album …. only last month
found a brand new 1976 Japanese pressing in a warehouse ………..



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BLUES MATTERS! -- Issue107 ---- April/May 2019



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Albert Ammons ……………………..



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