Quotelatebloomer I've often said to my students and children, being intelligent doesn't mean squat if you don't have some self-discipline. I agree. Not that I heed it as much as I should, but a good phrase I read is, "There's the pain of discipline, and the pain of regret." Of all people, even John Lennon said in his last Dakota year that he found discipline was re
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As an American, in social situations in both America and Europe I've witnessed Europeans act appalled at how openly Americans talk about money. A Dutch woman told me that it's even considered bad form in Europe to ask, "So, what do you do?" Which is a standard American social opener. Oh, irony.... To digress, there's the notorious mid-life crisis. But I've notice
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Quotelatebloomer QuoteTitle5Take1 Let's face it, aside from whatever merits they might or might not have it's more "fashionable" to praise Keith over Mick, maybe just `cause even non-Stones fans know who Mick is, but not everybody (in my experience) knows who Keith is, so you sound more "inside" if you praise Keith. As Michael Lewis said, "Snobbery has a logic a
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Let's face it, aside from whatever merits they might or might not have it's more "fashionable" to praise Keith over Mick, maybe just `cause even non-Stones fans know who Mick is, but not everybody (in my experience) knows who Keith is, so you sound more "inside" if you praise Keith. As Michael Lewis said, "Snobbery has a logic all its own."
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Quotesuperrevvy "Jann Wenner wanted to start up a magazine to be called Rolling Stone, and had invited Mick and, in so far as the other Rolling Stones counted, the other band members to buy 49 percent of the shares. Mick could not raise the money required, which was 5000 pounds. He asked me if Leopold Joseph would lend the money to him. But my partners were not prepared to give a
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Interesting, but you'd think a financial adviser would keep his trap shut. I can't imagine Keith is thrilled, even if he does come off better than Mick.
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The author of an article on bootlegs I read years ago shared his friend’s experience with a Stones’ bootleg. This friend was flipping through a vinyl-record-store bin looking at Stones bootlegs and lifted one out to buy it. Someone tapped his shoulder and he turned to find an unhappy Keith Richards. Keith shook his head, so the guy penitently returned the bootleg and moved along.
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Missed this the first time, too; an enviable experience. I think it's been said on this forum that the building with the steps Mick and Keith sit on is also on the cover of Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti >>>
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Are any SOME GIRLS songs played in open-G (guitar)? Start Me Up is from those same sessions, so it's possible.
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Ex-Mayor of New York, Ed Koch, died last week and the WSJ today wrote about the state of New York City when he came on the scene. Mick Jagger has said it was that broken-down New York that SHATTERED was about. "Don't you know the crime rate's going up, up, up, up, up! To live in this town you must be tough, tough, tough, tough, tough!" Here's the NYC of SHATTERED i
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Great song of peripeteia that I saw the Stones do live at the Joint in Vegas when it had only an 1,100 capacity, the perfect intimate setting for an intimate song and I was in heaven.
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That's where the cat dragged a dead rat into Keith's bed, that inspired an apologue of a song.
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Reminiscent of Nik Cohn's 1969 allocution (that Bill used in his book Rolling with the Stones): “If the Rolling Stones had any sense of neatness, they’ll get themselves killed in an aircrash three days before their 30th birthdays.”
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Seeing above no attempt to discern the last couple lines, here’s my take: “You better watch out now, You’re smashing dishes on the floor.” The song is reminiscent to me of IT MUST BE HELL. (In the background next to the intaglio screen I’m glad to see Mick hung my self-portrait I sent him.) Subject: Trump?/Leftist rioters?/Deveraux in need of a nap?
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What took longer to shoot, the CRISS CROSS video or this BUTTON TO BUTTON video by the Albumen Streaks (otherwise known as the White Stripes:
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I actually quoted Mick from this interview for a high-school paper, a religious, irenic-themed paper. Got a good grade. Thanks, Mick.
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Nicky Hopkins on confreres: "The first time I worked with John was in 1968, when I played electric piano on `Revolution.' He was real pleased with the way things went and told me there'd be a lot more sessions he'd be inviting me to. But I didn't see him again until 1971, at his home in Ascot, where he was recording IMAGINE. I reminded him of his comment and asked him
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Mick wearing a mask there is an almost inadvertent nod to Siena's history. As beautiful as is its cathedral (and I've been in it and it's beautiful in and out) what's built was supposed to have been just its facade (facciatone), with a grand building to be built behind it to compete with Florence's cathedral. But the Black Plague hit Siena and the cathedral was never comp
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It should've been called CRAZY MONKEY and a sequel to MONKEY MAN. My today's noetic effort.
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Quotetreaclefingers ''Anyway, it must be different for everybody. Most of these girls who are with him, since me actually, really like the fame and the money, all that s**t. I never cared.'' Her mum did. From Marianne's memoir MEMORIES, DREAM AND REFLECTIONS, p.65: "My mother really liked Mick. Mick was wonderful; I was the bad one. Why that was I don't kn
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Mick was partying so hard these two days Andy Warhol saw him he must have been carrying a thyrsus. You could say Mick had a very merry Christmas: From THE ANDY WARHOL DIARIES (p. 11 in the hardcover edition): December 24, 1976: “Went with Jed to Fred’s Christmas dinner at 1342 Lexington… “Mick Jagger was there and he was in a good mood, he asked me what I thought of `A Star is Born’ a
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Paul later said, “I thought, `We just broke up, why get back together so soon?’” After Yoko kept John back because she wouldn’t be on stage, Allen Klein later said something like, “I knew then who wore the pants in that family.” The helping the canaille was less important than her ego. A Yoko biography I read said that, when she was a kid in Japan, her class would put on plays. And Yoko wou
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I get the reference, Mick. And so much better new merch, than a new album. Who'd want that?! Better perseveration of merch...
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I bought two Hurricane CDs at a table set up at a Stones show in an MGM-Grand-arena’s walkway hall. I later opened one CD to play, and kept the other sealed. I still have both, and whatever your axiology conclusions, on eBay a Hurricane CD now sells for more than I paid.
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The day Garcia died I grabbed off a library shelf an obscure book whose subject was as far away from the Grateful Dead as you could get—medieval architecture I think—and someone had left inside it a ticket stub to a Grateful Dead show. Odd to run across a Dead laissez-passer on such a day in such a place. After Garcia made the cover of TIME, an amusing letter-to-the-editor in a subsequent issu
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An extended outtake of "Down in the Hole" I heard once on YouTube would be a worthy inclusion. I'd love to hear rehearsal outtakes of "Emotional Rescue" itself, Outtakes of the jeu d’esprit "Let Me Go" would also be great.
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"Movie actors do nothing for a living, so when you ask them to do nothing, they expect to be paid for it." — Andy Warhol A quote that came to mind after watching the video.
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QuoteIanBillen QuoteTitle5Take1 "Never before told fact: Flashy Mick has a diamond in his tooth!" ________________________________________ If I recall correctly (?) .. he got it removed some time ago. I think he's still got the diamond and you're recalling Mick's jeunesse-dorée days in Tony Sanchez's UP AND DOWN WITH THE ROLLING STONES when Mick started
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"Never before told fact: Flashy Mick has a diamond in his tooth!"
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