QuoteHis Majesty Rule No.1 when using public computers - always remember to sign out!!! Yep. I hate it for you. I don't think I'd handle it too well.
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QuoteMathijs Quotenostoneswithoutbrianjones But, like Noel Redding, for me "there ain't so stones without Brian Jones." Pfff....I feel so sorry for you...43 years of 'no Stones' while you could have enjoyed so much good music.... Mathijs No, no. I said that Sticky and Exile are fabulous. As for Goats, It's Only, etc. etc.....well, they're okay
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Quotecc QuoteGazza Even for the period when they were close friends, Brian has never come across in too many accounts that I've read from anyone as a particularly likeable human being, not quite -- numerous avid users of the Internet in the 1990s and 2000s think he was a wonderful man. Well, I guess you ain't been looking around, then. John Lennon (1970 Rolling Stone Intervi
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Quote24FPS Lennon was jealous of Brian. "It's not like he was a genius or anything", was his reply to being asked about Brian later. Of course he was. No one said he was in John's league. Lennon just couldn't throw another artist a bone. I remember the last interview, for Playboy, Lennon criticized the Stones for continuing. I loved Lennon but he sure could be insecure an
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QuoteHis Majesty Oh, I meant the original band, I'm not all that bothered about what followed. Well, I begrudgingly admit that Sticky and Exile are pretty fantastic. But, like Noel Redding, for me "there ain't so stones without Brian Jones." People often say what a shame that Brian wasn't around for those since they more closely resemble the music Brian actual
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QuoteHis Majesty No offense meant or taken, we are seeing things Much the same way. There are many camps in rolling stones fan base, but for me the band comes first, Brian is such an enigmatic figure and it's through him that I became I fan of the band so he'll always have special meaning to me. How he was as a person isn't that important to me, although how they interact
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QuoteHis Majesty The pics aren't important, but some of them are screen grabs from the film. Anyway we see this moving about/altering distance from the mic in the film itself. So whether he played his part well or not, the sound of the guitar would be coming in and out due to him moving about thus his acoustic part, at least the majority of those takes we see in the film probably couldn&
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This book was the first place I ever read Al Aronowitz piece on Brian Jones entitled "Over his dead body." It's still my single favourite eulogy (of sorts) about Brian Jones.
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QuoteHis Majesty Please use the quote function! I assume you are talking about One Plus One pics where the mic is both close and far from Brian's guitar. It is a basic recording fact that moving about whilst recording an acoustic guitar, the guitar being in different places in relation to the mic throughout the same take(s) results in a bad recording of said acoustic guitar. I don&
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I've been following this and let me first say that there are so many quotes from so many people that no one knows what the exact truth is anymore...... Example. I read in an interview that Mick & Keith approachedJimmy Miller before Beggars and basically said....you'll have to meet with Brian and see if you can get him onbboard. Jimmy was hesitant as he had heard about Brian
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In my heart....they've sucked since June 8, 1969. In reality, it's been down hill in a hurry since the last great album, Exiles.
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I carried this book and the Sanchez "Up and Down" book with me from class to classin high school as if they were the holy grail.
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This is an easy one: Light My Fire (Doors) or Moonlight Drive (Doors) or Soul Kitchen (Doors) First, they were done in 1967 (which was the year of psychedelia) and second, nothing gets much more sensual than Jim Morrison's voice. Plus, the lyrics themselves are pretty sensual.
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Oh, my my...... What a find! You've just made my month.... My two favorite all-time musicians in a photo together. What a great photograph. You don't know how thrilled I am to see it.
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I agree with you. In fact, I've read through some of the threads where the anti-Brian contingent wants to disparage his playing as being "not all that special." Well, I am no master musician and I won't try to compare Brian's slide on No Expectations to Duane Allman's work. It doesn't even matter who is more proficient. Even if all Brian did was add
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As for Jimmy Page and Robert Plant and comments about Brian Jones. I can report the following: Robert was asked way back in 1979 in a CREEM Magazine interview about his relationship with the Stones. The reason for the question is that the interviewer pointed out that during "No Quarter" from the movie "The Song Remains the Same," John Paul Jones looked remarkably like Bri
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Out of our Heads U.K. Version Their Satanic Majesties Request Between the Buttons Beggars Banquet (originally conceived cover) Exile on Main St.
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Quoteproudmary Jagger is no saint. But you end up feeling that he must be blessed with unusual reserves of stoicism to have put up with Richards's outrageously self-absorbed behaviour over such a long period of time. Well, well. I wonder how Keith feels being described in pretty much the exact way he, himself, might have described Brian. Outrageously self-absorbed? Keith? Yep, I&
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This is a good post and probably right on. It's differnet being Paul and inviting Brian to come along and play on "You know my name, Look up the number" or being John and seeing Brian out socially at the Ad Lib. It's another thing altogether to be working intensively in the studio. The only thing I'll add is that I'm certain Mick and Mick might have felt the s
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What's your point here? That Brian was ahead of them....the car broke down...they passed by, gave him the finger...and went on to the gig? Yep, sounds like @#$%& to me.
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For the record, you cite a bad example. Twas Brian who introduced Magic Alex to John, And again, this is NOT John attacking Brian. Most of it is honest. Don't you think that towards the end when the phone rang if it was Brian it probably WAS trouble? Don't you think he disintegrated in front of John's eyes? Don't you think Brian was in a lot of pain? As for the &quo
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Agreed. John being John. Since when is being honest a bad thing. In this same interview he talks about Mick's "fag dancing." In fact, Brian comes off better than Mick. Again, the fact remains that Brian and John were close.
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The closest I've come to hearing about that night was in Al Aronowitz great Brian tribute "Over his dead body."
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You are horribly misquoting Lennon from the 1970 Rolling Stone Interview. Q - What was Brian like?" A - Brian Jones? Q - Yes. A - Well he was different over the years as he disintegrated. He was one of those person who disintegrated right in front of you.....but in the early days he was alright. He was young and confident. I saw a lot of Mick and Brian in the early days and I
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This is evdience you don't know what you're talking about. The Dylan song, first of all, is widely known now to NOT have been referencing Brian. Secondly, Lennon and Dylan were both quite friendly with Brian. Even Lennon's 1970 Rolling Stone interview is quite honest about Brian Jones....whom he considered a friend. Paul does comment in "Many years ago" that he
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I do think there's some truth to this. Mick, I believe, has been honest with himself about Brian. There's no bigger admirer of Brian Jones on the face of this earth than me....but clearly Brian had issues. I believe Mick has been genuine and honest in describing his relationship with Brian and Brian's relationship with the band. Keith, on the other hand, has swerved left and
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Well, I could be wrong. It does more closely resemble Foutz than Alex.
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Thanks. Okay, it was Bremen. Interestingly, the Beatles met the Maharishi for the first time in August 1967 at the Hilton Hotel in London. I'm assuming Brian met him after so it must have been in the last 3 or 4 months of 1967. The Beatles studied with him in Wales and then, ofcourse, travelled to Rishikesh in February 1968. They left 3 weeks later, however, after Mardas "o
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The point here is this. If you read the above interviews then you see that Foutz began his association with them during the Beggars period. Well, I'm almost certain that the photos linked here are of Brian when he met the Maharishi in Hamburg, Germany. I'm fairly certain this occurred in 1967 and not 1968.....so one can deduce that the photos are probably taken prior to Foutz associa
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Are we sure about Fouts? I could be wrong but I suspect this is actually Alex Mardas, or "Magic Alex" as he was known to Brian and John Lennon.
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