Humorist David Sedaris wrote that he and his siblings would play a game when flipping through photo albums called "See Mom, see Mom's cigarette." In all family photos she had a cigarette, sometimes smoldering on her dinner plate, or just between her fingers. "Oh, there it is!"
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Even though Keith was obviously playing dumb on purpose, I can see Nigel Tufnel saying Keith's line below and meaning it: Both friends of Keith, Fran Lebowitz and Jimmy Fallon (on The Tonight Show) talked of Fran's frustration that she couldn't smoke backstage. Fallon said, "Keith Richards was smoking backstage and a staffer said to him, `You're not supposed to smo
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I think this quote of Bill's about being asked to join the Stones is a bit Spinal Tappish: “I owned a Vox AC-30 amplifier, which was really something in those days. It was…quite a valuable asset. So they thought, ‘Oh, really good amp; the bass player’s nothing special, but we’ll keep him so we can use the amp.’ That was the general opinion, I have since learned. You know, they are real c
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In Woody's memoir RONNIE, he says his kids often say, "Dad, turn the TV down!" which he turns up because of hearing loss.
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Mick quoted in passing in Olivia Wilde ELLE story >>>
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James Jagger will soon be starring in a bunch of Fox Studio movies. Jerry's had the dumb luck of Forrest Gump, but she's as nice as Forrest so I don't mind.
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For those with a Talmudic interest, check this link >>> ; for an article titled THE SECRET JEWISH HISTORY OF THE ROLLING STONES (I'm not joking).
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It's one of my favorite Stones songs. I was exercising to it last week.
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Little kids have won Oscars for acting, so Leo's idiot sanctimony was a bit much (read SuperFreakonomics). I saw Dave Grohl play with the Stones at their last Anaheim show so enjoyed his Blackbird last night.
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I liked Andrew Dice Clay's Donald Trump impression.
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Stones connection: Mick dated Mary Badham who played Scout in the movie.
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QuoteTitle5Take1 Mick and Martin Scorsese will appear Friday, February 12 on NBC's Today Show; 7 - 9 a.m. (According to my TV's schedule "grid." ) Surprised no one seemed to care about this, but I watched it and enjoyed the Mick-and-Martin interview and was very pleased NBC did not use Matt Lauer for once to interview Mick, but an interviewer who was more of a regular dude.
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Enjoyed it, but missed the talking at the end. I guess a girl couldn't be a "knight in shining armor..."
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Quotestupidguy2 "In the past James has referred to his surname as more of a blessing than a curse." He should change his name to Murdoch.
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Bill is thinking, "Oh, Mick and Keith are getting a taste of their own medicine." (Jumpin' Jack Flash riff, anyone?)
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The vinyl album does not have the "refuse" lines like the CD album.
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Mick and Martin Scorsese will appear Friday, February 12 on NBC's Today Show; 7 - 9 a.m. (According to my TV's schedule "grid." )
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From Feb 4 LOS ANGELES TIMES For Mick Jagger, the sex, drugs and rock 'n' roll of HBO's 'Vinyl' is a familiar world Meredith Blake Contact Reporter REPORTING FROM NEW YORK Sometime in the mid-'90s, after grunge and before the boy band era, Mick Jagger approached Martin Scorsese with an idea for a movie about the music business. The project would span s
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TMI? You be the judge: I was in Santiago a few years ago, and as some consider it the most advanced of the S. American countries, a couple yankees in my group drank the water from the hotel tap. I had to go to the pharmacy to get medicine when they got the trots. I told the pharmacist what I wanted and a Chilean woman in line behind me overheard and told me, "It's the water that gave th
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Mick and Jerry having to behave! (At bottom of page) From the new book Model Woman about the Ford Modeling Agency.
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Around the 16:30 mark >>> <<< Bob Costas tells Paul McCartney that "starting with the chorus" on SHE LOVES YOU was new.
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From Motown to Miltown >>>
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QuoteSilver Dagger One thing I never got though is the curious line, "don't need a virgin priest". Why would anyone want a virgin priest? Maybe the screenwriter was listening to the song when he wrote these Clint Eastwood lines in GRAN TORINO >>>
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I saw Sonny Rollins live a few years ago and some bits totally reminded me of Waiting on a Friend when I was in heaven.
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"I followed you through swirling seas, Down darkened woods with silent trees." A fine couplet and written after 1981.
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I wouldn't mind some reality-TV crew having caught the following: MICK JAGGER (1985): "I said `Would you like me to stay out there in the studio?' He said, `Yeah, you tell me where you want me to play and DANCE the part out.' So I did that. And that's very important: communication in hand, dance, whatever. You don't have to do a whole ballet, but sometimes that m
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Nice Keith interview in issue below.
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"The fact is Ronnie can play like me, but I can't play like Ronnie." — Keith (timeisonourside.com) Ronnie said of some EMOTIONAL RESCUE guitar bit (on Where the Boys All Go or Summer Romance, I forget which), "Keith says that's him playing, but it's actually me playing like Keith." (Paraphrase from memory, and I forget which magazine I read this in.)
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Fascinating to read. I've always loved the Hand of Fate and Worried About You solos, although for years I was so impressed by Woody's solo on Worried, and then I learned Mick Taylor played on TATTOO YOU, so I was impressed with Taylor's solo on Worried. Finally I learned it was Wayne Perkins! Perkins missing Stones membership by a whisker reminds me of Jay Leno waiting for the d
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Quotedrewmaster QuoteTitle5Take1 Interview published at time of UNDERCOVER but I got this in a compilation issue published years later (an all-Beatles-and-Stones-interviews special edition of MUSICIAN.) Fantastic piece; thanks for posting these two pages ... any possibility you could throw up the rest of it? Thanks! Drew I sort of expected such a request . I hadn’t wanted to put the wh
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