I see the Sun is living up to its usual standards of accuracy. That bike picture has been around for months (since just after the Palm Tree) and was originally reported as being taken somewhere in Connecticut... "In late July (1989) Keith took the pre-tour physical. 'The bugger stuck electrodes all over my body, hooked up more monitors to me than the Stones use on stage, and told me
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Erik: If you mean my first incompetent attempt at posting pictures, I think I've got one of them in colour now... nothing I can do about the other 2.
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(Dominique Tarle) (Gered Mankowicz?) Taken on the Stones' first trip to America. (Mark Seliger)
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They were supposed to be British icons only.
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It was a very hot summer in England. Bill was about to become a teenager. Brian and Charlie were at primary school. Mick and Keith were enjoying their last few weeks of freedom before starting school in September (Keith made a big fuss about being parted from his Mum), and Ronnie had just had his third birthday... Summer 1949.
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Since 1963 (I was 14). Still have my old school ruler somewhere with MickKeithBrianBillCharlie scratched on it. (Mind you, it has JohnPaulGeorgeRingo on it too, but nobody's perfect...)
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Mine came from Keith's site. I had a look at Amazon UK where there's only record-collectors' copies at Enormous Expense, and decided that if I was going to have to import it from the US I might as well go straight to the source. Arrived in about a fortnight, no problem. Nice interview with Keith about the Wingless Angels project here:
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Wingless Angels. Wow.
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Now if you want to hear some boogie like I'm going to play It's just an old piano and a knockout bass The drummer man's a cat they call Charlie McCoy You all remember that rubber legged boy?
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I can't answer The Sicilian's exact question because I just can't imagine that Brian, if he was still with us today, would still be a member of the Stones. As brilliant as he was at so many things (perhaps BECAUSE he could do so many things so easily) he seemed to get bored equally easily and move on to something different. I think he'd have had one of those brilliant-but
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According to Marianne Faithfull's autobiography: "...by the spring of 1968 Mick had become restless. He was beginning to feel his role as lead singer of a rock 'n roll band was too confining ... he was casting about for something new. As a culture hero Mick could have become almost anything he wished. For a while, he flirted with the idea of becoming a Labour Member of Parlia
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The "Pixies" might also be Pink Fairies?
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Somebody, somewhere PLEASE persuade the Stones to do the BBC Electric Proms (what the Who were doing) next year! Being the BBC, the money is probably very small potatoes, but either of the venues (Albert Hall or Roundhouse) would provide a wonderful atmosphere.
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Play With Fire - that particular combination of beautiful guitar and spiky, cynical lyrics is pure Essence of Rolling Stones... Dancing With Mr. D - the first time I put on Goats Head Soup and heard that opening, I was hooked. Rough Justice - one Amazon reviewer headed his ABB review "Oh yes, it's THEM again!" and I know exactly how he felt.
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Yippee likewise!
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Also recommended: Ian McLagan's autobiography All The Rage, which I'm reading at the moment.
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Saw this when it went out on BBC4, and it's really good - I'll certainly be buying the DVD when it appears.
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There has been a lot of fuss going on here this summer over professional musicians not being allowed to bring their instruments in the cabin. If top-flight orchestras have to put their priceless Stradivarius's in the hold or not fly - then they don't fly. I think it may have been relaxed a little by now, but I wouldn't count on being able to hug your guitar all the way, especiall
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pjb Wrote: ------------------------------------------------------- > If England start playing a bit better in the > cricket ,you might see Mick pop up in Australia > for the ashes. And if they don't, they might need to put Mick in to bat....
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Glad to find someone else likes the ABB cover picture. Of the CD covers I prefer it to Stripped, where they're just trying that little bit too obviously to look really cool and hard with all the shades and leather, and don't QUITE get away with it IMHO. Yes, the rest of the ABB artwork is a bit of a muddle, but that is one great picture - especially at poster size (which I've got
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I never get tired of listening to the earliest stuff and playing the who's-doing-what guessing game: Whose guitar is playing? Now then, THAT's definitely Keith, so THAT other bit must be Brian... Is that Mick or Brian on harp? Stu or someone else on piano or organ? Who's enjoying themselves so much singing the backup "Oh YEAH's" on Tell Me? Who's t
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If the question was about musical ability only, there might be more of an argument, but the most IMPORTANT - Stu, - it was because of his presence in the band from the beginning that the Stones became a band in which keyboards were an essential part of the sound, and a keyboard player an indispensable member of the team to this day - because his own enthusiasm and love of the music ad
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Hey, You, Get Off Of My Beast Of Burden!
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This Place is Empty, She Saw Me Coming
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"...What bugs you the most is when you write something and then realise it's somebody else's song....I think every songwriter must have that problem from time to time. You play something and you realise it's Beethoven, or the Beatles. I have this theory that in open tuning Keith Richards got everything you can do. He got there first and he got everything there was to get...
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Doing the housework to this CD: great singer/harmonica player Kellie Rucker: Ain't Hit Bottom
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The Stones don't go in for this kind of showbiz sentimentality. Thank God.
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Hmmm - the Independent link doesn't seem to work. Let's try again.
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Here's Art Wood singing "Hoochie Coochie Man" from a live performance in 1998: The only national newspaper to publish an obituary was the Independent; reproduced on the website here: Reading this, I suddenly noticed Art's date of birth: 7th July 1937. "On the seventh day, of the seventh month…"
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First the sun and then the moon One of them will be round soon...
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