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Post by John S. Damm on May 25, 2010 9:58:43 GMT -5
I found my book Up And Down With The Rolling Stones last night and Dave Marsh is not the ghostwriter or involved with it at all. There are photos throughout the book that Tony Sanchez or his girlfriend took so it proves he was there for much of it. There are pictures of Keith and Tony at Nellcôte, the beautiful Villa where much of Exile was recorded, in the basement using remote equipment in a truck. This book is timely because Sanchez was closest to Richards in France where Keith really started doing heroin regularly while working on Exile which is Number 1 in the U.K.! The book starts years earlier with Tony Sanchez running into Brian Jones at the Speakeasy nightclub in London and Jones needed Sanchez to score him cocaine and LSD. One beef about the book is Sanchez is sparse on dates. I presume this encounter with Brian Jones described on page 1 of the book took place in 1967 or 1968. Sanchez doesn't say. There is major trouble between Jones and Mick and Keith by then so I'd guess 1968. Amazon.com has new copies of this book at $85.00 so it is rare. The name of the book was subsequently changed for awhile to "I Was Keith Richard's Drug Dealer" or some such thing. As I say, there are great anecdotes throughout about the Beatles, including Sanchez driving John and Yoko home from a party(maybe the filming of Rock and Roll Circus) and Yoko being very nasty and condescending to Sanchez with John apologizing for her. Sanchez always carried a knife or gun and wasn't a guy to piss off, he had underworld connections! The book is a great narrative. Brian Jones lived with two women and made it clear to all they shared the same bed. Sanchez tells the quaint story of Mick Jagger first discovering Marianne Faithful in bed with another woman and freaking out about it to Keith Richards who basically scolds Mick, "So what's the problem with that, enjoy it!" ;D Richards was with Anita Pallenberg who had left Brian Jones which was part of Brian's descent towards premature death. Man, this book makes anyone want to be a rock star. I got the book on my 18th birthday in 1979. My parents had no idea what was in this book! Oh, here is Anita Pallenberg today: January 2010 1967 www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1241743/Anita-Pallenberg-What-drag-retired-rock-chick.htmlI lent my book to several guys at my high school and we all became Stones' fans. I don't think Emotional Rescue was out yet which was good because it turned us back to 1978's classic Some Girls. This Sanchez book was actually good for the Stones, hyped their bad boy image.
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Post by mikev on May 25, 2010 13:48:08 GMT -5
I found my book Up And Down With The Rolling Stones last night and Dave Marsh is not the ghostwriter or involved with it at all. There are photos throughout the book that Tony Sanchez or his girlfriend took so it proves he was there for much of it. There are pictures of Keith and Tony at Nellcôte, the beautiful Villa where much of Exile was recorded, in the basement using remote equipment in a truck. This book is timely because Sanchez was closest to Richards in France where Keith really started doing heroin regularly while working on Exile which is Number 1 in the U.K.! The book starts years earlier with Tony Sanchez running into Brian Jones at the Speakeasy nightclub in London and Jones needed Sanchez to score him cocaine and LSD. One beef about the book is Sanchez is sparse on dates. I presume this encounter with Brian Jones described on page 1 of the book took place in 1967 or 1968. Sanchez doesn't say. There is major trouble between Jones and Mick and Keith by then so I'd guess 1968. Amazon.com has new copies of this book at $85.00 so it is rare. The name of the book was subsequently changed for awhile to "I Was Keith Richard's Drug Dealer" or some such thing. As I say, there are great anecdotes throughout about the Beatles, including Sanchez driving John and Yoko home from a party(maybe the filming of Rock and Roll Circus) and Yoko being very nasty and condescending to Sanchez with John apologizing for her. Sanchez always carried a knife or gun and wasn't a guy to piss off, he had underworld connections! The book is a great narrative. Brian Jones lived with two women and made it clear to all they shared the same bed. Sanchez tells the quaint story of Mick Jagger first discovering Marianne Faithful in bed with another woman and freaking out about it to Keith Richards who basically scolds Mick, "So what's the problem with that, enjoy it!" ;D Richards was with Anita Pallenberg who had left Brian Jones which was part of Brian's descent towards premature death. Man, this book makes anyone want to be a rock star. I got the book on my 18th birthday in 1979. My parents had no idea what was in this book! Oh, here is Anita Pallenberg today: January 2010 1967 www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1241743/Anita-Pallenberg-What-drag-retired-rock-chick.htmlI lent my book to several guys at my high school and we all became Stones' fans. I don't think Emotional Rescue was out yet which was good because it turned us back to 1978's classic Some Girls. This Sanchez book was actually good for the Stones, hyped their bad boy image. What a drag it is getting old Is that really her- or did you insert a picture of a bag lady for laughs??
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Post by mikev on May 25, 2010 13:50:00 GMT -5
BTW, Pamela Anderson kind of looks like that without her make-up...
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Post by mikev on May 25, 2010 13:54:02 GMT -5
BTW, Pamela Anderson kind of looks like that without her make-up...
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Post by John S. Damm on May 25, 2010 15:29:50 GMT -5
I found my book Up And Down With The Rolling Stones last night and Dave Marsh is not the ghostwriter or involved with it at all. There are photos throughout the book that Tony Sanchez or his girlfriend took so it proves he was there for much of it. There are pictures of Keith and Tony at Nellcôte, the beautiful Villa where much of Exile was recorded, in the basement using remote equipment in a truck. This book is timely because Sanchez was closest to Richards in France where Keith really started doing heroin regularly while working on Exile which is Number 1 in the U.K.! The book starts years earlier with Tony Sanchez running into Brian Jones at the Speakeasy nightclub in London and Jones needed Sanchez to score him cocaine and LSD. One beef about the book is Sanchez is sparse on dates. I presume this encounter with Brian Jones described on page 1 of the book took place in 1967 or 1968. Sanchez doesn't say. There is major trouble between Jones and Mick and Keith by then so I'd guess 1968. Amazon.com has new copies of this book at $85.00 so it is rare. The name of the book was subsequently changed for awhile to "I Was Keith Richard's Drug Dealer" or some such thing. As I say, there are great anecdotes throughout about the Beatles, including Sanchez driving John and Yoko home from a party(maybe the filming of Rock and Roll Circus) and Yoko being very nasty and condescending to Sanchez with John apologizing for her. Sanchez always carried a knife or gun and wasn't a guy to piss off, he had underworld connections! The book is a great narrative. Brian Jones lived with two women and made it clear to all they shared the same bed. Sanchez tells the quaint story of Mick Jagger first discovering Marianne Faithful in bed with another woman and freaking out about it to Keith Richards who basically scolds Mick, "So what's the problem with that, enjoy it!" ;D Richards was with Anita Pallenberg who had left Brian Jones which was part of Brian's descent towards premature death. Man, this book makes anyone want to be a rock star. I got the book on my 18th birthday in 1979. My parents had no idea what was in this book! Oh, here is Anita Pallenberg today: January 2010 1967 www.dailymail.co.uk/tvshowbiz/article-1241743/Anita-Pallenberg-What-drag-retired-rock-chick.htmlI lent my book to several guys at my high school and we all became Stones' fans. I don't think Emotional Rescue was out yet which was good because it turned us back to 1978's classic Some Girls. This Sanchez book was actually good for the Stones, hyped their bad boy image. What a drag it is getting old Is that really her- or did you insert a picture of a bag lady for laughs?? No, that is Anita! check out the Link I gave above. There is an article on her.
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Post by Steve Marinucci on May 25, 2010 18:38:28 GMT -5
What a drag it is getting old Is that really her- or did you insert a picture of a bag lady for laughs?? No, that is Anita! check out the Link I gave above. There is an article on her. Jeez, I almost thought that was Brian alive.
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Post by Steve Marinucci on May 25, 2010 18:46:58 GMT -5
And the Tony Sanchez book is available for less than you mentioned, John. I saw it for as low as $12.99 on Amazon. It's also being reissued in the UK, but not till October. You can pre-order it through Amazon.co.uk here: amzn.to/97d8HF
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Post by John S. Damm on May 25, 2010 19:44:01 GMT -5
And the Tony Sanchez book is available for less than you mentioned, John. I saw it for as low as $12.99 on Amazon. It's also being reissued in the UK, but not till October. You can pre-order it through Amazon.co.uk here: amzn.to/97d8HF Thanks Steve! That is good news as my book, from October 1979, is well worn although I realized that what is cool about a book, versus I-Pads, is that every stain in a cherished book is like an old friend. It was there earlier on and is part of that book's history.
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Post by John S. Damm on May 26, 2010 13:29:11 GMT -5
In a fit of compulsive insanity last night(hey, I had a bad week personally), I ordered from Amazon.com (from one of Steve's links to it so they know where their patrons are coming from) the following: 1. 2009 remastered Some Girls c.d. for $7.99 new, that is a steal folks for a classic album. I have the original c.d. release of this so it will be fun to have the newest remastered version. 2. The Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus: I only have this on the commercial VHS tape and the c.d. I love this movie, one of my favorite music films. The Stones, The Who and John Lennon kick ass. Marianne Faithful is awesome and oh so sexy. 3. Gimme Shelter dvd: this was the riskiest purchase as it is a 2000 dvd so I'd think the a/v will suck but it is the only version Amazon had. It is also $35.00. I have seen bits of it and it is always spellbinding and tragic. 4. The T.A.M.I. Show: Wow, for $13.99 there is a bunch of amazing 1964 mega-talent. James Brown, The Rolling Stones(as almost babies), The Beach Boys(firing on all cylinders) and many, many more. These goodies will come yet this week before Memorial Day(U.S.). The wife has no idea! They will be delivered at the office and I'll sneak them in when she is asleep. The goodies came as promised yesterday! I watched much of The Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus last night and that never gets old to me. What wonderful, rare live performances from a pivotal year in Rock: 1968! I had the VHS tape but the bonus material is great! John Lennon is awesome of course but so is everyone else. In a pull-out insert, Yoko is quoted from 1996(whenever this first was released) saying the film represents "Swinging London." Was London still "Swinging" on December 11, 1968 when this show was mostly shot? To me "Swinging" London seemed like it was fruit out on the shelf just past its expiration date by the end of 1968. To me, the height of "Swinging London" was 1965 through 1967. The Sixties started getting witchy by 1968 with the assassinations, more race riots, the Tet Offensive showing the Vietnam War wasn't close to being over, student riots in Paris, Prague, Chicago, and other dark things. I think of Swinging London as Carnaby Street and for years I kind of thought that died with John Wesley Harding, "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and The Beatles "White Album." Obviously not per this late 1968 filmed special.
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Post by OldFred on May 26, 2010 18:34:35 GMT -5
Here's a couple of Hot & Cold Stones videos.
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Post by John S. Damm on May 27, 2010 14:43:38 GMT -5
There is definitely Exile-mania as several posters here have indicated to discovering this album(I am one of them) and people in my physical world, i.e. my mailman who was of that era but was against the Stones back then for religious reasons but who has now relented(he's seen that what's come after is even worse!); one of my law partners who I must thank for refiring me on Stones as we would wind down in his office late at night this past winter after long hours working and he'd crank the vastless Stones' catalog found on his i-pod while sipping hopped up micro-brew; and several other local friends who are re-discovering it after shelving it for years or those getting into it for the very first time(me again).
My buddy bought a big powerful motorboat and I would love to tool around in it on one of our fresh-water lakes blasting Exile. I can't think of a better way to spend a summer afternoon! Well, in ways that wouldn't violate my marriage vows, i.e. listening to Exile with my mystery 1972 woman. ;D
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Post by OldFred on May 27, 2010 15:25:03 GMT -5
I just like to say that while I like some of the Stones music and respect them for their longevity and being survivors (especially Keith!), I was never an overtly big Stones fan. There was always something about the band I always found sinister and nasty that I never felt comfortable wrapping my arms around them. I know the Beatles had a darker side to them too, but the Stones just took it just a little further, sometimes with tragic results. Think Brian Jones and Altamont.
True, by today's standards, the Stones' may seem a bit more approachable, but not innocent. I think I started getting more into the Stones' in the late 80's when it seemed that they had nothing left to prove and just became comfortable being a more entertaining band, happy to play their hits.
The link I posted for their video 'She Was Hot' showed that they had a sense of humor that was not as obvious during other stages of their career. I love Charlie Watts at the end of the video playing the role of Anita Morris' sleazy manager, and I bet Charlie had fun doing it.
I'm more a fan of the Stone's 60's hits and some of their songs in the 70's, 80's and a few of the more recent songs. It's just the group's image in total that has always bothered me.
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Post by John S. Damm on May 27, 2010 16:29:43 GMT -5
I just like to say that while I like some of the Stones music and respect them for their longevity and being survivors (especially Keith!), I was never an overtly big Stones fan. There was always something about the band I always found sinister and nasty that I never felt comfortable wrapping my arms around them. I know the Beatles had a darker side to them too, but the Stones just took it just a little further, sometimes with tragic results. Think Brian Jones and Altamont. True, by today's standards, the Stones' may seem a bit more approachable, but not innocent. I think I started getting more into the Stones' in the late 80's when it seemed that they had nothing left to prove and just became comfortable being a more entertaining band, happy to play their hits. The link I posted for their video 'She Was Hot' showed that they had a sense of humor that was not as obvious during other stages of their career. I love Charlie Watts at the end of the video playing the role of Anita Morris' sleazy manager, and I bet Charlie had fun doing it. I'm more a fan of the Stone's 60's hits and some of their songs in the 70's, 80's and a few of the more recent songs. It's just the group's image in total that has always bothered me. I wondered where you stood, OldFred. You have mentioned the Stones in long ago posts not without some respect so I knew you liked them in some regard. I am finding Exile a lot less dark than the Stones albums before that. Their Satanic Majesties Request, Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed just ooze in evilness. Those are great albums, especially the last two, but I hold them arm's length! ;D
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Post by John S. Damm on May 30, 2010 3:18:44 GMT -5
I picked up two Stones' dvd boxes that have been around for a while. The first is the Rolling Stones Four Flicks and the second is Rolling Stones The Biggest Bang.
The first Box is from shows done in the Fall of 2001. The second is from the 2005/2006 tour.
It says there are about 12 hours of music in these two boxes. My wife will be delighted. She is bewildered at my Stones conversion.
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Post by nine on May 30, 2010 4:01:06 GMT -5
I picked up two Stones' dvd boxes that have been around for a while. The first is the Rolling Stones Four Flicks and the second is Rolling Stones The Biggest Bang. The first Box is from shows done in the Fall of 2001. The second is from the 2005/2006 tour. It says there are about 12 hours of music in these two boxes. My wife will be delighted. She is bewildered at my Stones conversion. I haven't seen Four Flicks but I am aware that the Young brothers make an appearance. I'd be interested in hearing what you've got to say about this guest spot.
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Post by John S. Damm on May 30, 2010 12:06:39 GMT -5
I picked up two Stones' dvd boxes that have been around for a while. The first is the Rolling Stones Four Flicks and the second is Rolling Stones The Biggest Bang. The first Box is from shows done in the Fall of 2001. The second is from the 2005/2006 tour. It says there are about 12 hours of music in these two boxes. My wife will be delighted. She is bewildered at my Stones conversion. I haven't seen Four Flicks but I am aware that the Young brothers make an appearance. I'd be interested in hearing what you've got to say about this guest spot. I am hoping that will score me brownie points with my wife, an AC/DC fan from the 70's and 80's. The night before the last U.S. Presidential Election, we saw them at a sold out Indianapolis concert and the tickets were my birthday present to her so I went the ticket broker route(legalized scalping!) and had great seats near the stage. An amazing concert and even a conservative square like me got good at throwing the devil-horn handsign! I'll let you know although it could take years before I get to it since the Mrs. controls our entertainment room with an iron fist. Oh, I finished watching all the special features on The Rolling Stones Rock And Roll Circus. There is another great clip of John screwing around with Mick as the two do a mock singalong of "Yer Blues." Pete Townsend's subsequent interview(contemporary to the release of this project) is interesting. He praises Jagger for keeping everyone together for two long days of filming and being a hardworking pro. Pete says everyone knew Brian Jones wasn't long to live(this was December 11, 1968 and Brian died on July 3, 1969) and off camera he was crying all day and Mick had to tend to him as well as Keith Richards who Townsend claims was all yellow(skin color) and then green from all the drugs he was taking. Pete Townsend all but snubs John Lennon. I was eagerly waiting to hear what Pete said about "Yer Blues" and Lennon's presence but Pete doesn't say one word about John playing a Beatles'song that had just been released a month back. Pete praises Yoko's performance saying he thought it wild and entertaining and refers to "Lennon"(use of surname only) on guitar with "Eric" and "Keith." Pete said he talked to Yoko about art as he was an ex-art student. He does later in the conversation have quick praise for "Eric Clapton and John Lennon" on guitars for Yoko's piece but zero mention of John belting out a powerful "Yer Blues." Can the Board's Who fans tell us about Pete Townsend's thoughts on John Lennon? Another really cool thing is the deleted scene of a classical pianist but the cool thing is Brian Jones introduces him. Throughout the film, the different Stones get to introduce acts but Brian was left out. Well, he wasn't but the act he introduced was cut from the released film. He talks with a slight lisp but is rather wicked in his intro, kind of putting the classical pianist down, saying he will be a treat for, "the mums and dads and little kiddies." The young adult audience is not too much into the pianist. Brian Jones looks really cool on stage one last time as a Stone and shines on "No Expectations" on slide guitar that would make George Harrison proud. In Tony Sanchez's book, he claims Mick and Keith would mess with Brian in the studio and Brian would think he was recording his guitar bits when in fact he wasn't being recorded. On one of the Stones' songs in the film, you can see Brian(on stage right) looking behind at his amp as if it wasn't on,fiddling with the knobs. I wonder! Other than slide guitar, he was playing second rhythm guitar to Keith in that tapestry of guitar sounds that Keith likes.
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 1, 2010 19:37:39 GMT -5
I am totally smitten with Marianne Faithfull who dated Mick Jagger for years in the mid to late 1960's. Here is her doing "As Tears Go By" on Hullabaloo London in 1965. You will be as thrilled as I was by the presenter of Marianne, a dapper, good-looking young man we read about a lot but rarely see:
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Post by winstonoboogie on Jun 1, 2010 20:41:26 GMT -5
I am totally smitten with Marianne Faithfull who dated Mick Jagger for years in the mid to late 1960's. Here is her doing "As Tears Go By" on Hullabaloo London in 1965. You will be as thrilled as I was by the presenter of Marianne, a dapper, good-looking young man we read about a lot but rarely see: Wow! I never knew Brian could "dress down"! Marianne was gorgeous before the drugs got her.
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 1, 2010 22:12:07 GMT -5
Here is an amazing live cover of "Working Class Hero" by Marianne:
This could be my favorite cover. She originally recorded it for her great 1979 comeback album Broken English which will be the next c.d. I buy.
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Post by sayne on Jun 1, 2010 22:53:59 GMT -5
Here is an amazing live cover of "Working Class Hero" by Marianne: This could be my favorite cover. She originally recorded it for her great 1979 comeback album Broken English which will be the next c.d. I buy. I remember buying that album when it first came out because of that cover song. You're right, it is an all-time classic. Such a long way, in a positive way, from As Tears Go By. Have you heard her sing background on the Metallica song The Memory Remains?
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 1, 2010 23:19:32 GMT -5
Have you heard her sing background on the Metallica song The Memory Remains? I haven't, sayne. What is so exciting to me is that I am really discovering the Stones and some of their friends like Marianne Faithfull in depth for the first time. A good high school/college friend of mine reminded me over this past holiday(U.S.) weekend that he remembered me going through intense Stones phases in 1981-1983 and 1989-1990. That is right but even then I was only scratching the surface with the Hot Rocks I and II comps, maybe two other comps and about five or six studio albums. That was it! I never even got into Sticky Fingers or my new-found and loved Exile On Main St.. And to this day I own no studio album earlier than Beggars Banquet, as I rely on the two Hot Rocks for that era. Same with Marianne. Sure, I read all about her in Tony Sanchez's book but I never had heard any of her music until this go-around. This is exciting for me with new discoveries. I view you sayne as one of our Board experts on Stones(you and Steve M.) as you've seen them in concert so many times.
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Post by sayne on Jun 3, 2010 0:02:39 GMT -5
. . . I view you sayne as one of our Board experts on Stones(you and Steve M.) as you've seen them in concert so many times. Thanks. Can't say I know everything about them, but they and the Beatles were IT for me. As with Paul, I will see them in concert anytime I can. It's like each band tapped into dualities of importance to me and made be whole: mind/brain, heart/soul, love/lust, spirit/body . . . This is not an intellectual thing. It's visceral. I am who I am because of these two bands, good, bad, or indifferent. Therefore, I feel reinvigorated when I see Paul or the Stones in concert. It's not a religious thing, but there is a bit of a "Mecca" mentality to it, for me. Is it wack to feel this way about two silly little pop bands? Perhaps. I'm not naive, though, nor am I a maniac. I know they are not gods. They are not infallible. I don't idolize them. But, they were big parts of my formative years and one cannot easily dismiss that from ones fiber. They connected with me and I have not let go. I know they are both only rock and roll, but I like 'em.
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 3, 2010 10:41:39 GMT -5
. . . I view you sayne as one of our Board experts on Stones(you and Steve M.) as you've seen them in concert so many times. Thanks. Can't say I know everything about them, but they and the Beatles were IT for me. As with Paul, I will see them in concert anytime I can. It's like each band tapped into dualities of importance to me and made be whole: mind/brain, heart/soul, love/lust, spirit/body . . . This is not an intellectual thing. It's visceral. I am who I am because of these two bands, good, bad, or indifferent. Therefore, I feel reinvigorated when I see Paul or the Stones in concert. It's not a religious thing, but there is a bit of a "Mecca" mentality to it, for me. Is it wack to feel this way about two silly little pop bands? Perhaps. I'm not naive, though, nor am I a maniac. I know they are not gods. They are not infallible. I don't idolize them. But, they were big parts of my formative years and one cannot easily dismiss that from ones fiber. They connected with me and I have not let go. I know they are both only rock and roll, but I like 'em. Man, a First Generation Fan of both The Beatles and The Rolling Stones. [Sigh] I am literally a First Generation Fan of the Partridge Family.....no wonder I am so lost. I will be researching and sharing here the violent riots that occurred at Stones' concerts from about 1965 until they stopped touring in what, late 1966, early 1967? They resumed touring in 1969 but that is a different, and well documented, era going to about 1972 with Exile On Main St. and the '72 tour. The Stones' mid-60's concerts in Europe were not about teenyboppers screaming but about young men fighting the authorities and I am reading now about riots in Sweden(police dogs unleashed on the teens) and a concert in Warsaw, behind the Iron Curtain, in 1966 or 1967 where teargas was used and riot police deployed in battle as the real teenagers fought their way to the front of the stage as all the good tickets were given to the children of Communist Party officials. The working youth fought their way in without tickets and with Keith Richards telling the rich kids to go sod off! I think all of that is forgotten now. I think history focuses on the Stones from 1969 to 1982. The mid-Sixties Stones is swept under the rug. I am still convinced the Stones were more powerful politically than any one on this Board is giving them credit for. I am reading quotes from Jagger where he knew he was inciting youth rage against the establishment and not just of a lust nature with teen girls like The Beatles were. Instead of apologizing for the "Jesus" remark like John Lennon, Mick Jagger was kicking himself for not saying it and then standing by it. The KKK would not have scared the Stones. They were taunting the Polish Secret Police in concert for crying out loud. There is a forgotten 1960's out there and it is from the release of (I Can't Get No)Satisfaction in 1965 to the release of Sgt. Pepper's in mid-1967. We here know the Beatles' history in this time-frame like the back of our hands but maybe not the rest of Pop history in this period(although these are the Monkees' heyday so Fred will know that story). This writing by me will be later as I have too much reading and research to do.
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Post by ursamajor on Jun 3, 2010 17:14:55 GMT -5
So which pre-Satanic Stones albums should I get ?
Aftermatch, Between the Buttons etc.. have a different US and UK version with the UK version being the official album and the US adding the hit single that came out with it .. these are ABCKO only remasters too, no 2009 remastering ...
taps sticky fingers ..
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Post by ursamajor on Jun 3, 2010 17:16:41 GMT -5
. . . I view you sayne as one of our Board experts on Stones(you and Steve M.) as you've seen them in concert so many times. Thanks. Can't say I know everything about them, but they and the Beatles were IT for me. As with Paul, I will see them in concert anytime I can. It's like each band tapped into dualities of importance to me and made be whole: mind/brain, heart/soul, love/lust, spirit/body . . . This is not an intellectual thing. It's visceral. I am who I am because of these two bands, good, bad, or indifferent. Therefore, I feel reinvigorated when I see Paul or the Stones in concert. It's not a religious thing, but there is a bit of a "Mecca" mentality to it, for me. Is it wack to feel this way about two silly little pop bands? Perhaps. I'm not naive, though, nor am I a maniac. I know they are not gods. They are not infallible. I don't idolize them. But, they were big parts of my formative years and one cannot easily dismiss that from ones fiber. They connected with me and I have not let go. I know they are both only rock and roll, but I like 'em. Sayne do yourself and everyone else a favour and write a book about this one topic. I would buy it and I'm sure thousands would too. That's gold !!!
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Post by nine on Jun 4, 2010 6:44:09 GMT -5
So which pre-Satanic Stones albums should I get ? Aftermatch, Between the Buttons etc.. have a different US and UK version with the UK version being the official album and the US adding the hit single that came out with it .. these are ABCKO only remasters too, no 2009 remastering ... taps sticky fingers .. Aftermath is a great record though I'm not sure which version I listened to here in Australia, the UK or the US....
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Post by OldFred on Jun 4, 2010 17:29:50 GMT -5
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Post by John S. Damm on Jun 4, 2010 22:26:18 GMT -5
I can't wait to play this, thanks Fred!
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Post by sayne on Jun 4, 2010 23:28:23 GMT -5
Crimson and Clover? Who wuddah thunk?
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Post by sayne on Jun 4, 2010 23:32:19 GMT -5
Sayne do yourself and everyone else a favour and write a book about this one topic. I would buy it and I'm sure thousands would too. That's gold !!! Thank you. Sometimes I do write something worth reading. For those other 99.9 percent of the times, sorry everyone.
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