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Just saw Ronnie Wood in the crowd during the snooker final.
Incredible that Brian Jones is four decades in his box.
Think of all the music he could have given us in that time. What a waste.
Incredible that Brian Jones is four decades in his box.
Think of all the music he could have given us in that time. What a waste.
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Then again, what did the rest of them give us since then?
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Ah that lot were brutal.
Kicked him out of the Stones, he dies the same year, and they wouldn't even go to his funeral. Fair play to Wyman who turned up and said they were a disgrace. Brian would have given us some leftfield stuff if he'd been given a chance. the 1970s would have been the perfect environment for him. Ah well.. |
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Fair play.
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Even if he'd lived and stayed in the band, I can't believe he'd be part of the self parody of the tired stadium grandad act they are now - he'd have walked long ago.
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Only the dirt is keeping Keith Richards together :)
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was he any more talented than Richards or Jagger?
Didn't think he had so much to do with their music the last 2 years he was with them ,and that was when they did their best stuff. very few musicians do much worthwhile after the first 5 years or so |
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That's true that his contribution toward the end of his time withy the band was minimal.
He was more of a visonary / multi instrumentalist and jagger and Richards were effective in taking the ball and running with it commercially. I doubt he'd have had much to do with the Stones in the seventies but would have put together a couple of new projects that would have had the best possible incubator in the decade of progressive music, new ideas and open minded audiences. |
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You mean he'd have sucked off Bryan Ferry?
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:p
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thanks a lot..remind me how old i am
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I used to work with Frank Thorogood.
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fairweather - really? Conspiracy theory from Jones then girlfriend or anything in it in your opinion?
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yea really, in the 80s. He used to like saying he was there when Brian died, like a claim to fame, but never owned up to anything dodgy. Apparently he admitted it on his deathbed, but thats also been denied so who knows.
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The truth will probably never be known, neither if the deathbed confession was also a myth. However, a lot of stuff was also supposedly taken from Jones house, items of which occasionally surface. All very mysterious.
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Very !
When you read the alleged circumstances leading up to it, Frank being stopped wages, huge rows between them, etc, its a good little conspiracy. |
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The timeframe of his death was incredible too - so shortly after being kicked out the band and only a couple of days before the Hyde Park gig. Imagine the media circus of this era if it had happened now! I'm not even sure there is a pop/rock star close to his standing at such a young age around at the moment.
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Not his age, but someone like Chris Martin would compare - as you say, imagine how big a story that would be! :-)
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It would be big news yes, but comparing the creativity and legacy of Jones to Chris Martin is like comparing an Aston Martin to a moped!
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hmm ok :D
comparable as in a prominent member of a World famous English rock band. |
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Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at Joujouka ....
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i'm good a friend of his son. he's convinced it was a murder.
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In their manager's book,Andrew Oldham says he was out of control and was on the path to self destruction just like Keith Moon.He could have died a few times before he did such was his lifestyle.
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I'm not even sure there is a pop/rock star close to his standing at such a young age around at the moment.
There isn't. Musicians/bands are only a small aspect of the distractions available in the internet era. If the Frank Lampard lookalike out of Muse died tomorrow, the mourning would dry up as soon as the latest GTA game was released etc. In '69 music was pretty much the main event. Anna Wohlin's book is a fairly desperate affair for those who haven't read it. It has the relentless sense of a woman who feels she has to overegg her own significance in the Brian jones story just to feel relevant or of value. Certainly doesn't read like the bible truth anyway! |
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It was Brian Jones who got The Rolling Stones together it was his band,
but in the end his erratic behaviour and complicated life he became a liabilty to them. Someone on here compared him to Chris Martin..........Martin wouldn't even come close ! Jones was the driving force behind the band in the early days. And for whatever reason, the only 2 Stones who went to his funeral were Wyman and Charlie Watts. |