reading "The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones" by Stanley Booth right now.
really incredible, best rock book ever written IMO, and also sort of transcends being a mere band bio and caputures the death of the 60s and that dream as well as anything this side of Fear & Loathing
basically, Booth seems to have had near total access to the Stones during the entire tour for Let It Bleed that culminates in Altamont
he's a stunning writer, I guess it took him 15 years to write the book, didn't come out till the mid 80s
can't recommend it more highly
― upper mississippi 2: still shakin, Thursday, 22 December 2011 18:22 (twelve years ago) link
You guys know they're playing next year, right?
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Thursday, 22 December 2011 18:25 (twelve years ago) link
they play every year
― flexidisc, Thursday, 22 December 2011 18:26 (twelve years ago) link
listened to aftermath - my favorite stones LP - last nite and was remindedthat, as pointless as their existence is today, they were great back when.
― higgs boson (the deli llama), Thursday, 22 December 2011 18:31 (twelve years ago) link
No, they do not, Mr. Que. They're also going to play somewhere, I believe, they have not for over 40 years.
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Thursday, 22 December 2011 18:41 (twelve years ago) link
Your ass?
― flexidisc, Thursday, 22 December 2011 18:44 (twelve years ago) link
I would pay top dollar.
― C.K. Dexter Holland, Thursday, 22 December 2011 18:50 (twelve years ago) link
I was listening to them this morning. <3 for all time. I don't think I'd go see them though - not at this point anyway.
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Thursday, 22 December 2011 18:53 (twelve years ago) link
And especially not in gabneb's ass.
two Bs (well 3 in total) sorry
― ᶘ ᵒᴥᵒᶅ (~curious orange~), Thursday, 22 December 2011 18:55 (twelve years ago) link