Rolling Stones Thread

[The Rover]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dHsX7_H7_HU

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[Jahfin]

Keith interview by Matt Lauer on The Today Show Edited October 22, 2010 by Jahfin

[Gospel Zone]

Keith interview by Matt Lauer on The Today Show

The part about Mick being a control freak and Keith being uncontrollable was one of the more interesting, and believable, things I've heard in a Keith Richards interview in a long time. Otherwise the interview revealed nothing new. Keith can say some interesting things but I always keep in mind that we are listening to someone with addiction problems, so I'm not going to hang on every word as if it was the gospel truth. I don't even look at the gospel as being the gospel truth. Now that sounds like something Keith might say!

Edited October 23, 2010 by Gospel Zone

[Magic Fills the Air]

For those of you in the UK, there will be an exclusive edition of the Culture Show with Keith Richards on BBC2 on Thursday night at 7.00pm.

[danelectro59]

The part about Mick being a control freak and Keith being uncontrollable was one of the more interesting, and believable, things I've heard in a Keith Richards interview in a long time. Otherwise the interview revealed nothing new. Keith can say some interesting things but I always keep in mind that we are listening to someone with addiction problems, so I'm not going to hang on every word as if it was the gospel truth. I don't even look at the gospel as being the gospel truth. Now that sounds like something Keith might say!

I just watched a segment on CBS' Sunday Morning on him and like you, take a lot of what he says with a grain of salt. But I could still listen to him for hours and find him a fascinating character. Just like Zep or the Beatles, I never tire of hearing stories of them from the inside.

[kenog]

For those of you in the UK, there will be an exclusive edition of the Culture Show with Keith Richards on BBC2 on Thursday night at 7.00pm.

Yes Magic, and it is being repeated on the same evening at 2320 hrs for anyone who missed the first showing.

[Hotplant]

I just watched a segment on CBS' Sunday Morning on him and like you, take a lot of what he says with a grain of salt. But I could still listen to him for hours and find him a fascinating character. Just like Zep or the Beatles, I never tire of hearing stories of them from the inside.

I watched that too, I love Keith, and I love how he said he likes to garden. Nice pad.

LEMONS!

Can't wait for the book.

[kenog]

Source:- Mail On Sunday

I would draw your attention to the fact that the article says that the drug dealer known as the 'acid king' was never seen again after the raid in 1967, yet one of the photo captions states that here he is with Keith in 1973B).

How the Acid King confessed he DID set up Rolling Stones drug bust for MI5 and FBI

By Sharon Churcher and Peter Sheridan

Last updated at 2:46 PM on 24th October 2010

It is one of the most intriguing chapters in the history of the Rolling Stones.

The drugs raid on a party at guitarist Keith Richards’s Sussex home, Redlands, more than 40 years ago very nearly destroyed the band.

And one of the 1967 episode’s unexplained mysteries was the identity of the man blamed by Richards and Mick Jagger for setting them up, a young drug dealer known as the Acid King.

Crime scene: Mick Jagger and Keith Richards outside Redlands, the home that was raided by police in 1967

He was a guest at the party – and supplied the drugs – but vanished after the raid, never to be seen or heard of again.

Jagger and Richards were arrested and jailed for possession of cannabis and amphetamines, though later acquitted on appeal.

Richards claimed last week in his autobiography, Life, that the Acid King was a police informant called David Sniderman.

The truth appears to confirm Richards’s long-held belief that the band was targeted by an Establishment fearful of its influence over the nation’s youth.

The Mail on Sunday can reveal that Sniderman was a Toronto-born failed actor who told his family and friends he was recruited by British and American intelligence as part of a plot to discredit the group.

After the Redlands bust, he slipped out of Britain and moved to the States where he changed his name to David Jove, and lived in Hollywood, later working as a small-time producer and film-maker.

Informant: David Jove pictured with his wife Lotus Weinstock at a family wedding

Maggie Abbott, a Sixties talent agent, met him in Los Angeles in 1983 and became his lover. He told her how he infiltrated the group but said he was now ‘on the run’.

She said: ‘David was a heavy drug user but had a quick wit. He was the perfect choice to infiltrate the Stones.

‘He never showed any remorse for what he did. It was all about how he had been “the victim”. He was a totally selfish person.

‘Mick had been my friend as well as a client and I thought about trying to persuade David to come clean publicly.

‘But he was always armed with a handgun and I feared that if I gave him away, he’d shoot me.’

His identity was confirmed by a scion of a family of American philanthropists,

James Weinstock.

Close: Jove, pictured here with Keith Richards in 1973, was a heavy drug user with a quick wit. As a result, he was easily able to infiltrate the Stones' inner circle

Still rocking and rolling: Keith Richards has recently published his autobiography, Life

Two years after the Redlands raid, ‘Dave Jove’ married Mr Weinstock’s sister, Lotus, in Britain.

‘They’d come up with some new way to make acid and decided to go to the UK and sell it,’ Miss Abbott said.

But David was caught carrying pot by Customs.

‘Some other guys turned up – he implied they were MI5 or MI6 – and they gave him an ultimatum: he’d get out of prison time if he set up the Stones.’

The British agents were in cahoots, he told Miss Abbott, with the FBI’s notorious Counterintelligence division, known as Cointelpro, which specialised in discrediting American groups deemed to be ‘subversive’.

On Christmas Day in 1969, ‘Jove’s’ new wife, Lotus, gave birth to a daughter, Lili. Their marriage lasted 18 years, though they never lived together.

‘I first met David when I returned to California from Bali, where I had gone searching for God,’ said James Weinstock, Lotus’s brother.

‘One New Year’s Eve, he showed me a gun and said he’d just killed a man who was messing with his car.’ Later he was rumoured to have murdered a TV personality, Peter Ivers, the presenter of a TV show that ‘Jove’ produced.

Miss Abbott said: ‘There was talk that Peter had decided to leave the show and David was angry. ‘I discovered “Jove” wasn’t David’s real name when he shot himself through his heel with his gun.

‘When we checked him into hospital, he used a made-up name and later I found out his real name was Sniderman.’

Satisfaction: The Rolling Stones pictured in their 1960s heyday

His first half-hearted admission was to Mr Weinstock: ‘He told me he was tight with the Rolling Stones in England, but had a falling-out with them,’ he said.

‘He was arrested for some ser­ious offence, but managed to extric­ate himself, and he said it all looked very suspicious when the police busted the Rolling Stones. They froze him out after that.’

In 1985, Miss Abbott and an old friend, Marianne Faithfull, went out for dinner in Los Angeles.

Miss Abbott introduced her to ‘Jove’ – but Ms Faithfull soon told her she wanted to leave.

Miss Abbott says: ‘When we got into my car, she said, “It’s him, the Acid King. He set up the Redlands bust. Don’t ever see him again”. ’

Miss Abbott added: ‘Two months after the evening with Marianne, I finally had it out with him.

‘To my amazement, he told me everything. He said, “It’s a relief to be able to talk about it”. ’

‘Jove’s’ final confession was made to his daughter, Lili Haydn, now a 40-year-old rock violinist. She said: ‘Shortly before his death he said he was the Acid King.

‘He told me he wasn’t a drug dealer. He felt he was expanding the consciousness of some of the greatest minds of his day.’

Later in his life he was ostracised by his glamorous LA set after his drug use became ‘voluminous’.

He died alone in 2004.

[kenog]

Daily Mail

Keith Richards: 'How I nearly died falling 7ft out of a tree'

By Ben Todd

Last updated at 4:58 PM on 26th October 2010

Keith Richards has revealed he nearly died after falling out of a tree while on holiday in Fiji.

The star fractured his skull when he fell from the tree whilst on holiday with wife Patti Hansen, 54, Stones bandmate Ronnie Wood, 63, and his ex-wife Jo Wood, 55.

At the time, reports had claimed the tree was 40 feet high - but Richards insisted it was no more than 'seven feet.'

Near Fatal: Keith Richards leaving the Ascot Hospital in Auckland, New Zealand, following brain surgery in 2006

And writing in his autobiography Life, which came out 25 October, Richards, 66, revealed he did not think anything of the accident until two days later when he developed a headache while on a sailing trip.

‘Forget any palm tree. This was some gnarled low tree that was basically a horizontal branch.

‘It was obvious that people had sat there before because the bark was worn away. And it was, I guess, about seven feet up.’

Richards, who had earlier been swimming, told how he decided to climb out of the tree when it was lunchtime.

There was another branch in front of me and I thought I’ll just grab hold of that and gently drop to the ground.

‘But I forgot my hands were still wet and there was sand and everything on them and, as I grabbed this branch, the grip didn’t take.

‘And so I landed hard on my heels, and my head went back and hit the trunk of the tree. Hard. And that was it. It didn’t bother me at the time.’

Unbeknown to Richards at that time, he had just fractured his skull.

Two days later, he wrote how ‘a blinding headache’ came on whilst they were on a boat trip.

He explained: ‘I found out later I was lucky that the second jolt happened.

‘Because the first one had cracked my skull and that could have gone on for months and months before being discovered, or before killing me. It could have kept on bleeding under the skull.

‘But the second blow made it obvious.’

Richards was given a record-breaking £4.6million advance for his memoirs.

[Aquamarine]

The Sniderman identity has been known for a long time, but fascinating to find out what happened to him. Wish my book would hurry up and arrive!

[Stargroves Tangie]

The Sniderman identity has been known for a long time, but fascinating to find out what happened to him. Wish my book would hurry up and arrive!

My book arrived today but since my hubby bought it for me as a Christmas gift I can't read it until then . (and he wants to read it before he gives it to me )

[Aquamarine]

Mine arrived this morning yesterday and I've already read as much as I've had time for. I'm really impressed with the guy's honesty, as much as anything else.

[Jahfin]

Anyone check the Aquarium Drunkard blog lately? If not, you might wanna do so.

[dazedcat]

Anyone check the Aquarium Drunkard blog lately? If not, you might wanna do so.

Thanks very very much for the link. Remarkalbe stuff.

[Jahfin]

Thanks very very much for the link. Remarkalbe stuff.

Cool site to keep your eye on, he always has some great music. Aquarium Drunkard also has a show on XM/Sirius that's well worth tuning into.

[Gospel Zone]

Speaking of the Stones, I'm surprised how little it's been mentioned that Eagle Rock blew the DVD release of LADIES AND GENTLEMEN.......as the 5.1 Dolby and DTS audio tracks are bad. The bass goes in and out, particularly during the guitar break in "Tumbling Dice" and during the first verse of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" where the bass comes back in during the second verse and then goes out again. I have both the standard release that came out in October and the Deluxe version where the problem is still not corrected. I wish Ice Magazine with their 'watch dog' column was still around. The Dolby stereo track is fine. All audio tracks on the Blu-ray version are fine, also.

Edited November 30, 2010 by Gospel Zone

[Jahfin]

This is also worth a listen when you get a chance, it's Gimme Shelter deconstructed.

[Gospel Zone]

This is also worth a listen when you get a chance, it's Gimme Shelter deconstructed.

It says “This video is no longer available due to copyright claim by ABKCO”. Looks like it got deconstructed!

[dazedcat]

That's too bad it got taken down. I was listening to it this morning and it was a pretty cool thing. Merry Clayton and Mick especially were compelling when their voices were stripped away from the backing tracks.

[Jahfin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ipUE2TVKSYI&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=bPGoO_0bS7g&feature=player_embedded

[Jahfin]

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=y_dyjhlNd9s&feature=player_embedded

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tj0kMvg-jhg&feature=player_embedded

[Jahfin]

Oops, didn't realize these clips had also been taken down (by MTV no less).

[Jahfin]

From RollingStone.com:

Video: Ron Wood, Mick Taylor Unite for Benefit Show

Current, former Rolling Stones members come together to save landmark London venue

By Andy Greene

Ron Wood, Mick Taylor and Dick Taylor never played in the Rolling Stones at the same time, but Wednesday night they joined forces to try and save London's legendary 100 Club. Open since 1942, the tiny venue has hosted Louis Armstrong, The Sex Pistols and Oasis, among many others.

In the early 1960s the Rolling Stones played many of their earliest gigs at the club, but in recent years the club has struggled to pay the rent. Now, it may close unless it finds a sponsor. "Are you ready to save the 100 Club?" Wood asked the screaming crowd as he took the stage.

At the benefit Dick Taylor (the Stones' original bassist, who later formed The Pretty Things) jammed with late 1960s/early 1970s guitarist Mick Taylor and his replacement Ron Wood. The three Stones had never before shared a stage and have rarely played together in any capacity. Their set included staples of early 1960s 100 Club gigs, including "Spoonful" and "Shaking All Over." (Watch the video above for their performance of "Fancy Pants.")

It's great to see Mick Taylor back in the fold; he had been out of the limelight for a very long time, though the band did recently bring him back to the studio to record new guitar overdubs on Exile On Main St. outtakes. Plus, with Mick and Keith feuding again there's no telling when the Stones are going to reform.

Edited December 3, 2010 by Jahfin

[Jahfin]

That's too bad it got taken down. I was listening to it this morning and it was a pretty cool thing. Merry Clayton and Mick especially were compelling when their voices were stripped away from the backing tracks.

You can watch/listen to it here.

[Levee]

You can watch/listen to it here.

That's great Jahfin! Thanks.