Name: mikeeder
E-Mail: edermike@msn.com
Subject: Brian Jones book, needed more on the music.
Date: Thursday, July 02, 2015
Time: 5:19:36 AM
Remote Address: 99.135.152.202
Message ID: 295872
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Thread ID: 295872

Brian Jones book, needed more on the music.

While the Brian Jones book that came out last year was a good rebuttal to Life, that is all that it was. It's scope I'm finding is very narrow. I don't know why but I find it's tone way too dark. Yes Brian had a hard time of it, but he wasn't always brooding. Even the high points are tinged with more angst than I think there were was. For instance I bet the Stones were getting along fine circa the Aftermath sessions, and even Oldham has said nice things about Brian in regards to them. I see nothing wrong at with Brian on the 1966 Let's Spend The Night Together video, yet he's described as a wreck.

Yes Brian needed much defense, but you can't deny the Stones have been human to him sometimes.

I also am disturbed by the nonsense regarding Brian's sex life. It gets disgusting in detail particularly the passage about Nico, and nobody needs to know this shit about anyone. All the Devil Pan crap gets' tiresome too. I

think that when the music is the focus the book is very, very good and Paul proved Brian helped write a good many songs. Had he focused a lot more on the albums and songs, I would love this book. Passages about the Degree of Murder sessions (until they go back to the endless insecurity analysis) introducing Howling Wolf on Shindig, Paint It Black, and Ruby Tuesday, are excellent. Yet Between the Buttons and Number 2 don't even get reviews. He says Little Red Rooster was the session Brian only overdubbed when it's obvious they built it around him not the other way around, him buying into Keith being the lead instrument in Mothers Little Helper, I Can't Be Satisfied is a chapter title but not reviewed. Two Trains, Gompher dozens of other Brian highlights overlooked. Hardly one TV show described.

It would have made the book a lot more fun to just talk about the joy of the music. Yes again it is a needed rebuttal to Life but I would have done it with the music itself as much as talking about what cunts the unholy trinity were.

Though some are good, a few of the interviews are scrapping the bottom of the barrel. I am starting to realize that a lot of the people close to Brian are gone or won't talk.

I can't dislike the book because it positive to Brian. Still I was hoping it be a defense that would be 70 percent music 30 percent personal life and got the other way around. I mean at least he should have reviewed each UK album or major single, and the tone could have been lightened ever so slightly. Wish it wouldn't have gone all xxx either.

• Brian Jones book, needed more on the music. by mikeeder on 7/2/2015 5:19:36 AM <-- You Are Here
• RE: Brian Jones book, needed more on the music. by devilsadvocate on 7/2/2015 5:41:41 AM
• RE: Brian Jones book, needed more on the music. by mikeeder on 7/2/2015 11:15:24 PM
• RE: Brian Jones book, needed more on the music. by Keno on 7/3/2015 1:08:23 AM
• : Brian Jones book, needed more on the music. by mikeeder on 7/5/2015 3:02:35 PM
• RE: : Brian Jones book, needed more on the music. by Keno on 7/6/2015 1:44:18 AM
• RE: That "Other" Board by devilsadvocate on 7/6/2015 8:07:49 AM

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