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Name: mikeeder
E-Mail: edermike@msn.com
Subject: RE: Brian Jones book, needed more on the music.
Date: Thursday, July 02, 2015
Time: 11:15:24 PM
Remote Address: 99.135.152.202
Message ID: 295900
Parent ID: 295872
Thread ID: 295872
It's a book that was needed, but it could have been so much more. It's a matter of direction I think. I applaud him for not doing the death thing, but I snear at him for always looking for Brian's excesses and fueds including some we need no detail on. Mick, Keith, and Andrew treated Brian like shit, but it doesn't need to be the crux of every single mention of them. It needed to be said, but the great collaborations between them also should have been stressed. That Brian also brought out the best ion the other Stones and that at times they did acknowledge that, just frustratingly inconsistently. Her would have you believe never, and that isn't true either.
I think he could have really dug into all the boots and offical recordings and gone into what Brian added to everything. Again it's frusterating because he get's this part right when he wants to. It's just he would rather go on about Pan than what Brian did on Between The Buttons.
Not the way I would have done it, and he really is no place to judge what Brian could have done in 1969. You Got The Silver is the only Major piece we have from the period. It doesn't show a musician in decline, and that's all we have to go on except people's opinions.
This is the best book on proving Brian wrote music, and on his early years but Aftel has the very best interviews from the prime Stones years. and it's basic balance of man and musician is what's missing here. For all that is missing I still like this one best for having the feel of the times intact.
Actually Golden Stone gets something of a bad rap for being fawning, but it does try to do what was done here, and she should got a lot of credit in seeing that Brian needed a book of musical and personal defense way back in 1993. She also gets some great interviews and reveals a lot about Pat Andrews for the first time. If not as a songwriter, Brian's musicianship is probably more of a focus here too. Yes he's made blameless, but I can understand why.
Again he get's some real basic things wrong on the music and really it's group books like Keno's, Martin Elliott's, Phill Norman's, and Bill Wyman's that remain the fairest to Brian.
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