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| nanky |
Got it for father's day and I've been poking around in it. What a great read:
"All of the tension of the past few weeks has been building to this...the moment the show gets on the road. Marshall feels it. He's wired, excited, there's a gig tonight, the first one...and the feeling is catching. A bus full of crazies, headed off to who knows what kind of adventure....
It's peak experience time, with grownups getting to act like kids, with the Stones as an excuse and a reason and an avenue to bizarre encounters..."
Does that sum it up or what. I read that and a smile came over my face -- that's exactly it. God I can't wait, I've got touritis so bad -- I got one of the sure symptoms today -- "Keith spasms" -- driving down the road real fast listening to Handsome Goils and When the Whip Comes Down hits -- and those first few blistering chords start and all of a sudden the steering wheel is a Fender and my arms are flailing all over and the car is totally out of my control. People trying to get out of my way -- evil glares by those that just do not get it.
I'm worried -- the symptoms are getting worse -- I already suffer from lyrictosis -- the inablity to speak to people without throwing in a irrelevant Stones lyric.
"Morning nank, how's things?"
"I'm so hot fa hah, I'm on fire fa hah"
"What?"
"Ah..., nothing, how are you"
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| Scot Rocks |
Heh Nanky I got that book about a week ago too and Im about half way through it, it has been brilliant so far, damn I sure wish I was at Hefner's place in Chicago for that party...or just someone who was on that tour.
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| nanky |
I haven't gotten that far yet. I can't read it fast enough though -- it is amazing how so much has changed, yet how some of it is still the same!
It is a perfect warm-up to the tour! |
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| Gazza |
Bought that book about 20 years ago or more - maybe one of the first Stones books I ever read and still one of the best ones
...and unlike that talentless arsehole Stephen Davis,Bob Greenfield was actually THERE. Subtle difference between a first hand account and poorly researched re-hashing by a know-nothing hack. |
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| Scot Rocks |
yeah I love it so far, it's like been on a rollercoaster ride all the way through as at first hand you experience the highs, the lows, the emotions, the ecstacy of a Stones summer tour of 1972 when they were at their hight.
will someone invent a time machine so I can go back there to 1972...sigh
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