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SERIES OF DREAMS
by: (Brian's Buddy)
Bob Dylan
I was thinking of a series of dreams
Where nothing comes up to the top
Everything stays down where it's wounded
And comes to a permanent stop
Wasn't thinking of anything specific
Like in a dream, when someone wakes up and screams
Nothing too very scientific
Just thinking of a series of dreams
Thinking of a series of dreams
Where the time and the tempo fly
And there's no exit in any direction
'Cept the one that you can't see with your eyes
Wasn't making any great connection
Wasn't falling for any intricate scheme
Nothing that would pass inspection
Just thinking of a series of dreams
Dreams where the umbrella is folded
Into the path you are hurled
And the cards are no good that you're holding
Unless they're from another world
In one, numbers were burning
In another, I witnessed a crime
In one, I was running, and in another
All I seemed to be doing was climb
Wasn't looking for any special assistance
Not going to any great extremes
I'd already gone the distance
Just thinking of a series of dreams
Copyright � 1991 Special Rider Music
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From: A Coney Island of the Mind
By: Lawrence Ferlinghetti
#11
"The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind happiness
not always being
so very much fun
if you don't mind a touch of hell
now and then
just when everything is fine
because even in heaven
they don't sing
all the time
The world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't mind some people dying
all the time
or maybe only starving
some of the time
which isn't half so bad
if it isn't you
Oh the world is a beautiful place
to be born into
if you don't much mind
a few dead minds
in the higher places
or a bomb or two
now and then
in your upturned faces
or such other improprieties
as our Name Brand society
is prey to
with its men of distinction
and its men of extinction
and its priests
and other patrolmen
and its various segregations
and congressional investigations
and other constipations
that our fool flesh
is heir to
Yes the world is the best place of all
for a lot of such things as
making the fun scene
and making the love scene
and making the sad scene
and singing low songs and having inspirations
and walking around
looking at everything
and smelling flowers
and goosing statues
and even thinking
and kissing people and
making babies and wearing pants
and waving hats and
dancing
and going swimming in rivers
on picnics
in the middle of the summer
and just generally
'living it up'
Yes
but then right in the middle of it
comes the smiling
mortician"
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If ever a man genuinely lived the rock and roll life and naturally characterized the Stones in every way-long before the five of us assumed a style-it was Brian Jones. The band would not have existed without him�many attitudes and sounds of the sixties were developed from Brian's style and determination�he was the archetypal middle-class kid screaming to break away from his background, bumming around in dead end jobs before finally finding his niche. And when he found it, he hammered it across to the world, with idealism and commitment.
Bill Wyman.
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S&K...What a loyal fan of Brian Jones. You have almost single handedly created and maintained this thread. A very nice tribute. I commend you! 
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LJ....Thank you
Iv'e always thought that Brian never get's much of a mention on this board, so I guess I'm making up for it.
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"I was never really dependent on drugs. They had never done anything positive for me. I hope this will be an example to young people who attempt to try drugs."
Brian Jones' statement to the court - October 30th, 1967
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Keith Richards on Brian
"Brian was a cat who could play any instrument. It was like: 'There it is. Music comes out of it. If I work at it for a bit, I can do it.' It's him on marimbas on "Under My Thumb" and mellotron on quite a few things on "Satanic Majesties". He was the strings on "2,000 Light Years From Home". Brian on mellotron and brass on "We Love You", all that Arabic riff. He was one of those people who are so beautiful in one way, and such an asshole in another. There was a two year period when the audience was louder than us, all screaming teenyboppers. Brian had this terrible joke of playing "Popeye The Sailor Man" in the middle of anything because it didn't matter, nobody could hear shit anyway. I'd be walking past him on stage and I'd hear da-da-da-da-da-da-da."
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Mick Jagger on Brian
"Brian wasn't really good material to be in the pop business. He was too sensitive to every real slight or perceived slight; just over-sensitive to everything. I think he was a shy person and shy people in show business put themselves at risk. Some people are born shy. He just wanted to be in a Blues band and didn't really think it was going to be show business. Perhaps the biggest ambition he thought of was playing the Marquee on Thursdays. That was the end of it. But, he was quite fluid in the way he talked. He was quite a good communicator at the beginning, though it was in a slightly schoolmaster-ish way. But, he did communicate, which was really needed then because people didn't quite understand what it was all about."
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Bill Wyman on Brian
"I felt it was essential to point out what a pioneer Brian was: Brian was the first person in England to play bottleneck guitar when nobody knew what it was. He had continued to develop his interest in different instruments and brought to our attention a great deal we might otherwise have missed. As for his personality, for all his weaknesses and hang-ups, his impertinence and terrible behaviour, he was a pivotal figure. As a symbol of the sixties that helped to shape us, he was entitled to a free pardon."
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ELEGY
Author Unknown
"Do not stand at my grave and weep,
I am not there, I do not sleep.
I am a thousand winds that blow.
I am the diamond's glint on snow.
I am the sunlight on ripened grain.
I am the gentle autumn's rain.
When you awaken in the morning's hush
I am the swift uplifting rush
of quiet birds in circled flight.
I am the soft stars that shine at night.
Do not stand at my grave and cry.
I am not there, I did not die."
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Thanx for a great thread and even better pics !
Brian's image on covers and papers hit me right away way back in those years and he was the one who pulled me to the Stones and I never got away.
It's such a shame that many younger fans don't know how important Brian was to the early real Stones and to the whole swingin' sixties!
In many countries Brian was more popular than Mick - and in 64/65 he was really good looking!
Always remember that guy . .
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With Peter Frampton.
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With Donovan.
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