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| Some Guy |
Why are you such a fan? For me It was 1980, cruising in my friends souped up car in high school and hearing She's so Cold. Man I fell in love. Then Dance pt.1, but Emotional Rescue blew me away. Then I heard Start Me Up and was hooked.Good times, damn good times! Started buying as many cassettes as I could. |
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| Jumacfly |
1989: the stones released their "hot rocks" in france for Xmas under the name "les ann�es stones"...i bought a copy for my mother cuz i know she liked them when she was young..one month later, the tape was in my player , 24 hours a day...then my mother bought steel wheels for me, then i bought exile and stil life ....then the stones music became the original soundtrack of my life 
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| LadyJane |
The premiere of Don Kirshner's Rock Concert, Summer 1973 or 1974. Mick singing "Angie". He was wearing a hat if I recall and Keith was sitting on the edge of the stage strumming the guitar. I was sitting on the floor in front of the television totally mesmerized. It was all over from that moment on!!! 
Good Thread!!!
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| Nellcote |
My brother used to play LIB frequently when it came out. Then he told me the stories of seeing the Stones in Beantown in the mid 60's, at a football field called The Manning Bowl, in Lynn. I bought Sticky Fingers as my 2nd album, (J. Geils debut was the first) started to get the hook. Played this @ my jr. high school over the Public Address system during a study period, to get noticed. It was a success! Got tix to 7/19/72 show @ Boston Gahden, WHAM! as the song goes, "twisted in your knife..." the rest is history. LJ,I remember that Kirschner show. Wicked Pissa! |
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| SHINE A LIGHT |
oh, it's a lifestyle...i just got born and it was there,in my heart and soul. |
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| Nasty Habits |
Attracted/repelled by the videos from Undercover.
Destroyed by the genius of Dirty Work.
Shoplifted a tape of Hot Rocks from Wal Mart and that was all she wrote.
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| jaymze |
was working in a supermarket for the summer months in 1995, one of the guys there was a stones/KISS fan, we were discussing KISS for the summer (he is still the only person in Ireland that i know who is a KISS fan!), and eventually after his ragging on about how great the stones were i borrowed their satanic majesties (was interested in how they aped st. pepper, or so i read at the time!) and voodoo, as it wasnt long out at that time. have been a fan ever since! another buddy bought sticky fingers and after hearing brown sugar, sway et al i was totally converted!
im still friends with yer man from the supermarket having meet up periodically since then to argue over music and attend gigs. We saw the stones twice this year as well.
THE ROLLING STONES -making friendships happen! |
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| nankerphelge |
Was hanging out in my pal Rick's basement, playing pool circa 1976. His older brother Bob had Hot Rocks and we were listening to it. I was just blown away by all the great songs -- I knew most of them, but it never really dawned on me that they were all from the same band and was only up to 1971!
Soon bought a new stereo and needed a fresh sound to make sure it was working right -- picked up Love You Live!! Then Some Girls hit and it was all over. |
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| Joey |
" Was hanging out in my pal Rick's basement, playing pool circa 1976. His older brother Bob had Hot Rocks and we were listening to it. I was just blown away by all the great songs -- I knew most of them, but it never really dawned on me that they were all from the same band and was only up to 1971! "
Were you smoking dope ?!?!?!
Please .................I's just gots to knows .
Jacky !
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| Some Guy |
I was!!!!! |
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| nankerphelge |
Like a freakin' chimney!
In fact, Rick to this day swears that I am responsible for ALL of his hooliganism!
He now pushes drugs for Pfizer, makers of the wonder drug Viagra.
BOING!
Rick was in DC a few years ago for the wedding of a mutual friend. I offered to give him a ride to the airport. On the way there, we enjoyed some chiba -- I believe it was called "Reno I" because the body buzz was so powerful, you shook uncontrollably for an an entire Presidential term or two -- anyhow, he gets to the airport and is standing in line when he noticed a unattended package. Convinced it was a bomb, Rick got out of line, hid behind a big pillar in the airport, lost track of time and missed his flight. He blames me for that too!!! |
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| Nasty Habits |
quote:
Joey wrote:
" Was hanging out in my pal Rick's basement, playing pool circa 1976. His older brother Bob had Hot Rocks and we were listening to it. I was just blown away by all the great songs -- I knew most of them, but it never really dawned on me that they were all from the same band and was only up to 1971! "
Were you smoking dope ?!?!?!
Please .................I's just gots to knows .
Jacky !
It was actually kind of the reverse for me -- it was hearing my already beloved Let It Bleed whilst smoking that convinced me that chiba was a necessary part of my life.
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| LadyJane |
Okay..since we are all fessing...My best friend was the last holdout on chiba smoking. She ratted on us to a PRIEST!!  I pulled her aside and told her...You are NO Stones fan until you smoke this joint!!! Mick and Keith would be ashamed of you!! It worked!!
LOL
LadyJ.
BTW...To this day my Father blames the Stones for "ruining" his little Angel!!! |
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| Joey |
" anyhow, he gets to the airport and is standing in line when he noticed a unattended package. Convinced it was a bomb, Rick got out of line, hid behind a big pillar in the airport, lost track of time and missed his flight. He blames me for that too!!! "
<---- I love that story .
Me too little fella ....................Me too !
It is so beautiful that I am shedding tears of joy . 
I don't know why I am so Happy ! 
" Bite Me Ronnie "
Jacky !
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| glencar |
"Miss You" in 1978. I'd always been aware of the Stones before that but that was the first song that hit me. Then I dug into "Hot Rocks" for a whole semester & started collecting for everything obsessively after that. |
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| Lavendar |
1974 they played with opening act Eric Clapton (he was so ripped!) The STONES sounded GREAT! 1978 with that stage set up with the big mouth JUST WONDERFUL The whole Stadium was getting their ROCKS OFF YEAH! |
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| throbby |
I remember when I was about 11 or 12. A friend of mine came riding down the street on his bike with an album in his hands. He stopped at my driveway where I was standing and all excited showed me the Sticky Fingers jacket. He was quite enthralled by the working zipper, quite the novelty then. That was my first visual memory of the Stones. About a year later my older brother turned me on to his 45 of Honky Tonk Women. I think I wore the grooves off that thing. The major turn on was similar to Nanker's experience. I bought Hot Rocks because it had Honky Tonk on it and then heard all these other tunes that blew my teenage mind. I remember shaking while standing in line waiting to get into JFK in '78, the first time I saw them. You know you've got it bad when you don't eat, drink, sleep or piss for 24 hours just to ensure a 2' square space 20' from the stage. |
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| egon |
it started in 1988 because of one of my best friends tom,
who's a huge fan. he was mainly playing the early stuff, upto 1973.
in the beginning i was just "liking them", and didn't own any records myself, but that slowly changed the more i listended to them.
i had a ticket for the 1989 urban junge tour, but sold it again due to money problems. (you fucker!).
aftr that it really started and by 1994 i owned pretty much every album.
seen voodoolounge once, BTB 3 times and licks twice.
one funny thing though; in 1985 i bought the single harlem shuffle and to this date i can't remember wether i knew at that time who the stones were. (but i knew i liked it!)
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| Some Guy |
I was thinking about this. I used to visit my older sister in Detroit during summers growing up and she had an album with lots of crazy faces ( the original Some Girls album) I used to play that thing all the damn time. I loved Before they Make Me Run and of course BOB!! |
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| jb |
I waa 9 yrs old in 1971 and my mom was a director of a summer camp. They were having a "battle of the bands" for the the older campers, and I remember being in the cafeteria and listening to one of the bands performing JJF...I knew the song, as well as other stones songs, as my older sister had several albums she played at home, but I remember thinking how "cool" those guys were playing JJF and that sort of started it...I remeber that summer buying the red tongue patch and having my mom sew it on my jeans...I thought I was the coolest kid around..... |
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| stonedinaustralia |
i'm going to show my age here - but i recall as a very young youngster 6 or 7 years old hearing the early singles like "satisfaction" and "get off of my cloud" - i liked it but didn't get too worked up about it - i remeber being more impressed with the stones "image" than the music back then
i remember reading about the redlands bust in the paper and thinking how exotic and other-wordly their lives seemed
i remember loving "tumbling dice" when they played it on the radio in '72
however at that stage i was simply a fan - i became a FANATIC in about '75 - somehow i finally "got it" completely and became obsessed - with my obsessoin continuing to this day
also the stones/chiba connection was strong with me too - it was about the same time i lost myself to the stones i developed a strong and abiding taste for the weed...
coincidence you might say, well, i'm not so sure... |
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| Factory Girl |
I was 13 and bought LIB from a Head Shop, because that's where I shopped!!! I loved it, especially Country Honk!!
A year later, I was back at the Head Shop and I bought Some Girls!!! |
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| TheSavageYoungXyzzy |
This is one of my favorite stories, and, as people on this board will attest, I tell it all the goddamn time.
Once more can't hurt.
I have a good friend who stays awake for three days and sleeps for two, wears a fedora and leather jacket *all the time* and occasionally goes completely off the wall. During the summer of 2001, he and I were hanging out one day, playing cards, and I was talking with him about the Beatles when he whipped out Let It Bleed and put it in the CD player. I was absolutely floored from start to finish, in particular by "Country Honk", "Gimme Shelter" and "You Can't Always Get What You Want". It didn't leave the CD player after that. I played it until it was scratched beyond repair (although he claims if you lick CDs they work fine), then went home and bought it myself.
The rest, as they say, is history. Beggar's Banquet came next, bought in London of all places, then Tattoo You, then Aftermath (which I initially *despised*), then Sticky Fingers, then Exile (which I initially didn't really like), and the rest is history.
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| Egbert |
1979 when my weird uncle lent me his "stop sign" album, Through The Past, Darkly (along with The Crazy World Of Arthur Brown, Alice Coooper Love It To Death, and Grand Funk Survival).
Imagine what goes through the mind of a 13 year old guy when hearing such lyrics as "blow away Dandelion"... |
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| glencar |
"Dandelion" was one of my first favorites to learn from More Hot Rocks. |
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| Jack of Hearts |
Maybe it was sitting outside Newcastle City Hall all night in the rain that made me feel, "this is what i want from life"? Waiting for ticket sales to open at eleven in the morning when the sun came out, the camraderie with older folks who admired our bunking off school at 15 to do the right thing.
Then there was Knebworth and love was confirmed and the passage to adulthood was embraced. Then there was the years in between, and then there was 40 licks, and the love affair was re-kindled, the tatoo saw light of day and the old fucker got it on again!!! |
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| palacerevolution |
My dad gave me a used 45 single for X-mas. "Mother Baby". I was 5 and I loved the big sound and the cover of them standing on these steps all in leather. (It wasn't the drag cover). Then I appropriated the heavy vinyl disc of "Buttons" from my sister. Loved that. Got the "Gimme Shelter" single by Grand Funk and played it to death. I was very confused when soon after I heard the Stones version with Merry Clayton. I thought it was Keith singing. Then my dad brought me "Exile" from a trip to the USA. I never looked back. |
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| Sir Stonesalot |
1989. Steel Wheels tour. Pittsburgh, 3 Rivers Stadium. 5th row center. Ruby Tuesday. Epiphany. Game over. |
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| Zeeta |
My 18th B-Day
Downed a bottle of Jack Daniels,
danced in front of everyone on my own to Brown Sugar and Rocks Off, in just a pair of shorts!
I realised then something was RIGHT!
PS I only knew I had done this because of the photos we got developed the next day!
I would post them but I don't have a scanner!
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