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Erik_Snow
Interesting thread !
Also nice to see that SwayStones avatar is copied from my photobucket...an imageupload I took from some bootlegscan
There's a real cool one on the back of "Two Great ALbums Cheap" (VGP) by the way
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SwayStones
Oh Eric I am sorry !I even didn't noticed that .
I think I know how a pic from your photobucket came to be my avatar.
Do you want me to scann again the pic from my book ?
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SwayStones
Oh Eric I am sorry !I even didn't noticed that .
I think I know how a pic from your photobucket came to be my avatar.
Do you want me to scann again the pic from my book ?
Hey SwayStones, I never meant anything like that; please keep the photo!
I took it from some bootscan on the web - and reworked it....to fit a "Norfolk1972"-torrent..! It's not my personal scan at all - I just thought it was funny how things travel accross the internet - you keep the avatar, you hear, comrade!
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72 - Lockheed L-188 Electra L11718A MCCULLOUGH LEASED I HAVE PIC EMAIL
73 - Lockheed Constellation L749A
75 - BOEING 720B Starship
I'll spare ya the insults & crap
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BOEING 720B Starship - for their 1975 TOTA
Though Jagger found the jet's motif too Vegas (his first words upon boarding were, ''It's so tacky''), most passengers thought it quite stylish.
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Nasty Habits
This plane was used for to carry the band’s sound and lighting equipment on their epic 1973 Pacific tour.
It's a Lockheed L-749 Constellation built in 1947
It's now part of the Science museum's collection and it's stored at a former RAF Airfield, RAF Wroughton, Wiltshire, England. Ownership of the 545-acre site was passed to the London Science Museum in 1979 to be used as a storage facility for the largest objects of the National Museum of Science and Industry.
And here it is:
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Max'sKansasCity
For fun I looked on ebay thinking (for a second) that it might be cool to buy a model of this plane and build it and hang it up with my Stones blimp, but I am not going to do that, but I did find a brand new OLD STOCK model still in it's original box on ebay.... if anyone is in to that, it ends tonight and is only 20 bucks right now... might be fun. [www.ebay.com]
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Max'sKansasCity
For fun I looked on ebay thinking (for a second) that it might be cool to buy a model of this plane and build it and hang it up with my Stones blimp, but I am not going to do that, but I did find a brand new OLD STOCK model still in it's original box on ebay.... if anyone is in to that, it ends tonight and is only 20 bucks right now... might be fun. [www.ebay.com]
I am in ,Max ;should we live 2gether ?
Cause I want the blimp AND the plane
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Carnaby
Nothing like a Tequila Sunrise and a private jet to keep a man Happy-
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jazzbass
As as a pilot, aviation fan, and Stones fan, I LOVE this thread. Thanks for resurrecting it.
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SwayStones
But I am getting confused :
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If you were a rock star ,the only way to travel was in a customized Boeing 720 called the Starship one .
The Rolling Stones chartered ONE for their 1972 tour
I get loosed ....this is a very interesting thread !
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Well well well - you should read on, and not take it out of context.
I'll try to highlight what's needed to understand.
"When the road manager extraordinaire Richard Cole was assigned the task of finding a plane ostentatious enough to transport Led Zeppelin during the band's world-conquering 1973 tour, the choice was as easy as a groupie: in the mid-70's, if you were a rock star, or just part of the bell-bottomed entourage, the only way to travel was in a customized Boeing 720B called the Starship 1."
But hey, the Stones were already flying in '72! - ok, with old fashioned propellers, but still.
Led Zep was flying with a jet a year later in '73 i.e. the Starship 1.
and the same meaning is in this sentence:
"There had been, of course, other private planes. The Rolling Stones chartered one for their 1972 tour, inviting Truman Capote and Lee Radziwill to tag along. And much has been made of the plush jets the wrinkly rockers leased for their recent world tour. But they are crop dusters compared to the Starship"