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GumbootCloggeroo
I thought this thread was about Brian...Quote
misterfrias
And two years to the day after Brian's departure, Jim Morrison left this earth.

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GumbootCloggeroo
I thought this thread was about Brian...Quote
misterfrias
And two years to the day after Brian's departure, Jim Morrison left this earth.
It should be about the children BJ neglected & abandoned. I wonder how they are doing?

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GumbootCloggeroo
I thought this thread was about Brian...Quote
misterfrias
And two years to the day after Brian's departure, Jim Morrison left this earth.
It should be about the children BJ neglected & abandoned. I wonder how they are doing?
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GumbootCloggeroo
I thought this thread was about Brian...Quote
misterfrias
And two years to the day after Brian's departure, Jim Morrison left this earth.
It should be about the children BJ neglected & abandoned. I wonder how they are doing?
Disagree.
If you insist however, you might find this interesting if you haven't already seen it:
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I never would have guessed that was your intended meaning if I had not asked so yes, I did have to ask ...Quote
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ChrisM
What do you mean by that Naturalust?Quote
Naturalust
There is a little of Brian in all of us.
If you have to ask....No, really I likely mean that we are talking about him and thinking about him TODAY and human thought being the powerful force it is somehow infuses us physically with the essence of the man. peace
Fair enough. Said in another way, as an archetypical figure in todays culture, Brian's truths have importantly survived to present day and are carried in the thoughts and dreams of many, many people, you and I included. peace
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ChrisM
I never would have guessed that was your intended meaning if I had not asked so yes, I did have to ask ...Quote
Naturalust
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ChrisM
What do you mean by that Naturalust?Quote
Naturalust
There is a little of Brian in all of us.
If you have to ask....No, really I likely mean that we are talking about him and thinking about him TODAY and human thought being the powerful force it is somehow infuses us physically with the essence of the man. peace
Fair enough. Said in another way, as an archetypical figure in todays culture, Brian's truths have importantly survived to present day and are carried in the thoughts and dreams of many, many people, you and I included. peace
huh?...Brian Jones in todays' culture..?? vast majority of people have likely never heard of him and know nothing of his music...believe it or not the Stones themselves are fading from popular view--very quickly in fact in the last few years...that's what inactivity and irrelevance will do to perfomers. Not only do most 20-something folks know nothing about the Stones but they do not care...sad but true.
Yeah, the bullying reached a top in the last months of 68. But it had been going on and off for years by that time. Like I said, even if Mick and Keith didn't always meant to hurt Brian with their remarks he would, being the sensitive guy he was, take to his heart and get upset. They knew that.Quote
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Mick has stated that they were merciless 'towards the end'. By that time Brian had managed to alienate each and every Stone, including Bill. Bill states they were friends and yet I've rarely if ever seen a picture of them two together. I wonder if Bill thought they were friends but Brian was friends with Bill because Mick and Keith wouldn't be friends with Brian. And as Charlie said about Brian, "I was only the drummer."
They had put up with him missing time in the studio and even on stage. As the pressure grew on them to churn out pop albums and tours every year, he receded to the background. If you look at videos from 1965 he seems lost and Bill is more in the forefront than Brian is. Then when Brian starts playing the exotic instruments the camera returns to him and he is happily out front again. But the changing times demanded guitar music and that's the one instrument he had neglected. I never understood why he couldn't play a non-slide lead. Brian was lazy in that he did not improve his guitar playing skills. Or really stick with one instrument over time at all.
"Poor' Brian brought on his own calamities. He should have been slapped up side the head when he knocked up a girl as a teenager. People kept letting him get away with his obnoxious behavior. If the RCMP in Toronto hadn't intervened on Keith, do you think he would have ever stopped shooting smack? Shirley intervened on Charlie in the 80s. Bill and Mick appear to have gotten their own selves under control. But Brian was too headstrong and cocksure about his place in the world. Nobody could tell him what to do. RIP.

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I also believe, and I think ALO said something in that way, that Brian wanted to be "real" and didn't consider pop to be "real". He loved the life that came with it but he was not satisfied musically. The stress that came with that kind of fame was too much for him to handle.
). I also believe that is the singular reason why Brian couldn't write songs, as Keith, ALO and many other of the inner circle have claimed the situation to have been. He couldn't come up with simple pop songs with suitable, easy-listening melodies and catch phrases - something Mick and Keith seemed to do from the day one when ALO metaphorically locked them to kitchen. It's like some scientists are not able to popularize their theories to a common public - just can't mentally do the compromise; they prefer to write to scientific journals instead of releasing top seller books that would appeal to every man's taste.
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Doxa: Great post. You sum up what I think about the whole deal about Brian as a musician and the reason why he couldn't write (commercial) songs.
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Regarding the Brian Jones statuettes, I still have some available for sale, but they are going fast. The price is $249 + $50 shipping and handling.
Buy one and the second one is half-off.
Brian's truths? He was just a musician not a deity. What are some of these "truths" that you speak of?Quote
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Fair enough. Said in another way, as an archetypical figure in todays culture, Brian's truths have importantly survived to present day and are carried in the thoughts and dreams of many, many people, you and I included. peace
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GumbootCloggeroo
Brian's truths? He was just a musician not a deity. What are some of these "truths" that you speak of?Quote
Naturalust
Fair enough. Said in another way, as an archetypical figure in todays culture, Brian's truths have importantly survived to present day and are carried in the thoughts and dreams of many, many people, you and I included. peace
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Thanks. Some further 'for Brian's musical legacy' stuff....
I need to say that as far as The Stones were "Brian's baby", that he conceptually was the founder of The Rolling Stones, is also I think based to his depthness as a 'pure' musician with ambitious visions. It was his visions that saw, for example, in pop/rock and roll-oriented boys Mick Jagger and Keith Richards something to build with instead of some more purist-minded and more advanced musicians like Geoff Bradford (or who were those guys who walked out from Brian's band when The Dartford boys walked in.) He seemingly liked the Chuck Berry/Jimmy Reed stuff these guys were offering, which suited to his ideas of a blues band. I presumme he saw the potentiality of bigger popularity as well. It was him who endlessly begged someone named Charlie Watts to join - since only he had the right touch in his drumming to fit their group - until he finally said yes. Damn those intuitions of him were blessed! He basically was a leader and founder of the band that was musically quite perfect unit and closed shop when it was offered to the hands of Andrew Loog Oldham to make something more commercial out of it.
Of course, after losing his leadership, it was still also his visionalism and depthness as a musician that helped later to lift many Jagger/Richard pop songs above the contemporary scene. Most of the 'pop era' stuff is charming but rather 'juvenile' stuff, and it is many times Brian's touch that gives them the unique depthness and immortality (think of "The Last Time", "Under My Thumb, "Paint It Black", "Ruby Tuesday", etc). Even though Mick and Keith are profilic song-writers, The Stones have never been much a pure song band a'la The Beatles, but more like an unit trying to capture a collective sound that is not to be distinguished from the song itself, and Brian Jones had a huge role in accomplishing that in the early days. I think instrumentalwise the biggest all the way to SATANIC MAJESTIES (It was Brian who, in the end, helps to save gaining some of the targets in infamous SATANIC MAJESTIES project...) To me it looks like that it took until 1968/1969 when Mick and Keith had learned to write such mature and deep material, and develop as strong musicians (Keith) that they were able to survive without Brian's musical depthness, and search for 'real'.
I also believe that Mick Taylor was a perfect replacement for Brian. He added the next missing piece for their sound, and he pretty much offered them the needed 'professionalism' (to quote Charlie). Taylor also seem to have a 'purist' like musical mind like Brian had, having deep musical intuitions of his own, which resulted as non-compromised, unique sounds to enrichen Jagger/Richard material, which then lifted The Stones music higher in their following musical adventures. At least live - I don't think Taylor ever had the role and importance Jones had in their studio output.
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There are hundreds of people that can be described in that way. Let's not make Brian out to be some kind of unique being as if he was beyond humanQuote
Naturalust
The more obvious ones are things like "poor boy becomes successful" , "beautiful girly man has appeal" , "died young in order to bring humanity something" and possibly even "musician who allows us to feel where we couldn't before". The truths are there or we wouldn't be speaking of Brian today with such detail and admiration.

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GumbootCloggeroo
There are hundreds of people that can be described in that way. Let's not make Brian out to be some kind of unique being as if he was beyond humanQuote
Naturalust
The more obvious ones are things like "poor boy becomes successful" , "beautiful girly man has appeal" , "died young in order to bring humanity something" and possibly even "musician who allows us to feel where we couldn't before". The truths are there or we wouldn't be speaking of Brian today with such detail and admiration.
Sometimes it feels like the level of fandom on here can get a bit crazy. Sorry for painting you with the same brush.Quote
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GumbootCloggeroo
There are hundreds of people that can be described in that way. Let's not make Brian out to be some kind of unique being as if he was beyond humanQuote
Naturalust
The more obvious ones are things like "poor boy becomes successful" , "beautiful girly man has appeal" , "died young in order to bring humanity something" and possibly even "musician who allows us to feel where we couldn't before". The truths are there or we wouldn't be speaking of Brian today with such detail and admiration.
Beyond human? Obviously the missing definition for you is as follows.
An archetype is a universally understood symbol, term, or pattern of behavior, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated.
Nothing "beyond human" was either suggested or implied, in fact quite the opposite. With respect. peace
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GumbootCloggeroo
Sometimes it feels like the level of fandom on here can get a bit crazy. Sorry for painting you with the same brush.Quote
Naturalust
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GumbootCloggeroo
There are hundreds of people that can be described in that way. Let's not make Brian out to be some kind of unique being as if he was beyond humanQuote
Naturalust
The more obvious ones are things like "poor boy becomes successful" , "beautiful girly man has appeal" , "died young in order to bring humanity something" and possibly even "musician who allows us to feel where we couldn't before". The truths are there or we wouldn't be speaking of Brian today with such detail and admiration.
Beyond human? Obviously the missing definition for you is as follows.
An archetype is a universally understood symbol, term, or pattern of behavior, a prototype upon which others are copied, patterned, or emulated.
Nothing "beyond human" was either suggested or implied, in fact quite the opposite. With respect. peace
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His Majesty
We don't know whether or not "most" 20 year olds are or aren't in to the stones or if they are aware of and influenced by Brian Jones.
Some are for sure, just as some aren't.
Useless generalisations are useless.
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tonterapi
Doxa: Great post. You sum up what I think about the whole deal about Brian as a musician and the reason why he couldn't write (commercial) songs.
Thanks. Some further 'for Brian's musical legacy' stuff....
I need to say that as far as The Stones were "Brian's baby", that he conceptually was the founder of The Rolling Stones, is also I think based to his depthness as a 'pure' musician with ambitious visions. It was his visions that saw, for example, in pop/rock and roll-oriented boys Mick Jagger and Keith Richards something to build with instead of some more purist-minded and more advanced musicians like Geoff Bradford (or who were those guys who walked out from Brian's band when The Dartford boys walked in.) He seemingly liked the Chuck Berry/Jimmy Reed stuff these guys were offering, which suited to his ideas of a blues band. I presumme he saw the potentiality of bigger popularity as well. It was him who endlessly begged someone named Charlie Watts to join - since only he had the right touch in his drumming to fit their group - until he finally said yes. Damn those intuitions of him were blessed! He basically was a leader and founder of the band that was musically quite perfect unit and closed shop when it was offered to the hands of Andrew Loog Oldham to make something more commercial out of it.
Of course, after losing his leadership, it was still also his visionalism and depthness as a musician that helped later to lift many Jagger/Richard pop songs above the contemporary scene. Most of the 'pop era' stuff is charming but rather 'juvenile' stuff, and it is many times Brian's touch that gives them the unique depthness and immortality (think of "The Last Time", "Under My Thumb, "Paint It Black", "Ruby Tuesday", etc). Even though Mick and Keith are profilic song-writers, The Stones have never been much a pure song band a'la The Beatles, but more like an unit trying to capture a collective sound that is not to be distinguished from the song itself, and Brian Jones had a huge role in accomplishing that in the early days. I think instrumentalwise the biggest all the way to SATANIC MAJESTIES (It was Brian who, in the end, helps to save gaining some of the targets in infamous SATANIC MAJESTIES project...) To me it looks like that it took until 1968/1969 when Mick and Keith had learned to write such mature and deep material, and develop as strong musicians (Keith) that they were able to survive without Brian's musical depthness, and search for 'real'.
I also believe that Mick Taylor was a perfect replacement for Brian. He added the next missing piece for their sound, and he pretty much offered them the needed 'professionalism' (to quote Charlie). Taylor also seem to have a 'purist' like musical mind like Brian had, having deep musical intuitions of his own, which resulted as non-compromised, unique sounds to enrichen Jagger/Richard material, which then lifted The Stones music higher in their following musical adventures. At least live - I don't think Taylor ever had the role and importance Jones had in their studio output.
- Doxa
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mitchflorida1
Regarding the Brian Jones statuettes, I still have some available for sale, but they are going fast. The price is $249 + $50 shipping and handling.
Buy one and the second one is half-off.
We are quite a few that believe that Keith's betrayal hurt Brian more than loosing Anita. Brian and Keith were really good friends right before that so it was a big blow and affected the band the coming tour. According to Brian he wanted to leave in 67 (most likely because of this) but was talked out of it by Mick.Quote
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I think the only thing that been left out is the Anita thing. They were young guys back then and girls are a significant reason for being in a band. Anita and Brian had something going on but to have a band mate steal your girl is one knife to the heart in all of this. Certainly another reason for Brian to become even more alienated from his band.
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