Long time ago..I read that book..from what I know ater the 69 tour ..It wet wrong with him...I remember that he planned to do another book on The Stones...Is the guy still writing!!!?I thought it was a sublime book. Hanging out with Keith..is not without risk..maybe some of you have more info about Booth.

Did some of you liked his book?It seems this guy is forgotten.

Stanley ain't forgotten!
Dance With the Devil is the UK title - Stanley's said that title was the publisher's dumb idea.
in the US the book's called True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, and it's my favourite book about the Stones -
the cat writes just like ringing a bell. he also wrote (and published) a rough draft of a biography of Keith that i sure hope he'll finish someday.
by the way, you can see Stanley in the movie Gimme Shelter - he's the one they use the light meter on in the hotel room when they're listening to Brown Sugar -
and he's also in the 2002 documentary called Let It Bleed.

Keith, be well - all the way, baby, all the way

Stanley Booth published a book in 1991 titled "Rythm Oil - A Journey through the music of the American South". Among others there's a 10-pages chapter on Keith - entitled "Keith Richards at Forty-Five". Interesting book.

Thanks very much...this guy wrote one of the best Stones books..the chet Flippo one I like too!!But Stanley writes better.I heard he was hooked on heroin..lived in a cabin...but went with The Stones on tour again on later seventies tours..Is this true?Should be very nice indeed if the ma finish his second Stones book.

Excuse me for my faults..I type fast and dont read back before posting.

How is that ''Let it Bleed'' documentary?

Stanley's book Rythm Oil from 1991 is a great Southern musical journey...go for the hard back with the beautiful shots of the south by William Eggleston.....Also has a chapter Keith at Forty Five...

Wrote to Stanley years ago ...no address just sent it to his local post office..he wrote back not long after and sent some gifts...real Southern gent.





ROCKMAN

I go get that book for sure..thank you all for the reacting...Some books ar so good you read it out in aday!!!!!

keith at 45 was a great article for a now defunct magazine called SMART, i hope that it's the same one... stanleys book is second to the great gatsby as books i have read the most...his feel for the late sixties and the stones is very relaxed and sublime...

2001-interview with Booth - [www.rocksbackpages.com]

plus more links on that page

Sw Soul...Is that a good docu? That Let it bleed''thing''?

yeah, it is beautiful, Rooster honey - everyone should try to get ahold of it.

Keith, be well - all the way, baby, all the way

Thanks!!!I said thanks!!!Another reason to open the hunting season ...its strange I never heard of it..Im curious now...wonder whats on it!Thanks my sweet part.

it's kind of like an update/expansion of 25x5 - some of the same material,
but more detail, and it includes stuff up to the Licks Tour announcement.
it's very lovingly done, and there's really a lot of great footage in it.

Keith, be well - all the way, baby, all the way

I guess Rooster is out of Time..ok thanks Sis..Im on the look out!!

The book contains some nice stories, but Booth tries to promote some booooring political ideas, that is getting on my nerves. He also writes that the in the nineties were a bad band, this is so ridiculous, I think the Stones were such a great liveband in the nieties, Mick`s singing in the nineties was much better than in the seventies and in the eighties, so Booth seems to be interested in political correctness, but not in music.

I think booth really loves music..but I might not read what you read..+ i rather hear a 76 or 78 boot than a 9 ties boot ...but I love the 9ties Stones very much too!!!You just go to Hot Stuff and listen to Frankfurt 76...what a outburst of energy!!!!

My library must have had a UK copy when I was a pimply teen, and Dance with the Devil caught my eye on the shelf in a way that True Adventures probably wouldn't have. The cover was the JJF masks sleeve, which I hadn't seen before. But on top of that it's a great book. Definitely had a big impact on my understanding of the band. I read it about the same time as Robert Palmer's Deep Blues. The library also had the Chet Flippo, which was a bore by comparison. Sort of like the '75 tour to '69...

And also much better than that book of Terry Southern(72 tour)but I love red dirt Marijuana of him

Heh - the photo of the neon Stars N' Bars on cover of Rhythm Oil is also used on the cover of Primal Scream's Give Out But Don't Give Up album. P.S. did their best to sound like the Stones on that record, too.

SPOOKY, eh??

Keith with Stanley in 72 ...


- 1972, courtesy of BrownEyedGirll

Keith, be well - all the way, baby, all the way

right... I knew that picture looked familiar, JTCB. I think their XTRMNTR record is really good.

Somehow I didn't pick up that stanley was such a good ol' boy, if an ironic one.