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The poor sod must have been in an altered state of mind (as usual). ><

Well. THAT was a trip for a Sunday morning...

Great review....made you feel exactly like it was like being there yourself...completely wasted!

Lovely

Thanks for posting. Great fun and possibly as high as a kite)-D

I love the fact that he reviews the show as if it was a slient movie : no mention of music at all but Buk describes in detail what he sees onstage.

Damn he was an old pig but he could write!

Thanks for this great and funny review from Bukowski


cheers

BUKOWSKI
Thank You.
Great books written...
Check it out Stones-believers!

This guy has some of the best quotes ever written. Here's a link to some of 'em:

[geniusquotes.org]

peace

Good read. I think the best line is "When 27 nations would soon know how to use the hydrogen bomb it hardly made sense to preserve your health. "

Keeping in mind that he was already in his fifties when he attended the concert, it's quite open minded of him, since rock music was not his first choice for listening pleasure, and it probably kept the review on more of an objective level than a more contemporary reviewer might have given.

I'll bet Bukowski could have drunk even Keith under the table.

For anyone interested in what a Bukowski "concert" was like, this one is from 1980, and turned out to be his last ever reading.

Fascinating insight into Jagger:

"I sat down next to row N and watched the Mick work. I sensed a gentility and grace and desperateness in him, and still some of the power: I shall lead you children the shit out of here."

I always thought that the 75 tour was when The Stones "descended" for good into the realm of good-time party entertainers. But Bukowski could see through the clown pajamas and catch a glimpse of what The Stones once were--raw, visceral, and important, generationally-speaking.

Awesome poet !!!!!!!

this review tells a lot about Bukowski's interests, which don't really include rock music.


his posthumous success as a character, poet, and short story author is inspiring to me. Many years ago I read all his work I could find, it was appealing in its underground authority.

Sounds like he was paying attention to the music too : "Ron Wood was the rhythm guitarist replacing Mick Taylor; Billy Preston was really shooting-off at the keyboard; Keith Richards was on lead guitar and he and Ron were doing some sub-glancing lilting highs against each other's edges but Keith held a firmer more natural ground, albeit an easy one which allowed Ron to come in and play back against shots and lobs at his will. Charlie Watts on tempo seemed to have joy but his center was off to the left and falling down. Bill Wyman on bass was the total professional holding it all together over the bloody Thames-Forum."

It doesn't seem he liked the concert very much, does it?

Awesome stuff. One of the best Stones concert reviews I ever have seen.

- Doxa

This reminds me that I need to find Bukowskys books in English (I have all the translated)

Fantastic as usual when it is written by this connoisseur of human foibles

I must admit I haven't read anything from Bukowski. Probably because those who recommended Bukowski to me weren't the ones I would normally take advice from...

The review reminds me of Hunter S. Thompson's "reports" from the bar/race track in Fear And Loathing In Las Vegas.

Gonzos at work - brilliant

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I must admit I haven't read anything from Bukowski. Probably because those who recommended Bukowski to me weren't the ones I would normally take advice from...

Well as you can see Buke is highly recommended here...

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those who recommended Bukowski to me weren't the ones I would normally take advice from...

Time to make new friends! ><

He also did a review during the 1972 tour:

Charles Bukowski, LA Free Press: “Here he was, Mick Jagger. A little blue star pasted near each eye. An outfit on like your hip spade dude would be wearing tomorrow morning. His joint was showing through his tight hot jism pants, and he was dressed to @#$%& the world, but basically he had style, the style that comes with champions. I liked him right off and at the same time I thought, why does he have to @#$%& himself up like that?”

Fantastic find, Stoneslib! I was at the same Long Beach Arena show Bukowski describes ... so his words have special meaning for me.

"Mick tried. He tried very well. He did better than anybody watching him could. He was too much money in. He was too famous. He sucked at the crowd. He tried to remember how it was when he first worked it. How it was when he was really and purely real. It's difficult, too, it's so difficult, it comes to us and it leaves us. Imagine being the Pied Piper and losing your flute. Yet it happens to all and every. The remainder of us do the best we can. Mick was doing the best he could, which was very good but none of what any of us expected which was more MIRACLE MIRACLE MIRACLE."

69 was the final tour where Mick and The Stones REALLY HAD SOMETHING, where on any given night at least the illusion of danger and spontaneity and MEANING still prevailed. 72 was even better, musically, but you could see the cracks showing. By 75, the soul music had become a pajama'ed carnivale.

Incredible that they've maintained a 50+ year career after having peaked 7 years in. The Stones, not unlike Dylan, were scarred by the maw of publicity, of satanism, of being evil spokesdudes for a generation, and pulled back from the precipice by retreating to what they always wanted to be: a rock and roll band. Some of us wanted more from them ... but it was too much to ask of them, maybe too much to ask of anyone.

I do wish they had reconnected in later life with their original artistry like Dylan has done over the past 18 years, but, hey, they are what they are, and still produce an incredible, ageless, museum-like replica of the rock and roll experience.

We need to know, what show is he reviewing!!

July 11th or 12th??

That's currently the most important question on this forum!



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Sounds like he was paying attention to the music too : "Ron Wood was the rhythm guitarist replacing Mick Taylor; Billy Preston was really shooting-off at the keyboard; Keith Richards was on lead guitar and he and Ron were doing some sub-glancing lilting highs against each other's edges but Keith held a firmer more natural ground, albeit an easy one which allowed Ron to come in and play back against shots and lobs at his will. Charlie Watts on tempo seemed to have joy but his center was off to the left and falling down. Bill Wyman on bass was the total professional holding it all together over the bloody Thames-Forum."

I had not idea Buck (aka Henry Chanaski) was capable of so much insight into the Rolling Stones. Makes me appreciate Bill Wyman more, hearing Bukowski's descriptionof him.

I am a native of Los Angeles. I appreciate Bukowski's underbelly take on the glitzy metropolis. It's a welcome antedote to the usual Hollywood glamour puss nonsense. And nobody described drinking bouts better than Charles Bukowski.

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nobody described drinking bouts better than Charles Bukowski.

Try Jospeh Roth's "The Legend of the Holy Drinker"

It's interesting to read the review by bystanders which are sometimes irrelevant and sometimes objective.
Anyway, it was fun to read.

By the way,
was he mentioning Ronnie as a fiddler?

i read a bunch of his books in my 20s. 'Post Office', 'Factotum', great stuff. Especially for angsty single men.