Comments on: Throwing Stones XV: For A Song

By: Shully

Shully — Wed, 05 Mar 2014 17:44:32 +0000

Thanks for continuing the bizarre, behind-the-guitars history of the Rolling Stones–exploring the seldom-revealed back roads, side stories and business blunders in Mick and Keith’s biographies. It’s an almost-unbelievable tale of monumental success, extraordinary excess and colossal financial naiveté. Together, your chapters form a serialized satirical masterpiece showcasing the weirdness that has shadowed them throughout their career. Over their more than 50 years as a rock group, the Stones have lost, squandered, mismanaged or been swindled out of more money than all other successful bands combined (with the possible exception of The Beatles). Looking forward to learning how they turned it around and wound up richer than ever.

By: Ro

Ro — Thu, 13 Feb 2014 05:27:03 +0000

In my experience, everyone in the music business made money except the talent. Until the talent started writing their own songs, then realized that what was written is the contracts mattered just as much. That fine print! I remember John & Yoko being “artistic” with their nude photos, politics and general aloofness. Zzzzz… I put on my earbuds this morning and the Stones kicked in when I hit the trail–kicking up stones behind me.

By: Larry McC.

Larry McC. — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 15:09:23 +0000

Have you ever heard any of Linda Eastman’s vocal tracks that are isolated from the rest of Wing’s vocals? She was truly awful. They just buried her tracks in the mix, and used auto-tune and other studio tricks like they did with Cher and some of the legendary off-pitch singers. Should have stuck to taking pictures.

By: Jonell M.

Jonell M. — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 13:15:12 +0000

Bill, I always look forward to your pithy and interesting “e-magazine” {I know it’s called a blog, but that doesn’t seem like the proper word given the agility of your wit and the skill you have in bringing the information together} and I pass it on regularly. Thank you for keeping worthy conversations going.

By: Jim B.

Jim B. — Mon, 10 Feb 2014 01:12:55 +0000

Great stuff, Bill. Saw Sir Paul and Ringo on the Grammy show recently. Can’t believe they, like the Stones, are still at it after all these years. Hope for us all. Keep it coming. We’re all waiting to know how–and if–the story ends.

By: George B.

George B. — Fri, 07 Feb 2014 17:24:19 +0000

Ironically, I read this on the same day I read a piece on the 50th anniversary of the Fab Four's first trip to the US and their first Ed Sullivan Show. Watching Sullivan clips on the CBS Morning News brought it all back in a flash. As I've said in past comments, a few notes from a song can whip one back in time and re-establish a particular state of mind in nano seconds. So can your pieces. I agree with Dan… well done!

By: Dan O.

Dan O. — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 20:45:43 +0000

So now you’re Charles Dickens, eh, Bill–ending your installments with a cliffhanger? As a parallel account of the Stones and the Beatles, this was a particularly interesting chapter. The writing just keeps getting stronger. Well done!

By: Bryan T.

Bryan T. — Thu, 06 Feb 2014 19:59:26 +0000

Lots of fascinating information, and really fun to read. It’s an unhappy factor that so much great, generation-spanning music came from a foundation flooded with so many ill feelings. Upon Klein’s death, which I think occurred in the cushy settings of a trans-continental flight, Todd Rundgren was heard to say, “Too easy for him.”