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Legends of the Stones
Posted 5/15/2010 12:00:00 PM
Over the course of five decades, a lot can happen to you.

When you're a member of the world's greatest rock & roll band, multiply "a lot" by a factor of a thousand.

The Rolling Stones have produced hit songs and albums that have helped define rock and roll for a half-century. Along the way, they've lived a life of rock excess that few could aspire to.

Think about the stories you've heard about the Stones at one time or another. Keith's Toronto drug bust. Mick sleeping with David Bowie. Charlie punching out Mick for calling him "his drummer". Ron Wood leaving his wife for a barely-legal Russian cocktail waitress. Keith's other drug bust (in 1960s England), where Mick's then-galpal Marianne Faithfull was found by police wearing only a fur rug.

Oh, and Keith falling out of a lot of stuff. Can't forget that.

Yep, there are a lot of stories out there. Even so, there's one tale that sums up the Stones, and specifically Mick Jagger, perfectly.

It was early 2006. Then-President of the United States George W. Bush had authorized his people to secure rooms at Vienna's five-star Imperial Hotel in anticipation of a summit meeting in Austria. Specifically, the President's aides were hoping to secure the luxurious Royal Suite, where past presidents like Ronald Reagan, John F. Kennedy and George Bush Senior had stayed at a cost of $5400 a night (the room looks like this: http://www.aluxurytravelblog.com/images/suites/hotelimperialroyalsuite1.jpg)

There was just one problem: The Stones were in town for a gig at the same time. They had already booked it.

Presidential aides being what they are, the assumption was made that the Rolling Stones would allow the "leader of the free world" to have the suite instead.

Mick, being Mick, would have no part of it.

In fact, he made sure that the Rolling Stones secured every room on the entire floor. Just because.

President Bush, and his people, had to find somewhere else to stay.

What's it mean to be a Rolling Stone?

Doing whatever you want & taking crap from no one.

Jason Ward is a Toronto-based writer and on-air host on Classic Rock Q107, heard on Q Saturday Afternoons from 12 to 6 and Psychedelic Psunday Evenings from 6 to 9, and is easily followed via Facebook or Twitter. WTF?! with Jason Ward is updated every Tuesday, Thursday and Saturday.

During Bush' first year as prez....while the annual appropriation budgets were being handed out ( a huge day on the Hill),

Bush had "You Can't Always Get What You Want" playing...what a tool!!!

TRUE STORY!!!

Will Riffy be posting in this thread?

Pdog wrote on May 16^th, 2010 at 3:36pm:

Will Riffy be posting in this thread?

i'm holding out for moonpiddle.

onnie has returned, for Stones... just saying, his priorities are in the right place.

Mick is the president of the Free World.......Keith is Cultural Ambassador.... Charlie Secretary of State...and this is old news aint it?........

gimmekeef wrote on May 16^th, 2010 at 3:56pm:

Mick is the president of the Free World.......Keith is Cultural Ambassador.... Charlie Secretary of State...and this is old news aint it?........

very old... bush isn't prez anymore....

This thread will be massive

" Presidential aides being what they are, the assumption was made that the Rolling Stones would allow the "leader of the free world" to have the suite instead.

Mick, being Mick, would have no part of it.

In fact, he made sure that the Rolling Stones secured every room on the entire floor. Just because.

President Bush, and his people, had to find somewhere else to stay.

What's it mean to be a Rolling Stone?

Doing whatever you want & taking crap from no one. "

Oh , this is BEAUTIFUL !!!!!!!!

Joe Sea .... Scroll

parachuteman wrote on May 16^th, 2010 at 1:45pm:

President Bush, and his people, had to find somewhere else to stay.

Hahahahahaha. WHAT AN ASSHOLE!!!

Sounded like bullshit when I read it 4 years ago. :interestingstuffronnie

MrPleasant wrote on May 17^th, 2010 at 12:04pm:

parachuteman wrote on May 16^th, 2010 at 1:45pm:

President Bush, and his people, had to find somewhere else to stay.

Hahahahahaha. WHAT AN ASSHOLE!!!

LOL! Yeah, and the guy that sits in the Oval Office now is roughly one billion times the asshole that Bush ever was.

Obummer is a fucking joke.

Riffy

Bush is responsible for the current oil gusher 1 mile below the ocean surface, that mankind may be unable to stop.

Riffhard wrote on May 17^th, 2010 at 2:01pm:

[quote author=MrPleasant link=1274035545/0#10 date=1274115861][quote author=parachuteman link=1274035545/0#0 date=1274035545]

LOL! Yeah, and the guy that sits in the Oval Office now is roughly one billion times the asshole that Bush ever was.
Obummer is a fucking joke.
Riffy

1. Bob Dylan "ain't no leftist."
2. Dylan endorsed Obama (his first presidential endorsement).
3. ERGO, Obama is not a leftist.

Riffy's head explodes in . . . 3 . . . 2 . . . 1

Well, good on the Stones for sticking it to da man. But i dont like that room at all. Too cluttered.

looking at the election results on CNN, did Riffy say it was coming hard or fast?

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