Part One

The Stones can drive one crazy just going through some of the musical decisions they’ve made through the years. But longtime fans probably have more personal stories of heartbreak. Here’s three of mine for starters:

I’m a teacher in NJ. Lucky enough to teach an elective call HISTORY OF ROCK (50's and 60's) to 8th graders this past year. In the course of things, mention (quite often) I’m a Stones fan. A student comes up to me at the end of the year and says his mother has a tape of herself with Mick Jagger. He says she’s singing a Stones song incorrectly and Mick then corrects her and sings it right. It’s one minute long and it’s on reel to reel. I ask for more details!!! Comes back and says mom doesn’t remember the song, tape is buried someplace, and she doesn’t have a reel to reel player. I can’t come up with one either (and I tried!). Student graduated in June. Think that’s a lost opportunity.

A teacher in her 50's in my building, big Beatles fan, also asks me about my course. We talk sixties music. She tells me when she was a kid in Miami her family stayed in the same hotel as the Stones. Parents took a lot of 8mm home movies at the pool of them. Again, I ask if these tapes are around. She thinks her parents still have them, but they’re retired in Florida. I ask to keep me in mind. Nothing happening, but I’m still on it.

Last show at Madison Square Garden in 1969. I saw the first two, am convinced these are the best ever and will never see/hear anything like it again. (Who knew about YaYa’s or Gimme Shelter at the time?) Before leaving house for the last show, it’s a toss up - do I take a cassette tape recorder or my mom’s 8 mm movie camera. I go with the camera. End up with a silent, 5 minute clip. Kick myself for not recording the show!

It was a huge let down leaving Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto in 1972 after seeing 2 shows that day....."that were wasn't a 3rd show"!!!!!!!

fleabit tries out for the bass position, but loses out to darryl jones when he accidentally cuts the shepherd's pie backstage.

" fleabit tries out for the bass position, but loses out to darryl jones when he accidentally cuts the shepherd's pie backstage. "

http://static.howstuffworks.com/gif/sinking-ship-2.jpg !!!!!

Starbuck wrote on Aug 20^th, 2010 at 1:04am:

fleabit tries out for the bass position, but loses out to darryl jones when he accidentally cuts the shepherd's pie backstage.

Hilarious!

Seeing them two nights in a row at CNE Toronto, 1994...for long stretches, neither Keith nor Ronnie had their hands near their fretboards, and Chuck Leavell was playing the show.

I wish I'd seen them both nights at CNE in 1989.  I saw one, have DVD of the other...much more Satisfaction.

There have been hundreds of shows where a twofer would be a dream...I got the pan grease of rockstar ennui:  Fuck'em.

I shouldn't complain - I was at Oshawa, Ontario CNIB 2nd show 1979, Rich Stadium end-of-tour 8-8-75, 16th row Pittsburgh, 1999...But - Fuck'em

KMC wrote on Aug 19^th, 2010 at 12:39pm:

I’m a teacher in NJ. Lucky enough to teach an elective call HISTORY OF ROCK (50's and 60's) to 8th graders this past year.

I've always been curious why you left out the Stones.

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Damn! I kept putting them in the RnB section!

Ha! Great pic, have to save that one as it does resemble my class blackboard!

Speaking of "School of Rock", my town has a summer camp of the same name (I have nothing to do with it, but some of my students sign up).

They learn rock songs all week and then do a performance for parents at a local bar the last day.

Check out this medley of Stones hits. (The lead singer on "Sympathy" could well be the next Jagger with his moves.....)

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Zxk3PUKaldk&feature=player_embedded