zooeyglass
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Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Apr 19 th, 2008 at 11:00am: zooeyglass wrote on Apr 19 th, 2008 at 10:39am: Hell yeah you should! He was the first to respond to Brian's ad so he really was there from the get go and the main reason he didn't remain an official Stone was because Andrew Loog Oldham didn't think he fit the image of the Stones and 6 members were too many for fans to keep track of. Of course, none of the other Stones protested the decision, allowing it to happen, but he still recorded with them and played in concert from the beginning. I asked ANdrew about it and he answered me the following “Gerardo, I did not fire Stu, that was not within my power to do. I just told the Stones that I did not think the English public, because that's all we were dealing with at the time, were capable of being sold an image factor that contained six people. If the band had said, "Andrew, you can't do that" then Stu would have stayed in the band. This would have made a great difference as to what their future would have been and raises the question of whether you'd have been writing me a letter today on any issue on the Stones, had Stu stayed.
"I don't know but I was right at the time. How do I feel as a man in his mid-fifties with knowledge now about decisions that cause pain to others? Obviously different, but we were teenagers or in our early twenties, well, all except Bill, and at that age youth is invincible and does not know the meaning of hurt, except in matters of the teenage heart. It remains a good decision. If you saw a member of Supertramp or Los Lobos down on the corner I doubt you'd recognise more than one or two members. Life's got a short attention span when you work from nine to five and need to be entertained. Pop music is not a memory test, it's an escape and an entertainment. Over the years the Stones have got away with "Andrew fired Stu" - life is not as simple as they'd like that statement to be."
Andrew Loog Oldham June 2001 Thanks for sharing this Voodoo! I agree -- the Stones were ultimately responsible for the Stu decision.
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