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p.117, extract from Keith's diary, Mon 14th Jan 1963...
"Flamingo club. Surprise!!! Rick and Carlo played. Without a doubt the Rollin' Stones were the most fantastic group operating in the country tonight. Rick and Carlo are 2 of the best...
Rick and Carlo! Carlo Little was a butcher, a killing drummer, great energy. And Ricky Fenson on bass, a lovely player. They had bleached their hair for the gig. And who did they really work for? Screaming Lord effing Sutch. From time to time they'd sit in with us - that's when Charlie still wasn't with us, and it's why he decided to join the band. because he heard we had this red-hot rhythm section. Ricky and Carlo, if they went into a solo, they would go into turbo max. The room would take off; they almost blew us off the stage they were so good. The two of them together. When Carlo set into that bass drum, this is what I'm talking about. This was rock and roll! As a kid, to play with these guys, who were only two or three years older than we were, but they had been at it a long time, was something. The first time they took me in there - "OK, it goes like this" - and suddenly had this rhythm section behind me, whoa! That was the first time I got three feet off the ground and into the stratosphere"
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