I don't want to pester Rockman, because I know how busy he is
with prepping for the album release (as a stringer/short-term
contractor), but on my end i'm still wondering what i should do
with the artist/image info i have. Rockman i hope knows that my
default position is to keep my mouth shut (no matter how
difficult that is for me)

Anyway, Happy Dusty Tuesday everybody !

Gather round, kids. Revvy's gonna talk some inside-baseball, a true story
from way back when, about one of the Stones' sexiest "stringer/short term
contractors" versus her mortal enemy, a young supermodel named (yes, you
guessed it) Patti Hansen...

1) I struggled to come up with a proper name for these "stringers".
They are devoted, radically underpaid superfans who occasionally
have their salaries raised from nothing to a pittance, if and when
the Stones' notoriously lean professional staff are simply snowed
under by the time demands of an ongoing or upcoming project.

2) NOBODY loves the Stones more than these stringers. They have
real responsibilities in return for near-zero recognition or
compensation. They do what they do simply for the personal
satisfaction of being a not-unimportant part of this historically
very-important enterprise known as The Rolling Stones.
(they do of course on occasion receive some cool merch)

3) From my point of view, one of the biggest sacrifices these
stringers make is they have to largely put aside their egos and
become pure team players. This is HORRIFYING to an egomaniac/
show-off like me. A fate worse than death. Yes, I am motivated by
my love for the Stones, but I love me even more. So I only do what
I feel like doing, only do what is fun for me. Judge me as you wish...

4) So now we journey back to 1995 and the Undercover mailing
list, the first online Stones fan forum, run by a small group of
hipster tech-bro Mick-haters. I think (not sure) Voo, bv, and
stonesdoug all started their online fandom posting there and all
got disgusted enough by the prevailing negativity and cynicism
on Undercover that they went off to start their own websites.

5) Me, I stayed and just kept posting extremely clever pro-Mick
stuff that infuriated the Undercover elite and got me banned
repeatedly and eventually permanently. But during my Undercover
tenure there arrived this hot chick, at least thats what she
claimed, we'll call her "Mudzy". Eventually Mudzy documented
both her beauty and her personal relationships with both Mick
and Keith. At the same time Mudzy would post the most ridiculously
inaccurate absurd nonsense about the Stones. She was an
extraordinary troll, she maybe invented trolling, and she quickly
replaced me as public enemy number one on Undercover. But how
could they ban her? She knew Mick and Keith, in fact she called
them "her boys", as if they took instructions from her. It
was wonderfully hilarious.

6) Mudzy contacted me because she wanted to know more about my
time with Keith's shrink, Dr Anita Stevens. Mudzy's roots with the
Stones went back to circa 1980 when she was one of a group of
hip club chicks (all friends of journalist Lisa Robinson) all of whom were
in love with Mick and/or Keith and all of whom were serving
as stringers for the Stones, helping to manage the perception
of the Stones among all the "new wave" bands and the media
that were covering this Lower East Side/East Village scene.
Their job as stringers was schmoozing. They were the Hot Schmoozers.

7) Mudzy was quite open with me about how much she and the
other Schmoozers HATED it when Jerry Hall and Patti Hansen
swooped in and stole Mick and Keith away from them. Mick
they could somewhat understand because he was always a jet-setter.
But Keith with a supermodel?! Instead of one of the Pallenberg-
worshiping Schmoozers?! It was too much to bear (and couldn't
possibly last, they thought).

8) So Mudzy and the other Schmoozers came up with nicknames
for Jerry and Patti. The most horrible disgusting nicknames
they could think of. Jerry and Patty together they called
them "The Republicans". And for Patti herself they reserved
the nastiest nickname of all... "The Christian"

9) FYI, as of today, Patti is still very married and still very christian

and i am now informed that, after one serious but brief
relationship with a well-known new wave guitarist, that
Mudzy died alone about 10 years ago in her same one-bedroom
apartment in the East Village (about the same time i think that
the Undercover site/group bit the dust)

so, kids, what is the moral of this story ?

Some Guy, was it not a simple courteous question ?

Some Guy, how do you stay on the good side of someone
who runs away from a simple courteous question ?

I am thrilled that Rockman has re-opened communications
by posting a new pic !!!



At first blush it has neither added nor subtracted from what
I know. I dont even know if this pic is in any way intended
to be an answer to my simple courteous question...

...and at the moment I don't give a shit about any of that.
All I know is that Rockman has made me happy again

if i figure out anything else, y'all be the first to know

Well, when I was gonna run off on all kinds of speculative
tangents once I knew the title Diamond Dust, Rockman
stepped in and sent the first pic...

Well, they've started to run off on those kinda tangents on iorr.org...

P.A. my apologies for not responding sooner, my head has been
circling the globe. i've expressed my belief several times in this
thread that HD2 would be a MAJOR release (and given my
reasons). My current belief is that HD2 /Diamond Dust
will prove to be much more impactful than HD1. In fact,
I am guessing that for many listeners, including me, that
over time HD1 will sound like the somewhat bland leftovers
from the more challenging Diamond Dust.

Hackney Diamonds are just glass.

Diamond Dust is made of the real thing

saintofme, Rockman has posted pic 3 and its a head-scratcher...

i think its gonna take me a while to tie it in with vegas
(but i am nothing if not inventive)

Rockman's text:  "...this one drummed in from Pit 9 late last night.."

its been commented already on iorr that it looks kinda hellish,
which i agree with, so i'll set out in that direction and see where
it takes me...

1) my honest answer is, "this game sucks, its too hard"

2) but i do have another answer, and by way of preamble, i have to say
(and no disrespect intended, Rockman) that a puzzle this devious
could have only come from the grok-like mind of your IORRaqi
partner-in-crime "rocky dijon"

3) Dante's Inferno is a VISION OF HELL that includes, within
the 8th circle of hell, a Pit 9 which is reserved for the
"sowers of discord"

4) Last night I posted here a VISION OF PARADISE from the pit
of the Sphere which was all harmony, and no discord...

"I just can't wait to see bv's costume. A Viking maybe? And then
maybe Patti comes as a lady Viking, and at one point she wanders
over bv's way, and the two Norwegians have a little dance together.
And, Stonesdoug, I really really hope you resurrect your famous
license plate vest for this event. That would bring a lot of joy
for a lot of people. I know everything in the world seems fucked
right now, but there's plane loads of pure JOY coming to Nevada,
at least for one very special weekend"

5) So therefore, because this pic of Pit 9 serves to highlight, via contrast,
my VISION FOR VEGAS, I will make the following adjustments...

For the Halloween shows costumes will be required in the pit
(and encouraged generally) NEW GUESS MAYBE, because the
shows will be filmed at the Sphere NO EVIDENCE YET MAYBE