I've never liked the Stones...

[DiscoStu]

...but I'm watching the Crossfire Hurricane docu on tv just now (Jack Daniel's is involved) and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

Still don't care much for their music but I love the stories.
Hyde Park. San Francisco.
You just don't get stuff like this now. Same with the Led Zep docs, The Who, The Beatles etc.

Do the kids these days dream of being McFly?

[ICBM]

...but I'm watching the Crossfire Hurricane docu on tv just now (Jack Daniel's is involved) and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

Still don't care much for their music but I love the stories.
Hyde Park. San Francisco.
You just don't get stuff like this now. Same with the Led Zep docs, The Who, The Beatles etc.

I don't like anything they've done after Mick Taylor left. Which is odd, because Ronnie Wood was great in the Faces. But when he joined it was as if the band switched immediately from living on the edge and producing inspired music, to the middle of the road and never doing anything worthwhile again. In my opinion.

Do the kids these days dream of being McFly?

No, they dream of being Rihanna or Ollie Murs.

[koneguitarist]

I don't like anything they've done after Mick Taylor left. Which is odd, because Ronnie Wood was great in the Faces. But when he joined it was as if the band switched immediately from living on the edge and producing inspired music, to the middle of the road and never doing anything worthwhile again. In my opinion.

I think that was their best period too. He added a touch of class to the band and was a great foil for Richards to work off.
To me Ronnie and Keith are interchangeable, one sorta cancels the other out, even though I much prefer Richards.

[erictheweary]

...but I'm watching the Crossfire Hurricane docu on tv just now (Jack Daniel's is involved) and I'm thoroughly enjoying it.

Still don't care much for their music but I love the stories.
Hyde Park. San Francisco.
You just don't get stuff like this now. Same with the Led Zep docs, The Who, The Beatles etc.

Do the kids these days dream of being McFly?

Yeh, I'm largely like that about them. I'd much rather listen to the people they did poor imitations of but the Stones have a few stories to tell that's for sure. Perhaps you should have been watching Slade in Flame instead, which does have a character called Jack Daniels in it!

[Dulcetjones]

I have to agree with ICBM and koneguitarist. The documentaries on most of the bigger acts from the 60's and 70's pretty much all fascinate me, I like reading about that era as well. Recent fav's are Keef's book "Life" and "The Making of Dark Side of the Moon". I also recently came across a DVD at my local library simply titled "George Harrison" that documented his entire life with interviews with everybody, his son, his wife, Eric Clapton etc..., and had loads of footage I'd never seen before. It was about 3 1/2 hours long on 2 discs but I watched it all. Especially entertaining was his wifes description of how she fought off the burglar that broke into their house and stabbed George. As ugly of a situation as it was she told of how she took a fireplace poker and began striking the intruder about the head while he had George down on the floor and they showed a mug shot of the guy after the doctors had patched him up, man did she do a number on the guy. It was hilarious to me, but of course, she wasn't laughing.

[dogload]

It's weird about The Stones. For me, I think the stuff they did with Brian Jones and including Let It Bleed was great, on the whole; creative and innovative at times. However, after that I find their efforts to be be even more american to be a bit of a turn-off. As much as I like Keef's and Charlie's playing.
Jagger though...

kids today want to be The Foo Fighters and RHCPs!

[ICBM]

As much as I like Keef's and Charlie's playing.

First time I've seen that posted (admittedly this is a fairly guitar-based forum) but I completely agree. The main conclusion I came to from watching a lot of the recent documentary stuff is that Charlie is very under-rated as a drummer and may be the most important member of the band to "the Stones sound" - more so even than Keef.

Kind of like Ringo except that Jagger never said he wasn't even the best drummer in the Stones .

[richardhomer]

They come across as no more than tribute band to me... Ronnie wore pick socks at his recent marriage, no doubt to prove how rock & roll he is. And he's the one I've got time for... To borrow Mrs Merton's fantastic question, I wonder what attracted Ronnie's new wife to the muilti-millionaire?

[camf]

I don't like anything they've done after Mick Taylor left. Which is odd, because Ronnie Wood was great in the Faces. But when he joined it was as if the band switched immediately from living on the edge and producing inspired music, to the middle of the road and never doing anything worthwhile again. In my opinion.

Yep... Taylor was class.