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Queens of the Stone Age
Only Whyman and Watts of the STones (bassist and drummer) attended Brian Jones funeral?
Lost a lot of respect for the other two.........
Lost a lot of respect for the other two.........
Only Whyman and Watts of the STones (bassist and drummer) attended Brian Jones funeral?
Lost a lot of respect for the other two.........
From what I read, Jagger and Richards did not like Jones, and Jones didn't like them, even from their early days. I can understand why they didn't attend. Jones was an asshole (from what I have read).
Brian Jones was the most talented musician of the original Stones. He formed and named the band. He could play anything he picked up including saxaphone, marimbas, sitar not to mention he was one of the best slide guitar players in London.
Brian had a lot of problems, but heroin was not one of them. Mick and Keith forced him out of his own band because Brian was too fragile to tour and they wanted to go to America in 1969. He also had a recent drug conviction which would make it difficult for him to obtain a visa. Keith made off with Brian's girlfriend Anita Pallenburg and then they kicked him out of his own band. He might have had a few reasons to get numb.
www.TheWoodstockConspiracy.com
www.ClassicRockEsoterica.com
Five days later Brian Jones' remains were put to rest. Mick Jagger and his girlfriend Marianne Faithfull did not attend the funeral because they were scheduled to start work on the film Ned Kelly in Australia. Reportedly the producers of the film had threatened legal action if Jagger and Faithfull did not show up on schedule.
Keith Richards and Anita Pallenberg must have had their own reasons for staying away. After all they had been through with Brian, perhaps it was just too painful to bear.