Posted on 04/27/2024 11:02:28 AM PDT by DallasBiff
Edited on 04/27/2024 1:03:36 PM PDT by Sidebar Moderator. [history]
On July 3, 1969, Brian Jones drowned in his pool and died at just 27, but questions still linger about what really happened at his Cotchford Farm home that night.
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Wasn’t he supposedly the brains behind the Rolling Stones, considered a virtuoso? Weren’t most of their hits after he passed away?
Time passed him by, Mick and Keith’s songwriting eclipsed Brian’s.
Just four months before my first Stones concert at the Veteran’s Memorial Coliseum in Phoenix on 11-11-1969. The Rolling Stones were my favorite band at that time.
No mystery. The guy was reclusive, a hard drinker, was popping LSD like tic-tacs, and had a swimming pool. The perfect storm.
I thought the contractor working at his home was suspected of foul play, since he was threatening him regularly.
Mick Jagger had a nervous year in 1970 as that was when he was 27.
What year did he end up in bed with David Bowie?
I think that was later in the 1970s - after the danger had passed.
First name J, 27, rock star, OD (or alcohol) . . . I lost track of the Brian Jones controversy.
Damn, I'm old.
Acid claimed Lennon about 1965, and also Brian Wilson. Syd Barrett of Pink Floyd, and an infamous episode with Fleetwood Mac’s Peter Green.
That’s just off the top of my head, there were many more. The sad thing is millions of impressionable young people tried to emulate these celebrities, and incorporated all their specious and nonsensical politics.
Jones was versatile and talented, but by all accounts was too whacked out to be dependable and they reluctantly kicked him out of the band. What else?
Getting into bed with David Bowie is a danger in itself... 😂😂😂
Probably because I came back and he didn't. . . . . . and I understand why, and recognized a strength needed to do so . . circa late 60's early 70's.
...and Mick Taylor certainly surpassed Brian. And Keith. And almost anyone else.
He’s a great player no doubt, but Mick and Keith wrote the songs.
Yep. I have always thought that that was the most likely scenario.
Yes indeed. That man was with many during the day. Risky business defined.
Brian certainly was the driving force in the early days. But as things changed during the 60s he couldn’t keep up. He and The Glimmer Twins were going in different directions.
Gimme Shelter was their high point.It was one long,deep slide after that.
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