Robben Ford Discussion

[henkholland]

Does anyone know some facts about the rumour that Robben once was asked to replace Mick Taylor in the Rolling Stones?
Henk

[Bluelobster]

Now that is scoop. I remember some bootlegs from the period where they asked J.Beck. I remember a soundcheck in Amsterdam where J.Beck is trying to make them play the freeway jam shuffle, and lord you can understand why he didn't join.
But Robben Stones............
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[bbpgtr]

Wow, that's pretty wild.

Should have replaced Wood or Richard instead of the one who can play some. LOL.

My favorite Stones guitarist is the one who died, was it Brian Jones or Mick Taylor, I never remember and always get them confused for some reason. I guess I'm just bad on Stones trivia.

[BlueRunner]

It seems impossible, but it was nearly 37 years ago that Brian Jones died. He was only 26 at the time. In the seven or eight years that the Stones had been together before his death, they's done some amazing things. A couple of English boys who picked up Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, Skip James, and other greats, and basically said to us Yanks, "Don't you realize what you HAVE over there?" Yes, the Super Bowl Halftime Show was a stinker, but these days it doesn't matter what the Stones do, I'll still love them not only for what they did back in the 60's, but just as much for just being a bunch of guys in their mid-to-late 60's dancing around, singing and playing! More of us geezers should be out doing that sort of thing instead of sitting at home reading the Wall Street Journal and watching stock market news on CNN.
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[BlueRunner]

Not to beat the Stones to death ('tho sometimes Keith looks as though it's already happened to him), but my wife works with someone who is clearly a bit more conservative than she and I are. Recently this individual complained at work about the "obscene performance" that was featured during half time at the Super Bowl. (I first thought maybe she was referring to one of the ads, particularly the one with the trained young chimps -- many folks don't know that it's always juveniles in the ads, because adults are difficult ot handle, but adult chimps can't be returned to the wild and generally get dumped by their owners and trainers on animal rescue shelters that have to keep the chimps segregated in cages for the rest of their lives -- and chimps live a long time -- but that's a story for a completely different message board I'm afraid.) My wife observed in response that "Wow, you sound like one of those people who would have been upset by Elvis' first performances on the Ed Sullivan Show." To which her fellow employee replied, "I never liked Elvis."

Never liked Elvis? There should be laws to prevent people like that from being in the workplace with ordinary people like my wife.
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