FOUNDATION STONE... |
1st Edition 302 pages 2nd Edition 304 pages 3rd Edition 307 pages 13.8cm x 21.6cm Photographs, maps ISBN 1-904221-00-9 Price £11.99 + P&P
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Graham Ride was Brian Jones's best friend during the ten months immediately prior to Brian
leaving his hometown of Cheltenham for the 'Smoke' of London to form the Rolling Stones.
They may not have been blood brothers but they were the next best thing.
They shared good times, bad times, money (mostly the author's), food, cigarettes, booze,
revelations, depressions, views and philosophies. In those last ten months they had
participated in an intensely musical learning period with its high and low points, its
exultations, its disagreements and disappointments. They'd shared just about everything
except women and a bed.
What started off as an evangelical mission for Brian to spread the music
of the Chicago Blues around Britain ended up as the invention and creation of the most
enduring, and arguably the best, Rock and Roll band in the world.
'Foundation Stone' affectionately records the influences and the shaping
of Brian Jones as his musical talent blossomed. It portrays the essence of the early
sixties in provincial Cheltenham and intimately brings to life the atmosphere of those
exciting times and the way of life of a struggling future pop star.
The lid on the true musical influences of Brian Jones is raised and many
gaps filled. Why did Brian get hooked on the blues in the first place? Where did he first
play the blues in public? How far removed from his later public persona was Brian before
fame found him? This book answers these questions and many more.
This second edition has an additional chapter telling
how one of Brian's adopted children found his roots over forty years
later.
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