If you are any competent musician, if you have creative ideas, ideas of songs, of arrangements, in a band like the Stones, where these 2 people do all the things, there is no freedom.
BILL WYMANBecause of the fashion, the young people don’t have any access to the history of music, unless people like me revive it. There are very few people to revive it, because you can’t earn any money doing it.
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All of my books are about researching. I do all the research and I give it to a writer who can put it in the written word better than I could.
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I live in a house that was built in 1480. It has a moat around it. It is like a little baby castle.
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I’m not a musician, I just play bass.
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Onstage I like to play with a an 18-inch speaker, which very few bass players do. I need that fat, underneath sound, which I’ve always had. It suits me admirably to do it like that, and I can imitate that sound by plugging directly into the board in the studio.
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My first record I owned was by Les Paul.
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You never know what your next dig is going to find.
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I always say that I am very proud of the work that I did with the Rolling Stones and that I am also proud of what I have done with the Rhythm Kings.
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I have very interesting hobbies like archeology and photography.
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It’s all right leaping about the stage when you’re 20 but when you get to 25 it gets a bit embarrassing
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Everything had to be done in-between Stones time.
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I’m always shy in front of an audience, so I’m always at the back, in the shadows, just doing it. I don’t like the front, the adulation.
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The Stones always tried to do the odd smaller gig when they could.
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Companies spend twenty, thirty, forty percent of revenues on advertising to brand their product and to get, essentially, acquire customers cheaply. You get a lot of exposure on something like this.
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With the Rhythm Kings, I can involve myself in arranging and producing the music as well as the choice of songs.
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But why is it that in music, anything more than 5 years old – apart from a few hits – is never played on radio to the young public?
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