Back in the day, when you signed up for a fan club, you got stuff.
A membership card, posters, autographs, newsletters, postcards, buttons, iron-ons, you name it.
It gave you something to look forward to when you got home from school.
You’d run to the mailbox, or if your Mom had got to it before you, it might be sitting on the kitchen table.
You tore open the envelope to see what they had sent you.
Seems a lot more exciting than getting an email doesn’t it?
Keith's Black leopard lined leather jacket, worn in the late 70's.
Art Collins Vice President of Rolling Stones Records from 1981-1986,
experienced a thing or two in his time with the band, as this post and story will attest to.
Like his office being used by Keith Richards to store various items of clothing.
Specifically the black leather jacket you see pictured.
When I bought this item, I was as fascinated by the story,
as I was being able to buy such an iconic item belonging to the legend himself.
What really defines a rock star?
Many things I imagine.
Obviously their music first and foremost.
But then, a close second has to be their style.
And what describes “The Human Riff,” better than one of his many leather jackets.
In building my collection I’ve always had an eye to collecting items that truly capture the spirit and the essence of the individual.
In the case of Keith Richards, he has for me defined what Rock and Roll is.
In his music, and his lifestyle.
The true definition of Rock and Roll excess.
Here’s the letter from Art describing the circumstances in which he came upon Keith’s jacket as well as an article in a trade magazine describing the clothes Art speaks of piled up in his office on his couch.
Enjoy.
This was the Stones’ first tour in Europe since 1967, and became part of a pattern (not always followed) wherein the group would play North America, Continental Europe, and the United Kingdom on a three-year rotating cycle.
Shows were similar to that of the 1969 American Tour, but with the material more familiar to audiences as Let It Bleed had now been out for some months. The Stones continued to preview new material, however, as “Brown Sugar”, “Dead Flowers”, and “You Gotta Move” were set list regulars; they would not appear on record until Sticky Fingers was released a half year later. Unlike many of the group’s tours of this era, here the group only played one show a night.
Following a tradition set since the band’s earliest days, the tour was not without its altercations. The show at Råsunda stadion in Stockholm on September 4 was interrupted by police who feared that fans, provoked by Jagger, would storm the stage. The singer duly responded by pointing the microphone to the police on stage and soon after suggested the audience would sit down for the next song (the slower “Love in Vain”). On September 14 a thousand or so forged tickets were rejected at a show at Ernst-Merck-Halle in Hamburg; two hundred policemen were needed to handle disappointed fans. Two days later at Deutschlandhalle in West Berlin, there were nasty battles between assorted youths and the police before the show, and some 50 arrests were made. Then on October 1 at Milan’s Palazzo Dello Sport, two thousand youths tried to crash the gates to get into the show. Police had to use tear gas to quell the riot; there were injuries among both the policemen and the crowd, and 63 arrests were made.
14 September Germany Ernst-Merck-Halle – Hamburg, Germany
16 September Germany Deutschlandhalle – Berlin, Germany
18 September Germany Sporthalle – Cologne, Germany
20 September Germany Killesberg – Stuttgart, Germany
05 October Germany Festhalle – Frankfurt, Germany
06 October Germany Festhalle – Frankfurt, Germany
07 October Germany Grugahalle – Essen, Germany
During one of these shows in Germany the Stones signed a German birthday card for some very lucky fan person named Sandra.
Included is Ian Stewart who rarely signed anything.
He played piano on this tour along with sax player Bobby Keys and Jim Price on trombone.
A beautiful large set of Stones signatures from a rare and tough era to find, that being the early 70′s.
I’ve been on a mission to find out who in fact Sandra is…
I recently have some thoughts and have made some head way…
See what you think.
I believe this was signed for Sandy Brandt, longtime editor of Andy Warhol’s “Interview” magazine.
He actually created a silkscreen print of her in 1970.
She and her husband, Peter Brant who met and married in college, were Warhol junkies.
They befriended Warhol and became an avid collectors his art in the late sixties and early seventies.
This card was signed in Germany during the early 70′s.
It is signed for Sandra’s 21st birthday.
Which if you look at the silkscreen which was done in 1970, she looks about 21.
It’s not inconceivable that Brant who was scoffing up all the Warhol he could buy would commisson Andy to do a portrait of his wife for his growing collection.
Another note, Warhol’s film “Trash” previewed in Germany in 1971, during this time and both Brant’s may have traveled with Warhol’s entourage to go see the film.
If I could stick my pen in my heart
And spill it all over the stage
Would it satisfy ya, would it slide on by ya
Would you think the boy is strange? Ain’t he strange?
If I could win ya, if I could sing ya
A love song so divine
Would it be enough for your cheating heart
If I broke down and cried? If I cried?
I said I know it’s only rock ‘n roll but I like it
I know it’s only rock ‘n roll but I like it, like it, yes, I do
Oh, well, I like it, I like it, I like it
I said can’t you see that this old boy has been a lonely?
If I could stick a knife in my heart
Suicide right on stage
Would it be enough for your teenage lust
Would it help to ease the pain? Ease your brain?
If I could dig down deep in my heart
Feelings would flood on the page
Would it satisfy ya, would it slide on by ya
Would ya think the boy’s insane? He’s insane
I said I know it’s only rock ‘n roll but I like it
I said I know it’s only rock’n roll but I like it, like it, yes, I do
Oh, well, I like it, I like it, I like it
I said can’t you see that this old boy has been a lonely?
And do ya think that you’re the only girl around?
I bet you think that you’re the only woman in town
I said I know it’s only rock ‘n roll but I like it
I said I know it’s only rock ‘n roll but I like it
I said I know it’s only rock ‘n roll but I like it, like it, yes, I do
Oh, well, I like it, I like it. I like it…
I remember seeing this in record stores back in 1974.
I had just graduated high school and was attending my first year of art school.
This was the kind of illustration I wanted to do.
By today’s standards, pretty lame.
Back then, it didn’t get any better.
It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll would mark The Stones’ first effort in the producer’s chair since Their Satanic Majesties Request, and the first for Jagger and Richards under their pseudonym “The Glimmer Twins”. On the choice to produce, Richards said at the time, “I think we’d come to a point with Jimmy (Miller) where the contribution level had dropped because it’d got to be a habit, a way of life, for Jimmy to do one Stones album a year. He’d got over the initial sort of excitement which you can feel on Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed. Also, Mick and I felt that we wanted to try and do it ourselves because we really felt we knew much more about techniques and recording and had our own ideas of how we wanted things to go. Goats Head Soup hadn’t turned out as we wanted to – not blaming Jimmy or anything like that… But it was obvious that it was time for a change in that particular part of the process of making records.” Starting with this release, all future Rolling Stones albums would either be produced by them or in collaboration with an outside producer.
Most of the album’s backing tracks were recorded first at Musicland, with Jagger’s vocals recorded after, with Richards saying, “Jagger often comes up with his best stuff alone in the studio with just an engineer.”.
Source http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/It%27s_Only_Rock_%27n%27_Roll
RARE IN STORE POSTER, CASHBOX AD AND SHEET MUSIC USING THE SAME ARTWORK.
This display would for the most part make no sense unless you had seen the video.
Or more likely they designed the displays etc. and built the idea behind the video afterwards.
Check it out.
http://www.dailymotion.com/video/xg8pz_rolling-stones-its-only-rock-roll_music
