Bill Wyman’s Stone Alone Book

[GeorgesEric]

If you folks are looking for a good book about the Rolling Stones in the Sixties era of their career, I suggest you check Bill Wyman’s Stone Alone book.



It is entertaining to see how different things were back then.

Here’s a quote from the book in 1965: “they invited me to sign a three-year sponsorship deal endorsing the Framus bass and gave me a new instrument, two set of strings and a new lead”.

He is a very interesting guy, that Bill Wyman.

Good book.

 

[Bass V]

Charlie pleaded with him to stay, and he's lifetime friends with Peter Frampton. good standing.

 

[Spidey2112]

I believe I saw a documentary on our resident Stones historian. I enjoyed it and would probably like the book even more. Thanks for sharing!

 

[blastoff99]

Thread is about book
It's right there in the title
I will move this now

 

[pcake]

thanks for the reminder - i've been meaning to read it.

i just headed to amazon, and to my happy surprise, it's on kindle unlimited, so if you subscribe to that, it's free to read right now. already added to my kindle cloud reader.

 

[bobyoung53]

If you folks are looking for a good book about the Rolling Stones in the Sixties era of their career, I suggest you check Bill Wyman’s Stone Alone book.



It is entertaining to see how different things were back then.

Here’s a quote from the book in 1965: “they invited me to sign a three-year sponsorship deal endorsing the Framus bass and gave me a new instrument, two set of strings and a new lead”.

He is a very interesting guy, that Bill Wyman.

Good book.

I read that, great book, I think I read another one of his too.

 

[bobyoung53]

I believe I saw a documentary on our resident Stones historian. I enjoyed it and would probably like the book even more. Thanks for sharing!

'The Quiet One'? Great documentary. I paid 4 bucks on Amazon, another great one I watched on Amazon was 'Horn From The Heart'- Paul Butterfield.

 

[WI Short Scaler]

I read this a long time ago. I remember enjoying it at the time but don't remember many details now.

 

[GeorgesEric]

I’ll remember this tidbit for a while: 278 in 2 years! (…)

In the book he explains one of the reasons why he was holding his bass near vertically in live shows: To block the projector lights from his eyes so he could get a good view at the creatures in the front rows…

it’s no wonder the guy developed good records keeping practices. I am guessing it must have helped him more than once!

 

[TyBo]

I read it some time ago, it was good enough for me to finish it. A certain amount of it read sort of like a travelogue combined with an accounting ledger. He spends time giving Brian Jones his props, which is OK.

Keith's book is the one. Maybe the best autobiography I ever read. Up there, anyway.

 

[Ostie]

Keith’s book was very good and very honest. Nothing left on the table there. I’ll read Bills book when I get a chance.

 

[kevmac]

Keith’s book was very good and very honest. Nothing left on the table there. I’ll read Bills book when I get a chance.

He talks quite a lot of his gear and basses which I liked.

 

[Chickenwheels]

I read it yonks back so only have a vague recollection. He talks about street fighting as a kid, the multitude of “relationships”, and he describes the most spartan and uncool place they played in the 60s…my hometown!
He talks about the gear he used quite a bit. He made a bass cab out of a wardrobe and poured concrete into the bottom of it!
Odd but fun read.

 

[Mark 63]

His description of childhood poverty is memorable. And the stories of trying to get money/accounting from Allen Klein are very interesting in light of the Beatles' difficulties. His tales of bedding groupies with Brian were creepy.

 

[Pauly 4001]

It's a good read. He says lots of complimentary things about Brian, isn't too kind about Keith and his drug troubles and says he didn't want to spend his time around people he didn't like or respect, noted with bemusement how Keith and Mick Taylor kept replacing his bass lines on recordings.
He and Brian each got a penny or two for each Framus or was it Vox signature instrument sold totaling a 100 pounds or so for each.

 

[Paul New]

Thanks for recommending, I will definitely read that.

Another good Stones read is Bobby Key’s Every Night is a Saturday Night.

 

[SulzerType2]

Bill always comes across as cantankerous and creepy.

 

[Confunk]

It was a very good read, and the part I was most impressed with was when BW wrote about hearing a super-chops bassist at a Festival (He didn't say who) and wondered how he could have such incredible success and World-renown as a Bassist, and the super-chops player was barely known. That shows me he was a pretty down-to-earth person.

 

[Laurent]

Bill Wyman also wrote a book about the Blues that is like an encyclopedia.
It's a big book and it's very detailed, might be the best on the topic.

 

[bobyoung53]

I read it some time ago, it was good enough for me to finish it. A certain amount of it read sort of like a travelogue combined with an accounting ledger. He spends time giving Brian Jones his props, which is OK.

Keith's book is the one. Maybe the best autobiography I ever read. Up there, anyway.

Yes, that is a great book, I felt like I personally knew him after finishing it. "Life"