Me and the Rolling Stones

My partner just did an interview for zombiepopcorn.com.  He tells some great stories about how we did films in the ‘old days’. Here is a link to one of the films we did that we own exclusively..  http://getsmean.com

Here are the links to the website and the interview done by Tony Anthony..

http://zombie-popcorn.com/?p=6685 Website

http://www.ustream.tv/flash/video/4707555

it’s over two hours long and in this interview he only talks about our stuff after 1 hour 27 minutes but the beginning is great for the fans.

But you can try sometime and Sam Cutler has penned a book with that title.  Sam wrote the book in Australia and asked me to represent it for the rest of the world.  After I read it and found it to be a great read and full of facts that even I didn’t know, I agreed.  We got a publisher and it will be released in North America on March 31.  We are also doing an iPhone-iPod Touch app for the book that will include Sam reading the book for the audio application. This is the man that has the facts of the urban rumor of the Rolling Stones hiring the Hell’s Angels as he was one of the principles.  Hear/ read the truth!

Sam will be coming to the States in April to promote the book with a drive down the west coast with stops at local radio stations.  Sam will be treating this similar to old time record promotions.. Stay Tuned…

To all you autograph collectors, including those local politicians who insisted on autographed Rolling Stones photos, pushy promoters, the Press and those that received autographed photos during the ’65 thru ’71 tours… I signed all Stones signatures on the majority of the photos given out.  They had no patience back stage to handle signing and rather than fight the myriad of requests,  I signed their signatures !!

A friend of mine contacted me and said that he had been on a YouTube search, looking for footage of Jimmy Miller in the studio.  He had worked with Jimmy and was looking for memories.  Ironically, he found the footage that had Jimi Hendrix backstage with the Rolling Stones, some footage of the original Get Yer Ya Ya’s cover shoot, Keith playing the piano, , Georgia Bergman, chatting with Mick, and outside with Jerry Garcia, Mick, the dearly missed Ian Stuart, Stanley Booth, Ethan Russell, Charlie Watts and myself waiting for the helicopter to take us to Altamont.  If you listen closely to what Mick is saying at the beginning, it validates that the visit the night before was magical and we were surprised to hear that the music hadn’t started by 2 PM.  I didn’t remember this footage and was pleasantly surprised to see it.  I hate my voice..
The fact that the search was because of Jimmy Miller, brought back the memory of my first visit to a foreign country ( the UK :-0). I felt like ‘a stranger in a strange land’. A few months earlier I was a Miami boy, on the beach, wearing flip flops and shorts, dancing in clubs to their music and now I was going to my first business meeting with The Rolling Stones in the recording studio. When I walked in I was greeted by the record producer, Jimmy Miller. Turns out Jimmy was a Miami boy as well and I had a fellow American to ease me into eggs and bangers and the first place in London to have hamburgers (that was a big one!). I think it was called the Great American Disaster. Jimmy’s father was a major force in Las Vegas and used to get us the ungettable tickets..one time he had us sitting at Wayne Newton’s parents table for the opening night of Wayne Newton’s show..

Hendrix,Garcia, Stones before helicopter to Altamont