While perusing the internet, I stumbled upon a film I did upon the behest of my uncle: The Silent Stranger.. it was the most grueling film shoot in Japan, we were forced into shooting in the rain as well as 17 nights of shooting. At some point I will tell those stories..but for now..
and here is the trailer and other footage that I found… I hope you enjoy it..
The quality sucks but you can get an idea of it.The Silent Stranger Trailer
and now for some other scenes–
At one point when I was apologizing to my father for not calling him more often or being involved with his life, he said, “Don’t apologize, you have nothing to apologize for, I believe that everyone should lead their own lives and you are living yours.”
He came from a generation that believed in privacy and respect for other people. I say this as I watch a generation that is interested in everyone’s business whether celebrity or not. Everyone (not me or a lot of my older friends) is Tweeting, everybody is quick to tell you who they voted for (my father would never – as an American he felt that was his right). I relented to do the site and the blog for, as my friends said, you owe it to your children to give them some insight into the life you chose to live (actually I rolled with the punches and went in the direction that, for the most part, life chose for me).
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) – A former road manager for both the Rolling Stones and Grateful Dead is claiming a first in the fast-moving world of iPhone applications with his rock ‘n’ roll memoir.
Sam Cutler released “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” and its multimedia iPhone app simultaneously this month, the first time this has been done in North America, said his Toronto-based publisher ECW Press.
The multimedia elements were developed by Expanded Books/Apps. Also on board is Ironic Apps, a firm run by former Rolling Stones business manager Ron Schneider.
The app, available for $9.99, contains the full Cutler-narrated audiobook synchronized with the text, video links to two interviews, and more than 30 photos (some exclusive to the app).
Clips will also be featured from the Stones’ disastrous Altamont free concert in 1969, when a fan was stabbed to death by a Hells Angels member near the stage.
Cutler holds a special place in Stones history as the mustachioed roadie in the related concert documentary “Gimme Shelter” who coolly pleads with fans to climb off the scaffolding or get off the stage at the California speedway. His is also the voice heard introducing the band at the start of their 1970 live album “Get Yer Ya-Ya’s Out.”
His book recounts his life-threatening encounters with the Hells Angels in the aftermath of Altamont, as well as his subsequent duties with the Grateful Dead.
Cutler, a 67-year-old Briton, originally published “You Can’t Always Get What You Want” in 2008 through Random House in his adopted homeland of Australia. Beginning April 13 he will begin a promotional tour in Seattle, with stops planned for Portland, San Francisco, Los Angeles, Toronto, New York and London. He will also take part in a Webcast that will be streamed live to iPhones on April 25.
(Reporting by Dean Goodman)
I would love to have your comments or questions but every time I open the site up to comments, I get spammed. My only suggestion, at this time, is to contact me via the Contact page on my meandtherollingstones.com site..
Everyone says how dysfunctional Altamont was as if it was the end all be all of the ’69 Rolling Stones Tour. Myself, Sam Cutler, Keith Richards and Mick Jagger are the only ones alive now that know how dysfunctional it was from the beginning. That’s a story most people don’t know..
