Ok, I thought I might as well get in on the rumour-mongering whilst the going iss goot....
My source for the info about the Stone Roses headlining Reading & Leeds 2011, followed by an extensive US, South American, and Asian tour, is my active imagination and the dreams of millions....
I feel like I just got off a roller coaster or possibly woke up with a stranger in bed, who quickly proposed life-long partnership, then an hour later demanded a divorce and stormed out of my flat...
In the wee hours this morning, news broke via The Sun (should have known this info was suspect...) that the lads were getting back together, a la Los Pixies, who similarly had members who did not speak for over a decade after massive early success and much future promise, only to reunite years later to the delight of old fans and new fans who never got to see them the first time around. If only The Pixies/Pavement template for reunions could be followed by Ian & Crew....
but just a short time after we got "confirmation" from UK scenester Clint Boon, came the large bucket of icy cold water thrown by bassist Mani, pissed that the memory of his mother's funeral was besmirched by The Sun in order to sell a few extra copies of the morning fish wrap...
when Mani, playing the role of the psychotic lover, told us to, "...Fuck Off and leave it alone. It isn't true and isn't happening", did he REALLY mean he loved us and couldn't wait to see us on tour? I will note that he did tell us to "please" fuck off... See? That proves he DOES love us and wants to be with us...
I spent the morning listening to Ian's "The World is Yours" (2007 - great!) and "My Way" (2009 - pretty good, especially the first track "Stellify"), and then took the plunge in Stone Roses' greatest hits territory, just to see if they were as great as I remembered them to be.
If you never heard of The Stone Roses, (i.e. if you are American like me), listen to these five songs and you will be a Believer.
It would help if you took two hits of E first, then smoked a huge blunt, then collapsed into a bean bag chair in a comfortable room in front of a powerful stereo and play the following songs:
"I Wanna Be Adored"
"She Bangs The Drums" (does not refer to a groupie for The Drums)
"Waterfall"
"I Am The Resurrection"
"Fools Gold"
That's all you need and then you too will appreciate the awesomeness of The Stone Roses. As you're listening, feel free to imagine you are in Madchester in the early 90s going to New Order's Hacienda Club. Or imagine you are in London or San Francisco in 1967. The music is psychedelic, stoney, pretentious, intellectual, unnecessarily obtuse, naive, sweet, fey, shoe gazey, jangle poppy, Beatle-y... i mean, you've got to have a lot of balls to have songs (on your debut album no less...) called "I wanna be adored" AND "I am the Resurrection". Their debut was a sensation in the UK, unmatched until the Arctic Monkeys debut years later... The hysteria that greeted The Stone Roses was as ridiculous as the depth of grief later faced by fans when the bands fell apart, well short of what we knew they were capable of.
If only for "Fools Gold" they should be remembered forever. It's a 4-minute plus jam of psychedelic funk and perhaps the most danceable song ever released by a guitar-based rock band.
We'll always have the old Stone Roses. The question is whether we can have them again live AND if they'll produce any new tunes.
The Stone Roses consist of four unique and idiosyncratic individuals. They often clashed, but it seems that the central relationship, and the one most fragile, is between singer Ian Brown and guitarist John Squire. If these two guys can be friends again and manage to work together once more, the punters will be in for a treat.
If you build it, we will cum....
My source for the info about the Stone Roses headlining Reading & Leeds 2011, followed by an extensive US, South American, and Asian tour, is my active imagination and the dreams of millions....
I feel like I just got off a roller coaster or possibly woke up with a stranger in bed, who quickly proposed life-long partnership, then an hour later demanded a divorce and stormed out of my flat...
In the wee hours this morning, news broke via The Sun (should have known this info was suspect...) that the lads were getting back together, a la Los Pixies, who similarly had members who did not speak for over a decade after massive early success and much future promise, only to reunite years later to the delight of old fans and new fans who never got to see them the first time around. If only The Pixies/Pavement template for reunions could be followed by Ian & Crew....
but just a short time after we got "confirmation" from UK scenester Clint Boon, came the large bucket of icy cold water thrown by bassist Mani, pissed that the memory of his mother's funeral was besmirched by The Sun in order to sell a few extra copies of the morning fish wrap...
when Mani, playing the role of the psychotic lover, told us to, "...Fuck Off and leave it alone. It isn't true and isn't happening", did he REALLY mean he loved us and couldn't wait to see us on tour? I will note that he did tell us to "please" fuck off... See? That proves he DOES love us and wants to be with us...
I spent the morning listening to Ian's "The World is Yours" (2007 - great!) and "My Way" (2009 - pretty good, especially the first track "Stellify"), and then took the plunge in Stone Roses' greatest hits territory, just to see if they were as great as I remembered them to be.
If you never heard of The Stone Roses, (i.e. if you are American like me), listen to these five songs and you will be a Believer.
It would help if you took two hits of E first, then smoked a huge blunt, then collapsed into a bean bag chair in a comfortable room in front of a powerful stereo and play the following songs:
"I Wanna Be Adored"
"She Bangs The Drums" (does not refer to a groupie for The Drums)
"Waterfall"
"I Am The Resurrection"
"Fools Gold"
That's all you need and then you too will appreciate the awesomeness of The Stone Roses. As you're listening, feel free to imagine you are in Madchester in the early 90s going to New Order's Hacienda Club. Or imagine you are in London or San Francisco in 1967. The music is psychedelic, stoney, pretentious, intellectual, unnecessarily obtuse, naive, sweet, fey, shoe gazey, jangle poppy, Beatle-y... i mean, you've got to have a lot of balls to have songs (on your debut album no less...) called "I wanna be adored" AND "I am the Resurrection". Their debut was a sensation in the UK, unmatched until the Arctic Monkeys debut years later... The hysteria that greeted The Stone Roses was as ridiculous as the depth of grief later faced by fans when the bands fell apart, well short of what we knew they were capable of.
If only for "Fools Gold" they should be remembered forever. It's a 4-minute plus jam of psychedelic funk and perhaps the most danceable song ever released by a guitar-based rock band.
We'll always have the old Stone Roses. The question is whether we can have them again live AND if they'll produce any new tunes.
The Stone Roses consist of four unique and idiosyncratic individuals. They often clashed, but it seems that the central relationship, and the one most fragile, is between singer Ian Brown and guitarist John Squire. If these two guys can be friends again and manage to work together once more, the punters will be in for a treat.
If you build it, we will cum....
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