Who Was The Real Brian Jones?

[winston]

Brian apparently frequently never completed his ideas for songs so I am not surprised John.

I found this on the net. Its a BBC story.

Tonight's edition of Inside Out on BBC One West at 7.30pm casts doubt on the official account of how Brian Jones from The Rolling Stones died.

He met his death at the bottom of a swimming pool at his home in West Sussex in the summer of 1969. Brian Jones was described at his funeral in Cheltenham as having "little patience with authority, convention and tradition". He was the driving force behind the early success of the Rolling Stones but his death came just three weeks after he had been asked to leave the band because of growing frustrations about his lifestyle. The official version of events was that he took a midnight swim and drowned because of a cocktail of drink and drugs in his system.

But Inside Out West will reveal new evidence that casts doubt on the official coroner's verdict of death by misadventure. The programme has obtained a medical report which appears to show Brian Jones was relatively sober on the night he died. It shows he had consumed the equivalent of three and a half pints of beer - not much for a seasoned drinker. And doctor's notes suggest the drugs found in his urine could be explained by a catalogue of prescription medicines he was taking at the time of his death. The new evidence adds some credence to the theory that Jones' death may not have been accidental.

There have been a number of conspiracy theories about the death over the years - most recently in a film called Stoned which suggested Jones was killed by a builder to whom he owed money. Now the Chairman of the Brian Jones Fan Club, Trevor Hobley, is planning to write to the Attorney General with a dossier of new information on the case. He has spent the last three years investigating what happened to Brian Jones.

Trevor Hobley says: "The circumstances surrounding the death of Brian Jones, the police investigation, the medical profession that carried out the autopsy and also the coroner's inquest, there are certain flaws about all those four aspects of this crime. Because a crime it is." Mr Hobley will ask for the inquest verdict to be overturned so the death can be re-examined. And he wants to take it one step further.

"Brian Jones is the silent witness that carries the exact cause of his death and the only way that we're ever going to get to the truth is to have Brian Jones's body exhumed. Distasteful as it might seem to some people this is almost an inevitable consequence of what I've discovered over the last three years," he says.

[studiotwosession]

I heard that Brian wrote "Ruby Tuesday", but his rather large contribution was not credited for whatever reason.

Mick and Keith are notorious for not giving credit where it is due. The lick for Honkey Tonk Women was Mick Taylor's, and the drums were played by Kenny Jones. Neither got credit. Without Taylor the song wouldn't exist. And it's the best drum track on any Stones number.

[wints]

Taylor's work is wonderfully under rated ( and uncredited) with the Stones, and this period, with his technical input is by far their best IMO.

Jones was the catalyst in the early days, no doubt, but musically the band shone with MT. Good article about him in this month's VG.

[sir_andrew_of_left_coast]

Some video TAMI show footage of a rather enthusiastic Brian...

[winston]

Those were obviously happy days for Brian. Not only was the band sticking to its R&B roots but he was getting lots of panned and close up camera shots as well.

I miss those days when Brian was alive and well and an integral component and an important contributor to the band. The Stones with Brian on stage still had a touch of innocence and wonder that was a juxtaposition to the bad boy image.

The Rolling Stones were all about Brian in the early days and they soon became Mick, Keith and Brian and then Just Mick and Keith. He never stood a chance of remaining in control really, in hindsight.