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Paul Trynka is the author of acclaimed biographies of David Bowie and Iggy Pop. He was also the editor of MOJO and has written on music and popular culture for publications including Elle, Blueprint, The Wire, and many of the UK’s broadsheets. He lives in London.
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Mark Rodrigues
on October 9, 2014
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The legend and lore of the Rolling Stones make for a good story. Yet the life of Brian Jones offers a deeper and compelling mystery forensically explored in Paul Trynka's latest biography.
Told chronologically, Brian Jones' The Making of the Rolling Stones unveils a truth quite a bit stranger than fiction. Before Brian left his privileged upbringing behind to eke out a living in London, he uncovered the musical secrets of jazz phrasing and syncopation, the electric blues and the slide guitar. He also left behind numerous female admirers and several unwed mothers. In London, Brian's rigid work ethic fueled his drive and reputation as the most capable guitarist in an emerging blues and rock scene that included several future Hall of Fame musicians.
It was Brian Jones who advertised for musicians interested in the music of Bo Diddly, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters and Elmore James. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had worked with Brian Jones before. As the experienced musician, Brian helped Mick learn to keep time and taught Keith what became his signature open G tuning.
The band soon introduced European audiences to American R&B music. The Stones presented the sound, not as something exotic or foreign, but the voice of a generation breaking away from the restrictions and repression of their childhood.
The reader is entertained and rewarded with new insights as Paul Trynka pulls apart Brian's twenty seven years of life--a life that became the definition of sex, drugs and rock and roll. Trynka explains how the achievements led to the unraveling, how the music gave into the rivalry, self-destruction and the deceit.
Trynka, a veteran reporter of music culture and author of several Rock icon biographies, delivers his best investigative effort to date.Read more ›
Told chronologically, Brian Jones' The Making of the Rolling Stones unveils a truth quite a bit stranger than fiction. Before Brian left his privileged upbringing behind to eke out a living in London, he uncovered the musical secrets of jazz phrasing and syncopation, the electric blues and the slide guitar. He also left behind numerous female admirers and several unwed mothers. In London, Brian's rigid work ethic fueled his drive and reputation as the most capable guitarist in an emerging blues and rock scene that included several future Hall of Fame musicians.
It was Brian Jones who advertised for musicians interested in the music of Bo Diddly, Chuck Berry, Muddy Waters and Elmore James. Mick Jagger and Keith Richards had worked with Brian Jones before. As the experienced musician, Brian helped Mick learn to keep time and taught Keith what became his signature open G tuning.
The band soon introduced European audiences to American R&B music. The Stones presented the sound, not as something exotic or foreign, but the voice of a generation breaking away from the restrictions and repression of their childhood.
The reader is entertained and rewarded with new insights as Paul Trynka pulls apart Brian's twenty seven years of life--a life that became the definition of sex, drugs and rock and roll. Trynka explains how the achievements led to the unraveling, how the music gave into the rivalry, self-destruction and the deceit.
Trynka, a veteran reporter of music culture and author of several Rock icon biographies, delivers his best investigative effort to date.Read more ›
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Natasha Conn
on October 13, 2014
Format: Hardcover
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This is the most definitive Jones bio yet; how seasoned he already was by the time he formed the Stones, how much Mick and Keith took from his artistically (Keith's Open G style of guitar, for example, came from Brian, not Ry Cooder) before dumping out of meaness/Jones' drugged-out uselessness, and his endless harassment by the UK cops and courts, planting and busting him until he was a mere shell of a man. If you want to know the true roots of the Stones and their true relevance in the 60's compared to the fluffy Beatles, this is the book to get.
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