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# The Rolling Stones Discover America: Exclusive Inside Story of Their American Tour

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desertcart.com: The Rolling Stones Discover America: Exclusive Inside Story of Their American Tour (Audible Audio Edition): Michael Lydon, Michael Lydon, Hachette Original: Books

Review: Interesting, But Inaccurate. - This is an extended article from Rolling Stone about the Rolling Stones ill-fated tour of the USA that ended in violence in California. While I liked it I had the feeling that Micael Lydon was making some of the the details up. For example he has University of Colorado in Ft. Collins. The Stones did preform at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, but his small detail is one of many in the article that left me wondering if Lydon was really there. All in all I liked it, but it is not the best writing on the tour out there.
Review: Great, Inside Journalism - A Document of a Time Which Seems So Long Ago - This is a fantastic account of life on the road with the Rolling Stones as they toured America after a three year hiatus in 1969. At the time, the Stones were the ultimate ticket and everybody wanted to see them. If you've ever seen the movie "Gimme Shelter," then you'll recognize this as the same tour which ended with the tragedy at Altamont. Lydon does an excellent job describing the pleasures and the agonies of being on the road with one of the biggest rock acts in the world. I particularly enjoyed Lydon's analysis of what the individual city's fans were like. From glam, pretentious LA to defiant Oakland to crazily energized Detroit. He also does an excellent job describing the constant human circus around the Stones. He explains very early on that access to "the boys" was extremely limited and very controlled by their handlers. One of the problems with access becomes clear around halfway through the book; although Lydon was invited to travel with the band, he is clearly an outsider and subsequently his contact with the actual band members was as limited as everyone else outside their inner ring. There is some cool info about the band, but most of it is observations from a distance as opposed to actual personal interviews or discussions. That's not so bad though because it sort of placed him between the Stones and their adoring audience which definitely gave him a unique perspective on what was going on. This is a fun read if you are a fan of good times rock and roll in an era just before the corporations took control and rock concerts became stadium spectacles. It is also a great document of one last wild fling of the 60's before the Hell's Angels brought down the curtain on the community born of the Summer of Love.

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### ⭐⭐⭐ Interesting, But Inaccurate.
*by S***3 on April 17, 2013*

This is an extended article from Rolling Stone about the Rolling Stones ill-fated tour of the USA that ended in violence in California. While I liked it I had the feeling that Micael Lydon was making some of the the details up. For example he has University of Colorado in Ft. Collins. The Stones did preform at Colorado State University in Ft. Collins, but his small detail is one of many in the article that left me wondering if Lydon was really there. All in all I liked it, but it is not the best writing on the tour out there.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ Great, Inside Journalism - A Document of a Time Which Seems So Long Ago
*by D***R on February 26, 2013*

This is a fantastic account of life on the road with the Rolling Stones as they toured America after a three year hiatus in 1969. At the time, the Stones were the ultimate ticket and everybody wanted to see them. If you've ever seen the movie "Gimme Shelter," then you'll recognize this as the same tour which ended with the tragedy at Altamont. Lydon does an excellent job describing the pleasures and the agonies of being on the road with one of the biggest rock acts in the world. I particularly enjoyed Lydon's analysis of what the individual city's fans were like. From glam, pretentious LA to defiant Oakland to crazily energized Detroit. He also does an excellent job describing the constant human circus around the Stones. He explains very early on that access to "the boys" was extremely limited and very controlled by their handlers. One of the problems with access becomes clear around halfway through the book; although Lydon was invited to travel with the band, he is clearly an outsider and subsequently his contact with the actual band members was as limited as everyone else outside their inner ring. There is some cool info about the band, but most of it is observations from a distance as opposed to actual personal interviews or discussions. That's not so bad though because it sort of placed him between the Stones and their adoring audience which definitely gave him a unique perspective on what was going on. This is a fun read if you are a fan of good times rock and roll in an era just before the corporations took control and rock concerts became stadium spectacles. It is also a great document of one last wild fling of the 60's before the Hell's Angels brought down the curtain on the community born of the Summer of Love.

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ Unrolling the Stones
*by B***R on April 5, 2013*

A bird's eye view of the madness and chaos that culminated in the Stones' 69 tour of America, capturing them at the height of their touring and recording history. After Altamont, the great fault line in the Stones career, nothing would ever be the same for the band again. Never again would they cede such control of their affairs to others, Jagger in particular, and, arguably, never again would they make or perfom such truly great music. Lydon had an embedded access to the band in a way on the '69 tour that is hard to imagine in the tightly controlled image management modern media and writes with a candour and energy that both represents the innocence and idealism of its times. The unique characters of each band member emerge from his penetrating, perceptive prose. Jagger the arch ringmaster of the motley circus careening around him, endlessly non-expansive. Keith, the camp vamp, baby, the one most committed to the music and the fans. Charlie, doleful, dutiful, but never doltish, the true honest heartbeat of the band. Bill, quietly English and so detached from the melee as to be almost absent from proceedings. And Mick Taylor, the new boy, warily watchful in the way new boys have to be. Around and surrounding them at all times are the band personnel and assorted hangers-on that somehow seem necessary to the tour and give it its seedy, sinister glamour. Sam Cutler. John Jaymes. Ronnie Schneider. All emerge as memorable, if not always likeable, characters. It all ended in tears, violence and confusion amidst the mud and mayhem of Altamont, a tattered, bloodied finale to a tour that by every other measure was a triumph of music, showmanship and the Stones own unique brand of dirt glamour. For those who were there and bore living witness to their success, and for the impossible band that will not fade away, The Rolling Stones Discover America is both a tribute and a timepiece that is well worth the price and time to read.

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