Hussongs Cantina in Ensenada. Had to sneak back in to get my boombox!
When I was in school out in LA me and a buddy went down through some towns in Baja California, Mexico in his old orange VW bus. (1987ish). I brought my boom box with one cassette. Sticky Fingers. We just put it on continuous play and took it everywhere we went BLASTING it round the clock. We went through Puerto Nuevo, Rosorito Beach and got down to Ensenada around 10p.m. on a Saturday night. We went straight to Hussongs Cantina which is a bare bones watering hole with no jukebox and no music unless a mariachi band happens to be there. Of course we brought the boom box in with us. After mucho cerveza mas fina we asked the bartender, who spoke no English, if we could play some music. He just shook his head yes. Pushed the play button. Out comes Brown Sugar full volume. Me and my friend Pat both started prancing like Jagger and all the old Mexican gentlemen nearly wet themselves laughing at us. They bought us beer in return for our hijinks. They really liked Wild Horses but told us to shut it down when the opening chords of Can't You Hear Me Knocking screamed out. I jested to Pat they were telling us "You Got To Move", "Bitch" and now "I Got The Blues". Pat was like 'nicely played'. We then said simultaneously 'let's get out of here before we get arrested'.
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When I was in school out in LA me and a buddy went down through some towns in Baja California, Mexico in his old orange VW bus. (1987ish). I brought my boom box with one cassette. Sticky Fingers. We just put it on continuous play and took it everywhere we went BLASTING it round the clock. We went through Puerto Nuevo, Rosorito Beach and got down to Ensenada around 10p.m. on a Saturday night. We went straight to Hussongs Cantina which is a bare bones watering hole with no jukebox and no music unless a mariachi band happens to be there. Of course we brought the boom box in with us. After mucho cerveza mas fina we asked the bartender, who spoke no English, if we could play some music. He just shook his head yes. Pushed the play button. Out comes Brown Sugar full volume. Me and my friend Pat both started prancing like Jagger and all the old Mexican gentlemen nearly wet themselves laughing at us. They bought us beer in return for our hijinks. They really liked Wild Horses but told us to shut it down when the opening chords of Can't You Hear Me Knocking screamed out. I jested to Pat they were telling us "You Got To Move", "Bitch" and now "I Got The Blues". Pat was like 'nicely played'. We then said simultaneously 'let's get out of here before we get arrested'.
Keith Richards says: ‘The Rolling Stones will stick around until we die'
The Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has vowed the band will continue until their death, saying it’s what the best bands do.
The guitarist also said the band are still hoping to release their best music, 52 years after their self-titled debut album was released in 1964.
Asked how the Stones had lasted so long, Richards told Radio Times: “They’re not really bands if they don’t last; they’re groups. We’re a band and a real band sticks until it dies. These bands, they become big, but they’re generational, just for their one decade. They literally go when their testosterone goes.”
Richards continued: “We work hard and no-one takes it for granted. We’re still looking to make our best record and put on our best show. The Stones have managed to be part of life, without becoming passé. Also, what else are you going to do? You never grow up, you just learn a little more. I ain’t getting old, I’m evolving.”
In the same interview, Richards criticised The Beatles, saying “they were never quite there” as a live band.
Speaking to promote his BBC2 documentary Keith Richards: The Origin Of The Species shown this Saturday (July 23), Richards recalled the last moments of his mother Doris, who died aged 93 in 2007.
Richards said of Doris’ final words: “She said ‘Why me, Keith?’ and I said ‘You’re 93, mum.’ That was the best line I could come up with. And she said ‘This morphine’s not bad, you know?’ And those were her last words to me.”
Keith seems to have forgotten a couple of years in the 1980s when the band broke up, even if it was not announced.
He's also obviously familiar only with The Beatles' Beatlemania live years and hasn't heard the Hamburg tapes which show that at that time they could blow anyone off the stage.
Found some more of the Beatles portion of that Keef interview:
Quote:
The guitarist told the magazine he enjoyed The Beatles’ friendship, but admitted he “excommunicated” them when they fell under the influence of mystic leader Maharishi Mahesh Yogi in 1967.
Richards said: “He was a fucking operator, a sucker job. But you have to think, what had being The Beatles done to The Beatles? They wanted somebody else to take them away. They didn’t want to be God any more, so they plugged it all onto the Maharishi.”
Also my EXHIBITIONISM book has shipped. I pre-ordered it just in case I wouldn't get to see the exhibit but turns out it will be in NYC. Now I just need the t-shirt!
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I'm very envious! Not sure I could convince my wife I need to fly to NYC to see this. I kick myself for not going to the David Bowie Is exhibit when it came to Chicago. That was only an 11 hour drive!
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