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People like to say that about Brian.
Brian is the person that was the nucleus of the early band, yes, but it was mainly because Brian had a record collection, whereas the others were much poorer & did not.
I don't listen to The Rolling Stones as much as I used to at all, but I'm not about to dump on them for spurious reasons because of that.
They did a lot of fantastic work.
Lee likes to warm-up with "Jumpin' Jack Flash" quite a bit. According to the recent Jonesy's Jukebox interview, Thurston likes to warm-up before a show by playing some Sex Pistols sometimes. He referenced an older pre-Bullocks Sex Pistols song that I forget the name of right now & told Steve Jones this using the words, "to this day, before a show I still like to warm-up with, etc."
The Stones' "Just Another Night" plays over the P.A. as Sonic Youth takes the stage in Amsterdam in '85. I used it as the first track of the last live picks cd.
In the 1980 Jann Wenner Rolling Stone interview of John Lennon he remarks that he was always close to the Stones because they came over to America when The Beatles did, but he considered The Beatles "more intellectual" & thought that Mick cheapened the Stones with his showiness. He also went on to say that The Beatles (which he also cuts down a great deal in the interview) were "in a whole other class than the Stones." I agree with him on that point. I agree with him on just about anything & everything.
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