so i guess being the rolling stones' bassist in 2006...

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...means never being seen on live tv. does the stones' rider prohibit tv cameramen from showing him, even in wide shots? even the keyboardist got a couple of shots, for crissakes.

(ok, they couldn't help showing him in the final seconds of the superbowl halftime show, when he was huddled with keef and ron as they were leaving stage, or bowing at centerstage with the full band. but otherwise: no sign he even existed. how humiliating.)

― fact checking cuz (fcc), Monday, 6 February 2006 01:24 (nineteen years ago)

I was talking to my brother about this. Basically the rolling stones to most today means mick, keith, and some guys playing instruments.

― Tokyo Ghost Stories (Tokyo Ghost Stories), Monday, 6 February 2006 01:26 (nineteen years ago)

Have You Seen Your Big Black Bassist Baby(Standing in the Shadows)

― dan bunnybrain (dan bunnybrain), Monday, 6 February 2006 01:30 (nineteen years ago)

Hey, I saw him. I think. It may have just been a trick of the light, though.

― telephone thing, Monday, 6 February 2006 01:39 (nineteen years ago)

That performance was almost as boring as the game itself.

― Mr. Snrub (Mr. Snrub), Monday, 6 February 2006 01:45 (nineteen years ago)

The problem is that he doesn't look cool playing the bass. When I saw him on their HBO special, he had the bass hiked up to his chest, like some smooth jazz dweeb (which is, in fact, his earlier profession I believe). You gotta let it hang low to share the screen with Mick and Keef.

― Erick Dampier is better than Shaq (miloaukerman), Monday, 6 February 2006 01:48 (nineteen years ago)

Darryl Jones is pretty solid, and a good sport: I'm sure his contract prevented him from being too miffed that Mick and Keith play most of the bass on the new album.

(and speaking of the Stones: Ronnie cranked out some unexpected gutbucket solos during "Rough Justice," didn't he?)

― Alfred, Lord Sotosyn (Alfred Soto), Monday, 6 February 2006 01:53 (nineteen years ago)

Brian Jones fucking owned maan.

― ziti sanskrit (sanskrit), Monday, 6 February 2006 03:51 (nineteen years ago)

Mick Jagger did the old-man shuffle!

― Englebert Humperdinck Fan Club President (R. J. Greene), Monday, 6 February 2006 03:52 (nineteen years ago)

Someone just told me today that their set-up for each show costs about $3 million dollars and requires 300 crewmen.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 6 February 2006 03:53 (nineteen years ago)

fwiw I did not watch the halftime show, nor even the super bowl itself.

― Abbadavid Berman (Hurting), Monday, 6 February 2006 03:54 (nineteen years ago)

do you think david berman was rooting for 'the bus'?

― travis randy, Monday, 6 February 2006 04:30 (nineteen years ago)

Bill Wyman wasn't exactly Mr. Histrionics out there either.

― NoTimeBeforeTime (Barry Bruner), Monday, 6 February 2006 04:32 (nineteen years ago)

Barry OTM

― Stormy Davis (diamond), Monday, 6 February 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

hasn't Jones been in the band for about fifteen years now? one imagines he's more than accustomed to the anonymity of his role at this stage.

(where "in the band" = employed steadily as bassist for The Rolling Stones PLC, I know Jagger didn't even let Ronnie Wood come off salary until 1995 or whatever)

― kit brash (kit brash), Monday, 6 February 2006 04:35 (nineteen years ago)

I was daydreaming that Mick would play Sweet Neo-Con for Condi. No such luck :(

― Mitya (mitya), Monday, 6 February 2006 04:46 (nineteen years ago)

"The problem is that he doesn't look cool playing the bass."

I haven't seen Daryl Jones with the 'Stones, but I was lucky enough to see him with Miles Davis many years ago and he looked cool as fuck then.

I can only assume that his role in the 'Stones (sorry!) uses such an infinitessimaly small proportion of his bass-playing capabilities that he's taken to doing it in his sleep.

― Stewart Osborne (Stewart Osborne), Monday, 6 February 2006 09:12 (nineteen years ago)

I was lucky enough to see him with Miles Davis

whoawhoa

― rizzx (Rizz), Monday, 6 February 2006 10:56 (nineteen years ago)

They should have gotten Doug Wimbish. Then again, maybe Wimbish knew better.

― Dom iNut (donut), Monday, 6 February 2006 11:02 (nineteen years ago)

They shoulda got ASherwood!

― peepee (peepee), Monday, 6 February 2006 12:55 (nineteen years ago)

they shoulda got mccartney !

― AleXTC (AleXTC), Monday, 6 February 2006 13:33 (nineteen years ago)

I was lucky enough to see him with Miles Davis
Miles Davis tells some story in his autobio about when Daryl was playing with both him and Sting at the same time. Miles knew that when push came to shove Daryl was going to go with the bigger paycheck that His Pompous Blondness could provide. So when Daryl came to him one day and said "Listen, I can't make the gig next week," Miles replied "Tell that to your new leader- Sting!"

― Redd Harvest (Ken L), Monday, 6 February 2006 15:13 (nineteen years ago)

"Tell that to your new leader- Sting!" = my new all-purpose riposte. There's nothing it doesn't trump!

― brianiast (briania), Monday, 6 February 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

I'm going to start using that as an all-purpose comeback.

xpost, fucker

― Jordan (Jordan), Monday, 6 February 2006 15:17 (nineteen years ago)

Tell that to your new leader -- Sting!

― brianiac (briania), Monday, 6 February 2006 15:19 (nineteen years ago)

hahaha

― Ned Raggett (Ned), Monday, 6 February 2006 15:21 (nineteen years ago)

four years pass...

Hey it happened to Wyman too

― Roomful of Moogs (C. Grisso/McCain), Friday, 26 March 2010 17:38 (fifteen years ago)

at least they didn't photoshop Wolfgang Van Halen in his place

― some dude, Friday, 26 March 2010 19:29 (fifteen years ago)

Bad for the brand.

― Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Friday, 26 March 2010 19:40 (fifteen years ago)

Er, I meant for the brand.

― Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Friday, 26 March 2010 19:40 (fifteen years ago)

Odd.

― Il suffit de ne pas l'envier (Michael White), Friday, 26 March 2010 19:40 (fifteen years ago)

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