favorite Rolling Stones member

The Stone I'd most like to kick it with? Ronnie or Charlie, no doubt.

Ronnie all the way, with Keith close behind

It goes against everything I believe to vote for Brian, but still. I did. Not much of a competition, really.

voted Mick Taylor lol

best guitar player in the band

Charlie edges out Keef and Ronnie.

Charlie will win this......yes?

sympathy vote for stu

I dont see how Watts doesnt win this in a landslide. Wood would probably be my second vote. The rest of them have some serious "issues". Guy i'd least like to hang with: Jagger.

I've got the most in common with Jagger, so I voted for him.

Of the others:

Wyman: dirty old man, i mean the guy should be ashamed of himself
Richards: afraid his skin might come off while KIW
Jagger: you're kidding, right?
Taylor: can't imagine this guy ever had any kind of personality
Jones: from what ive heard, was probably the most annoying man in the world
Stewart: i could just go to my local bar and hand every day with dudes like him. Seems like a decent guy though.

"hang" not "hand"

Wyman's memoir was kinda gross. "I was only in it for the trim, tbh."

"I've got the most in common with Jagger, so I voted for him."

This

Keith sniffed his own father,he wins.

Charlie. I still think Mick and Keith drowned Brian, so they're out

Ian Stewart all the way.

(Who is Ian Stewart?)

what about their current bass player, is he not a Stone? what's his name?

Wyman left in 1990, and his replacement Darryl Jones became the primary bassist, but he has not been made a full member.

He's an employee of the corporation.

Should Stu be in this poll?

iirc Ronnie only got allowed to become a member when Wyman left - Keef and Charlie persuaded Mick that bcz his cut would now not get any smaller it would be okay

and Stu should, he was a real member for a couple of years before he became a mere employee of the corporation for two decades

Mick T, though he was slightly out of place sometimes by overplaying. Nevertheless a great musician.

Wood was named a full member of the band in Feb 76 according to the wikimobile.

Does he realize it yet?

don't think that means full financial member, just ongoing guitarist

in fact, having now looked at the wiki, it specifically says that he wasn't made a financial partner until 1990

Interesting, thanks for that tidbit -- I had looked at Wood's wiki page last night and it didn't mention that. I guess there are full members and then there are "full members". #iltmi

In the Ramones documentary, C.J. complains that he was never, at any point, given a cut of merchandising.

melody maker headline when Ian Stewart died - "Key Stone Cops It"

so Wyman will get the least votes surely?

(even tho imo he was indispensable music-wise during the years that matter to me)

gimmie mick, gimmie mick
baby's hair, bulging eyes, lips so thick
are you woman, are you man?
I'm your biggest fucked up fan.

seriously, mick kept that shit together.

Charlie is my darling.

I'd prefer one of their more demented groupies.

Landslide for Keith.

I just finished Keith's equally wonderful and o_O "Life". He is now and forever my favorite Stone if only because he's probably the funniest.

Would have probably been Keith before, now that I'm halfway through the incredible "Life" it's him definitely.

He likes Cecil Taylor and Ornette Coleman, and he once showered, shaved, and put on a suit for the sole purpose of punching Jagger's lights out, so...Charlie it is.

"I'm not your drummer; YOU'RE MY FUCKING SINGER."

Keith makes a big deal in the new book of saying that he and Charlie are the spine of the Stones sound. Can someone rep for Wyman? Is he considered an "important" bass player? It seems like he is considered now as like, along for the young girls and that's it...

Judging from the Sympathy For The Devil recording footage in the Jean Luc Godard movie, Wyman certainly wasn't considered an important bass player by the band themselves - Keith is shown recording the bass parts and Bill (IIRC) is relegated to playing percussion.

This is making me vote for Mick

http://www.slate.com/id/2273611/pagenum/all/

('course it's made up, right?)

Wyman came up with the "Jumpin' Jack Flash" riff. As a bass player, it's impossible to deny his virtuosity. I can at least a dozen songs in which he's fantastic.

Richards played bass on Jumpin Jack Flash. Who says he came up with that riff, Bill Wyman?

He played the organ.

Wyman, that is.

Who's seen that TV segment in which Bill Wyman finds old Roman coins buried in his back yard? If that's not cool I don't know what is.

Dude, Keef. Because I am a guitar player, and he is one of my idols.

voting jagger. he's amazing! obviously done some embarrassing things, but hey, who hasn't?

i assume anyone who wants to read Liz Phair's book review in the NYTBR has already...

why not link it?

http://www.nytimes.com/2010/11/14/books/review/Phair-t.html?pagewanted=1

Keith, for playing bass on "Sympathy For The Devil"

And for his various mid-oughties antics which provided some of the last laughs I shared with my dad. And for writing all those songs he wrote.

Automatic thread bump. This poll's results are now in.

Charlie takes it! Wow.

lol @ bill

lol Josefa, I guess you weren't the only one who thought Bill was cool. (joeks)

Bummed that Ronnie didn't rate higher.

Mick Taylor 16
Mick Jagger 15

????

Can live with these results tbh

http://www.altmanphoto.com/Bill.W.jpeg

http://www.contactmusic.com/pics/m/ethan_russell_viewing_220508/bill_wyman_5142225.jpg

megalol @ Taylor beating Jagger!!

dammn all the Jagger haters.

and what's with the Taylor love?

damn I mean

still loling at Bill

so are Jagger-Richards.

hee hee

and what's with the Taylor love?

a vote for him is a vote for the period that he was in the band, rather than his personality, I'd warrant

Yeah, I don't feel the 70's Stones > 60's Stones notion at all

Ronnie Wood 6

This poll is all kinds of bananas

thinking that Let It Bleed / Honky Tonk Women / Sticky Fingers / Exile On Main Street is a p consistent run isn't gross challops

otm

I'd vote for Jimmy Miller over Taylor, Wyman, or Jones.

In Praise Of... Mick Taylor

Thought Brian would be higher, oh wait he was...

thinking that Let It Bleed / Honky Tonk Women / Sticky Fingers / Exile On Main Street is a p consistent run isn't gross challops

― Feel Adele (sic), Wednesday, November 17, 2010 1:22 AM

Taylor is barely on Let It Bleed (only on Country Honk and Live With Me). Not a big fan of Honky Tonk Women or Sticky Fingers.

looking good, Charlie

http://2.bp.blogspot.com/_3WfwzsWpUQ4/Sigf68C4KEI/AAAAAAAAAcM/IRgd2EKZXMU/s320/charlie-watts.jpg

Bill Wyman: the man has had 3,582 lovers, invented the riff to "Jumpin' Jack Flash," played the bass line of "Paint It Black" on organ pedals with his fists, AND unearthed Roman coins in his back yard, and he STILL isn't considered cool?

Not if he's creepy. Which he is.

And ugly as fuck.

And he has this gem of family connecting to his credit:

"On June 2, 1989 Wyman married the 18-year-old Mandy Smith, whom he had been dating since she was 13; their relationship was the subject of considerable media attention. The marriage ended in spring 1991, although the divorce was not finalised until 1993. In 1993, while Wyman was still married to Mandy Smith his son from his first marriage, Stephen, became engaged to Smith's mother"

It's no capital crime.

Sooooooo gross

And frankly Jagger, Richards, Jones, and even Taylor's lists of cool accomplishments is a lot longer than this:

the man has had 3,582 lovers, invented the riff to "Jumpin' Jack Flash," played the bass line of "Paint It Black" on organ pedals with his fists, AND unearthed Roman coins in his back yard, and he STILL isn't considered cool?

I mean, lol, the riff to jumpin jack flash. Great song and all. I wonder if any of the other guys in that band had anything to do with any great songs.

I meant to post this
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=49qkJVYFAyg&feature=related

is that People Everyday in the background?

Doesn't Keith call BS on Wyman's alleged "proclivities" in the autobio? Something about Wyman inviting girls 'round for a cup of (shitty) tea and...that's it?

it's So Whatcha Want in the bg

xpost he says girls'd be in & out of Wyman's room in 10 mins, not a hair out of place, more likely to have shared a cuppa than a shag, lol

Yeah but Wyman did this

http://4.bp.blogspot.com/_CeTfgCKjnlo/SvtbHj_oM6I/AAAAAAAACUA/JlWhP1_M8N0/s400/13.jpg

which kicks serious ass!

I just read the first two chapters of Keef's book this morning. So good. His, and his co-author's, ability to tell a story with a minimum of really descriptive phrases and passages . . . is like a belt of really good, strong booze. I know that's hackneyed, but its a high proof memoir, separate and apart from the drug/alcohol content of the memoir. He's really a great story teller in that his telling allows your own pictures to illustrate it. Quite the opposite of Tolkien, if that makes sense.

And the opening chapter, which is hilarious, followed by the second chapter, which is all his childhood, is such a GREAT fish hook. Its a sly, knowing grin on the way down a street that makes you want to try to keep up.

Just read the thing. I know I will this weekend.

i could be remembering this wrong, but I think Wyman was one of the few Stones to really go out of his way to seek out old blues dudes who the Stones borrowed from and - maybe? -- even give them cash? Don't know where I read that. Not that he isn't kind of creepy.

lol Wyman has also recently started selling metal detectors <http://www.billwymandetector.com/>;.

bill wyman detector - install one in YOUR 13-year-old daughter's room. you can't put a price on peace of mind

hahahah

but true.