For my seventh grade Basic Education class in West Miami Junior High, I authored, illustrated the cover and all the interior illustrations in my scholastic tome, Living Things. In Out of Our Heads, I describe my amoeba science experiment, in Living Things, I...
I recently discovered this while watching PBS and had to share it… I wish I had seen it a long time ago…the torture I could have unleashed on the boys and Andrew 😈
When the facts conflicted with the stories I was getting from John Jaymes, I decided to check them out. John told us he was representing Chrysler motors and getting us their cars for free, so, I contacted Chrysler and after a push and a shove and some threats, they...
I was sitting at a table at Apple-George Harrison came over and said he wanted to show me something. He put a piece of paper in front of me and began to draw. He drew a wavy line across the middle of the landscape layout page and said, “Imagine this is the top of the...
More Gimme Shelter stuff for you…The (sympathy) for the Devil is in the details. While in Paris for the Palais des Sports show (video below is from that time) during the 1970 Rolling Stones Euro Tour, I was visited by the Maysles at the George V Hotel. They...
Fifty years ago, Gimme Shelter, the film, was released. Usually this time of year I am posting how the Rolling Stones didn’t hire the Hell’s Angels but that was validated in last years Washington Post Altamont anniversary article. Now my next...
November 6th, 1969 The crew leaves Los Angeles to Fort Collins, Colorado and so began the historic tour.. November 7 An historic day for many reasons… November 7, 1969, Start of the tour announcing, Ladies and Gentlemen…The Greatest Rock and Roll Band in...
For me, this tour blended into the 1965 tour. It happened so fast, I don’t think we got the tour poster distributed in time and as I peruse the internet I note most of the images seem to be...
Ron Schneider is among a select handful of individuals who can honestly claim to have taken an active part in the explosive beginnings of 1960’s rock’n’roll.
