The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones

De: Stanley Booth

Narrado por: Nick Sullivan

Stanley Booth, a member of the Rolling Stones’ inner circle, met the band just a few months before Brian Jones drowned in a swimming pool, in 1969. He lived with them throughout their 1969 American tour, staying up all night together listening to blues, talking about music, ingesting drugs, and consorting with groupies. His thrilling account culminates with their final concert at Altamont Speedway - a nightmare of beating, stabbing, and killing that would signal the end of a generation’s dreams of peace and freedom. But while this book renders in fine detail the entire history of the Stones, paying special attention to the tragedy of Brian Jones, it is about much more than a writer and a rock band. It has been called - by Harold Brodkey and Robert Stone, among others - the best book ever written about the '60s. In a new afterword, Booth explains why this book took 15 years to write - an astonishing story of drugs, jails, and disasters.

©2000 Stanley Booth (P)2013 Blackstone Audio

Time Machine

The book is a time machine to a tome not unlike our own. Political turmoil, clashing values, and cultural angst has a soundtrack.

Superlative rendering of a singular story.

Sullivan reading brings the individual characters to life, particularly Mick and Keith. Highly recommend this audiobook if you're at all interested in the early Stones (through Altamont).

All hail the stones.

The rolling stones are one of the best rock bands to ever exist, this is a great read.

Hands down the best performance I’ve listened to.

Great story, great performance. Will probably listen to again. Very impressed, a book you can’t stop listening to.

The book is meh

The book is not nealry as interesting as I'd hoped. The narrator sounds out of place at first but he grows on you and he does a good job with the accents. It really is just a long book with very little of anything actually happening. I think a person who is a big Stones fan may enjoy it more.

Creative yet honest

I appreciate the creative insight of the author and his English accents. His clarity comes from being involved in the lives of the Rolling Stones, as opposed to viewing them from afar. Despite reading several other biographies of the Rolling Stones, I felt like I actually understood their behavior through this author’s objectivity and involvement.

I highly recommend this book for anyone who wants to really understand the Rolling Stones before they started imitating the Rolling Stones .

Awesome

To those who fall into the standard twaddle that Stanley inserts himself too much into the saga, Booth is a KEY element and is appropriately present. It’s his first person account and to think that he should extricate himself is silly. He’s the swizzle stick that stirs the cocktail.

good but kinda long

I liked hearing the up close and personal stories of the Stones and they're crew but a lot of it was just kind of boring in a sense. Booth jumps back and forth a lot between time periods which was aggravating! one minute he was talking about the show in Oakland and then he was talking about Brian Jones in 67. I was like huh? He did that throughout the whole book. He did give some good insight to all the shows on the 69 tour and even the recording sessions for let it bleed and sticky fingers but all that extra detail bored me. Glad I listened to this though. I have a huge amount of respect for Stanley Booth and his work with the Stones.

Could have been good

If Stanley Booth would have left himself out of the book and just told the story this book would have been alright.

Overall - Very Entertaining

Did not enjoy the authors style and almost stopped listening after about 30 minutes. While I never warmed up much to the author I did greatly enjoy the audiobook. So if you do buy the book or the audiobook give it a chance. While you may be annoyed early on it will be worth it to stick it out.