Rolling Stones

We Love You (Instrumental version)

Stones '67 quotes from various sources. Edited by Flip.

Charlie: Our scene is really the recording scene. Producing and writing and playing - trying to keep ahead of the rest. This is much more exciting than the show-business aspect.
Mick: We're at a funny stage. We are just making records and have time to gather our thoughts. It's impossible to do that when you're dashing around all over the place, worried about getting to gigs and things. I don't really know whether it's a good thing or not. I know I didn't enjoy last year very much. I enjoyed the things I did but I didn't enjoy things so much as a whole. It's true we didn't sell so many discs in England during 1966 as in the previous year, but neither did the other groups. As far as abroad goes, America is okay and we broke the Italian and German markets in 1966. We haven't quietened down. It's madder now than ever before. We couldn't possibly go on doing ballrooms and cinema appearances all the time. All the groups seem to be cooling off in this respect.

Mick Jagger: (The Rolling Stones will perform q)uite soon. What I want to do is have a show for young people which is not just pop stars comign on stage singing their latest recordings. I want it to include all kinds of acts- a stage show - except at the end we'll go round on a revolving stage, leaping about fro an hour to make up for the Palladium. Oh, and the ice creams will all have acid in them - that's my brother's idea! I suppose we could take an elephant on stage and break that up!

Astrid Lundstrom: (I was) immediately aware of the split in the band: Mick and Keith together, and Brian, Bill and Charlie on the other side. I found it frustrating to be with somebody who was able to be that passive. I felt Bill should be more outspoken, not put up with as much as he did, and I told him so. He said he tried but didn't get very far.

Keith Richards: There's a big knock at the door. Everybody is just sort of gliding down slowly from the whole day of sort of freaking about. Everyone has managd to find their way back to the house. TV is on with the sound off and the record player is on. Strobe lights are flickering. Marianne Faithfull has just decided that she wanted a bath and has wrapped herself up in a rug and is watching the box. Bang bang bang, this big knock at the door and I go to answer it. Oh look, there's lots of little ladies and gentleman outside. He says, Read this, and I'm going, Wha? wha? All right. We were just gliding off from a 12-hour trip. You know how that freaks people out when they walk in on you.
The vibes were so funny for them. I told one of the women with them they'd brought to seach the ladies, Would you mind stepping off that Moroccan cushion? Because you're ruining the tapestries. We were playing it like that. They tried to get us to turn the record player off but we said, No. We won't turn it off but we'll turn it down. As they went, as they started going out the door, somebody put on Dylan's Rainy Day Women really loud. Everybody must get stoned. And that was it. (W)e had just started to turn on to acid. Yeah, we had picked it up in America in ‘66, on that last tour in the summer and we came home and just laid back and started to get it on. We had been working for a long time without stopping, without thinking, for along time. For three years. The bust ended it. We knew it was going to be heavy... The English are very strange. They're tolerant up to a point where they're told not to be. You get to a point up there where somebody turns around and swings a little finger. They've had it in their hands so long, the power. They haven't been fucked since Cromwell, man. First they don't like young kids with a lot of money. But as long as you don't bother them, that's cool. But we bothered them. We bothered 'em because of the way we looked, the way we'd act. Because we never showed any reverence for them whatsoever. Whereas the Beatles had. They'd gone along with it so far, with the MBEs and shaking hands. Whenever we were asked about things like that we'd say, Fuck it. Don't want to know about things like that. Bullocks. Don't need it. That riled 'em somewhere... After the bust everyone's reaction was to get out of England. Although the bust happened in February we weren't charged then. They just took some substances. We weren't even arrested. For a while it was hoped that the lawyers could get the whole thing dropped. In the meantime everybody thought the best idea was to get the fuck out of England so nothing else could happen. We decided to go to Morocco.

Mick Jagger: I was thinking about this the other day, and I don't really think I was suited to heavy drug behavior, to be perfectly honest. But I don't mind talking about it. It's hard to believe that you did so many drugs for so long.

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