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Date Posted: 13:03:13 09/04/11 Sun
Author: Deb
Author Host/IP: adsl-99-97-80-60.dsl.akrnoh.sbcglobal.net / 99.97.80.60
Subject: Re: ALO on satellite radio - new book
In reply to: Lazlo 's message, "Re: ALO on satellite radio - new book" on 11:42:56 09/04/11 Sun

This is from ALO's book "2Stoned":

....."But while Brian got off on the dulcimer, the sitar, marimbas, recorders and more, he stopped getting down on the guitar and Keith found himself doing double duty, not only on call as himself but subbing for Brian. Sometimes on the road Brian would shine and summon up all the power and glory of his bottleneck anthems, 'I Wanna Be Your Man' and 'Little Red Rooster', while scaling the twin guitar peaks of the first three Stones LPs with Keith. But all this was slipping away, as was Brian. Midway through March of 1966 at RCA studios came a night I couldn't leave the room (as opposed to knowing when to and being able to). Brian had finally arrived at the studio, after days of who knew where or when, in absolutely no condition to clock in and work.

He managed to plug his guitar into his amp, but that was as far as it got. He was bulbous and bloated; no colour was right for him that day. Everything he wore, an absurd combo of velvet, stripes and squares, reeked of disregard of the very fabric of clothing into life, of untoward disarray. He collapsed on the not too comfortable floor, cold wood studio floor. He didn't notice; he was beyond shame or hurt. Grey to the gills, ready to explode in mind and body, he clutched his guitar like a life preserver, though life was hard to find. He just lay in a pathetic fetal position on the floor, draining the life out of the room.

Mick got paler. It was catching. I noticed with regret I was wearing maroon. Mick folded his arms and pursed his oracular gob. He would have been much more at home in an apron and slippers tizzying around the kitchen tutting at the spuds for not coming to a boil. But we were in the studio, where time was never on our side and we had work to do.

For nearly an hour we all walked on eggshells, overdubbing on already recorded basic tracks, working around the sad centrepiece of Pisces pain that lay in the middle of the studio, oblivious to being the centre of the very world he had dreamed of where he was now self-destructing centre stage. After nearly two hours of stepping around and over Brian, Dave Hassinger, following the night's unspoken plan of 'ignore him, we don't need to talk about it, we need to work', set up microphones for percussion and organ, with baffles surrounding the set-up to keep any Brian sound out, as we now needed optimum quiet for the overdub.

Our engineer then let us know he could no longer ignore the hum coming from in response to Brian's constantly rearranging his crashed form nearer it and the mikes."


ALO eventually turned off Brian's amp and yanked the guitar lead and headed back into the control room.

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