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Date Posted: 20:33:56 05/22/02 Wed
Author: Rob
Subject: MY REASONS FOR THE BRIAN JONES MEMORIAL FAN CLUB

This is in response to the recent post on the LARS message board about my association with the Brian Jones Memorial Fan Club.

In 1993 I decided to start a fan club about Brian Jones, something I had been thinking about for some time. When I decided to start the fan club I contacted Mandy Aftel, who wrote the first biography on Brian Jones. When I contacted her I told her about my plans to start a new Brian Jones fan club, which she was in full support of. As we began talking she mentioned to me about the old Brian Jones Memorial Fan Club (Which was mentioned in her book) that was started by Rosann Fontana. She ended up giving me a phone number she had for Rosann. It turned out the number she gave me was to her parent’s house. When I called the number I spoke to Rosann's father who told me he didn't think she was into the fan club anymore, but he would pass her my phone number the next time he spoke with her. A couple of days later I received a call from Rosann and we spoke for several hours. I told her I was thinking about using the name Brain Jones - Gone But Not Forgotten for my fan club, but she 'insisted' I use the name of her old fan club called The Brian Jones Memorial Fan Club because it was a name people were familiar with. Rosann told me that several years after she started the fan club she passed it on to a woman named Sue Anderson, who ran it for a couple more years. During my conversation with Rosann, I asked her if she still had the mailing list to the fan club. She told me that she passed it onto Sue when she took over the fan club. I then contacted Sue Anderson on the phone. When I spoke with Sue she told me she no longer had the mailing list to the fan club. I don't think one person who joined my fan club was a member of the Brian Jones Memorial Fan Club when Rosann Fontana or Sue Anderson ran it. This recent post on the LARS message board by Rosann Fontana stating she gave me "a mailing list of a few hundred people to start him off" is totally UNTRUE. I had to start the fan club from scratch.

My motives for letting go of the fan club several years later were because of the following three reasons: 1) I was having a hard time coming up with new information to fill up the newsletters. 2) It was taking up too much of my spare time. 3) There was a new Brian Jones fan club starting in England called the Spirit, and the people running it seemed to be more enthusiastic than I was at the time about running a fan club on Brian. I then passed my mailing list to the people running the Spirit, along with a check for £1000, out of my own pocket, so my former members would be able to start fresh with four newsletters. It had nothing to do with me being "just a grave digger from Staten Island." as Rosann states in her post. What my occupation, or where I live has to do with my running the fan club is beyond me. I just love when people tell the truth.

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