Magazine of the Week #21

For our Magazine of the Week #21 we have the May 1986 issue of MUSICIAN, featuring a ROLLING STONES cover story by BILL FLANAGAN, with photos by MICHAEL PUTLAND.





There are some great quotes in this one. KEITH is asked "suppose Jagger wanted to go out with his own band, without the Stones?".

Keith's reply: "...if he was to say he don't want to go out with the Stones and goes out with Schmuck and Ball's band instead?"......."I"LL SLIT HIS F*CKIN' THROAT." (The capitals are Flanagan's, the asterisk is mine)

BILL WYMAN, discussing his European hit single "Si Si" says "Keith acts like it doesn't exist. While with Keith...you don't talk about it. He's solely interested in the Rolling Stones. Anything else is..." ..... "Not so much a threat as...an interference.".

As we expect from MUSICIAN magazine, there's lots of good reading here. There's a sidebar on the "Dirty Work" LP and "Keith's Favorite Guitars", which Keith says "are probably of couple of '50s Telecasters...". "ESPs are pretty good and easy to play." He also says he plays "the odd Gibson here and there", and likes a couple of old acoustic Martins, but travels with an acoustic Ibanez.

Also in this issue is a review of "Dirty Work" and nice articles on THE BANGLES and VIOLENT FEMMES.