{"id":796996,"date":"2019-06-21T07:03:26","date_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:03:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rollingstone.com\/?p=850248"},"modified":"2019-06-21T07:03:26","modified_gmt":"2019-06-21T13:03:26","slug":"watch-bill-wyman-explain-how-he-joined-the-rolling-stones-in-1962","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/alwaysmountaintime.com\/ksmt\/music-news\/watch-bill-wyman-explain-how-he-joined-the-rolling-stones-in-1962\/","title":{"rendered":"Watch Bill Wyman Explain How He Joined the Rolling Stones in 1962"},"content":{"rendered":"
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On December 7th, 1962, 26-year-old bassist Bill Wyman<\/a> went to the Wetherby Arms pub in the Chelsea neighborhood of London to audition for the Rolling Stones<\/a> as a possible replacement for founding member Dick Taylor. As Wyman recounts in this exclusive clip from his upcoming documentary The Quiet One<\/em>, the band was initially a little skeptical he was the one for the job. \u201cThey asked me what music I liked,\u201d said Wyman. \u201cI said, \u2018Chuck Berry\u2019 and they said, \u2018Great!\u2019 I said, \u2018Jerry Lee Lewis,\u2019 \u2018No!\u2019 \u2018Eddie Cochran,\u2019 \u2018No!\u2019 All the rock & rollers, they didn\u2019t like any of them. \u2018We\u2019re a blues band, we\u2019re not a rock & roll band.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n

Wyman may not have had quite the musical background they wanted, but he did have a Vox AC30 bass amp and a smaller Watkins Westminster amp he told them they were free to use. He sweetened the deal by buying them all cigarettes and a round of drinks since they were all flat broke. That was all it took. They made him a Rolling Stone and he stuck around until the end of the Steel Wheels<\/em> Tour 28 years later when his fear of flying and general burnout from the road convinced him it was time to hang up his bass.<\/p>\n

He\u2019s told his story in a pair of memoirs (Stone Alone<\/em> and Rolling with the Stones<\/em>), but The Quiet One<\/em> is the first time he\u2019s cooperated with a documentary about his life and given filmmakers access to his extensive archive of photos, film and memorabilia. It has not been without controversy, though. Wyman\u2019s relationship with ex-wife Mandy Smith.<\/p>\n

Wyman\u2019s relationship with his ex-wife Mandy Smith has come under renewed scrutiny in the #MeToo era, as the bassist began dating the former model in 1984 when she was 13. (They married in 1989 and divorced two years later.) The Quiet One<\/em> glosses over the issue quickly, omitting Smith\u2019s age when they started dating and causing one festival in England to cancel a screening and Q&A<\/a> with Wyman.<\/p>\n

The film opens Friday in New York, Los Angeles, San Francisco and Boston before heading to VOD on June 28th.<\/p>\n

via:: Rolling Stone<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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