When the Rolling Stones’ original bassist Bill Wyman retired in 1993, it might have thrown sand into the steel wheels of the world’s preeminent rock n’ roll band. Instead, the group was able someho…
, is now playing in theaters in limited release and debuted Friday on VOD platforms, including Amazon Prime and Apple TV.“It’s not an easy thing to replace someone who is an integral founding member of a band like the Stones,” Hamburg noted at a Q&A for the film in Santa Monica Thursday night. “And yet Darryl was able to do it. And I think he’s brought a new element to the Stones that they needed.
“One of the things that I first understood about Rock n’ Roll is that there is a certain amount of irreverence… there is a level of chaos that you kind of wrangle,” Jones said. “Once I understood that, and [drummer] Charlie Watts — the way he plays — really helped me to understand that not every ‘i’ has to be dotted, not every ‘t’ has to be crossed. Sometimes those loose ends are the real wonder and they’re the things that make that make the music human and make it special.
“Daryl has many jobs. I mean, he has to lock in with the drummer,” Hamburg pointed out. “He also has to be the third ‘weaver,’ as Keith [Richards] put it. Keith was just so incredibly effusive about Darryl.” In some ways, as the film reveals, Jones was an unusual choice to succeed Wyman. Yes, he had played in Sting’s post-Police band, but he was steeped more in jazz than rock. That, ironically, really appealed to Richards and Watts.
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