Well, I know model railroading came first. But is there anyone here that has been modeling as long as Mick and the boys have been rocking?
On the radio today I heard a cut off of thier new album coming out in a month or two. And I know they’re playing Giants Stadium here in NJ in September. They start the tour at Fenway park in Boston. Pearl Jam opens for them in Pittsburgh.
Man, another album? Another world wide tour? In big stadiums? And I bet ya that Mick will be running from sideline to sideline singing and dancing. I’ve seen some helluva good shows over the year. You young guys should check them out. This has got to be that last tour. Right? Can;t imagine how much tickets are , though.
Its 2005! When was thier first album? 1965? Earlier? Unbelievable!
The song I heard was like their old, rough stuff … maybe like the Exile on Main Street album.
Aren’t there some old timers in model railroading that had their layout for decades?
YardGoat,
I got this one! The first Rolling Stones album was in 1964, a self triled EP that reflected their live shows at the time, it has mostly been forgotten and lost and most regard ‘The Rolling Stones’(England’s Newest Hitmakers), which came out in april of 1964, as their “first” album… It is a great album, in fact, the stones do a cover of Route 66 on it winks one of the reasons I knew the answer. chuckles
My wife was just telling me yesterday that Keith Richards is going to play Jack Sparrows(Johnny Depp) dad in the sequal to The Pirates of the Caribbean. Now that seems like a part that is made for him, lol.
Well I had a model railway while I was listening to the Beatles and the Stones and the rest of the Mersey crowd…I was 14 at the time. Had to rip it all up when we moved from BC to Ontario and I am just getting back into it after 40 years.
As for how old the hobby is, I mentioned this a while back on the prototype forum. I picked up a book on a remainder table On the Move Great Transportation Photographs from Life. Great pix of a steam engine on the cover.
But inside is a shot by the great Life photographer Alfred Eisenstadt taken before he joined life. “Toy Train Society Berlin 1931” two middle aged men, in business suits, on the floor, putting together rather large track (maybe O gauge but looks bigger)
Johnny Depp deliberately patterned his character after Keith Richards in the first Pirates of the Carribean… so it was a natural thing to ask Keith to come on board as his father for the second one.
I started listening to Glenn Miller play Moonlight Serenade on 78s. Rock Around the Clock was the new daring sound when the first track was laid. Then I got a car and the train slowed down, but never stopped.
I learned about model railroading and the Stones all in the same breath. My best friend and I would play with his train set and listen to his sisters Stones album (Hot Rocks 1) over and over again. I remember looking at that cover (the stones in front of the castle) and being transported into the scene via the music and listening to stories of Brain Jones death. I knew very little of them at that time but knew they were special. I was only around 10 years old at the time, it was a magical time to be growning up. As for the railroad I don’t think it’s stil there.
The year the stones came out was the year I bought my first brass articulated, an Akane 2-8-8-4. I still have the locomotive and it runs as well as Keith Richards still rocks! Some things are just built to last, by God!
Tom [:D][:D]
I was a pink-faced lad of only 12, but I had two HO Marklins runing on a 4X8 with sackcloth mountain and tunnel, plus two switches. The Beetles were the big thing, but my heavy preference was any of Ludwig Van’s gorgeous Nine played on a Garrard turntable and amplified through a Blaupunkt push-button radio.
If you ever want a thrill, play the fourth movement from Beethoven’s Symphony No. 7 while your big fella hauls a train across your biggest bridge.
For me, it’s trains before Stones. Since I’m modelling the 60’s, I may print up a miniature of an old Stones poster or album cover and use it as advertising.
I got back into the hobby in the early 1980’s, and I had been a Stones fan for a while by then. Still think they’re great and often have one of their CD’s playing in my hobby room. I sold off all of my original LP’s some time ago and replaced most of them with CDs.
The Stones are playing about a hundred miles from here early in September, but attending such large outdoor events doesn’t interest me. I’ll leave it up to the younger folks!
Thing is, guys in their sixties don’t look ridiculous working on model railroads, but they do look pretty darn silly trying to “rock out” on stage without breaking a hip.
Allen McClellend’s original V&O was begun around 1957 to 1960 and it lasted up until his wife’s health necessatated a move to a different house just a few years ago. I was playing with American Flyer trains in the mid 1950s when “The British sound” meant talking like Winston Churchill.
