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The Brian Jones Trip


 
Looks Like a Rolling Stone

Introduction:  The Golden Age of Brian-alikes  by Jon T. Hudson
 
 

They say "Imitation Is The Most Sincere Form Of Flattery". If this is true Brian Jones must have felt very flattered in 1965-68, because there were more Brian look-alikes in this time period then any other time.
 

BEFORE:Ears and Eyebrows!
 
The Beatles started the mop top hair fad in 1963-64. This inspired Brian to grow his hair longer, but with a difference. He grew his blond bob bangs/fringe past his eyebrows right to his eyes, when every body else’s eyebrows were still showing. (Photo on right shows BEFORE: Ears and Eyebrows.)
 
 
AFTER:THE MAN!
 

In England in 1964 the Stones became more popular than the Beatles, and Brian was Mick's equal in popularity. So by 1965 England, there were lots of Brian look-alikes in Beat groups and a lot of fans doing their hair into blond Brian bobs just like their idol! In 1965 America, we finally started to go crazy over the Stones & so a lot of Brian-alikes started popping up in bands like the Byrds, and the Beau Brummels. (Photo on left: AFTER.)

Then came 1966. Musically the number one sound in pop music in 1966 was FUZZTONE. It is widely rumored that Brian started this fad in 1965 when HE came up with the opening fuzztone riff on Satisfaction! At any rate, the Stones were the number 1 sellers of the year (the only year of the sixties that the Stones outsold the Beatles) and challenged the Beatles for the king’s throne of over-all popularity.

In 1966 a lot of young people were putting together bands all around the world, and these garage bands sounded and looked like their heroes - The Rolling Stones. Garage bands were burning up the charts around the world in 1966 - groups like The Kingsmen, Sam The Sham, The Leaves, Love, The Count Five, The Standells (who toured with the Stones in the summer of 66), The Litter, Syndicate Of Sound, The Chocolate Watchband, The Shadows Of Knight - the list goes on & on! And each of these garage bands usually had a Brian-alike in them.

Brian's face & image were being seen in 1966 more then any other time. The punks in the garage bands wanted to look like their professional hero - Brian. He was living the hip, dream life & they wanted that lifestyle also.

The garage bands stated fading away in 1968 as Brian was also fading away into a downward spiral of luxurious decadence.
 

Brian on the downslide
1969 marked the last page of the swingin’ 60s, and the beginning of the somber 70s. It was a year of tragic shocks, with the deaths of Judy Garland in June and Brian Jones in July, the Manson Family murders in August, and the killing at the Altamont concert in December. There was a "bad moon on the rise". The somber 70s were upon us!

But let us swing back to the golden days of that golden blond bob of hair - the 60s!
 

Brian-alikes are GO! Part One



The Trip's fave Brianalike in his blond bob days




Jon T. Hudson


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