I picked up an old favorite cd this weekend and as I was ripping it today, something about it caught my attention. The album is Some Girls by [bold]The Rolling Stones[/bold]. It was packaged in a fancy sleeve as a lot of older titles are now, I guess to keep the record companies from feeling too guilty by bringing the profit margin down from 90% to a much less obscene 85%. Anyway, on the front of the sleeve is the 'Stones logo (big lips with outstretched tongue) and the tongue is painted with an American flag. Also on the sleeve are the words [bold]"THE USA COLLECTION"[/bold]. I'm no musical historian, but I do believe that the 'Stones, like another one of my favorite bands, [bold](Iron Maiden)[/bold], originated in [bold]Great Britian[/bold]. I wonder if you folks in London realize that you are now part of the USA. I was going to write it off as just a geographical faux pas until I noticed that this album is produced by [bold]Virgin Records[/bold], the same Virgin Records that was founded in London in the 1960's. Hopefully some of you good folks from the UK can set me straight if I am wrong, but that's the same bloody city as the 'Stones came from. Now being a humble resident of the USA, I would proudly claim [bold]The Rolling Stones[/bold] as an American band, but that just wouldn't be right. Thanks for allowing me to rant like this as I just couldn't keep this to myself.
Not that i know much of the rolling stones, but they are british... That album might be for you's in the USA... They might be on tour their i think, so thats maybe why it has an american flag on their cover?
You could be right Rosco404. At least I like that answer better than the other explanation. (That Sony had taken over the world.) No, but seriously, I do find it almost impossible to believe that The Rolling Stones could be from the same city as someone, and that someone would not know this.
