This page, which I never titled, was written up in 2025. But after I wrote most of it, I never finished it up and forgot about it until a full year later, so it wasn't published until mid April of 2026. Guess I'll just call it "Brian Jones and Keith Richards, page 2". But, in case you didn't get here via the link from page one of Brian vs. Keith, the following is about what's written on this page, after what I wrote about the song, "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction". So here we go...

Hard to believe that in April, 2025, I received another email from a Keith fan about what I wrote on the Brian vs. Keith page about the song "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction", and perhaps this last one was correct and got me thinking. Okay, I see the light, thanks to this dude who wishes to remain anonymous, other than I'll note that he's an old Gasser friend and we still keep in touch, now years after the Land of Gas closed down. But I can also say that about several of the former Gassers, we didn't stop being friends just because I got tired of running the joint. Many of us still connect from time to time.

But what was noted to me was - just perhaps, that I was being blinded by the "Brian abuse light" and at the time, I just wanted to, as a fan, give my now third favorite Stone the middle finger (my friend's words, not mine, and for me anyhow - not that it matters to any of you, but Mick Taylor and BJ are on my 1 2 list today for favorite Stone). Yet to do that on Keith's best ever song, "Satisfaction", was wrong on my part. Deep down I know better and know who shined the most on that number! But do understand, other than that one song, I stand 100% behind every other song noted on that page!... and many fans totally agree with me!

Why did I write that about "Satisfaction"? Well, it's the things Keith says today about Brian. Keith never spoke directly to Brian in the way he starting talking about him after his death, cause while Keith has enormous balls, much larger than most guys have, he had tiny, pea-size balls when facing Brian. Keith couldn't even tell Brian directly that he wanted him fired from the band, as Charlie noted once years ago, the word "fired" never came up when that sad day came about in June of '69. But when Keith talked about it years later, he used very nasty words when speaking about his "firing" BJ. Thing was, on that June day in in '69, he couldn't fire BJ, in part since Brian quit the band months earlier. BJ just didn't state it to the Twins, so Keith never heard him say it, as maybe since these 2 guys just couldn't face each other while speaking and dealing in such nasty matters. But when Mick that day started to say to Brian "we have to settle this thing", Brian immediately agreed and Mick and Keith never once used, or had to use, the F word (not that F word). In turn, Brian didn't need to use the Q word, either. They all knew what needed to be done on that day (and yes, Charlie was there too for the meeting, but as a peacekeeper only, and he knew what was said and wasn't said and filled us all in on what went down a few years after said meeting took place).

Anyway, they left the door open for Brian to rejoin the band (a fact) in time, they also made an agreement to pay him a large and yearly sum of money (a large amount for 1969, anyway) until he rejoined, and even allowed BJ to put out a statement that he was leaving the group, but might return to the band in time. Does that sound like he was getting fired to you? Never did Keith say to Brian that he was fired! Never did Keith have the balls to fire the man who hired him into the Rolling Stones in the first place! Of course, Brian died just a few weeks later, so he never had a chance to rejoin the Stones - and to this very day, the Stones still pay his estate the annual money promised to him back in '69. No, Brian Jones was not fired from the Stones! He wasn't wanted in the group at that time and he himself didn't want to be in it at that moment, either. But hell, I wrote an entire chapter on this in my old, well received Stones book, which is only sold online these days secondhand by book collectors. It's not sold in book stores anymore, and I haven't sold it in years here on the domain. But yes, you can still find the book on Amazon, chances are it may or may not be in good shape, and it won't be new (at least, that's unlikely), and I can tell you 100% for sure, that I won't make a dime off it if you do try to get your hands on a copy today.

Now yes, I know, this reads like an old Gasland post, except its one sided this time, since this isn't Gasland and no one can reply to what I'm writing here (unless you email me, of course). In closing, with 99% of things Keith talks about, he is a man who speaks what's on his mind, so you know what he believes. I always loved that about him. But when it comes to his talk about Brian Jones, he's not the same cool man/person at all. He talks rude about BJ every so often and many Stones fans know this. Pretty much all other rockers, or musicians in general, after the death of a bandmate (or former bandmate), will praise the departed person, point out the good they did in the band and talk about their past lives with kindness. At first, shortly after BJ's passing, Keith did this when talking about Brian. But sometime about a decade later, it was as if Richards went to war against Jones' past life. By the '90s, it was flat our ridiculous in what he was saying, he was flat out evil towards BJ. Check out his sick and uncalled for words about Brian, and how he could care less how he mistreated his best friend when he stole away his fiancée, Anita Pallenberg, which he talked about in an interview in the Stones 1990 documentary 25 X 5: The Continuing Adventures of the Rolling Stones. He came across to many Stones' fans as a true asshole in that part of an otherwise great overall doc about the band. He is pretty much the only rocker who ever put down a late bandmate in this sick and uncalled for matter. He lost the respect from many of his fans after that sorry interview, after many heard what he stated.

So in a nutshell, Keith's saying he that he fired Brian - while a total falsehood, is now starting to be believed, as the younger generations who weren't around in 1969, believe the BS that he states. He has falsely rewritten history, which is an outrage to many of us fans who were around back then and know better.

The last true words Keith and Brian spoke to each other on the day of that early June of '69 meeting, was that they still loved each other, followed by "Goodbye". But not goodbye forever. Just a "see you around again some day" kind of goodbye. Plus its also true that the last phone call made by Brian Jones to the Stones main office, just a week before his death, was Brian asking if it would be okay with them if he showed up at the July 5 concert in Hyde Park to watch the show and wish the band the best of luck. The Stones got back to Brian that same night with a message that they would love to see him there! Of course, that never happened, as that concert turn into the Brian Jones Memorial Concert, as BJ had left us 2 days before the show took place. Funny, well, no, more so, sad, in how this all turned out in the end.