12. The Rolling Stones Frank ZappaBeggars Banquet
In 1968 I came to England and stayed at the Inverness Court Hotel in Bayswater. I bought a little hifi – hifi? Lofi! – in an electronics store, and bought Beggars Banquet and The White Album, and listened to them on acid. American acid. Then we went to the Roundhouse and took the guy we bought the turntable from and we never saw him again. American drugs and British drugs were different. Like the difference between American weed and the stuff you had here, mixed with tobacco, Smoke American weed and it was "Cuckoo!" – you’re on the frickin’ moon. Our acid was LSD from Owsley, the real stuff, and we brought it over. We were eating it like candy. And that’s what we gave the to the guy who sold us the turntable. The Stones were the greatest rock’n’roll band ever. They were smart rebels, and you can’t make up the stories about Keith, they’re too good. They’re the blueprint for every band there is.
