no way. wow, like, totes, really? indeed yes, today would be the day that i, along with some others who i am now no longer sure how to address, look you see, joined the masses in bearing witness to the magnificence, the brilliance and the anything you like of The Stone Roses at Heaton Park, Manchester.
let us be honest, and i would like to think we are in the business of honesty here. for somewhere north of fifteen (15) years i have been doing this blog now, and during that time i really, really believe i have exhausted all i could say of The Stone Roses. but, still, it felt important to mark this anniversary. as i do with select gigs.
a characteristic of those halcyon days of 2012 was that phones had a rudimentary camera welded to them, which had some video capability but not all that much. for a start, there was a finite amount of storage you could put in (or on) a device, and there was no real "cloud" to "up" to, or whatever.
some phones did, however, have all that fancy stuff, and one or two people had them at the gig. hence the below video, lifted from you tube or similar, for your pleasure.
my assumption, or guess, is that whoever filmed that had every intention of it being shared and seen by we, the fans. or maybe they forgot about it. but, my thanks and cheers for doing so.
of course, no, not at all is the answer to any official statement on if The Stone Roses shall ever be a thing again. by this point, or stage, you might have to say probably not, no. beyond reading all sorts of not at all thinly veiled comments in the lyrics of Ian Brown's Ripples album, all we have had is John Squire saying that they made a pact not to discuss what was and was not happening with the band and he was most certainly not going to be the one to break it. oh.
perhaps, just maybe, they, The Stone Roses, are now best left as a memory. legacy, even. but you never know what's hanging until it drops.
who is and who isn't, who is and who isn't.
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