Date: 31 Oct 96 20:09

Ok, I'm going to toss my 0.02 in...

I was a Roses fan from the first time I heard Fools Gold. I won't forget it either, it was winter 1990 and CFNY was playing it during their Rock Over London show which aired Saturday morning hosted by someone whose name I believe is or was Lee Butterick. Summer 1990 and I'm in probably the worst term of my rather tumultuos career at the University of Waterloo in Canada. I buy The Stone Roses in July at the university record shop and I am hooked!!! It's the soundtrack for my summer and my year, after that I'm into The Charlatans UK, The Soup Dragons, The Darling Buds but always back to the Stone Roses.

Like everyone else I waited eagerly for their next album and I like everyone else I waited and waited. December 1994 and I'm the San Francisco Bay Area listening to LIVE 105 as they hype up the long awaited follow-up single "Love Spreads". Before this, the Stone Roses threads in alt.music. alternative are endless. Those of you were able to get advance copies of either the album or the single were enthusiastic about the new sound and the new single..this only whetted my appetite further. I finally hear the new single and to be quite honest I just thought "Hmm...interesting. Not what I expected but interesting". I wore out the cassette copy of The Stone Roses. I don't think there was any danger of repeating that with the The Second Coming. It's May 1995 and The Stone Roses are playing at The Fillmore in San Francisco. The tickets were all sold out and there wasn't anyone scalping any tickets anywhere! It turns out that the May 31 show was pretty much their last good show and I missed them. 

After that the whole thing falls apart slowly, painfully and inexorably.I'm going to miss them. They are and were and important band to me, especially back in summer 1990. I'm glad they finally called it quits. I sincerely hope the Roses music is remembered before their last year and a half.

Enough said.