Former Rolling Stone Publisher Gathering Moss
In 1987 when the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted Muddy Waters, they correctly praised him as the man who hooked up his guitar to an amplifier and would influence so many others — Cream, Led Zeppelin, Jimi Hendrix among others, and a British band so influenced by American blues in the 1950’s that their name was taken from the Waters’ song “Rollin’ Stone.” The group would later add a “g” and became The Rolling Stones. Muddy Waters is recognized as one of the founders of what would become rock and roll. By 1967 two San Francisco men started a magazine about rock and roll music and about social and political changes of the day, aligning itself with the counterculture. They called it Rolling Stone.You’re probably wondering what we’re trying to do. It’s hard to say: sort of a magazine and sort of a newspaper. The name of it is Rolling Stone which comes from an old saying, “A rolling stone gathers no moss.” Muddy Waters used the name for a song he wrote. The Rolling Stones took their name from Muddy’s song. Like a Rolling Stone was the title of Bob Dylan’s first rock and roll record. We have begun a new publication reflecting what we see are the changes in rock and roll and the changes related to rock and roll.With Wenner at the helm Rolling Stone would distinguish itself with music and political reporting from a gifted stable of writers, including Hunter S. Thompson, Cameron Crowe, Lester Bangs, Joe Klein, Joe Eszterhas, Ben Fong-Torres, Patti Smith Tom Wolfe, and P. J. O’Rourke.
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