Re: Nanker Phelge

[NankerPhlg@xxxxxxx]

<<< I've been very curious, too, and appreciate the clarification from the 
aol nanker phelge -- why didn't they just credit 'the rolling stones'? >>>

They used 'Nanker Phelge' instead of 'The Rolling Stones' just as a joke 
among themselves. 

As for the origin of the phrase...'Nanker' originates from a word of their 
creation representing their disdain for authority...in their own lingo, 
snubbing establishment was called 'Nankering.' But it also was what they 
called it when they would do things like make sick grotesque faces at each 
other (one of their favorite activities before they were famous was trying to 
gross each other out)...they called it 'pulling a Nanker.' So in short, 
'Nanker' was a freely used word among the Stones that always meant some kind 
of nose-thumbing or something.

'Phelge' was for Jimmy Phelge, a friend of the band who shared the infamous 
Edith Grove apartment with Mick, Keith and Brian, and who, though not in the 
band, was 'one of them,' so to speak, so using his name was a tip of the hat 
to their friend. 

A few years ago, Jimmy Phelge published a book of his memoirs...first 
published as 'Phelge's Stones' and later (and currently) as 'Nankering With 
The Stones.' It's full of some bizarre and outrageous stories from those 
early days...and, I think it presents the most believable depiction of Brian 
I've ever seen...In the book, like some others, you can actually see Brian at 
first being an equal of Mick and Keith, and you see the evolution in motion 
to how he became sort of cast to the side and left behind by those two...but 
this time you get a better sense of why/how that happened, through things 
Brian did/said (written in a style that's pretty fair to all sides, so I 
didn't get the sense that Phelge was coming down on Brian, or taking a side 
in general...it was more of a 'this is what I saw and heard' style.), and i 
this stuff is true you can't really blame Mick and Keith.


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