Gerry 
US  
Office Manager 
Female 

        Open Ended Question #1: 
         In a book called "Satisfaction: the Photos of Gered Mankowitz" you were            quoted as saying that Brian was very difficult and uncooperative in regards to  photographing him. I wonder if, looking back, you still feel the same? It was 
 just those "out of sync" with the rest of the group photos, that drew my attention and made the photos some of the best I've ever seen. Do you think  he did those type of things intentionally to draw attention to himself or more to annoy the others? 
       Gered's Response: 
       Well I suppose obviously with time passing and people thinking somewhat differently about periods in their life, I suppose I would say perhaps Brian's lack of co-operation did in the final analysis contribute to the overall look of the pictures in a way that did make him stand out and did add, with hindsight, a depth to the pictures but I didn't feel very happy with his attitude. So I don't really think that anything has changed. 
 

       Open Ended Question #2: 
       What would you select as the best photo you ever took of the Stones and 
 which one of Brian alone? 
       Gered's Response: 
       I find that really difficult as there are several pictures that captured the essence of the Stones at the time, but I suppose I would have to say the Cage picture from the first section and Between The Buttons pictures from 67 are my favourite group pictures. And as far as Brian is concerned I think that there's two, there's a sort of live portrait from the back with a shaft of light that I think has a lovely feeling of him and then there is another one which was recently published in Mojo magazine, a colour portrait of him where he is biting his nails. But although it is a very sad and moving picture I think it encapsulates part of the emotions and confusion and the general feeling that surrounds him at the time. 
 

      Open Ended Question #3: 
      What type of camera and film speed did you use most often and why did you 
shoot so many of the photos in black and white? (Those are my favourites actually) 
      Gered's Response: 
       Well, last part first, I shot black and white because  that really was what was mainly required at the time. In the sixties there was a need for black and white images and the bulk of the material I shot  was black and white. But the other reason for it appearing that there are more black and white than anything else is that so much of the colour was lost or mislaid at the time. I had a Nikon for 35 mm, and I have only used two makes of camera continuously since I first started becoming a professional photographer. I was using Triex which is normally rated at 400 asa, but I was pushing it to 1,600, and then there was an Ilfa film called HPS which was normally rated at 800 asa and I was pushing it to about 3,200. 
 

     Open Ended Question #4: 
      Did you select the locations where the photo shoots would take place or did  the Stones? 
     Gered's Response: 
     (No Response Given) 
 

     Open Ended Question #5: 
     The colour photo you took of Brian at his flat, standing beside the mural he  painted: Do you know if he did others; were there others in the flat? 
     Gered's Response: 
     I don't remember but it wouldn't surprise me if there were because the flat was his playground really. I mean it was littered with the sort of debris of his life and I wouldn't be surprised if there were more paintings. But what I think what was the most interesting, and that was the area in which he was using the energy, he was using his mural painting energy in that one area at the time. I certainly didn't photograph him against anything else. 
     Second part of Question: 
     Also, I had read long ago that he was interested in photography..did he ever discuss  that with you or did he have any input into how/where a photo of the group might be shot? Thank you. 
     Gered's Response: 
     I don't recall Brian ever being particularly interested in photography. Well, I don't think any of the Stones had an input as to how I took the picture, but of course they had a huge input as to how they presented themselves within the picture. That's the division of labour - that's how it should be. I am the photographer, they are the subject. 

Nanker 
Canada 
Educator 
Male 

     Open Ended Question #1: 
     Have you ever talked to people who were with Brian when he died? If so what did you find out? 
     Gered's Response: 
      No. 

PAM.B 
USA 
Female 

     Open Ended Question #1: 
     WHICH ONE OF THE STONES DID YOU LIKE WORKING WITH  THE MOST? 
     Gered's Response: 
     I don't think I can differentiate between any of them in terms of working with them. I liked and I got on best with Keith and Charlie. 
 

    Open Ended Question #2: 
    DID YOU EVER PHOTOGRAPH ANY OF BRIAN'S GIRLFRIENDS?AND IF SO, WHICH DID YOU LIKE THE MOST? 
    Gered's Response: 
     I photographed Brian with Anita a couple of times, but that was it. 
 

Pascale 
France 
Teacher  
Female 

    Open Ended Question #1: 
    Will you edit a book with only photos of Brian ? 
    Gered's Response: 
     I think it very unlikely because I don't think I have enough Brian material to do a whole book. 
 

    Open Ended Question #2: 
    Could you give us some anecdotes about Brian during your work with him ?  Did he appreciate to be photographed ? 
    Gered's Response: 
     (Note: The transcriber from Genesis posed the question as : Did he appreciate your photographs?) No, I don't think he particularly liked having his photograph taken but I think they all accepted that it was part of the job and I think that they, for period I was working with them, were happy to have me photograph them then anyone else. 
 

   Open Ended Question #3: 
   Did you find Brian handsome and how do you you explain that he can seem so beautiful on a photo and nearly awful on an other ?? 
   Gered's Response: 
   How do I explain that? Well, I found Brian very striking and he was certainly in the early days of my experience of the band, early of late 64/65, he was visually the most charismatic, the most complete in terms of self presentation. He was the one who got it most together early on. I certainly considered him to be very striking, I am not sure whether I would have described him as handsome - not the term I would use. I think the reason that he looked so great in some pictures was because he was extremely photogenic, but he also had a face that didn't really absorb his overindulgence particularly well, so if he had a rough night he looked really rough and during my latter part of my experience with the Stones, late 66/67, he was looking rougher and rougher all the time. 
 

   Open Ended Question #4: 
   Was Brian complexed by his physical aspect or obsessed with it ? 
   Gered's Response: 
  (Note: This question was posed to Gered as  was he vain and was he obsessed?)Well, of course he was vain. You have to be in order to continuously appear in front of the camera, in front of the public, you have to be vain - you have to have a deep interest and concern of how you look and how you appear. Was he obsessed? I can't answer that, I wouldn't know. 
 

   Open Ended Question #5: 
   Thank you for having been the Stones' photograph at this period and please, give us all the photos of Brian you have....We pray you !!!! 
 

 Brian  
 Argentina  
 music  
 Male  

     Open Ended Question #1:  
     Brian play some instrument in the bootleg song "Shades of Orange"?  
     Gered's Response: 
      None 
 

      Open Ended Question #2:  
      Which is the released year of the bootleg song "Shades of Oranges"  
      Gered's Response: 
      None 
 

      Open Ended Question #3:  
      Where is the guitar of Brian?(the famous "Tear Drop" guitar)  
      Gered's Response: 

     Open Ended Question #4:  
     Who´s the girl with Brian in the t.v. program "Ready ,steady go!"they sung "I  
     got you baby"  
     Gered's Response: 
     None  (Her name is Cathy McGowan- courtesy Brian Jones Fan Club) 

       Open Ended Question #1:  
       AM LOOKING FOR AN OLD RECORDING BY BRIAN JONES; THE 
       PIPES OF JAKORATOUA; I THINK, IT IS STILL AVAILABLE, BUT I 
       CAN NO LONGER FIND IT,ANY SUGGESTIONS 
       Gered's Response:  None ( the title is Brian Jones Presents the Pipes of Pan at 
       Jajouka.)  You may try Amazon.com  at our online store at the web site.  

Gregorey B. Abbott 
USA  
management  
Male  

         Open Ended Question #1:  
         Was Brian very difficult to work with?  
         Gered's Response: 

         Open Ended Question #2:  
         Did Brian ever confide in you his worries? 
        Gered's Response:  
         No, I don't think he ever confided in me. I can't recall him confiding in anybody and there was a moment when he asked me if I would take some acid with him and I said to him that I didn't want to, that I didn't do acid, and he then suggested that he took all the acid he had and that I wrote everything down while he was tripping. It was an offer I felt I could refuse. At the time perhaps if I hadn't, and had written, then maybe I would have become sort of, or maybe I could have become Brian's confessor. But that's about as far as it went. 
 

         Open Ended Question #3:  
         Did you ever see the musical genius of Brian at work?  
         Gered's Response: 
         Well, frequently I saw his ability to pick up an instrument and play it. From where I was coming from, which was much a non musical place, I thought he was a genius, but then I heard from other people that perhaps he was not focussed enough to be a true genius in any particular musical area. But certainly from my point of view he appeared to be an absolute remarkable musical talent, and that even under incredible stress from absorbing vast amounts of alcohol he was still able to be propped up in a corner and make a marvellous sound. So, yes, from my point of view, yes I thought he was extraordinary, and had an extraordinary musical ability. 

         Open Ended Question #1:  
         What was in your opinion Brian's greatest contribution to the stones?  
        Gered's Response:  
         Well I suppose his greatest contribution to the Stones was that he brought everybody together. I suppose that has to be seen as his greatest contribution, as without Brian the Stones would probably have never existed. 

Brendan Hall 
usa 
student 
Male 

         Open Ended Question #1: 
          Please give us some details about the esoteric paintings on Brian's wall. What  
         do you think Brian was trying to express? 
         Gered's Response: 
          I never really thought about what he was trying to express. It just seemed to be, they just seemed to be very stoned, sort of mad, quite colourful expression of some dream like fantasy or images and I really wasn't interested in analysing them and I don't recall even discussing them with anybody at the time. I just thought it was an appropriate background to a portrait. 

          Open Ended Question #1:  
          Do you think Brian made any contribution to the Stones music at all under his  
          last two years??  
         Gered's Response: 
          I have no idea, absolutely no idea at all. 
 

          Open Ended Question #2:  
          Do you think the other Stones-members treated him good the last years he  
           lived??  
         Gered's Response: 
         No I don't think they did. 
 

         Open Ended Question #3:  
         Do you know who the musicians were, that he was going to form his new  
         group with???  
        Gered's Response: 
         No idea. 
 

         Open Ended Question #4: 
         Why didn´t he write any music of his own?? Didn`t he had the confidence to  
         present it to the others or what??  
        Gered's Response: 
        Because he wasn't able to apparently. There are some people who said that Brian did write songs, but there are also people I knew and know still who basically said he didn't have the particular talent to write good pop songs, songs which would have been appropriate and suitable material for the Rolling Stones. That was one of his biggest frustrations. 
 

         Open Ended Question #5:  
         Do you think he liked doing drugs and alcohol or was it his low  
         self-esteem???  
        Gered's Response: 
        No response given 

jerney  
england 
nanny 
Female 
 
         Open Ended Question #1:  
         Can you remember the first time you met Brian and what was your first  
         impression of him  
         Gered's Response: 
         The first time I met Brian I think was at the Pickwick, a theatrical dining club that I used to hang out in quite alot and Brian was having dinner there and I was introduced to him. I can't remember who introduced him to us, he was extremely charming and amusing and polite and a very nice guy. 
 

         Open Ended Question #2:  
         During one of the so- many photo sessions with the Stones or Brian , has there  
         been a moment that you can describe as a blooper and what was it like to   
         share the kind of humour that Brian had?  
         Gered's Response: 
         (This seems to have been translated by Genesis as "What was it like when he played the fool when he was on tour mainly?")Well I suppose when a joke's funny it's funny. When Brian was in  good form he was good fun to be with and good company, enjoyable company. 
  

         Open Ended Question #3:  
         Are there any pictures that Brian himself has seen and liked and which one  
         were his favourite photo sessions? Which one are? were yours?  
         Gered's Response: 
          I don't know. I think he liked the Out of Our Heads cover very much because he was in the foreground and I think he liked the way he looked in those pictures very much. With his white trousers and dark roll neck sweater and white blonde hair I think he liked that very much. I don't recall him ever contributing an opinion on anything else. 
 

         Open Ended Question #4:  
         When was the last time you saw Brian and what was he like? I heard he was  
         in high spirits after he left the Stones and that he wanted to start his own band  
         with other musicians. Did he tell you about that and were you interested in  
         doing a session with them?  
         Gered's Response: 
         No response given. 
 

         Open Ended Question #5:  
         What is your favourite time with the Rolling Stones and why? 
         Gered's Response: 
         Again, I find that quite difficult to answer really because I suppose the 1965 tour of America was the most interesting and complex period that I ever spent with them. I certainly never had that intimacy that you get from being with people for 8/9 weeks and sharing all those experiences together, so I suppose that it was really the November/December tour of America. 

                                              Sat Mar 20 08:50:28 1999 EDT 
 

Dee  
U.S.A. 
Female 
 
         Open Ended Question #1:  
         Do you feel that Brian's charisma and soulfulness comes through strongly in  
         pictures? 
         Gered's Response: 
         Well I think it does yes. I think that my pictures capture Brian very well at the different times at which I photographed him. 
 

         Open Ended Question #2:  
         While photographing the Stones then, did you notice any growing animosity  
         towards Brian, and if so how did he seem to handle it?  
         Gered's Response: 
         No response given. 
 

         Open Ended Question #3: 
         Not denying Brian his superb musical genius, as a person how did he come  
         across to you?  
         Gered's Response: 
         No response given. 
 

         Open Ended Question #4:  
         While taking Brian's photos did you get a sense of the complexity and duality  
         of the man.  
         Gered's Response: 
         Well, when I first worked with them Brian was on pretty good form and was working well and projecting well and being focussed and professional. But the whole of Brian is that he began to fall apart, to lose control, to lack the ability of self control over that period of time that I was with them. And by the time I finished, or they finished working with me in 67, he was already quite far gone so one observed his decline really over that period of time. 
 

         Open Ended Question #5:  
         If Brian were alive today, what do you think he would be doing and would  
         you still be interested in photographing him?  
         Gered's Response: 
         That's an impossible question to answer, I mean it's sort of ridiculous question. I don't know whether one can even begin to answer that sort of question. 

                                            Thu Mar 18 01:40:10 1999 EDT  
 

Pamela Richmond 
USA 
Writer 
Female 
 
         Open Ended Question #1:  
         What prompted you to put together I Contact? Nostalgia? 
         Gered's Response: 
         Because there was a huge demand for my Rolling Stones material after the enormous success of the Mason's Yard book, which sold out, which was the quickest selling Genesis limited edition book ever and so they asked me to do another book, or come up with an idea for another book, and I had the idea of publishing the whole black and white Stones archive in contact sheet form. That was because I felt that was the only book that I had on the Rolling Stones that would justify the care and attention that Genesis place on their products. 
 

         Open Ended Question #2:  
         Have most of these photos never been seen before?  
         Gered's Response: 
         Well most of them haven't been seen before, because that's the whole point about the contact sheets is that we are publishing in one volume thousands and thousands of images when the bulk of the images that have been published previously over the last 35 years come from a sort of fund of perhaps 180 to 200 images that have been relevantly speaking quite frequently published, so yes the bulk of the I Contact pictures have never been published before which is the whole point of doing it like this. 
 

         Open Ended Question #3:  
         What is your favourite way to capture your subjects, by having them pose or  
         by snapping the shutter when they are not looking?  
         Gered's Response: 
         Snapping the shot when they're not looking doesn't interest me, however a combination of the two things so trying to capture the essence, the soul, of the people is what really interests me most. Harmonizing an image, capturing an image, those are the things which really interest me. Doing a sort of reportage on the band is something that I do enjoy doing but I do it very rarely, when I am asked to do it I enjoy it enormously but I can only do it properly really with people who I know and people who give me full access. I don't like photographing people in spite of them, I don't like photographing people when they are not prepared to have their picture taken. 
 

         Open Ended Question #4:  
         Do you have more photographs of Brian Jones's artwork? Seems he wasn't  
         just a gifted musician, but he also waxed poetic and artistic.  
         Gered's Response: 
         No response given. 

                                           Wed Mar 17 18:15:32 1999 EDT  
 

Ben  
U.S.A. 
Reference Librarian 
Male 
 
         Open Ended Question #1:  
         What are your recollections of Brian Jones's musical contributions to the  
         Rolling Stones?  
         Gered's Response: 
         No response given. 
 

Simon Harper 
Scotland 
Student 
Male 
 
         Open Ended Question #1:  
         Which Rolling Stone did you get on best with?  
         Gered's Response: 
         Keith and Charlie