Namesakes #81: The Rolling Stones

Unbelievable... but true. There's more than one band called The Rolling Stones...

THE ROLLING STONES #1

Let's start in 1930, thirteen years before Mick 'n' Keef were even born. The original Rolling Stones were Jimmie Adams and Bud Jamison, a pair of singing comic vagabonds who toured the US in the early 30s.

THE ROLLING STONES #2

Next stop 1958. Well, 1955 to begin with, as these Rolling Stones originally started out as the backing band of one Lucky Hill from Mississippi. Three years later, they were backing one Andy Anderson (not to be confused with Neighbours love song warbler Angry Anderson). Presumably, Lucky Hill had retired by this point and was living off all the cash he'd made by, ahem, inventing rock 'n' roll...

THE ROLLING STONES #3

From the same Philadelphia-based record label that released a song by "The Beatles" in the mid-70s. Apparently these guys were originally called The Time Tones. According to the label, this was written by M. Jackoff, J. Lemmon and K. Richard, produced by Mickey Most, Andrew Loog Oldham and Philip Spector, and featured "Charlie Watts on toilet". 

  

THE STONES #4

Not technically Rolling, but it takes some stones to name your band The Stones in 1982. These guys were from Dunedin in New Zealand though, so perhaps they'd never heard of Mick n Keef?

  

ROLLING STONES #5

Whereas these American punks were clearly just taking the piss in 1987... in more ways than one.

THE ROLLING STONES #6

From 2019, and a cassette only release called Who the Fuck is Mick Jagger? The Very Best of the Rolling Stones. By this point, all bets are off.

THE ROLLING STONES #7

Not chronologically the newest Rolling Stones, but I saved them for the end anyway... despite being unable to find any info about them on the interweb.

Which Rolling Stones gathered no moss... and which were like a complete unknown?