Former Rolling Stones bassist marketing signature metal detector
Former Rolling Stones bassist Bill Wyman is marketing his own signature metal detector. Gadgetcentre.com reported that Wyman has been a metal detecting enthusiast for years, and will be selling the "Bill Wyman Signature Detector" through the website billwymandetector.com. The detector sells for about $245.
Wyman, who recently turned 70, posted on his site that, "I have always been interested in archaeology and early cultures and when I bought a manor house in Suffolk in 1968 I kept finding fragments in the grounds which inspired my interest even more. In the early 1990s I brought my first C. Scope metal detector and this helped me uncover the site of a Roman homestead. I've been a serious detecting enthusiast ever since and was delighted when my daughter Katie showed an interest in the hobby."
Wyman retired from the Rolling Stones in 1991 shortly after their Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle world tour. He says that he doesn't listen to the band's recent work: "I don't really listen to their music now, I must say, because it's something that is gone out of my life, really, you know? I never did play the records anyway, much, because you kind of, you'd heard them all so many times by the time the records came out, you know, in the studio, the mixing and mastering and that."
Throughout the years, Wyman has documented his time in the Stones in several books. In 1990, he published a memoir of his time with the band, titled Stone Alone. He followed that in 2003 with a lavish 500-plus page oversized coffee table book, Rolling With The Stones, and most recently The Stones - A History in Cartoons, which includes Wyman's collection of doodles from over the years.
A book based on his recent photo exhibit, titled Wyman Shoots, is currently in the works. The exhibit featured many exclusive and unpublished photos of the Stones throughout the years.
Wyman, who recently turned 70, posted on his site that, "I have always been interested in archaeology and early cultures and when I bought a manor house in Suffolk in 1968 I kept finding fragments in the grounds which inspired my interest even more. In the early 1990s I brought my first C. Scope metal detector and this helped me uncover the site of a Roman homestead. I've been a serious detecting enthusiast ever since and was delighted when my daughter Katie showed an interest in the hobby."
Wyman retired from the Rolling Stones in 1991 shortly after their Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle world tour. He says that he doesn't listen to the band's recent work: "I don't really listen to their music now, I must say, because it's something that is gone out of my life, really, you know? I never did play the records anyway, much, because you kind of, you'd heard them all so many times by the time the records came out, you know, in the studio, the mixing and mastering and that."
Throughout the years, Wyman has documented his time in the Stones in several books. In 1990, he published a memoir of his time with the band, titled Stone Alone. He followed that in 2003 with a lavish 500-plus page oversized coffee table book, Rolling With The Stones, and most recently The Stones - A History in Cartoons, which includes Wyman's collection of doodles from over the years.
A book based on his recent photo exhibit, titled Wyman Shoots, is currently in the works. The exhibit featured many exclusive and unpublished photos of the Stones throughout the years.
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