Dibs

When he wasn’t busy rehearsing, playing riffs, engaging in affairs with thirteen-year-old girls, scribbling in his journal or metal-detecting, ex-Stones bassist Bill Wyman was snapping photographs. Selections from his 22,000-image archive will go on exhibit at the San Francisco Art Exchange tomorrow, launching an international tour. The photos depict Wyman’s famous friends as well as landscapes. He plans to compile his faves into a book this year. It will follow his previous efforts, Rolling with the Stones and The Stones: A History in Cartoons, the latter of which will have its US release this October. Always busy, Wyman — born William Perks in 1936 — was 47 when he began a relationship with 13-year-old Mandy Smith. Her mother approved. Six years later, Smith and the rocker wed. Soon thereafter, Wyman’s 30-year-old son from a previous marriage married Smith’s mother, who was then 46. (This gives a whole new meaning to the title of that classic Stones hit, “Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby?”) The “oldest Stone” is also an avid amateur archeologist who has invented a new type of metal detector for kids which will go on the market later this year.