Rolling Stones - Hyde Park Festival, London, UK 1969 | so many roads (to ease my soul)

Rolling Stones - 1969-07-05 - Hyde Park Festival, London, UK (SBD)

Rolling Stones

1969-07-05

Concert for Brian Jones

Hyde Park

London, UK

Soundboard Recording

01. Eulogy For Brian Jones

02. I'm Yours and I'm Hers

03. Jumping Jack Flash

04. No Expectations

05. Mercy Mercy

06. Stray Cat Blues

07. I'm Free

08. Down Home Girl

09. Love in Vain

10. Loving Cup

11. Midnight Rambler

12. Satisfaction

13. Honky tonk Woman

14. Street Fighting Man

15. Sympathy For The Devil

Speedy says:

On July 3, 1969, Brian Jones was found unconscious at the bottom of a swimming pool at his home. By the time doctors arrived, it was too late, he was dead, the first of many 1960’s rock icons to die way too young. Brian was 27, the same age as Jim Morrison, Jimi Hendrix and Janis Joplin were when they were to die in the next few years. Perhaps those around him should have seen that the end was near. Brian had been abusing drugs for years, causing his health to fail and rendering him unable to contribute to the Stones’ recent albums. He was at odds with Jagger and Richards over the band’s future direction, wanting to remain more blues focused. Those twin issues fueled each other, causing Brian to spin out of control and resulting in his being asked to leave the Rolling Stones on June 8, 1969. His life ended less than a month later. Two days after his death, the Rolling Stones played an outdoor festival in Hyde Park in London. Also on the bill were Third Ear Band, King Crimson, Screw, Alexis Korner's New Church, Family, and The Battered Ornaments The show had been scheduled weeks earlier, so the Stones decided to keep the date and turn it into a tribute to their former guitarist. Before the Rolling Stones' set, Jagger read excerpts from Adonais, a poem by Percy Shelly about the death of his friend, John Keats. Stagehands released hundreds of white butterflies as part of the tribute. The band opened with a song by Johnny Winter, I'm Yours and I'm Hers, that was one of Jones' favorites. This soundboard captures that historic set from July 5, 1969, 56 years ago today. 

Now, cool it this is for Brian

“Peace, peace! he is not dead, he doth not sleep —

He hath awakened from the dream of life —

‘Tis we, who lost in stormy visions, keep

With phantoms an unprofitable strife,

And in mad trance, strike with our spirit’s knife

Invulnerable nothings. — We decay

Like corpses in a charnel; fear and grief

Convulse us and consume us day by day,

And cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.

The One remains, the many change and pass;

Heaven’s light forever shines, Earth’s shadows fly;

Life, like a dome of many-coloured glass,

Stains the white radiance of Eternity,

Until Death tramples it to fragments. — Die,

If thou wouldst be with that which thou dost seek!

Follow where all is fled!”

Percy Bysshe Shelley’s poem Adonais 

Great historic moments in Rock ’n’ Roll  . . . .this one is seminal