A fine post but what, my fellow guitarists, what the heck is Brian doing here? It really looks like he is barely there and phoning in his performance here playing lead (ahem) to Keith’s rhythm guitar . . . . . .fellow guitarists what do you reckon?
Its is a mystery to me . . .was this the start of his decline and is he under the influence here already? It totally looks like he isn’t even there!!
On this day in 1966 the Stones released 19th Nervous Breakdown as a single in the US - having been released 8 days before in the UK. The song was written during the band’s tour of America in late 1965 💫
"Brian Jones was one of the first people in Britain to play slide guitar and his love of the blues was at the heart of what he and the rest of The Rolling Stones were all about when they started out. His musicianship, especially in the early days of the band, added so much the singles that propelled The Rolling Stones into the pop charts; it was his fashion sense and his hairstyle, that appealed to both men and women, that were copied by bands on both sides of the Atlantic.
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1965 - Keith Richards, Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman looking sharp at a BBC radio recording session in London
Charlie Watts: Brian initially was the one who everybody spoke to, ‘cos none of us wanted to talk to anyone. Mick was very much in the background at that early time. Brian very much pushed this band to be a band. He pushed us to get work. All the clubs we used to play in London were because Brian was on the phone annoying owners, asking ‘can you squeeze us in?’
“We usually played in between jazz bands because most of the clubs in London were run by jazz musicians or their managers. Alexis Korner conned Bill Pemberton into having the worst night for Jazz – which was Thursday night – as a tryout for his R&B band, which I was in. Then it became the biggest night of the week. Before that it was Sundays at the Marquee Club with Johnny Dankworth’s Orchestra – a bloody marvellous band. Dudley Moore was the piano player. it was a fantastic band. Great bloke, Johnny Dankworth.”
Music video by The Rolling Stones performing Child Of The Moon.
Director: Michael Lindsay-Hogg
Cinematographer: Anthony B Richmond
Filmed in 1968, this surrealist promotional film features all five original band members and note the award-winning actress, the brilliant Dame Eileen Atkins. Shot on a farm near Enfield, outside north London, this eerie music video for “Child of the Moon” is an early example of the narrative mini-film approach, when the format was in its infancy, over a decade before the advent of MTV. #ChildOfTheMoon
actually this one’s for my old pal Phil who dropped by to comment on the Brian Jones Broomfield debacle
One of the saddest programmes and thoroughly depressing bio films from Nick Broomfield about the sad and tragically short life of Brian Jones the founder of the Greatest Rock ’N’ Roll Band in The World
THE ROLLING STONES
TV last night: Nick Broomfield delves into the life of the unknown Rolling Stone
Founder and guitarist Brian Jones was the ‘heart and soul’ of the band. Plus: is everything about to go up in flames on Succession? Here’s what to watch yesterday evening
The Stones and Brian Jones
9pm, BBC Two
“He was the heart and soul of the Stones, yet most people today haven’t even heard of him.” For his latest documentary, Nick Broomfield delves into the life of the Rolling Stones founder and lead guitarist Brian Jones, who died when he was just 27 years old. Broomfield uses plenty of archive footage released for the first time, which really brings the buzz of the 60s to life. Hollie Richardson
Rock N Roll Circus You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Rock N Roll Circus - Sympathy For The Devil
Brian Jones and the 27 Club
Like many an insecure youngster Jones was a bully and when given power within a cultural phenomenon like the Stones it became problematic thus began his downward spiral remarkably quickly. Despite Broomfield's ludicrous vainglorious schoolboy ‘connection’ relying solely on a supposed sighting claiming Jones as a fellow trainspotter aboard his train from public school, this biopic descends into maudlin drooling relatively early on and with his five children born of five different young women, his insecurity and petulant temper tantrums and doubt in his own talents (still unproven to me despite Bill Wyman’s singular support Jones was the inevitable Jack of All Trades Master of None. That he was the catalyst is true I grant you but the snag with hiring is you employ folk better than you and the ‘heart and soul’ of the Rolling Stones was the duo who transformed a fairly standard beat combo blues band into the greatest Rock N Rollers ever, Mick and Keef). Jones emerges as nasty, controlling, narcissistic in extremis, a merely petulant dilettante at that and at once fickle, cruel and incontinently promiscuous as the sixties made of such ’stars’. Some of Jones’ children not even discovering their father’s identity until the 2000’s! Charlie and Bill defend him because they are/were like that, nice, the women were seduced into believing otherwise in the vain hope he would stick around, he wouldn't but as Keith has had cause to reflect unfortunately Brian was a “right c**t"! 1 1981
This scattergun biography has a tone that unsettles and reveals something of the darker side, the unstructured anarchism that comes with limitless sudden wealth and sycophantic adoration from fans that leads you and others to believe you possessed of genius (- he really wasn’t!) that would lead to Jones’ untimely death from a combination of self indulgence while drowning with rampant liver disease at the ripe old age of 27!
Alcohol and smack will do that
The Rolling Stones Live on the TAMI Show 1964 . . . . . happier times
"OK cool it! This ones for Brian . . . . . . . . "
Brian Jones could play most any instrument and added so many unique and memorable sounds to early Stones’ classics like Under My Thumb, Paint it Black, Ruby Tuesday and many others. Who else do you know, then or now come to that, who could pick up a recorder and play a solo on a hit single[Ruby Tuesday]? Initially a blues purest slide guitarist he could play lead or rhythm guitar, he mastered piano and organ, marimba, harmonica, sitar, wind instruments such as recorder, saxophone, oboe, percussion and numerous others. The enigmatic and mercurial Brian who had started the Rolling Stones, named the band and appointed his co-horts between 62-63 never wrote or finished a complete song but added value to every sound and single, everything he touched.
On this day in music history: March 4, 1967 - “Ruby Tuesday” by The Rolling Stones hits #1 on the Billboard Hot 100 for 1 week. Written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, it is the fourth chart topping single for the British rock band. Keith Richards comes up with initial idea for the song, writing it in a Los Angeles hotel room in early 1966 while the band are in the city recording tracks for their current album “Aftermath”. The song about a free spirited woman, is based a groupie Richards knows, and his then girlfriend Linda Keith. Jagger writes most of the lyrics including the songs chorus. The Stones record “Ruby Tuesday” at Olympic Studios in London on November 8, 1966 with additional overdubs recorded on December 3, 1966. Guitarist Brian Jones also plays the recorder on the song, giving it its distinctive “baroque” sound. “Ruby” is originally released as the B-side of “Let’s Spend The Night Together” in January of 1967. When American radio stations feel that the former song is “too suggestive” for airplay, DJ’s flip the single over and play “Ruby Tuesday” instead. Entering the Hot 100 at #78 on January 21, 1967, it speeds to the top of the chart six weeks later. “Ruby Tuesday” is added to US LP pressings of The Rolling Stones’ next album “Between The Buttons” when it is released on February 11, 1967. Over the years, the song is covered numerous times, with recordings by Melanie, Marianne Faithfull, Nazareth, Julian Lennon, The Scorpions, The Corrs, and Shawn Colvin and Steve Earle to name a few. “Ruby Tuesday” is certified Gold in the US by the RIAA.
