True! I only heard him answering an interview one or two times before and very briefly, this one is very interesting, I feel they seem to be some unite, as far as possible.. the rejection for him was apparently not so strong yet..
Nice to see the Stones natural in their early years. Keith seems rather shy. Mick self confident. Charlie laconic and gentle. Brian well educated. Bill mysterious and modest.
Unfortunate. Brian Jones formed this band, He named the group, chose the players, made the phone calls, got the gigs, signed the contracts. His playing was a major element of the band's unique sound. Mick and Keith treat his legacy like an annoyance, like they regret or despise he was ever instrumental to their musical formation. I can understand there were personal issues that created this rift, but at least give their founder his due. He was essential to the existence of The Stones.
If it wasnt for mick and Keith The stones would never make sucess, Brian was obsessed, He wants to control The bands style to be always a blues cover band, he couldnt write even one song and He was a pretty bastard too, treat The rest with arrogance, ruining their performances with his drug abuse. People are crazy saying that He was an Angel Just because He was fired and after a little time He died but He wasnt a good leader He wasnt a good team player at all. Just because mick is a business Man and really try to make The things work it doesn't mean He is a bastard He is just a good leader and visionary just like keith who wrote some of the best riffs and songs in music history. People had to stop hating The stones and idealizing a Brian Jones that is not real
Brian Jones wasn't given the credit he deserved for his role in forming the Stones. He was pushed aside later on and I'm sure this lead to his worsening drug and alcohol abuse. I also like Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman. They are very quiet and reserved. They seem content in staying in the background and just enjoy what they're doing in their own way.
Damn straight! He formed the band. He hired Jagger and Richards. He gave the band it's name. He was creative force behind all the early Stones records, especially Aftermath and beyond.
Great to see so much love for Brian here- Mick & Keith must hate all these old clips being resurrected, showing who had the real looks,class & talent......
agree! a shame they tried to erase all the footage of Brian's musicianship, and threatened to sue any film that portrayed the truth. I'm so glad others are smart enough to know and see the truth
Interesting hearing the Stones in a relaxed atmosphere. Brian Jones was thoughtful and made a joke about “saving money for a rainy day”. It was interesting that he was shy about admitting to his formal musical education. This was a pretty honest interview with all five of them.
5:18 sums up Brian's role in the band for me, I believe he was mistreated by the other band members (I know it was only a bit of group banter) but for me Brian seemed too sensitive. The fact he said the others all laugh at him for having music education, it's no wonder why this guy used drugs to escape the fame etc. He would've been far better off if he'd left the band early and had a solo career or formed his own group. Brian was the most creative of the lot up to a certain point
+kfz -You're welcome.It was a '67 german film starring anita p.Brian played EVERY instrument, wrote the whole soundtrack;a brilliant job after that bitch nearly destroyed Brian
the most hilarious interview, love Brian Jones (what a loss, poor guy) it's hard to fight the tears everytime I see him, poor Brian we still love you!!!! But this interview you watching it you forget the fact that he's gone it makes you feel like he's here with us and that's a good thing. Greats!!!!
Jones was the most versatile musician from the 60s. He sounded great on whatever instrument he played and he was playing notes he had written. That makes him a virtuoso and yes he should have had a national house on strum street London and a fair day in his honor. Feb 28 RIP lewis Brian Hopkins jones
Reading almost all comments and I absolutely agree on the fact that Brian Jones was the brain and musically intelectual. The fundamental pillar of the band; and absolutely diplomatic on interviews. Unfortunately, due to his sensitive attitude, drugs were his scape form fame.
Brian deserves the credit he gets for setting up the band, & his contribution to the gr8 early music, but band members spend most of their time together, so if there is friction, it won't last. I'm just grateful for the gr8 music they put out with Brian in the band.
brian was the leader and spoke up and then later years mick was the one who the press asked questions most too-=-these years here mick was in the back seat of the stones ride - and it is nice too see him back there
Fantastic band back then. Still going strong despite the sad loss of Brian Jones in 1969 & his replacement Mick Taylor leaving in 1974. We see Brian still very much in good health in 1965. Sadly, that changed soon after meeting Anita Pallenberg, a renowned groupie who was already a hard drug user. She became his girlfriend, later leaving him for Keith. It was Pallenberg who introduced Brian & Keith to hard drugs. Thankfully, Keith had a tough constitution & survived. Tragically for Brian, who reportedly could play at least 50 different instruments competently, hard drugs nearly destroyed him even before he left the Stones only to die in a highly suspicious drowning accident soon after. But a huge loss to music, that's for sure.
That woman ruined Brian's life , he wasn't on hard drugs until he met her . She was also very violent with him , I understand that she once broke Brian's ribs and a finger , but nonetheless , that is not discussed , only that Brian was violent towards her .
I don't believe there is even one RU-vid video concerning the Rolling Stones between 1963-1969, that doesn't contain a hundred complaints about the mistreatment of Brian Jones. People act as if Brian came down from some holy mountain to bestow his genius on the others. For heaven's sake, he was a member of the band. He was EXPECTED to make contributions. And this band was never destined to play Elmore James and Jimmy Reed numbers forever, as Brian probably would have wanted. They were barely together a year when they started writing pop songs. Some of Brian's contributions were indeed terrific. But it's not someone else's fault that he became addicted and really wasn't much of a songwriter. By the time he was pushed out, he had already been "out" for a couple of years.
yes, its pretty obvious because of the success they had and the fact that theyre still going that they didnt really need Brians contribution to make it as a band!! hes been gone a long time and its tragic, but they were barely a band at all for all that long before he died , the Stones are the Stones because of what they did over 40 odd years and not because Brian made them what they are...thats ludicrous.
I can see evidently how Brian was just a standout and the others were jealous of that. I have been in a band in my teens and I can assure that chemistry and rivalry exist.
But Mick and Keith created their own music and that ultimately made the Stones so big (+ Jagger's business talent and organization skills of course). Mick and Keith and the chemistry between them has been the driving creative force for the Stones. Also Charlie said something like this later if I remember correct. All the credit for Brian of course for being the key figure in the beginning of the band and playing many exotic instruments in the Stones' records. Brian was very gifted as a multi-instrumentalist but he wasn't a talented songwriter as Mick and Keith were. And Brian was also a very difficult person to get along with. I think he had some serious problems in his life in many different ways and he should have got some professional help. Mick felt very sorry for Brian when he felt that he couldn't help him in 1968 when Brian was in a very bad shape mentally and he coudn't function nearly at all in the studio sessions for Beggars Banquet. Keith on the other hand was furious for Brian for beating up Anita very badly in Marocco. All that led to the Brian's separation from the band. When Brien died Mick was devastated and he cried openly. He always had a closer relationship to Brian than others in the group. Brian could sometimes be a very charming person in the interviews as we can all see in this video and he spoke very beutiful english, but the truth behind the scenes is not so beatiful.
@@hannuhedman5882 100% agree. Brian much like John Lennon were absolutely not role models and Im sure you can add so many more to that list. These guys were living in a much different time in history nothing like today. I completely admire Brian for his contributions in music to the Rolling Stones specially Paint It Black, Under My Thumb, and Ruby Tuesday, even to this day 2021 there isn’t much multi instrumentalist like Brian. Sure Mick and Keith deserve to be hailed as one of the best songwriters but much like Lennon McCartney they owe so much to their people around them like George Harrison and George Martin, alone John and Paul couldn’t do it and they hv admited this time after time. Same with Mick n Keith they needed support. Keith even said Paint it Black was abiut to be dismissed until the other specially Brian contributed and brought the song to life.
So Mick talks over Brian while he's talking about his musical abilities( which he didn't want to due to them taking the piss),basically tells him to shut up,then brazenly admits he cant play anything! Jealous of his looks,class,culture,talent & ability. Pfft! He was streets ahead of them.
Conor dunmore they sidelined Brian because they were jealous of him and they bullied him for an example they stole both his girlfriends and they didn’t show up to his funeral
awesome interview from the young stones. Charlie is so outgoing and confident here, appears he become more quiet over the years, before he quit doing interviews altogether, great hearing him engage with the interviewer, and also hearing how most of the band never played in another band and only picked up their instruments 3 years prior!
+moroniiiiiiiii You can see why he was seen as the leader of the band, he was the most articulate in interviews, the others seem to don't know what to say or don't care that much.
I've been a Rolling Stones fan since I was a kid back in the 1960's and will be until the day I die. They all look like they barely rolled out of bed after being out all night partying, Bill hiding his bloodshot eyes behind sunglass's ! Love It ! THEY JUST WOLK UP !!!!!!! LOL !!!!!!!!!
Thank you for this upload! Brian appears to have been the most eloquent and well spoken of the band. I was just a baby in their heyday but I wish I'd been old enough to have seen them in concert when Brian was alive (RIP). I think that's when they were at their very best. I did get to see them as a teenager in the early 1980s. Ron Wood was in the band by then. They were awesome but judging from footage they were on a whole other level with Jones as well as Mick Taylor later on. Jmo.
The others laughed at his musical education as a lady just said. Hey dudes he was your band leader, he was a super nerd. And he should have been protected .
It's amazing that Andrew Oldham went along with such a Beatle like conferance. Thankfully he did, this must be the only such Stones'gathering in existence,and as such it offers a priceless look into their inner workings ,at the time.
This is really fantastic,thank you so much for posting this interview!! I love how everybody is laughing and making fun of the others,but I love even more how everybody is self-deprecating and auto- ironic!! At this point of their history they were such a strong band..of course there were competitive feelings between Brian and the Glimmer Twins,but this fact lead to great albums like Aftermath,where Brian completed the gorgeous songs written by Mick and Keith by adding incredibly beautiful instrumental parts,on the guitar,harmonica,dulcimer,harpsichord,marimbas..!!! I read that Brian graduated in classical clarinet,playing the first clarinet concerto by Carl Maria von Weber...I am a classical musician myself,and I can tell you that this concerto requires a very skilled and virtuoso player!!! After reading that,it didn't surprise me anymore that Brian played all the brass and woodwind parts himself,in complex records like "Their Satanic..". But it was a great surprise to me to know that he,the original bluesman,played those avantguard mellotron parts in songs like "We love you" and "2.000 light years from home". This is pure genius,in my opinion,he created a very unique progressive rock soundscape, already in 1967! He didn't write the songs,that's right,but he invented the most colourful sounds and orchestratios to dress 'em up,so to speak. In the years 1966-67 he had more or less the same role of George Martin in the Beatles...and after this came the decline,the loss of Anita,the heavy drugs. So incredibly sad...but the glorious albums from that era(including the less famous one, "Between the buttons" )are still a precious gift from the Stones,something to treasure forever!!!!
You can tell that Brian is the most mature of the group and the lynchpin responsible for their cohesion. They still just seem like a rag-tag bunch of kids that he brought together. Everything changed so much just 3 years later.
It's a great interview. When asked what instruments they played it's kind of funny to hear Brian already list four. Ask him 2 or 3 years later and he'd be saying just about any.
