George Harrison had this to say about Brian: "When I met him I liked him quite a lot. He was a good fellow, you know. I got to know him very well, I think, and I felt very close to him; you know how it is with some people, you feel for them, feel near to them. He was born on February 28, 1943 and I was born on February 25, 1943, and he was with Mick and Keith and I was with John and Paul in the groups, so there was a sort of understanding between the two of us. The positions were similar, and I often seemed to meet him in his times of trouble. There was nothing the matter with him that a little extra love wouldn't have cured. I don't think he had enough love or understanding. He was very nice and sincere and sensitive, and we must remember him like that because that's what he was."
I was there. 16 years old, a budding hippie, at a progressive boarding school in South East England. I'd arrived in the early afternoon for the Blind Faith concert the previous month, and I wanted to get closer to the stage this time. So I skipped Saturday morning lessons and left the school at 6 am without telling anyone. I was so close to the high stage I could barely see Charlie Watts. There was hell to pay when I got back to school, but it was well worth it.
They certainly weren't for me, musically speaking. Why the question? Do you mean popular, or successful in terms of sales? I believe Queen sold more albums than the Stones, but they weren't as successful in the US as they were in the UK. You could try googling it.
I don't really know the answer to your question, but I've had a quick google. It looks like the Stones were bigger in the 70s - they formed back in 1962, while Queen only formed in 1970 - but Queen had overtaken them by the 80s. Many sources say Led Zeppelin were the biggest band in the UK in the 70s, along with Pink Floyd, and The Smiths in the 80s. I definitely preferred The Smiths.
This performance by the Stones - untuned guitars and all - epitomizes the greatness of the band. The grit and swagger are off the charts. Too bad they didn’t make this Johnny Winter song a concert staple.
@@SuperAnimelover100 In '93, there was a wee bit in Scotland's Daily Record at the side of the page regarding a confession by Thorogood. Newpapers are lying bollocks i know, but it sort of jarred me into thinking. It was a "woo hah" moment for me haha. Seven or eight years later i bought Anna's book. I think she was OTT stating it was murder, but i do find the story of Thorogood snapping, plausible. Plus the authorities would seize the opportunity after only 15 years of teen culture to say " look kids, look what drink and drugs do". edit. My point being the " swimming in warm pool water with barbiturates" line.
@SuperAnimelover100 - this was not due to greed. Brian was making trouble for the band with his open drug use, and his playing was so deteriorated, they had to replace him with Mick Taylor.
“Peace, peace! he is not dead, he does not sleep - He just awakened from the dream of life - It's 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
Perfect opener for the occasion. It always bums me out when you get a photographer that’s too obsessed with Jagger. I like seeing everyone especially seeing guitarists during their solos
@@suzannep5792 bill wyman explains it in crossfire documentary and keith also states it in his autobio..so yea that's all u can really go buy,mick sure as hell would never mention it today if asked..very doubtful
Beautiful tribute to Brian Jones. The Stones are sounding sensational 🎉🎉 Brian Jones was the Rolling Stones most definitely. Brian you left way too soon. You will certainly be missed 😢 🎉🎉
I was there that day. Just a little kid. We'd be waiting hours for them to come on. When Mick started talking about Brian the crowd got very antsy "get on with it"....,it was day I've always remembered with great affection. I'm in my mid 60s now ..
Brians instrumentality is what made the stones. I can only imagine how flawless their work without him would be if he was still alive and with the group.
Ideally, it would have been nice if Brian could have stayed in a studio role, adding his little "touches" to a developed composition, as he often did. That said, it was necessary to have a more fluid lead like Taylor to compete with the newer live acts in the emerging stadium era. They needed that extra dynamism, but I agree: they missed some of Brian's eccentricity.
jsmith469 We've all got our opinions of course, but beggars banquet through exile are generally seen as the golden years for the band, and I think they pretty clearly top what was going on with Jones.
@@_Singularity_ funny that you said that, cause Brian played on beggars and let it bleed. Sticky fingers and exile had some songs on it from the beggars and let it bleed recordings.
"Hyde Park was the funeral. And the bit about burying and shovels and all that, it's not that important to me. That was [Brian's] funeral."--Keith Richards
Tavy@ it just shows how grief effects people in diffrent ways. This was great what the stones did 2 days after his death and brian wasnt actually a band member by this time. He had been paid off about 6 weeks before it. Seemingly when he turnd up at the studio when the band were trying to make music brian by this time wasnt or couldnt add anything in becouse of his drinck and drug taking he was mostly out of his head. So seemingly keith, mick and charlie a thinck whent to visit brian at his home wich was beautiful with the outside swimming pool 8ft deep with the small spring diving board wich was about 2ft high. Mick and keith came strait to the point and said "brian we have to let you go its just not working out anymore and hasent been for a while, so we have decided to pay you £100,000 pounds up front and you will get royalties the same as us" brian just said "ok then. A was thincking about starting another group anyway and i have been writeing some great stuff" mick and keith just looked at each other with raised eye brows at the shock of how easy brian just accepted there offer with a shrugg of hes shoulders. They expected fire works and at least a bit of fighting becouse they knew brian would be drincking but it was totally the oppisite. So they whent to his house as early as possible to get him sober and level headed. Brian kind of expected this the band said traveling back home. Keith gave brian a big bag of strong cocaine and said "heres a nice little present from us" the cociane was really powerfull stuff brian told his girl friend later that day. A wonder where he got that gear from its the strongest i have ever had. And keith gave me about half an ounce of it. Thats about 7 to £800 pounds in todays money maybe more becouse it was so strong. But to do a free concert 2 days later was good to see. How many groups could do that today and pull a crowd of between 300 thousand to half a million. Wtf. From the stage you couldnt see the end of the crowd becouse it just whent so far back. The stones just wernt the same band with out brian jones !!!!!!!!
Hipócritas, una banda sincera permanece unida ni Mick ni Keith se quitarán la sombra de Brian Jones, es el terreno donde edificarón la mansión Stones. #sinjonesnostones
So as a tribute to Brian Jones they play a newly released (at the time) Johnny Winter song. Heavily inspired by Robert Johnson. Jimmy Page used the same slide riff later that year ('69) on "Traveling Riverside Blues".
SinkHollyWood Brian at the end of his life was listening to Johnny Winter, CCR and music like that and wanted to put together a band more like CCR than the Stones
As a good friend of Johnny Winter for over 40 years, I will mention that I know for certain that Mick & Keith were huge Johnny Winter fans. They ended up giving him the song "Silver Train", & Johnny did such a great job recording it, that they decided to go ahead & record it themselves.
I sold Johnny his first Firebird V, a mint condition '64 sunburst one that came from less than 5 minutes from where I live now, & it was less than 10 minutes from my parents' house where I lived, since I had just had my 18th birthday when I bought the Firebird & sold it to Johnny less than 3 weeks after my birthday! @@ΔΗΜΗΤΡΗΣΧΡΙΣΤΟΠΟΥΛΟΣ-η9φ
To Adonais the perfect introduction to one of the greatest poets from the Romantics in English litterature. Second part is the rare recording of I m yours and I am hers. I am yours and I am hers, I find it by Jonny Winters first cut same year 1969, but the riffs are also found in Travelling Riverside Blues by Led Zeppelin originally recorded by Robert Johnson and that is definetely where the inspiration comes from You could say it is a typical Robert Johnson song, although he never recorded it. Anyone that knows more? I think it is a fur raising riff and song. I also wonder why the Stones never performmed it any time after? I' s a great song!!
Thanks for uploading this! This video set the record straight for me in a couple of things. I read in a book (written by a writer, who wrote tons of bullshit in his books), that Mick read the poem poorly and the butterfly thing turned out to be ridiculous, but the audience didn't notice, because the Stones immediately started to rock. Well, watching this video, the Shelly poem was alright and even if it was true, that by the time, the butterflies were let go, most of them died of the heat, it went down well too. At least it was a decent amount, so not disastrous at all, seeing how there were still butterflies flying well into the first song. :) Also, according to that book, before hitting the stage, Mick snorted up some coke and quipped: "Alright, now, let's play the best rock and roll show for these assholes!"
@@williamberry2351 that’s not true at all. There are all kinds of crazy comments under videos of the band while he was in it. Just like in most of the shows with MT people act like he carried the band and their only great stuff was done with him. Personally I’m just a fan of the band and enjoy music from all three iterations.
Train wrecks just don't get any better than this, tho this has to be an edited (shortened) version of the performance of the JW song. Seek out the actual film version of this tune, it is gnarly perfection.
Eles não entupiram o Brian de drogas até ele morrer não. Brian era um folgado que já tava atrapalhando ele mesmo e a banda. Não conseguia compor nada, ele nem queria que o Mick e o Keith fizessem as músicas, faltava os shows, os ensaios, dava em cima das mukher dos outros. Arrumava briga com geral. Ele ficou muito doente é óbvio, mas o meninos não são culpados, ninguém nunca obrigou ele a se encher de droga. No fim eles tavam carregando o Brian pq ele não conseguia fazer mais nada dentro da banda, só sabia se drogar e ferrar com as músicas. Eles ainda deram muita grana pra ele pelos serviços. Só porque ele morreu depois isso não faz dos meninos os errados da história, e senão fosse pelo Mick e o Keith os stones iam morrer nos anos 60 só fazendo cover de blues sem nunca ter uma única música autoral nem uma identidade musical
Brian often gets pigeonholed as the guy that strayed the Stones toward Baroque Pop and psychedelia, but he was a bluesman at his core. Moreover, he was happy to get the Stones back on track with "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and preferred a more rocking, blues-based sound.
My personal go to medicine,Hyde Park 7 3 69 Largest free gathering in English history.No matter what the late C.R Watts would say one of the best English men of history is ( not sir Walter Raleigh) but Lord Kieth Richards! I'm Yours and I m Hers by the late J.Winter,I hope The Rolling Stones were doing a tribute to the masters as Blind Lemon Jefferson ( or The Rev L.J.Bates),as well as breast like pears and biscuits.Old Chris a retired fiddler and greeter of Albuquerque NM PLAY ROLLING STONES SONGS!! Stones on tour 22 Thank You
Los amigos se ayudan, creó que fueron muy hipócritas para Bria Jones él cual fue traicionado y murió en condiciones muy dudosas. Por lo que leído creo que el Mick Jagger,Richar Keith y el representante conspiraron para desaparecerlo ya que Brian Jones era el legítimo dueño del nombre de la banda de los Rolling Stones ya que el le puso el nombre y fue el fundador de la misma y el creador de los primeros éxitos de los Rolling Stones. Sin Brian Jones no hay Rolling Stones.
Asi mismo es amigo .hay un libro llamado Los viejos dioses nunca mueres de Stephen Davis .ahi dice Todo .es la biografia no sensurada mas completa de Los stones .es un best seller de mas de 600 paginas y mas de la mitad habla de Brian y todos desde que nacieron asta hoy dia pasando por todas Las etapas dificiles.ahi vi El par de hienas que son Mick y keith
Brian se metió en esas condiciones solo, el fue quien se relaciono con la gente que más es acusada de ser la causante de su muerte. Lo que dices de keith y mick no es más que una conspiración.
tavy@ the Stones best albums were from 1965 to 1969. They just werent the same after jones death. Apart from Exile on Main Street. And that can get a bit boring at times and to much. But Beggars Banquet from 1968 was there best album, then Let It Bleed from 1969 is there second best, then There Satanic Majesties Request is there 3rd best from 1967, then Big Hits High Tide and Green Grass from 1966 is there 4th best. Plus Rock And Roll Circus from 1968 is a great stones album. But to be honest i cannot say between There Satanic Majesties Request, Beggers Banquet, and Let It Bleed, wich one out those three is the best stones album for me. That was when the stones were just so dam fuckin good just with those 3 albums in a row. Then they were without a doubt the greatest band in the world by miles. The beatles music seemend or sounded kind of false to me, a just thought it was all the same. Except for Sgt Peppers, that was good. But no jones no stones. In 1969 the year some one replaced jones after Let It Bleed the last album jones made with them, then strait away they just sounded so diffrent. I have got 1 stones album from the 1970s and thats EOMS, i have not 1 album from the 80s and 90s and up to today. They just werent the stones to me after jones died and he started the band. Jones was totaly underated. He did alot of brilliant stuff on all those albums i mentiond and more, you can hear him playing in there songs. then play there 1970 album and you can hear how diffrent it is. Or how bad it is, wich way you look at it. rip brian !!!!!!!!!!!!
That was quite a diatribe on your part, it sounds like you have read all the books on the subject of Brian. You stated quite a few absolouts and basically sounds like plagerism.
Muy sierto amigo.mick y Keith son Los dos hijos de puta mas grande en El Mundo del rock.ellos acabaron hechandolo de su propia Banda y lo suplantaron muy facil .y jamas en sus vidas han hecho un tributo a Brian Jones y menos a Ian Stewart que ambos fueron que fundaron Los stones.los demas llegaron porque Brian Los dejo .ellos Eran fanaticos de Brian cuando lo iban a ver con Alexis corner a un club de jazz.brian tocaba la guitarra ahi y decian Keith y Mick que era El mejor guitarrista del Mundo.
@@lucasezequielrehbein5097 Curioso, ya que los que son considerados sus mejores albumes salieron luego de la muerte de Brian. Es más, en sticky fingers hay un repertorio de temas que dejan en claro la calidad que la banda podía alcanzar sin el victimizado de jones
Tavy@ i thought they had let of hundreds of more butterflys than that? But i havent seen this in over 25 years so maybe its time playing with my mind. A thought it was a great thing to do, there was something spiritual in watching those butterflys flying around the stage even a few minutes when mick was singing a could still see a few next to mick jagger. I wasnt born when brian jones died but i was totaly suprised when i heard mick jagger didnt even attend his funeral and a thinck keith didnt either? A mean FFS. Brians body was hardly cold yet, but jagger and richards couldnt even spend a day at hes funeral. A mean we only die once but that was very low of jagger doing that. i heard jagger didnt really like jones. But if thats hes excuse then why did he spend at least 6 years making music and touring with brian. And by then i heard keith richards was a full blown junkie. A heroin addict. And was probably needing a hit to go any where never mind a funeral and was probably lieying in bed clucking like a turkey waiting on his roadies or gofors phoning there top connections for the devils powder. A thinck keith got on with brian but said he could be a right arse hole at times. And mick seemingly just didnt like him full stop but had to tolerate him becouse it 'WAS' brian jones band. Brian started it from scratch and worked dam hard to get it off the ground and asked mick and keith if they wanted to start a band and put them all together but brian had and was writeing alot of songs even before that keith and mick couldnt believe how good he was on the harmonica and guitar and other stuff. But they were really struggling to write there first album and had to ask and bring in help from outside. And there first album was a success not a huge one but good enough then came there second album in 'Aftermath' wich was brilliant, diffrent from there first album in many ways but brian and the stones had found there feet and direction for sure. I thinck 'Aftermath' whent to number one in uk album charts. By 1966,67 the stones now had trouble trying to get into the america becouse brian had drug convictions and the states were coming down hard on that and brian wasnt any diffrent according to the usa. Jagger and keith were fuming with rage, and at brian. The group mick in particular tried talking to every one and any one who had power and lots of money in the uk to try and work something out becouse by now the stones were losing a fortune by not touring the states where by now they were bigger than the beatles in the states. And the group always got the same answer wich was "yes yous can get in if yous want, but yous cant take brian jones" and by now micks hatred of brian was turning to anger and blind rage. It was then in 1966 mick wanted brian out the band asap, the states was ready to turn the stones into millionares, becouse they had just got rid of there manager who was conning the band out of alot of money, when there new manager asked the band "much money have yous got becouse yous have had 2 number 1 albums and 7 number singles in the uk and the states. And mick said "were basicly skint", and still living in old flats in london. They had been connend out of at least half a million pound between them. Brian was in debt. Then when there new manager made then half a million in 9 month to a year plus royaltys takeing to around 700,000 at least. Withing 2 years they were well over a million and a half, alot of money then, then when brian died they toured america and in 3 years each member was a millionare. The stones knew they had finally found a manager they could trust with there lives. As the milliones rolled in year after year there albums might have been a bit dull or just rubbish but the band focused on where the big money was to be made. And it was touring the states. But it was hard work being on the road for 2 months going from miami then the next day to san francisco for 7 days then to los angelas for 6 days, then to new york for 5 days. Then later they would tour the world like japan? Austraila, south america. My friend has seen all the big bands like bob dylan, pink floyd, all the best and top bands live well most of them and he saw the stones play at hampden park in 1995 and he said "with out a doubt thats the best band i have seen live, they had us the crowd in the palm of there hand. I knew it was going to be great but they just blew us away into another planet for 2 and half hours i couldnt believe it. I thought am i dreaming this. The whole of hampden park was just bouncing too and with the stones" !!!!!!!!!!!!
