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Timothy Wilkins was born in 1896 22 miles south of Memphis Tennessee he was a mix of

African-American and Cherokee American Indian his white Cherokee mom cooked for prisoners

at the local jail his father fled when Robert was two years old to avoid a bootlegging prosecution

his mom then remarried in 1911 when a neighbor broke his guitar over his wife's head Robert's

mom bought the remains of the guitar and had it rebuilt for Robert he picked up the Blues

and he would play around as a team he started traveling and picked up influences from the

traveling medicine shows he took over the area with his playing now in 1918 he was called

for service for World War one but he wouldn't see any action and he would stay in the U.S

he then took on some jobs when he finished and he would only play for himself but learn

and learn and learn then he was laid off and then he turned back to music playing all types

it was the African-American women who got to sing the blues and get it recorded in the

early 20s the African-American men were not allowed they were not supposed to outshine

the white man so they were used in the circus and comedy acts instead but then things change

money was a huge factor and it was for the rich companies like Victor that wanted to

change this style in 1928 Victor would bring on some of Robert's contemporaries like Tommy

Johnson hishman Bracey these were Trailblazers now I'm not going to give a lesson on the

blues there are plenty of great documentaries out there that you should look into in 1928

Robert met Ralph Pierre who worked for the Victor label he was invited to cut four songs

after which Robert was invited to perform on a one-hour radio program making him one

of the first black artists to make a live radio appearance in Memphis a tune that Robert

brought in was his own and what is playing now is called what else but Rolling Stone

this tune was done in two parts a country Blues tune

it's only playing one chord with a real funky tuning it's tuned down C F B flat E flat g

c with the tune now being recorded Robert became one of the big Memphis cats along with

Jim Jackson

Frank Stokes

and then also ishman playing all over at sporting houses and Pig stands and hotels and House

Parties it was huge on a Friday night after getting paid to go out to one of these pop-up

locations and dance away Robert would even go to the police station to perform two three

in the morning he would entertain the night crew in the lobby this was helpful to keep

him out of trouble and be known

so now the reason why I tell this story is having to do with the blues of course and

how Keith in 68. was reverting back to listening to the blues again he would talk about how

the stones were just always constantly touring prior in the years before and they were constantly

on the road and this is early on and about 90 percent of the year they were just touring

around he picked up plenty from the bands that he was opening with but he wanted to

learn more and try experimentation

yeah he did know that early Blues influences did use open tunings in fact when he heard

Robert Johnson from Brian early on in their career he would ask well I that's Robert Johnson

but who else is playing with him now realizing it was only one guitarist playing one guitar

he thought they were two but let's be certain here Beggars Banquet is open e or D tuning

now here's the bigger connection Robert Wilkins would then go on and record a tune in 1928

also it was called that's no way to get along the blues business went belly up after 1929

due to the big crash and the businesses had hard times and no one was buying records at

that time

owning these early 78s from this time frame are pure golden American Treasures this is

what you look for when you go to tag sales or the charity shops

welcome to the making of Beggar's Banquet if you are new here and watching my documentaries

for a first time and you got this far that's great I take many resources of information

books and books and books and yes some internet findings and talking and I compile all this

information in a timeline and bring this documentary to you as a fan from a fan I know some of

these facts I'll present are known already yeah I totally get it some of you may not

know it

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so what was going down in the world as the stones were working their magic when they

answer plenty Keith would say 1968 was a time of turmoil and it was the first sort of international

chaos since World War II confusion is not the Ally of peace and love you want to think

the world is perfect but you can't hide you might as well accept the fact that evil is

here and deal with it any way you can

so what was going on at the time around the world in 68 well in January Prague Czechoslovakia

it was known as the Prague spring a new Slovak politician was winner of an election he had

beaten a stalinist it was time for Liberation and reform for the country so what happened

the Soviet Armed Forces invaded and occupied Czechoslovakia by August clenching a fist

and reinstituting a hard-line communist rule instead in January North Korea still on the

edge since the Korean War North Korea have captured the U.S Navy intelligence vessel

USS Pueblo and their crew U.S claimed they were in international waters but North Korea

disagreed and held the crew of 83 in A POW Camp until negotiations were completed what

else Vietnam turmoil the Tet meeting a Lunar New Year North Vietnamese viacon forces launched

a coordinated series of attacks against key Targets in South Vietnam

the attack surprised the U.S and would cause heavy casualties this was considered to be

a turning point in the U.S involvement in the Vietnam War April 4th Martin Luther King

Jr is assassinated in Memphis while standing on the balcony inside his room at a hotel

his assassin was captured in London James Earl Ray riots would ensue from this assassination

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the riots weren't the only thing happening in the U.S as turmoil but there were protests

against the Vietnam War and also rights this was common throughout the world protests going

on in many cities countries all over

[Music] it was a world full of protesting going on and of course the story does tie

into the stones much more on this later [Music] [Applause] [Music]

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good morning

June 5th Robert Kennedy is assassinated on the night of the California primary that he

would win and he moved on to getting closer to presidential nomination and he had just

addressed a large crowd of supporters leaving the Ambassador Hotel through the kitchen this

was in LA he was shot by a Jordanian immigrant Sirhan Sirhan Sirhan felt betrayed by the

Senator's support for Israel during The Six Day War gunfire exchange between police and

members of the Black Panther Party in Oakland California we have the Chicago Democratic

Convention opening in August thousands of students an anti-war activists and other demonstrators

yippee students black panthers all poured in Chicago during the event they were met

with plenty of police violence and shown on the TV

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here we get to see what top albums music was happening in 1968

what movies were popular at this time

as Stones fans we know this album has a dedicated feel and commitment and commitment to the

stones Foundation they left the dock they departed from the Psychedelic and more important

the pop song machine that they were developing as they had a complete Renewed Energy and

a vibe and during these sessions they were in sync and they knew the feeling and their

goal of what they wanted to accomplish and develop

starting in early March Mick makes a purchase of an apartment on Cheney walk in Chelsea

London he gets assistance from an antiques dealer who becomes friendly and has been for

a while with the stones Christopher Gibbs he's a socialite and pretty hip to the London

swinging scene which he supposedly brought about

in my research I've got conflicts of Mick also purchasing star Groves in Berkshire a

huge huge mansion it's supposedly bought in Spring of uh 68 but also I hear in 70. not

clear anybody have details on the real purchase time let me know something to point out about

Mick that he became a literary student doing a lot of poetry and philosophy reading and

writing and also growing more with culture as he's living with Marianne Mick was buying

books like Confucius to Cummings French poet Charles baldelaire Dylan Thomas penguin modern

poets WB Yeats the poems the mort the Arthur Young volume 10. he would also start mixing

up lyrical ideas from these socially he was active and hanging out with the art dealer

crowd of Robert Fraser and his contingency he was not into drugs as deep as others

Mick would mention how creative this time period was and a real good vibe he was also

seeing a lot of theater as Marianne was involved and into that crowd

Shirley watts would give birth to her and Charlie's child Seraphina March 18th in the

Jumpin Jack Flash documentary I talked about the stones some of them down in the Redlands

Estates of Keith doing some work they did go to rehearsal Studio RG Jones Studios and

also at Olympic Studios they were bouncing around now they were in Olympic studios in

London during march sometimes in May and then also in June and in between they were bouncing

around and traveling and doing other things too and we do know of Brian's decline during

this time frame and his contributions we're sure that Brian still had some bitterness

between Keith and Anita it looked as Brian was still hidden with the resentment of Keith

as he did invite Linda Keith an ex-girlfriend of Keith to move in with him in the London

West End according to Victor bakris Linda said their relationship was just really more

about drugs and not about love

Brian was in and out and when he was in he was at times not focused Nikki would comment

he would say that in the studio Brian would seem to be very disinterested at times sort

of out of it and in bad shape during satanic he seemed okay at Beggars he would have his

guitar with him and a short time later he would be rolled over and out cold Dennis Nikki

Hopkins and he's in no doubt as to which is his favorite album I can't even think of any

real reasons that I was so totally involved with that album also you know Brian wasn't

playing a lot on that album so there were quite a few more holes to be filled in on

it and he was playing on it but much as he couldn't

now instruments used in the sessions Keith would use mostly that Gibson Les Paul the

custom black beauty the one with his Moon painting on it he used it for rhythm and leads

the Gibson Hummingbird

the amps of Vox Supreme ac30 and a Triumph amp

[Music] Bill a Sunburst Vox Dallas tuxedo base also known as the Wyman base

[Music] Charlie would be using the Ludwig kit and his small traveling suitcase drum

kit important to know to transition here with Charlie after the June Olympic sessions he

would acquire the Gretch model 4015 new drum set to be using going forward

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Brian would use Gibson Hummingbird and a Gibson SJ 200 to Super jumbo also as we get Nikki

playing the organ and also the piano [Music]

when we take a bird's eye view and we look at the songs that they created they are all

independently different through and through they have their own distinct recipe and it

displays where and what the stones were going through and at that time in 1968 a stone's

Musical soundtrack definitely for that time period what I'm going to do now is bring to

you some of the outtakes and songs that were played during the sessions I did some of this

in the jump of Jack Flash documentary so that does have some of them but the actual albums

Cuts will be discussed later though thank you

[Music] this next Stone should be familiar sounding to you if you're privy to outtakes

never released officially called give me a hamburger to go also known as hamburger to

go or stuck out all alone a mick and Keith tune done May 13th to 18th [Music] but it's

just Sweet Sound is nice and clear [Music] now here is a little twist or a debate for

what it's worth in the stones Community some believe it's Brian playing the bass and bill

on the Bongos towards the end or it's Bill on base and Brian bongos which would also

add to the percussion list regardless we got a song that could have been [Music]

[Music] now I'm hoping that Stones fans you heard this one and maybe some out there who

haven't but pay your dues and also known as in the original state Primo Grande primogrande

this tune eventually turned into yes Street Fighting Man and Keith on acoustic guitars

and supposedly bass people think it might be bill Keith I'm backing vocals of course

Mick Brian on sitar and Tambora Nikki Jimmy playing tambourine and clavs now Rick gresh

playing the violin and Dave Mason playing the Chennai from the band family again the

Jimmy Miller connection Robert Chapman and Jim King and background vocals no Glenn johns

but George chickens here now this one was worked on in Redlands probably why George

is on here too and also in an olympic done at the uh rehearsal studios it must have been

great to sit and watch and witness Keith doing his experimentation with that Phillips recorder

in the Lo-Fi recording technique that he would do so pay your dues in Street Fighting Man

are pretty synonymous here definitely more work put into Street Fighting Man after but

the bass root of this Keith recorded many different tracks and many Capo positions and

tunings like I say open D open E not sure which was the Final Cut used so I might as

well talk about pay your dues because that's the foundation of Street Fighting Man there's

a channel Lee flyer she has a band and cheese a Stones fanatic and talks about how she believes

and saw they made payer dues and Street Fighting Man and I took a few snapshots from her website

the first thing here you see is Charlie's suitcase drum kit it was a traveling drum

kit and I saw this also in the exhibitionism the road show from the stones they displayed

this and you could see the crack drum head that was actually happened they actually used

it this was the uh setup Charlie had started initially and on the left side you do see

a the cassette recorder now from what I hear it's very difficult to find and locate this

Phillips model that Keith used she did she found that I believe in Europe and she had

it repaired and they shipped it over and that's what you're looking now she really wanted

to duplicate the real same sound the Philips cassette player didn't have any built-in limiters

like the later model cassette players had and that's what stops the Distortion from

coming out so if you bought a later model to try it probably was not going to work

there's a gentleman who has a YouTube channel called 12 foot chain and he does some great

guitar lessons great guy to listen to pretty accurate and knows his stuff and it's fun

to watch and he showed a demonstration also on the recording techniques but here you see

the picture of the his guitar and he's just showing a microphone was placed inside and

the cassette recorder was uh gonna be recording everything and as you see in this picture

sort of little cut up and pasted the cassette player had an output and what they did was

after they record their session they had the output going to an external speaker it wasn't

that small cassette speaker that they used and what they did was they put a microphone

right in front of that speaker that external one and from there I went into the eight-track

board so this drum bead and acoustic overdrive of Keith that Rhythm stayed throughout the

song they kept the track there and when you start hearing Street Fighting Man there was

overdub guitar extra guitar work of course added you know when I first heard this song

and if you're like me when you first hear it it was the music you focused on and not

the lyrics now lyrically this tune is about a Native American Indian chief art to connect

paying your dues with an Indian tribe and Braves and squaws but what I did find out

at this time the Stone's finances were a bit tight and or not available most of their cash

was tied up and frozen or it was being spent on Court and lawyers many stones fans think

that it was only Andrew Lou Goldman as the manager but no Eric Easton was also a manager

he was older than all of them and experienced when they would sign the stones the package

benefited Easton and Oldham more than it did the stones Eric was recruited by Oldham because

basically he was only 19 years old and he was not legal to have a manager or any type

of agent license so Easton was brought in to help along and of course more for the promotional

PR side too now Eric's job was booking gigs some record producing the fan club but he

also did all the legwork for the us-64 tour on the Rolling Stones Eric you're the manager

of the Rolling Stones uh the world's most popular recording group this point right well

that is correct how would you recount for their phenomenal success I think because they've

got a very different image from most of the other groups It's a Wonderful image it fits

in with what the teenagers want today I don't think the adults go for them in a big way

but the kids they think they're absolutely the tops in England they're the next biggest

of The Beatles In fact they're equal with the Beatles And I think before we finish this

tour of the states I think they'll be just as big here the Rolling Stones have to be

seen and heard to be believed they don't become popular as a result of the record plugs on

radio television when the young people see them in the flesh that's it they're the most

exciting group in the world and if the Rolling Stones are going to appear anywhere near where

any American teenagers are living they should go and see the Rolling Stones because they

are fantastic out of this bad Public Image originally started I I don't understand it

it's not a bad Public Image the teenagers think the stones are wonderful it's the older

people who resent the stones the stones they dresses they want to dress they wear the hair

long because they want to wear their hair long it's not an effect it's not done as a

gimmick or anything like that the type of music they play the teenagers go for in a

very big way but the older people don't understand and this is it they are a teenager's attraction

as opposed to an all-round attraction and you get this terrific controversy between

the older people and the younger people and as long as that controversy goes this is wonderful

for the Rolling Stones so Easton with the Fiasco of the 64 U.S tour bottom line is he

rarely knew either the promoters or the venues he was booking to save some money people were

sharing rooms and also when he went out to visit Ed Sullivan personally Sullivan eventually

threw him out of the place there was also that West Coast disaster with Dean Martin's

show Hollywood Palace indeed Martin went out of his way basically to insult them in his

introduction he was blamed for definitely a poorly organized circuit that shows that

they were saying some of the New York shows were well attended but they played into a

lot of other small crowds and for example when he played Nebraska Bill Wyman would say

you could just tell they wanted to beat the [ __ ] out of us

now in 65 Andrew would decide to remove Eric due to the fiascos and problems that had on

the U.S tour Eric would eventually carry out lawsuits and make it to Stones Oldham versus

Easton so I'm getting to a point here pay your dues it was due to a breach of contract

that would eventually settle out of court for a nice amount so with this tune this title

have anything to do with their circumstance so the story goes with these lyrics as you

could see some drunken Indian chief these beaten his wife up American Indian what about

the lyric he beats his wife and made her life a total wet vacation so I was thinking about

this lyric and what it could be about it's only guesses so keying in on the words what

vacation is something that's miserable I mean who wants a wet vacation so he beats his wife

and made her life a total miserable mess all right

probably three guitars and pay your dues but we hear the beginning of course it's not the

best audio quality sound for sure as we hear the guitars taking control in the first 30

seconds along with mix singing

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then comes that chorus and it is just an ingredient full of instrumentation happening it's full

there are so many layers in there all the Brian sitars and also his Tambora we got Nikki

layered in there most likely on the bottom layers and Keith and drums and the violin

can't make out some of the instrumentations but it's a lot happening now the guitar wailing

now we would think it's Keith it is possible that that's Dave Mason doing the guitar solo

[Applause]

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really doesn't sound like Keith type Style now that's open for discussion you know I'm

not putting a stamp on it but it is a thought and been discussed about Dave Mason

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downtown Susie I mentioned this tune in my Let It Bleed documentary the two in downtown

Susie is also known as downtown Lucy and Bill wrote this song in the original title was

Lyle Street Lucy it was started in these sessions as I said written by bill there's mentioned

that Brian's playing slide on this but it's possible it's Ry Cooter also as he did have

a little step into the red lens at one point it has a dear doctor Vibe a bit a tune that

the stones fan can adore and we did as it was also put on the metamorphosis album the

Arco Alan Klein's label you know that album why is it called Susie when it's Lucy that

is mentioned who knows as we all sit and Ponder this mystery but Lyle Street is located in

the Chinatown Soho area it's known to many or a red light district walk up

this one is Capo to Second fret probably the hummingbird played in a with adding some suspensions

Now Keith could be finger picking or just using the pick not a hundred percent probably

doing both but very gracefully Mick has his working class vocals here the chorus has the

chugging Boogie very exile and it's just a bit mesmerizing to listen because it's so

unique and that ending is very humorous [Applause] [Music]

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thank you

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thank you family there's two early takes covered May 13th to 18th and June 28th this one is

really bizarre lyrically it's about a dysfunctional family Keith on acoustic and Electric there

are thoughts of Brian on it but not sure written by Mick and Keith do you know what I mean

when I say these lyrics are thick a lot of substance the story for sure really heavy

lyrics of a girl wanting to [ __ ] out herself and it is her father to be first in line a

true Beggar's Vibe here in the early takes but it did not pass the test but not for Alan

Klein as it was on metamorphosis something about the tune that does not sound complete

but these early takes that I'm playing we hear the potential especially with the Rhythm

anchor

[Music] in this tune you know what I'm talking about there's a pickup of the tune picks up

the speed but then immediately it slows down it's repeated also you know this part when

you hear it it's a real strange twist found is hot and the man next door

what exactly

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[Applause] [Music] there is a last verse that says that he can play guitar like EG gym well

that EG refers to exemptly Gracia which is meant as for example Jim well what is thought

is Jimi Hendrix the lyrics or write Saint Augustine if he tried Dylan released John

Wesley Harding in 67 with the song I dream I saw Saint Augustine

supposedly jigsaw puzzle bump this tune off of beggars

there are three Tunes from the session recorded June 24th to 28th but there's no history or

audio of these tunecore power cut too far to walk Thief for the Blues just gonna leave

it at that

[Music] now in April sometime Anita was in Rome and part of the cast for the movie candy

based from a soft porn novel it had a huge cast it had Marlon Brando in it and many others

during this break in the studios Keith would go down to Rome and I want to say was Mick

and Marianne at this time that went with them both Keith and Anita would talk about Marlon

Brando's experience especially Anita's talking about how he would try to seduce her she did

get intimidated he was lying in bed one time reading her poetry and she ran away she ran

away and went to her room and there she would put on satisfaction and she was sort of blasting

it but he comes in and says it's really a load of [ __ ] it's the drums that count

and he was sort of throwing his randoisms at her she didn't end up with him at all in

bed but he was eyeing her next day Keith got wind of this and that's when he quickly came

down to Italy so while Keith was there Brando was kind of wicked and mean he was sitting

there putting his arm around Anita smiling at Keith playing some silly little games and

Anita would just say okay he fancies Keith when Keith got wind of that information he

would just say later pal

hence the name Marlin

Marlin however was not a Stones fan in the book she's a rainbow it's talked about with

Anita and how she did influence Brian of course with wardrobe and dressing and getting a look

and that's what she started doing with Keith also Keith started wearing sporting neckerchiefs

Bangles rings and necklaces also putting some of the liners under his eyes a little mascara

and lipstick and some nail polish that's Anita

the album sweetheart of the rodeo was worked on but not yet released by the birds it would

not happen until August of 68. at the end of May the birds toured England this included

their newest star-studded fashionable country stud Grand Parsons the newest member singing

on most of the album songs but originally Lee Hazelwood had signed Graham and his first

band The International submarine band Hazelwood threatened for sure the birds due to they

were under contract so Roger McGuinn of the birds had to replace Graham's vocals on some

of those Tunes

can't talk about this time frame without mentioning Graham Parsons of course and there's that

story about the birds they're going to do a show in South Africa Mick and Keith would

go see the birds play at the Middle Earth and Covent Garden they would meet Graham after

the show they would get into Keith's Bentley and wind up driving out to Stonehenge with

graham Anita Mick and Marianne and Michael Cooper all tripping and watching the sun rise

while photos were taken of them

Keith had said Graham was special if he was in a room everyone else and everything he

touched had magic to it they would then transfer Graham to the Redlands where the bonding would

start Keith recognized Graham's Brilliance and he wanted to learn all he could and the

inside construction of country Graham knew also that he could pick up the rock and roll

side pieces from them Keith mentioned Graham was just as fluent as Keith was in the upper

echelon of chemicals just like him when they first met Graham would say to Keith what do

you got he had good taste Graham did not learn about drugs from Keith that's for sure they

both liked the finest they both had a love for the U.S South Graham would know the cowboy

songs Keith grew up with and they would just have a blast for those of you who play guitar

you know how cool and fun it is and exciting had to get turned on to Tunes the Styles and

techniques and as The Story Goes Mick and Keith would influence Graham to not go down

to South Africa it was not cool for bands to go there and play due to apartheid so he

quit the birds just before that tour going down South Africa Chris Hillman of the birds

it said the stones gotten Graham's way because he was a groupie to them

as mentioned earlier Keith with his vinyl listening of the Blues well one was Robert

Johnson he was one of those listens

Johnson's album King of the delta blues singers was released in 61. love and vain was not

on this album there were other bootlegs that came out in 67 and 68 though

Brian turned Keith on to this album as Keith listened he was in awe how there was that

one guitarist only so I tell the story here because Marianne was working on Mick to record

a tune from Robert's album they would focus on love in vain as they both really loved

it as Keith was in the country mode with graham at the Redlands at this time he looked into

turning into a country twist why just copy Roberts let's turn it inside out Nick felt

good how it was turning out they would add extra cords and a version that I could not

find that was out there somewhere was made at this time but I just need to mention it

as it was worked on in this period love and vain would actually come out in volume 2 of

Robert's albums in the 70.

May 18th the stones would go see 2001 Space Odyssey opening up and yes there was some

tripping going on there

May 21st Brian is arrested for the second time at his apartment for possession of cannabis

in his King's Road flat

Brian is sent to Marlboro street magistrates Court where he's charged he also moves into

the Redlands temporarily with Keith Keith would say police knew Brian was a weak link

of the stones and they could be broken through him he was roughed up by them call it unfortunate

timing I don't think so but Mick and Marianne are also busted for marijuana getting busted

on May 24th a day jumping jack flashes released as a single with child of the Moon

don't mix this next tune up with the Exile tune past the wine this one is called blood

red wine also known as red blood wine blood red and wine blood red wine May 13th through

the 18th [Music] many stones fans would have wanted this tune on Beggars as is

listening to this you feel Mick and Keith's Soulful passion and again using that word

brilliance many will say how this was a precursor or it helped Aid sister morphine as a close

sister tune lyrically it connects to Winter with obvious observations here this just stands

out on its own appearing on Trident mixes the bootleg in the 70s Keith on acoustic maybe

also make an acoustic but it said if Brian is on this as acoustic during the verse we

hear one guitar and for the chorus it's possibly that there's two a second guitar when Nikki

comes in with Charlie and Bill it sounds a little bit cluttered Charlie's on the Tom

and cymbal crashing it's not till the end of the song that he engages the whole kit

lyrically it is hard to grasp but Mick is delivering but there are keywords here to

give us an idea love you trouble Man obsessed don't make me cry pain snow lies heavy [Music]

love it when mixings because there's a little pain inside [Music]

an emotional tune with some deep feelings standard guitar tuning but slightly tuned

up played a 5 DGA with embellishments D E minor we got a chorus with F sharp minor GE

A5 G A5 again

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real life too as two trains running

still a fool May 13th the 18th then in June 26th to 30th this song had some birth in the

Redlands sessions also known as trains common song written by McKinley Morganfield Kinley

was born in 1913 in Clarksdale Mississippi he was mimicking Sun house and Robert Johnson

at age 17. we know him better as Muddy Waters I like to repeat this name and think about

how it's one of the coolest names in all music genres friggin Muddy Waters

recorded on who else the great chess records in 1951. Little Walter who plays harmonica

is playing the second guitar he used Jimmy Rogers guitar Leonard Chess he's on the bass

drum a droning Drive of Mississippi delta blues not a typical 12 Bar Blues though this

one's unique it's out of the box one cord listen to the beauty of Muddy singing and

he's in unison with the melody we all heard how this format is copied by the later copiers

not one bed no played this is what Keith heard [Music] pure Blues right from the gut what

a presentation the stones would feel this they would turn that page and inject the passion

into the sessions oh well Keith would recall a story of how he made a pilgrimage to Manchester's

free trade Hall he mentions Jimmy Page was there also attending but he didn't ride up

with Keith this was before they were all famous muddy came on and delivered as expected what

these blues artists do best he did his first set wearing a pair of dungarees and playing

his acoustic guitar you could picture it the second set he comes out with the band but

brings out an electric guitar muddy got booed they did not boob money directly but they

booed the electric guitar that sounds familiar Keith would say how magnificent and thrilling

the performance was and it reinforced what he was hoping for still a fool is one of Keith's

favorites I could only imagine the excitement of them playing and jamming to this Stone

their heart their roots and their passion and why they are who they are this was what

Beggars was based off of and going forward they interpret this their way and still bring

vigorous Blues energy

I call this a chin to the chest tone with your eyes closed and your head Bob into the

Rhythm its version is clocking in at 10 minutes slow version is about seven minutes a live

jam and with Nikki Tastefully doing it again it's a fantastic Rhythm Section then Mick

reaching into his gut and coming out from his second home to Delta

Brian playing the slide here is it true they're still active discussions in the swaying of

yes and no was it him or was it the other guy surely sounds so close to Little Red Rooster

many forms say Brian now sometimes it takes one person to start a rumor it just opens

up exponentially I'm not saying it is not Brian

in late June there were sessions going on down at Keith's Redlands estate not a sophisticated

Studio it's located in the garden and called The Fifth Dimension [Music] not sure the timing

of these shots here this is in the Redlands at The Fifth Dimension and we do see Brian

and some and we do also see Ry cooter Redlands was getting burglarized very often not until

Keith put in a seven foot wall around the house and a garden Fifth Dimension had a large

main room which was the focal point and George chaos set the studio up and wired it for sound

and for recordings and the Acoustics were phenomenal even for playing vinyl again across

this time frame in these sessions it would hold Jumping Jack Flash pay your Deuce parachute

woman stray cat no expectations child of the moon this is what would come about in the

Redlands sessions foreign [Music]

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[Music] gonna go back to Jack Niche again here and his Stone's connections especially

recording around this time frame and later with performance I could not find much information

on how Jack could connect with Ry cooter Jack would stop in at the Olympic sessions while

they were recording and Jack had his performance soundtrack in his sight and around the corner

as a project Jack wanted to bring Rye along with him as he had intentions of he and the

stones jamming together Rye supposedly would go down to the Redlands with them at some

time not sure I found this in Stephen Davis's book oh God's almost dead Anita would say

Rye came down to visit for the weekend he was just passed out I remember on the couch

you can imagine his initiation to the club he then would get up and play in really good

he was a very quiet person but then I was probably as passed out as he was Rye would

contribute briefly to the sessions

I have to peel off another layer Jack worked with Neil Young producing and playing electric

piano and arranging Buffalo Springfield expecting to fly Jack played with Neil and in Crazy

Horse Jack would work with Neil August October of 68 with Neil on his first solo album as

he departed from Springfield in 68.

this next tune natural magic

it's a jack Nietzsche tune meaning performance soundtrack his involvement it's about a minute

and 39 seconds long and it's an eerie tune and it has Ry cooter on a plank slide which

he probably laid over sometime in 69 and I don't know all the involvement here what the

stones actually did but they do have this listed as one of the tunes they worked on

as you hear it in the background it involved also besides Rye was Randy Newman who was

part of performance and he was working on his second album that's why he had Ry Cooter

in the studio with him and also there's a fellow from a band called beaver and Kraus

his name is Bernard Krauss he's doing the whooshing sound of the Moog synthesizer in

there

I don't know too much about this tune but I'm just throwing it out there

I'm gonna give you a little treat here an interview later on with Jack Nietzsche very

casual very laid back getting asked questions about his career and the topic came up about

the stones in the studio and this is pretty interesting and how unique and different it

was say that working with the Rolling Stones altered your attitude towards recording oh

boy why is this well we used to go into the studios I mean when I was hired as an arranger

an a r man would hire me and say here are the four songs there'd have to be four songs

because that's what the union allowed so you have a three hour session you have to get

four songs done and that's the way it was and I was just like a studio musician I marked

down my the dates and my book and see how much I could fill up in a week you know just

arranged to do the same Arrangement 100 times and and Along Came the Rolling Stones who

had gone to the studio and that was the first time I've ever heard of blocked booking I

mean they booked our when they first said we booked the RCA Victor for two weeks I said

well what hours and they said no for two weeks anytime we want to I'd never heard of that

that was new and just the way they worked was like we didn't have to work for uh 45

minutes and then take a five if at the end of an evening nothing came out on tape it

was worth keeping nobody got uptight they just said it wasn't a good night we'll try

it again tomorrow um they have a song written and they play it we'd make the right record

it and it wouldn't come out quite right it had the ability to not be so in love with

the song or sit on one idea but they could they play it at the Tango they played as a

walls they tried a million different ways and have fun with it well that was all new

nobody in Hollywood ever would was that loose or now if you watch the Jumping Jack Flash

dock here's the bonus you get there are some thoughts that jump and Jack was about Jack

Nietzsche

percussion whatever was needed it was really a group effort nobody was producing we'd all

go in to the studio and to the booth and hear a playback and I'll give our two cents worth

you know but I didn't sit in the booth and uh produce those records those they produced

themselves we all did that Charlie didn't feel it hearing his drums correctly he'd say

something about it and and that's how those records were made no producer maybe that's

a good idea [Music] I'm glad that I had the opportunity to to do that to work with them

it was just a good fun time it was probably one of the last times that I really had a

good time in the studio let's look forward today weeks and just block out the whole three

weeks and it's always fun to see them and get together and stay up all night and talk

about old times and stuff that's still fun but they're still the smartest people I sat

in rock and roll why is this I don't know they're just they're intelligent they're sophisticated

and all the groups that since then when they're not all I think that most of them especially

the Americans are so guilty of it of all the posturing that they do on stage and try to

live a lifestyle that they think the Rolling Stones that I get

um they can't come close to understanding what they're doing they're just mimicking

something that they've read [Music] okay I'm going to come around full circle back to still

a fool when you hear and listen to this tune deeply you should hear and have your mind

drift off and recognize this sound

[Music] haha

[Music] the sound would be part of the future for a tune called Midnight Rambler this is

another Hot Topic in the forums I do feel this help ignite Rambler

it's [ __ ] chilling [Music]

all I could say is make sure you go back and give this tune a listen hopefully with those

headphones and Loud listen to all 10 minutes it will transport you to the stones Flying

high in 68. and where their heads were at Mick would record this tune with the Red Devils

in a session in 1992 with Rick Rubin very good tune also

this tune is called the vulture it's best known as Highway child also known as Highway

bound I was reading up in a lot of different dates and time frame for this next tune I'm

gonna go with the end of June at the Redlands sessions and there are quotes and people saying

it was done in February it was done in July it was done in Olympic studios in March April

but I'm going with the Redlands and also Jimmy Miller present [Music]

[Music] played in F E minor a sharp a d what potential a key Thrift and Charlie pushing

and carrying the bass with his drum there is no Bass [Music] Nick is creeping into rock

and roll's Abyss here that crunch raw pureness of that early 70s Stone sound here still 68.

the train chugged rhythm Gotta Love Keith's uncharacteristic cord climbs here also [Music]

lyrically it's open for interpretation you can see and read this it's thought that this

tune was recorded in the 70s of course early 70s for Exile time frame but no Mick Taylor

and why would that be he would certainly be on this so there's a lot of leaning over to

the 1968 session and drumming it's really thought too that it could be Jimmy Miller

[Applause] [Music] foreign

this next segment I'm going to play it comes from a flexi disc it's a telephone interview

with Mick and some representative of King records in Tokyo and that's the distributor

of London records in Japan this is titled hello this is Mick Jagger it's been bootlegged

all over officially released when a 50th Anniversary it's London to Tokyo April 17 1968 when this

was recorded been restored I'm not going to play the whole segment you can go listen to

this uh sure in YouTube

Ryan thank you for this is the king record company in Tokyo which uh issues the London

records here and what are you recording today say yes

what are we doing I just asking lunacy completely new album uh it's for a new LP is it could

you tell us what it will be called I have no idea I see no idea

I see do you have any titles for the tracks no not yet all right well do you have any

idea when the lp will be issued or are we fishing about uh the end of April I see

in May yes uh is this well this new LPB an extension of your last one uh there's satanic

Majesty's request sounds different I say it's sounds very different uh-huh they always sound

different or it's supposed to

is Mr Jimmy Miller now your regular recording producer yeah foreign

I see um right I don't really know if I haven't got my diary I can't remember it say bye guys

no I suppose not you must be quite busy especially with me recipes

what do you think is the future direction of your music

with the ending of this part one I hope I delivered for you I hope I stepped up to the

plate and brought it to you you're able to walk away smiling knowing a little more and

digging this record as mentioned in the beginning again hoping you could make some donation

to help me out here to move forward it's all appreciated as you see many hours so get ready

for part two photo sessions reviewing the album cuts and the details about the songs

Street Fighting Man and the deep thinking of what that's about sympathy how that was

made and the movie itself Marianne times they had in LA I'm sure you're gonna enjoy it

just remember to keep listening

and play it Loud

[Music] thank you [Music]