Last night me and a few other Stones fans watched the L&G movie together with Marshall Chess at the Strand rock club in Stockholm. It was shown on a big screen with a full P.A at concert volume. It was really fantastic! Marshall told us that this was the first time since ´74 he had seen it as mentioned. After the film Swedish journalist Claes Olson asked him a couple of questions and he told us about the filming of L&G and the CS Blues Movie and a lot moore. Tommy
Here we go. First Marshall told us about when he learn to know the Stones back in´65, he talked about the recordings in Chicago and that he used to go out with Brian. Then a few years later his father Leonard died and he found out that he to get a job, a friend told him that The Stones were planning to start their own label. His friend also had Jaggers number, so he called him and was invited to visit Mick in London. When he arrived Mick was gone so he had to wait for him a few days. Their first meeting was really strange, when he came to Micks place he was playing a Clifton Chenier record and started some kind of free dance in front of Marshall! After his dance Mick asked him if he wanted to meet Keith, and said that he lived just down the road. Marshall went to Keiths place and found him at the piano writing songs with Gram Parsons! Shortly after he was asked to be the manager for Rolling Stones records. The first job he had to do was to finish their contract with abkco, the Stonen were recording Sticky Fingers at Micks place Stargroves and abkco wantaed the S F tapes, Mick told Marshall I have this song we can give them and started to sing CS Blues. Marshall met the abkco lawyer and gave him the tape and finally the Stones were free. After the Exile recordings was done they flew to L.A and started to mix the album, they also needed a cover for the album and asked film photographer Robert Frank, he filmed them with his super 8 and they used some of it for the cover. When they started the Exile tour Marshall asked Robert if he wanted to make a film of the tour and he agreed. He started to film everything and everywhere again with the super 8, and everybody got so used with him that folks had sex and used drugs rght in front of him when he was filming. Then someone said that it had to be some music in the movie so they decided to make a separate concert film. Marshalls idea was to make a film with the feeling of a Stones concert sitting at first or second row and with the music in concert volume and just the stage lights. So they borrowed three 16 mm cameras from John and Yoko Lennon and filmed four gigs in Texas. At last my friend Peter wondered if Marshall played any instrument him self and he told us that he played trumpet during the last three numbers at some of the gigs during ´73 tour in Europe. Tommy