The Ealing Club - home of the Stones first regular gig - have snt me a short film clip.

It also features the man who was the promotor that booked the Stones and ran the club. You will see him describling the stage.

A few faces who also played there at the time. When the Stones left Ealing - Manfred Mann was still playing Jazz at the Bulls Head pub in Barnes with Mike Hugg.

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Cool. Thanks

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Thanks

HMN

So Geno Washington's still around, yeah!

Thanks, looks like a really interesting film.

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The Ealing Club - home of the Stones first regular gig - have snt me a short film clip.

It also features the man who was the promotor that booked the Stones and ran the club. You will see him describling the stage.

A few faces who also played there at the time. When the Stones left Ealing - Manfred Mann was still playing Jazz at the Bulls Head pub in Barnes with Mike Hugg.

[www.kickstarter.com] … …

So, is this your film? Looks fantastic! Like the way it's shot, edited, great footage of the club itself, newspaper clipping, etc. Not to mention the subject! Excited to see this project come to fruition.

- swiss

Nice clip. Thanks Jim. Good they finally have a plaque up there above the old Ealing Club. Must have been very cool to have been there in those days.

Never heard of the Stones smashing any guitars. Not even Pete Townshend was smashing guitars pre-65.

This seems to be very interesting:

"Our research for new footage and photos is ongoing, but we can already assure that the film will contain previously unseen photos and/or video footage of the Rolling Stones".

Looks like it's gonna be a great film,and bring back a lot of memories from the swingin' '60's.
Seen Geno in the '60's and last time was at Art Wood tribute gig when Ronnie came on stage with Jon Lord and many other great musicians.
Now that was a really great Sunday of music.
Good luck to the film makers and they get a contribution from me.

Historic music site where the Rolling Stones formed could be torn down by developers

20 February 2015 By Camilla Horrox

Campaigners are desperate to save The Ealing Club which they see as being the birth place of British rhythm and blues and a missed opportunity for music tourism

The club where the Rolling Stones "cut their teeth" will be torn down to make way for a pedestrian route, if the plans submitted by a developer are approved.

Campaigners are desperate to save The Ealing Club, which they see as being the birth place of British rhythm and blues and a missed opportunity for music tourism.

It was at the Ealing Club that Keith Richards and Mick Jagger met Brian Jones, giving birth to the Rolling Stones.

However, developers Benson Elliot and their development managers Londonewcastle have released plans - currently out for consultation - which show that The Ealing Club will be demolished and turned into a walkway.

A spokeswoman for Ealing Council said: “I can confirm that the Red Room doesn’t have any listed or protected status. As you know, a blue plaque does not confer any protected status.”

Alistair Young, Secretary For The Ealing Club Community Interest Company, said: “This is the only venue in the UK which can claim to match Liverpool’s Cavern Club in terms of its importance to the history of British music. Today the site of this historic venue is threatened by property developers.

“Throughout 1962 the Rolling Stones ‘cut their teeth’ at the Ealing Blues Club, eventually forming the legendary line-up of Mick, Keith, Brian, Bill, Ian and Charlie and playing here together for the first time in January 1963.

“It was the home of Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated and Eric Burdon (The Animals), Manfred Mann, Rod Stewart, and The Who all played at The Ealing Club.”

Cultural significance

Keith Richards is quoted as saying: “Cyril Davies and Alexis Korner got a club going, the weekly spot at the Ealing Jazz Club, where Rhythm and Blues freaks could conglomerate. Without them there might have been nothing.”

James Ketchell, Chief Executive and Founder of Music Heritage UK, said: “The fact that the building is not listed, nor has been given any protected status, is exactly the point! If the local council and its elected representatives are not promoting the area’s heritage and preserving locations of cultural significance, then who will?

"There is a huge opportunity to be grabbed in terms of developing music heritage tourism if the council can see beyond the promise of a quick return from a property developer.”

A spokesman from Londonewcastle said: “We recognise that the borough has a significant musical heritage and the original Ealing Club venue on Haven Place was an important part of that. We have met the Ealing Club community group to discuss their proposals for the site and there is an ongoing dialogue, out of which we hope to arrive at a way to recognise what the current blue plaque, placed there by fans, represents.

“The new accessible and welcoming town centre pedestrian route we are proposing between the station and The Broadway means it is not possible to keep the current building that houses the Red Room club in its basement.”

Property investors Benson and Elliot bought a large swathe of Ealing town centre in 2012 and have since completed the transformation of the former Arcadia Shopping Centre into 1-8 The Broadway.

[www.getwestlondon.co.uk]

We'll see about this

This building has got to be saved. Developers, the bane of mankind! Is anyone raising money to purchase the building?

The band members of the various bands that performed there should also support this cause including but not limited to financial resources.

plexi

Hello,

I have spent most of my adult life in Ealing and I knew the two men who owned the club, which is now called the Red Rooms, during the nineties. One of them told me that they had contacted the Stones office to see if the Stones had any interest in helping to promote the venue's history and bring the story to a wider audience but that the only one who showed any interest was Bill. Charlie did, however, turn up when the blue plaque was unveiled at the club in 2012. I would have thought, though, that these attempts to mark the venue's importance would need Mick and Keith's involvement (from a Stones perspective), or that of Eric Clapton, or perhaps even a certain Mr P Townshend, in order to receive the necessary wider press coverage.

Declan

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Hello,

I have spent most of my adult life in Ealing and I knew the two men who owned the club, which is now called the Red Rooms, during the nineties. One of them told me that they had contacted the Stones office to see if the Stones had any interest in helping to promote the venue's history and bring the story to a wider audience but that the only one who showed any interest was Bill. Charlie did, however, turn up when the blue plaque was unveiled at the club in 2012. I would have thought, though, that these attempts to mark the venue's importance would need Mick and Keith's involvement (from a Stones perspective), or that of Eric Clapton, or perhaps even a certain Mr P Townshend, in order to receive the necessary wider press coverage.

Declan

Charlie talking with Alexis Korner's wife Bobbie after ceremony

THE EALING CLUB DOCUMENTARY - AN UPDATE
For over four years, we have been involved in the production of a film called Suburban Steps To Rockland - The Story of the Ealing Club, the definitive documentary about the Cradle of British Rock Music.

Filmmaker Giorgio Guernier has sought our advice on the accuracy of the story portrayed in the film while club secretary Alistair Young has served as Executive Producer within the production. Producing an Independent Film is a lengthy and complex process but the Ealing Club Documentary is now essentially complete.

HIGHLIGHTS INCLUDE:

Interviews with Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, John Mayall, Paul Jones, Dick Taylor & Eric Burdon (amongst others)
Animated sequences produced by Giorgio Guernier alongside award-winning film animator Federico Parodi & illustrator Paul Loudon
Sponsors include Marshall Amplification, whose early days in Hanwell form a key part of the story

As of May 2017, we are finalising all outstanding music rights related to the soundtrack and we then hope to assure a release for the film to as wide an audience as possible.

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Rolling Stones, The Who and Eric Clapton played at Ealing Club in 60s



A NEW documentary about a tiny club, where rock legends The Rolling Stones, The Who and Eric Clapton played in the 60s, is to premiere at a prestigious film festival in London.

Suburban Steps To Rockland is an independent film about the Ealing Club, produced by 62 Films and directed by Giorgio Guernier.

The smoky basement venue, down a set of stairs across the road from Ealing Broadway tube station, helped establish the careers of numerous rock stars.

The roll call of revellers who played or hung out there reads like a Who’s Who of British Blues.

The film’s key contributors include, Cream’s Ginger Baker and front man Jack Bruce (giving one of his last broadcast interviews before his death), along with Paul Jones of Manfred Mann and Eric Burdon of The Animals.



The Rolling Stones first met at the club and were resident band there for six months between 1962 and 1963.

The film, a blend of interviews, archive footage and animation, has been selected to debut at the Doc'n Roll Film Festival in November and a trailer is now out.

Supported by the BFI and Film London, the event showcases original music documentaries from all over the world.

The club’s story began when electric Blues pioneers Alexis Korner and Cyril Davies - deemed just too loud for the jazz crowd at the Marquee Club – met Iranian student Fery Asgari, an events manager at the club.

With the help of Art Wood, Ronnie Wood’s brother, Britain’s first Rhythm and Blues venue was born on March 17, 1962. The club quickly became known as the Moist Hoist because of the condensation which ran down the walls during crowded gigs.

It soon became the focal point for fledgling musicians like The Who’s Pete Townshend and Mick Jagger.

Director Giorgio Guernier said: “The list of influential musicians who became associated with the club is absolutely breathtaking. Many of the first golden generation of British rock music began their careers or simply visited the venue, just to learn how to play the blues.

“As a former musician, avid vinyl collector and film-maker, the idea of making a movie about this legendary venue was a no-brainer. It was a story I just had to tell.”

Asgari appears in the film, as does Korner’s widow, Bobbie. Other key contributors include Terry Marshall, co-founder of the legendary amp makers, who were based in nearby Hanwell.

It’s a heritage that Alistair Young, secretary of The Ealing Club Community Interest Company and a co-producer of the film, is anxious to preserve.

He said: “It’s no surprise the esteemed music bible Mojo credited The Ealing Club with the title of The Cradle of British Rock.

“More than 50 years on we are still proud to carry forward the name associated with this legendary Ealing location.

“Our aim is to inspire and promote live music events while instilling greater pride in Ealing’s amazing rock heritage.”

[www.ealingtimes.co.uk]

Disc, September 15, 1962.


Jazz News, September 26, 1962.


Advert in Jazz News, September 26, 1962.


"As we say in England, it can get a bit trainspottery"

Ticket infos for the premiere, for those interested:

SCREENING: 04 November 2017 at 16:00

LDN - BARBICAN SCREEN 3

TICKETS ON-SALE: 3RD OCTOBER

WORLD PREMIERE

Dir. Giorgio Guernier, 2017, UK, 89mins

Director Q&A featuring Dick Taylor (Pretty Things)

Inspired by American touring blues acts such as Muddy Waters and Sister Rosetta Tharpe, and with the help of a 19-year-old student from Tehran, in 1962 guitarist Alexis Korner and harmonica player Cyril Davies opened the Ealing Club, London’s (and Britain’s) first rhythm and blues venue. Soon young music fans from all over the country began attending Alexis and Cyril’s shows and sit in during their sets. The list of youngsters who learned the blues at the Ealing Club includes Jack Bruce, Ginger Baker, Paul Jones, Brian Jones, Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Dick Taylor, Jeff Beck and Eric Burdon, to name just a few.

The Ealing Club, “the cradle of British rock” (Mojo magazine), was a dingy and smoky concrete-floored basement barely mentioned in music history books, and it would last only three years. However, its pivotal role in fostering a golden generation of classic rock musicians and kick-starting the British blues movement remains undeniable.

[www.docnrollfestival.com]

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Never heard of the Stones smashing any guitars. Not even Pete Townshend was smashing guitars pre-65.

I vaguely remember a quote/story where Pete said he saw Keith breaking a guitar against the ceiling, accidentally or not.

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Never heard of the Stones smashing any guitars. Not even Pete Townshend was smashing guitars pre-65.

I vaguely remember a quote/story where Pete said he saw Keith breaking a guitar against the ceiling, accidentally or not.

I think history is getting a bit conflated.

Pete accidentally broke a guitar against a ceiling in a pub in North London.

Pete saw Keith 'windmilling' his arms before going on stage in a pub in Putney, and then he (Pete) adopted the move.

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Captain Corella
60 Years a Fan

Yes, that’s it. Thanks for the correction.

The club where The Who first rocked
By Vincent Dowd

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"Cyril and Alexis attracted younger musicians just to listen. The excitement in people's faces - I have never seen anything like it. When I first met the Rolling Stones they had come to the club to have a drink, to hear Alexis play and socialise. It was only later they started to perform."

Suburban Steps to Rockland is a reminder of the big names who developed at the Ealing Club after the Davies-Korner era.
Sitting in his office (still in Ealing) Asgari gives a wry smile.
"But that was the problem: when groups got big they weren't going to play a small venue like ours.

"When the Stones first played for us, Brian Jones would come into my office afterwards and we'd sort out the 50-50 split of the door money - it was Brian who was in charge of all their bookings. The first Saturday they played we took £7. By the time they played their last Ealing gig it was £33."

[www.bbc.com]

I hope the BBC are going to pick this up for broadcast.

it's got BBC-4 on a Friday night written all over it...

SCREENING: 03 December 2017 at 18:30

ROYAL ALBERT HALL - ELGAR ROOM - LDN

Doors - 6pm
Film - 6.30pm

Join Doc'n Roll Film Festival at this beautifully fitting venue for an encore screening of this great documentary after its recente sell-out premiere at the Barbican last week!

Followed by Director Q&A , plus special guest TBC!

Tickets

[www.docnrollfestival.com]

Tonight on Canvas

[www.tvgids.nl]