Not an OT since the last six or so numbers were by the early Stones... caught it over the holidays on a PBS station stateside, a must-see for Brian fans, he was clean & 'on' in his early stages & the band was getting along....promos mentioned Florence Ballard & the Beach Boys so what an unexpected finale! Also featured Leslie Gore, Jan & Dean. The PBS channels will surely replay, don't know how other countries can access. Cheers!

James Brown blew them away. Did you notice Teri Garr as 1 of the go-go dancers?

I once had an original poster (bought it in 1994 in LA for 10$, discovered it
in a stack of hundreds of folded posters) and sold it in 2003 for big bucks
to cover some costs for the Licks Tour.

I first saw the T.A.M.I show on a cinema screen.

S-E-N-S-A-T-I-O-N-A-L

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James Brown was great but I would say for a band that was up and coming that the Stones held their own especially Mick and Brian the audience sure like them and they don't appear to be intimidated at all by coming out after JB. This to me is where the Stones really started being the Stones. Jagger especially gained confidence and had the if you don't like us I really don't give a you know what attitude. Fabulous show by all involved.

Forget waiting for PBS to rerun it, get the DVD. It's worth it.

Really, just buy the damn DVD, it's pretty cheap. Strangely the Motown groups on the show were so-so, but there were some damn good performances by Chuck Berry, Gerry & the Pacemakers, the Beach Boys, and Lesley Gore. A fantastic time capsule, and from that small sliver of time when Brian was still trying to be up front and sing and dance, before he slunk off to sideman status for a spell.

Without a doubt the best DVD I have, together with the Stax-Volt Revue live in Norway 1967

Great performance and I love the sound of Keith's guitar tone!!!

Toni Basil, dancer, choreographer, singer, actress quoted in ALO's 2Stoned about the TAMI show -
which she doesn't recall exactly right, but it doesn't matter:

I recall seeing Brian Jones, who was very elusive, and Mick, Keith and the other Rolling Stones hovering around,
close to the TV monitor. They were freaking out over James Brown, digging him so much that they actually backed away from the TV screen.
Then I saw the look on their faces as the realization kicked in that they would have to follow him on stage.
And just so, this change came over them. James Brown had this huge orchestra with back-up singers,
and James was the greatest dancer I had ever seen in my life [and his TAMI performance was]
one of the greatest theatrical televised whatever-you-want-to-call-it performances ever ...
It was going to go down in history. As a dancer and choreographer I understood it on another level,
and I said to [one of the other choreographers], 'The Stones gotta follow him - Jesus Christ, how is that possible?' ...
Andrew Oldham was so smart that he staged a massive equipment breakdown ... just to hold things up
so time would pass after James Brown's performance . That was the buzz - that was Andrew, he was smart, he was buying time.
Well, I'm sorry, I don't care how much time was gonna go by. I just thought these guys were dead in the water. ...
I decided to go sit on the side of the stage off camera; I wanted to see what the hell was going to happen.
I wanted to see the audience's reaction to them. I wanted to see how they were going to get out of this one.
Anyway, a lot of time went by ... Finally, maybe the tune was Around & Around, where there is this big cymbal crash
in the opening of the song and Mick had a tambourine in his hand and simultaneously with the crash in the music
Mick jumped up in the air, and as he jumped up on the air Brian Jones turned his back to the audience,
which was the most rebellious piece of theatre I had ever seen in my entire life.
I come from vaudeville. My parents were in vaudeville, and on stage you never turned your back on the audience.
So Mick was jumping in the air, Brian had his back to the audience and Mick hit the ground in a crouch.
And not one person, including me, ever remembered James Brown again.
It was fantastic - Mick's moves. What is this? This kind of paraplegic funky chicken. What is he doing?
As a trained dancer and even as a go-go dancer and a street dancer, I had never seen such moves in my life. ...
But Mick - even though his moves were very abstract, they were almost what white boys do who can't dance -
Mick always danced to the beat. Elvis, James and Mick nailed the beat.



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Didn't know Toni was a dancer at the show. I wonder, now, if her big song Mickey which came out in the early 80's was about Jagger?

Don't think so.

"Mickey" is a 1981 U.S. pop song recorded by singer and choreographer Toni Basil on her debut album Word of Mouth. Written by Mike Chapman and Nicky Chinn as "Kitty", it was first recorded by UK popular music group Racey during 1979 appearing on their debut album Smash and Grab.
Toni Basil changed the name from Kitty to Mickey to make the song about a man. For years, it had been rumoured that the name was changed to Mickey because Basil was fond of The Monkees' drummer and lead singer Micky Dolenz after meeting him on the set of their movie Head as a choreographer; however, this claim has been disputed by Basil, who said she didn't know Dolenz that well.

Source:wikipedia

The least known act on the bill was a garage band called The Barbarians. I have this clip as part of a 60s garage comp.





The complete movie is up on YouTube.

Leslie Gore was great, Mr. Brown was killer & the crowd really embraced the Stones! They were classic, love their oldies! Yes, this show was a great slice of times past....

The way the Stones went on after James Brown, and still managed to fire up the crowd, was nothing but impressive.

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The way the Stones went on after James Brown, and still managed to fire up the crowd, was nothing but impressive.

you know, I expected nothing less (like how could the Stones ever be insecure about following any act) but I guess at the time they were still newbies...

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DandelionPowderman
The way the Stones went on after James Brown, and still managed to fire up the crowd, was nothing but impressive.

I remember sitting in the cinema watching James Brown and thinking..."How the heck can The Stones beat this!"

But they did. It was/is amazing.

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The least known act on the bill was a garage band called The Barbarians. I have this clip as part of a 60s garage comp.





The complete movie is up on YouTube.

Think the Barbarians did "Farmer John". Crazy Horse covered. Neil Young was the one who suggested name "New Barbarians" to Ronnie.

Another interesting factoid and roundabout Stones connection is that the Barbarians' producer, Doug Morris, who also co-wrote one of their hits, has gone on to head Universal Music Group.