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Ok the Circus may have been the last time he stood on stage but when was the last time he was plugged in, actually playing in front of an live audience?Quote
Blueranger
The Circus were live, but a set-up.
The last live performance before public, were the NME concert.
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DiscoVolante
Ok the Circus may have been the last time he stood on stage but when was the last time he was plugged in, actually playing in front of an live audience?
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Jayce
Is there any way to hear Brian clearly in the Circus? Does anyone have any way to turn him up or isolate him?
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dcba
Brian was probably the culprit... and his spirit haunted Keith's guitars during the Hyde Park show!
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His Majesty
He was plugged in and actually playing in front of a live audience at R&R Circus.
They just mixed him very low on 2 of the tracks (JJF & TCAGWYW) and audible, but relatively low on 1 track (Parachute Woman) on the official CD/DVD release.
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kleermaker
What a dirty trick.
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dcba
Brian was probably the culprit... and his spirit haunted Keith's guitars during the Hyde Park show!
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dcba
Brian was probably the culprit... and his spirit haunted Keith's guitars during the Hyde Park show!
As well as large portions of the 69 tour
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His Majesty
No harmonising from Brian on JJF, he's shown playing a very basic version of the riff and just bar chords during the chorus.
Keith is in standard tuning for the whole set. Maybe the harmonising you hear is from Nicky's piano.
Brian plays basic Chuck Berry rhythm on PW and it's audible, but mixed low, if I remember correctly it's placed more to the left speaker.
On YCAGWYW he plays the low 3 strings playing partial chords, then moves to first position D chord and then back to the C low 3 string version of C chord. Basically just basic strumming on unimportant low notes of C and F chords for the majority of the track, mixed low.
He's shown playing during the intro, but his guitar isn't actually audible until the band comes in on the D chord "try some time..." . The bass mostly drowns out his guitar even when it is brought in.
There's actually a very quiet overdubbed guitar playing during the intro doing a different variation of what Brian is shown playing. This goes away when the band kicks in.
Imagine giving a beginner guitarist some basic parts to play along with the stones, that's kinda the extent of Brians guitar playing at R&R Circus.
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Jayce
The only comparison I see is to Keith Moon - but even at his worst, he delivered
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2000 LYFH
How was his guitar playing on the 1967 tour? Any different then the 1966 tour(s)? I know he was playing other instruments on stage, but assume he was still playing guitar on some songs...
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His Majesty
No harmonising from Brian on JJF, he's shown playing a very basic version of the riff and just bar chords during the chorus.
Keith is in standard tuning for the whole set. Maybe the harmonising you hear is from Nicky's piano.
Brian plays basic Chuck Berry rhythm on PW and it's audible, but mixed low, if I remember correctly it's placed more to the left speaker.
On YCAGWYW he plays the low 3 strings playing partial chords, then moves to first position D chord and then back to the C low 3 string version of C chord. Basically just basic strumming on unimportant low notes of C and F chords for the majority of the track, mixed low.
He's shown playing during the intro, but his guitar isn't actually audible until the band comes in on the D chord "try some time..." . The bass mostly drowns out his guitar even when it is brought in.
There's actually a very quiet overdubbed guitar playing during the intro doing a different variation of what Brian is shown playing. This goes away when the band kicks in.
Imagine giving a beginner guitarist some basic parts to play along with the stones, that's kinda the extent of Brians guitar playing at R&R Circus.
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flacnvinyl
Keith is compensating for lacking someone to duel with.
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LieB
I think Brian's limited playing on the R&R Circus might be explained by the fact that the simply hadn't learned the songs properly. Maybe he had been absent for so many of their '68 sessions and was so out of touch with what the band was doing that he just had to stick with extremely simple guitar playing when he finally hit the stage.
If true, it would only be part of the explanation, I suppose. One would expect Brian "Elmo Lewis" Jones to have a far better grasp of a pure 12 bar blues like Parachute Woman, compared to what he did at R&R Circus, no matter how absent he was at the time of the song's inception.
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flacnvinyl
The other thing is that I would guess there is NOT a multitrack recording available. Instead it was mixed at the gig live just like normal TV. I do find it odd that JJFlash is mostly mono where Keith's guitar is faded to the right on YCAGWYW.