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Unveiling of the Nicky Hopkins memorial bench in Perivale park:
[www.perivalepark.london]

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Unveiling of the Nicky Hopkins memorial bench in Perivale park:
[www.perivalepark.london]

Thanks for posting and the memorial bench looks great, does it make sound?

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Unveiling of the Nicky Hopkins memorial bench in Perivale park:
[www.perivalepark.london]

Thanks for posting and the memorial bench looks great, does it make sound?

Unfortunately, it doesn't make sound.

The crowd-funding campaign offered the opportunity for pledgers to have their name inscribed on the bench
and contribute towards funding a music scholarship at London’s Royal Academy of Music, where Nicky Hopkins himself won a scholarship in the 1950s.
Names that have pledged in the campaign include Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts, Ronnie Wood, Bill Wyman, Yoko Ono Lennon, Roger Daltrey, Jimmy Page, Johnnie Walker, Bob Harris and Kenney Jones.

[www.udiscovermusic.com]

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Nico has the first session for Nicky Hopkins listed
as 13th December 1966.

Nicky recorded with the Stones for the first time in November and December. However, in September he recorded with A Stone, Brian Jones. Jones was composing, arranging, and producing the soundtrack for A Degree Of Murder, an avant-garde German crime noir starring Jones’ girlfriend (at the time), Anita Pallenberg.

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... on CCC it is Jack Nitzsche on piano, as Hopkins did not do a session with the Stones before 1967.

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... on CCC it is Jack Nitzsche on piano, as Hopkins did not do a session with the Stones before 1967.

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It's most likely Stu on piano.

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It's got a minor chord in there somewhere. Is the Stu statement "I don't play minor chords" actually true, or was he just putting us on? Or maybe "Okay, just this once." There's clips of him playing Under my Thumb and Miss You, and there is, banging away.

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Recording ‘How Do You Sleep?’ Ascot Sound Studios 26 May 71
George Harrison (electric guitar)
Ted Turner & Rod Lynton (12 string acoustics)
Klaus Voormann (bass)
Alan White (drums)
John Lennon (electric guitar & vocals)
Nicky Hopkins (Wurlitzer)
John Tout (piano)

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Between The Buttons

The last of the albums to be released with a different track listing in America and Britain, “Let’s Spend the Night Together” and “Ruby Tuesday” were both included having been released as a double a-side in America.

With the controversy over the lyrics of the former song, most notably when Ed Sullivan banned the Stones from singing ‘night’ and subsequent black listing by many American radio stations it only made number fifty five. Nothing could stop “Ruby Tuesday” and it went to number one in early 1967. In Britain the two songs were also released as a single that made number three. Both the US and the UK version of the album was the last to be ‘produced’ by Andrew Loog Oldham. “Something Happened To Me Yesterday” features Brian Jones on sax and trombone. Regular keyboard players Jack Nitzsche and Ian Stewart are joined by Nicky Hopkins, who plays piano on several tracks, the start of his lengthy spell as a sideman.

And on clarinet.

Hopkins is not on BTB. His first session with the Stones was in 1967.

The brass on Something is not by Jones, but by hired session musicians. Hopkins first session with the Stones, according to himself, were in May 1967 when he was hired for She's a Rainbow and We Love You.

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Interesting. On Nzentgraf it says Line-up ‘Something Happened...’:
MJ (voc)/
KR (voc, gtr)/
BJ (sax, tb, clarinet)/
BW (bass)/CW (dr)/
Nicky Hopkins (p; unsure)

It's the Mike Leander Orchestra.

I think Brian does play the sax, as this is the only brass instrument that sounds like it is not played by a professional. All other instruments are played by seasoned professionals. Also, they recorded on 4 track, so overdubbing a brass section instrument by instrument is virtually impossible.

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Between The Buttons

The last of the albums to be released with a different track listing in America and Britain, “Let’s Spend the Night Together” and “Ruby Tuesday” were both included having been released as a double a-side in America.

With the controversy over the lyrics of the former song, most notably when Ed Sullivan banned the Stones from singing ‘night’ and subsequent black listing by many American radio stations it only made number fifty five. Nothing could stop “Ruby Tuesday” and it went to number one in early 1967. In Britain the two songs were also released as a single that made number three. Both the US and the UK version of the album was the last to be ‘produced’ by Andrew Loog Oldham. “Something Happened To Me Yesterday” features Brian Jones on sax and trombone. Regular keyboard players Jack Nitzsche and Ian Stewart are joined by Nicky Hopkins, who plays piano on several tracks, the start of his lengthy spell as a sideman.

And on clarinet.

Hopkins is not on BTB. His first session with the Stones was in 1967.

The brass on Something is not by Jones, but by hired session musicians. Hopkins first session with the Stones, according to himself, were in May 1967 when he was hired for She's a Rainbow and We Love You.

Mathijs

Interesting. On Nzentgraf it says Line-up ‘Something Happened...’:
MJ (voc)/
KR (voc, gtr)/
BJ (sax, tb, clarinet)/
BW (bass)/CW (dr)/
Nicky Hopkins (p; unsure)

It's the Mike Leander Orchestra.

I think Brian does play the sax, as this is the only brass instrument that sounds like it is not played by a professional. All other instruments are played by seasoned professionals. Also, they recorded on 4 track, so overdubbing a brass section instrument by instrument is virtually impossible.

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Where did you get that info from, Mathijs?

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Recording ‘How Do You Sleep?’ Ascot Sound Studios 26 May 71
George Harrison (electric guitar)
Ted Turner & Rod Lynton (12 string acoustics)
Klaus Voormann (bass)
Alan White (drums)
John Lennon (electric guitar & vocals)
Nicky Hopkins (Wurlitzer)
John Tout (piano)

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Between The Buttons

The last of the albums to be released with a different track listing in America and Britain, “Let’s Spend the Night Together” and “Ruby Tuesday” were both included having been released as a double a-side in America.

With the controversy over the lyrics of the former song, most notably when Ed Sullivan banned the Stones from singing ‘night’ and subsequent black listing by many American radio stations it only made number fifty five. Nothing could stop “Ruby Tuesday” and it went to number one in early 1967. In Britain the two songs were also released as a single that made number three. Both the US and the UK version of the album was the last to be ‘produced’ by Andrew Loog Oldham. “Something Happened To Me Yesterday” features Brian Jones on sax and trombone. Regular keyboard players Jack Nitzsche and Ian Stewart are joined by Nicky Hopkins, who plays piano on several tracks, the start of his lengthy spell as a sideman.

And on clarinet.

Hopkins is not on BTB. His first session with the Stones was in 1967.

The brass on Something is not by Jones, but by hired session musicians. Hopkins first session with the Stones, according to himself, were in May 1967 when he was hired for She's a Rainbow and We Love You.

Mathijs

Interesting. On Nzentgraf it says Line-up ‘Something Happened...’:
MJ (voc)/
KR (voc, gtr)/
BJ (sax, tb, clarinet)/
BW (bass)/CW (dr)/
Nicky Hopkins (p; unsure)

It's the Mike Leander Orchestra.

I think Brian does play the sax, as this is the only brass instrument that sounds like it is not played by a professional. All other instruments are played by seasoned professionals. Also, they recorded on 4 track, so overdubbing a brass section instrument by instrument is virtually impossible.

Mathijs

Where did you get that info from, Mathijs?

Which info?

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That the Mike Leander Orchestra participated in "Something Happened To Me Yesterday". The info I have gathered so far talks about input from Jack Nitzsche having done additional instrumental arrangements. Off course I have an open mind, especially because one can find contradictory data all over the history of the Stones' music making.

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Recording ‘How Do You Sleep?’ Ascot Sound Studios 26 May 71
George Harrison (electric guitar)
Ted Turner & Rod Lynton (12 string acoustics)
Klaus Voormann (bass)
Alan White (drums)
John Lennon (electric guitar & vocals)
Nicky Hopkins (Wurlitzer)
John Tout (piano)

Two interesting things about this photo. Unless there was another blue Strat floating around, George is playing John's Strat, bought in 1965 (George's being painted psychedelic). If the date is correct, this is about two months before the Bangladesh show. Things happened fast back then.

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He's only credited for his 1965-collaboration with the Stones here, though.

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He's only credited for his 1965-collaboration with the Stones here, though.

That doesn't really mean much.

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Recording ‘How Do You Sleep?’ Ascot Sound Studios 26 May 71
George Harrison (electric guitar)
Ted Turner & Rod Lynton (12 string acoustics)
Klaus Voormann (bass)
Alan White (drums)
John Lennon (electric guitar & vocals)
Nicky Hopkins (Wurlitzer)
John Tout (piano)

Two interesting things about this photo. Unless there was another blue Strat floating around, George is playing John's Strat, bought in 1965 (George's being painted psychedelic). If the date is correct, this is about two months before the Bangladesh show. Things happened fast back then.

The sonic blue strats they bought in 1965 had rosewood fretboards.

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Recording ‘How Do You Sleep?’ Ascot Sound Studios 26 May 71
George Harrison (electric guitar)
Ted Turner & Rod Lynton (12 string acoustics)
Klaus Voormann (bass)
Alan White (drums)
John Lennon (electric guitar & vocals)
Nicky Hopkins (Wurlitzer)
John Tout (piano)

Two interesting things about this photo. Unless there was another blue Strat floating around, George is playing John's Strat, bought in 1965 (George's being painted psychedelic). If the date is correct, this is about two months before the Bangladesh show. Things happened fast back then.

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Yes that is true. And didn't the Stones have a couple of them knocking around very early on in Brian era? Also w/ Rosewood?