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Mathijs
Unfortunately, His Majesty's work on showing what Brian played did point out that Brian's contribution to RnR Circus was horrendous. Even to the extent that you can clearly understand the Stones wanted to sack him -here you are, the wold leading rock band of the day, spending loads of money on a movie project, and there's your guitar player being totally wasted and not being able to play even the most simple guitar chords.
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Unfortunately, His Majesty's work on showing what Brian played did point out that Brian's contribution to RnR Circus was horrendous. Even to the extent that you can clearly understand the Stones wanted to sack him -here you are, the wold leading rock band of the day, spending loads of money on a movie project, and there's your guitar player being totally wasted and not being able to play even the most simple guitar chords.
Mathijs
Horrendous is exaggerating... it shows it was very basic playing, but so is Bill's bass playing for most of it. Bill flubs a lot, but no attacking commentary on that? As always, different rules for Brian.
The R&R Circus does make clear though that Brian needs to move on and the band needs a new guitar player. Things did move on and on to someone else that Mathijs likes to moan about.
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stonesstein
I could not agree with Dandelion more! After the slide on No Expectations, nothing that Brian did was fundamental. It is so funny how people try to "romanticize" his contributions from late 68 and early 69 as somehow worthy of anything other than "how sad".
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Mathijs
I don't moan about Taylor... I do moan about Taylor...
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stonesstein
I could not agree with Dandelion more! After the slide on No Expectations, nothing that Brian did was fundamental. It is so funny how people try to "romanticize" his contributions from late 68 and early 69 as somehow worthy of anything other than "how sad".
Sad indeed. Brian was seemingly done being a proactive contributing member of The Rolling Stones by summer 1968. There's no real playing to hear from the final year of his life.