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On With The Show: Brian plays Mellotron and Concert Harp. Piano and harpsichord (can be stop/string technique) Nicky Hopckins.
Yes its Mike Leander Orchestra on Something Happened To Me Yesterday, but! I resist to think that Brian dont play antyhing on this track, trompet or recorder maybe?
There is no concert harp on On With The Show. Nicky doubled the piano using harpsichord with lute stop/string damper engaged. People mistake this for concert harp.
Acid In The Grass is the only known recording featuring Brian playing concert harp.
It's possible Brian played acoustic guitar or piano on SHTMY, if he did indeed play on the track. Maybe he didn't.
No known recordings of Brian playing brass, non reed instruments such as trumpet, trombone etc.
Thanks! Maybe Brian plays trumpet or saxo (like Citadel, Dandelion, 2000 light years from home and Beatles You Know My Name) in Sing This All Together and Sing This All Together (See What Happens)?
On SHTMY surprisingly (because much people affirm that Brian plays or trombone or trompet or saxo or clarinet even) I think that can be that Brian doesnt play anything.
In On with the show (and I think in Sittin on a Fence and in Take it or leave chorus if its not an autoharp, Jack seems to plays later in the same song too harpsichord but without lute stop/string damper engaged) can be this what happens that seems ¨like¨ a concert harp [www.youtube.com] (min 4:20)
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As for Brian's style, I think he looked great but not that special for those times. Look at the pictures of the crowd in Swingin' 60s, you'll see lot of young men and women wearing same style. What I thought was really a bomb, was Jagger's red military jacket in 1966. Too bad we did not see it enough in color.
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It seems he contributed less to the Between the Buttons album than Beggars Banquet.
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It seems he contributed less to the Between the Buttons album than Beggars Banquet.
During the August & November-December 1966 sessions at RCA, Olympic & Pye studios Brian, at the very least, played acoustic & electric guitar, piano, organ, vibraphone, electric dulcimer, autoharp, recorder, kazoo & harmonica.
That's certain regarding what he played during sessions, but what made it to and working out who is doing what on the released takes and mixes is the tricky part. Some obvious, others not so much.
Most sources default credit piano or organ to Jack or Stu without considering the above.
He for sure contributed more in 1966 than 1968.
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Didn't Keith end up playing the kazoo on the album?
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Didn't Keith end up playing the kazoo on the album?
Yes. Keith played the kazoo solo on Cool, Calm and Collected. Often credited to Brian, but Mick said in January 1967 it was Keith and it fits musically. note the staccato Chuck Berry like phrasing towards the end of the solo.
Brian, Mick and Keith played kazoo together on 3 tracks recorded during the sessions. Trouble In Mind and two others which are on an acetate Matt Lee owns.
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I believe that Brian Jones was a very talented musician, maybe the most talented Stone at the time. The same goes for Mick Taylor. Unfortunately in those days you had to have both feet on the ground to exploit it to the max; both Jones and Taylor were incredibly lazy and had an appetite for drugs. That's what they had in common. The rest is history.
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I believe that Brian Jones was a very talented musician, maybe the most talented Stone at the time. The same goes for Mick Taylor. Unfortunately in those days you had to have both feet on the ground to exploit it to the max; both Jones and Taylor were incredibly lazy and had an appetite for drugs. That's what they had in common. The rest is history.
What's happened to this forum?
Someone seriously wants to see the Stones wear matching suits onstage, and now this pearl-clutching over.. (gasp!)... DRUGS ??
We're talking Rolling Stones here...not the Carpenters!
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Bye. But looks are paramount when it comes to the band. You can identify every period through their look, up until about a decade ago. They certainly put a lot into their look. Wrote lyrics about it. Changed it up for every tour. Got written up in fashion magazines for it. They knew the value of it. They knew it was about more than the music. It was a vehicle to get that music across.
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Didn't Keith end up playing the kazoo on the album?
Yes. Keith played the kazoo solo on Cool, Calm and Collected. Often credited to Brian, but Mick said in January 1967 it was Keith and it fits musically. note the staccato Chuck Berry like phrasing towards the end of the solo.
Brian, Mick and Keith played kazoo together on 3 tracks recorded during the sessions. Trouble In Mind and two others which are on an acetate Matt Lee owns.
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Bye. But looks are paramount when it comes to the band. You can identify every period through their look, up until about a decade ago. They certainly put a lot into their look. Wrote lyrics about it. Changed it up for every tour. Got written up in fashion magazines for it. They knew the value of it. They knew it was about more than the music. It was a vehicle to get that music across.
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Thanks again His Majesty for all the clarifications and youre help!
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Thanks again His Majesty for all the clarifications and youre help!
Nicky played piano as part of basic backing track session and overdubbed harpsichord (with lute stop) on On With The Show. Brian played mellotron using trumpet/trombine sound then switching to the 3 violins sound as part of the basic backing track session.
The lute stop is not engaged on harpsichord for Sitting On A Fence.
Brian played the main piano on Ruby Tuesday. Jack possibly/probably adding a 2nd piano on each chorus. This thing of Brian only playing piano on early sessions, but not the released version is just made up.
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There is no dulcimer or autoharp on Take It Or Leave It. There is a harpsichord with and without the lute stop engaged. Lute stop engaged for most of the song, disengaged for the chords heard during the la la la la sections.
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I'm not saying the visual is more important than the music.
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I'm not saying the visual is more important than the music.
If you had written that in your first reply about Taylor's musical value in the Rolling Stones you and me could have spared us the ink.
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I'm not saying the visual is more important than the music.
If you had written that in your first reply about Taylor's musical value in the Rolling Stones you and me could have spared us the ink.
Gee, sorry that my fetid brain came up with another angle later. I didn't know this was a legal preceding. Just a bunch of codgers bitching about nothing, waiting for the next vault release, hoping it's pre-1990.
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On Ruby Tuesday its Brian on the final recording playing main piano (apart of recorder)? Would be the only song that Brian recording on piano.
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On Ruby Tuesday its Brian on the final recording playing main piano (apart of recorder)? Would be the only song that Brian recording on piano.
Brian likely played piano on a few tracks recorded during August 1966 - January 1967.
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I wonder what Andrew Loog Oldham contributed to As Tears Go By and other Jagger - Richards songs that he got a writers credit. Were they for the lyrics?Whereas Brian got none for songs like Ruby Tuesday and 2000 Light Years
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I wonder what Andrew Loog Oldham contributed to As Tears Go By and other Jagger - Richards songs that he got a writers credit. Were they for the lyrics?Whereas Brian got none for songs like Ruby Tuesday and 2000 Light Years
You hit the bulls eye with this question!
Indeed, WHAT was Oldham's contribution to songwriting? I have no intention to downgrade Oldham's temporary importance as Stones publicity man (okay, you may call that management if you like), but ..... songwriting credits? What a joke.
Brian's beautiful recorder experiments ahead of the making of Ruby Tuesday was the basis for Keith to come up with the outlines of that song. For that alone he already deserved songwriting credits! Oldham told some violin blokes (sorry, maybe girls) to add their basic bits to As Tears Go By. But getting credits for that is a big joke compared to highly subtile and important contributions by Brian to several great Rolling Stones songs.
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I wonder what Andrew Loog Oldham contributed to As Tears Go By and other Jagger - Richards songs that he got a writers credit. Were they for the lyrics?Whereas Brian got none for songs like Ruby Tuesday and 2000 Light Years
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I wonder what Andrew Loog Oldham contributed to As Tears Go By and other Jagger - Richards songs that he got a writers credit. Were they for the lyrics?Whereas Brian got none for songs like Ruby Tuesday and 2000 Light Years
Didn't he change the title - from as years go by - to as tears go by?
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I wonder what Andrew Loog Oldham contributed to As Tears Go By and other Jagger - Richards songs that he got a writers credit. Were they for the lyrics?Whereas Brian got none for songs like Ruby Tuesday and 2000 Light Years