Watching the Rock And Roll Circus, and I know this was the first time they'd performed in like a year and a half for more than a few songs. What I'm wondering though as I watch it is is this kinda the birth of the Stones as we know them in their modern live performance style? I feel this Mick Jagger is VERY different from the Mick Jagger that was on the Ed Sullivan show singing Let's Spend The Night Together. Was it because this wasn't a Sunday night audience so he could be his pure self?

Just feels like he's no longer a poor man's James Brown, and he's fully the Mick Jagger we all know and love. Had he ever truly been THIS before or am I getting my timelines wrong? In general, it seems the band is fully the rock band they would continue to be the rest of their career here. So different than seeing them miming to a track or something on television.

Also, what a god damn performance. What actually inspired them to finally release this?

maybe the nme concert may 12, 1968





there's not much footage and its silent but the mick performing here is to me a bit different from 1967

warsaw 1967





and 1967 is very differnt from 1965

Also, what a god damn performance.

And dont forget thee film Performance from '68...



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also the rock n' roll circus was 56 years ago not 70 years ago

and i'm pretty sure micks changed a lot as a performer since he was eleven

Aren't we all subject to evolution?
R&R Circus was a TV registration with lots of camera close-ups and Mick (already in 1964) new very well how to exploit that. Any time he could "talk with his eyes" to the audience via the camera (we, watching it all) he would ignore the journalists. By the time the JJF clip was made and even more so the R&R Circus, he already was an expert and "became a teacher" for the likes of David Bowie, Freddy Mercury an you name them.
Eye contact is the "secret". The above shown clips (great!) show him doing it in all different ways over all this years depending on the situation.
No "change since" but ... evolution



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also the rock n' roll circus was 56 years ago not 70 years ago

and i'm pretty sure micks changed a lot as a performer since he was eleven

I was thinking, how much did I drink last night, is it really 2038?

Great post. Yeah, for sure. I've def. held this same opinion for 2O+ years myself.

My thoughts are he must've reincarnated during the summer of '68 , during the filming of "Performance". He must've delved so deep into the Turner "character" that he never looked back.

Compound that with the heavier drugs they began experimenting with, Kenneth Anger's influence, Anita Pallenberg's devil worshipping / spiritual journeys also had an impact.

Clearly Mick was no longer going to do those spastic one leg hops and triple toe lutzes he'd perfected in previous years. In 1968, Mick truly became MICK @#$%& JAGGER.

Cheers from Canada