The Rolling Stones have had many highlights- and a few lowlights too- over the last forty four years and I often wonder what it would have been like to witness some of these events in person as they unfolded. If you could build a time machine that would take you back in time and allow you to witness just one event in the bands history what would it be? It could be a specific concert, the cutting of an album, the recording of a song, anything really.



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The recording of Gimme Shelter.

I would go back and help Brian out that fateful day in ´69

The day on the train that Mick and Keith met up.

Man would love to have hung out at Nellcott during Exile, and then in LA and New Orleans during the mixing stage.

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> The day on the train that Mick and Keith met up.

Or what about the ice cream stand outside Dartford library?
Talk about coool...

i was to young and it had a terrible tragedy to it,but to say you were at and the experience of being at altamont,has to be second to nothing.

john scialfa

1. Let It Bleed (album) recording sessions.
2. Redlands 1967
3. Nellcote
4. Brian Jones' death
5. Edith Grove

"Rape, murder, it's just a shot away..."

When Charlie punched Mick in the face.

IBC studio 1964.(Roadrunner, Bright Lights Big City etc recordings)

El Mocambo 77 and some concerts in UK 71 comes to mind.

Bill Wyman taking photographs of girls legs

John

Slightly off topic: I'd like to go back in a time machine and stop Mick from recording LET'S WORK (cringe).

On topic: riding on the flatbed truck through NY w/the Stones (May 1, 1975).

One of the early concerts at the Crawdaddy Club.

I would go back and time with a Mars bar and give truth to a great myth.

12th July 1962: THE ROLLIN’ STONES. London, Marquee International Jazz Club (without BW & CW)
- Kansas City (Jerry Leiber/Mike Stoller)
- Baby What's Wrong (Willie Dixon)
- Confessin' The Blues (Walter Brown/Jay McShann)
- Bright Lights, Big City (Jimmy Reed/Mary Lee Reed)
- Dust My Blues (Elmore James)
- Down The Road Apiece (Tony Raye)
- I’m A Love You (Jimmy Reed)
- Bad Boy (Eddy Taylor)
- I Ain't Got You (Calvin Carter)
- Hush-Hush (Jimmy Reed)
- Ride 'Em On Down (Big Bill Broonzy)
- Back In The USA (Chuck Berry)
- Kind Of Lonesome (Jimmy Reed)
- Blues Before Sunrise (Elmore James)
- Big Boss Man (Luther Dixon/Al Smith)
- Don't Stay Out All Night (Billy Boy Arnold)
- Tell Me That You Love Me (Jimmy Reed)
- Happy Home (Elmore James)
- Up All Night ( )
Line-up: MJ (voc)/KR (gtr)/BJ (gtr)/STU (p)/Dick Taylor (bass)/Tony Chapman (dr)
Note: Contrary to common believe Mick Avory didn’t play this gig as drummer.
The Stones most probably didn’t play all these unverified songs.

either an Eel Pie Island or Station Hotel gig.

If I'm just going to observe, I'll join Adrian-L at the Station Hotel (probably on the night the Beatles turned up to watch).

If I'm allowed to change history, I'll be helping Tigerman fish Brian out of the pool.

Put a trampoline underneath a coconut tree ........

The night Keef wrote the riff to Satisfaction.

don't give me that ole one two, one two three four

I don't think the Stones mixed any of Exile on Mainstreet in New Orleans.......I think the mixing was all done in L.A.........yeah they had Dr. John play on the album but all that was done in a Los Angelos studio......I could be wrong and if anybody has any information other wise, please post it....

...as far as this thread goes.....I think I'd like to be at Madison Square Garden on the night of July, 26, 1972....Mick's Birthday and the last show of the much lauded 1972 North American Tour...

El Mocambo'77 is a good one. For me I always say it would be the night at MSG when they recorded Get Yer Ya's YA's Out. On the night when they really were the world's greatest rock & Roll Band. Or any show with Mick Taylor.

"It's just some friends of mine and they're busting down the door"

Rock N Roll circus.
El Mocambo also.
and one of the shows in 78.



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