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I assume you are talking about One Plus One pics where the mic is both close and far from Brian's guitar.
It is a basic recording fact that moving about whilst recording an acoustic guitar, the guitar being in different places in relation to the mic throughout the same take(s) results in a bad recording of said acoustic guitar.
I don't think he's out of it in the film, but Brian was not taking care to keep the acoustic guitar close to the mic during takes, at least during the portions of the sessions that were filmed.
Why that might be is open to speculation.
Which is precisely the point.
A "still" photo captures only a moment in time. For all we know, 2 seconds after this photo was snapped Brian reached up and pulled the mic closer.
Maybe he did. Maybe he didn't.
I'm a devout Brian Jones guy but not a blind follower....
I'm sure in 1968 and 1969 he was pretty unreliable. With the Anita situation it can't have been easy.
That said, his harmonica work (and Mick's too, for that matter) is very good on Beggars Banquet.
The slide on No Expectations (even if not technically brilliant) really makes the song.
And as Keith said about the recording of Street Fightin Man---there's Brian twanging away on sitar.
So, when folks talk about the recording of YCAGWYW and Brain being in the corner alternating between quietly crying and reading a book on botany----well, that too was just one particular day in the studio.
Yet folks want to take that story and say "well, Brian must have been like that all the time the last couple years."
I don't happen to think that the music, itself, even bears that out as fact.
Edited 2 time(s). Last edit at 2011-01-07 17:10 by nostoneswithoutbrianjones.