The link points to which is all about the time The Rolling Stones brought Howlin' Wolf to the screens of the USA TV watchers. One of my favourite clips of early Stones. Brian is pretty much jumping up and down with excitement introducing Wolf. Great stuff. The pianist at the start of the Wolf video is a young Billy Preston.
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QuoteGreen Lady Twickenham no longer exists. The Rugby Football Union have sold off the stadium naming rights for loadsamoney, so we all have to learn to call it the Allianz Stadium. Yeuk. Here in Melbourne we have a similar situation. The naming rights to one particular stadium were sold to Marvel, so the public broadcaster (no advertising allowed) has to call it Docklands Stadium, and ever
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Quoteastmalia How important must The Rolling Stones be that for nearly half a century there are still discussions as to why their performance started a few hours late. "How important?" Very. We're being historians here. Getting the history of events right is important. There's a version of what happened that night that is unpleasant. If it's false (some sort of U
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QuoteKurt Isn't this a thread about Knebworth? Yes. Can anyone here tell the real tale behind the long gap, and provide me a pointer to proof. (Believe me, I've hunted hard!)
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QuoteGasLightStreet Gonna have to work on a playlist of songs whose titles are never sung. Genuinely interesting idea. When you've thought it through, take it to a fresh thread and let's keep this one to the "Beatles vs Stones" subject please. And while you're at it, remember to mark it as OT:
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QuoteWendy The 1976 Rolling Stones Knebworth commemorative set includes for the next two weeks only the Knebworth 1976 festival T shirt. All the items, including the 6 CDs and 3 DVDs the set includes can be viewed on the following page And the book written by the promoter (inc with the set) tells you the real reason they were so late on stage! Well, I've very carefully searched my (
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Quotellsbsk Happy viewing. Bruce That's a truly extraordinary site!
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Interesting. I'd really like to hear The Star Club tapes cleaned up. And that may indeed be happening as Peter Jackson owns them and Apple know. Plus there is that tape from the Stowe School show found last year.....
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Quotefrankotero Anyhow, I'm pretty sure Taylor Swift has out-sold The Beatles and Stones combined. I though I'd use the power of Google to look at that data. OK, usual heavy disclaimers about accuracy and the need to do full research, which this does not claim to be. So I asked Google three questions... 'Total record sales for {Taylor Swift | The Beatles | The Rolling Stone
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QuoteGasLightStreet QuoteCaptainCorella QuoteNICOS I know..............The Beatles out sold them all and I don't think this will ever change. How can you credibly claim that no one will ever outsell The Beatles? You really need to be informed of that? That's absurd. One of the many problems of a global World Wide Web, and forums like this, is that users may well not know if Englis
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QuoteNICOS I know..............The Beatles out sold them all and I don't think this will ever change. How can you credibly claim that no one will ever outsell The Beatles?
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QuoteIrix QuoteCaptainCorella I have to wonder what Peter Jackson would make of it though! Probably not much, since it's barely possible to restore the missing details from a low-res video recording (e.g. NTSC 720x480px). On the other hand, analogue 35- or 70mm film can be scanned up to 10K resolution (10240x4320px). The original "Let It Be" was filmed on 16mm. I've
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QuoteIrix Paul McCartney’s never-issued 1974 documentary known as 'One Hand Clapping' is getting a theatrical release from 26-Sep-2024 - , . I thought this comment on superdeluxe was quite good... Since this is being produced by Mercury Studios is seems more than likely that a Blu-ray/DVD release will follow. Even though, as noted, this was filmed on video, it has been scann
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QuoteDoxa But what goes for the "smock", he picked up and used it again in Hyde Park 2013 (for "Honky Tonk Women") - so at least it symbolized something to him from the 1969 concert: - Doxa Is that REALLY the exact same actual garment? To my eyes it's a really similar thing, but not yer actual original 1969 Mr Fish as coveted by Sammy Davis Jnr. What do other
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QuoteRockman Do you have the source for the above? Here ya go Captain Thanks. Including the source ALWAYS value adds a posting! In this case, your source is dated 2020 and the academia.edu source points to a paper at a conference in Athens in 2010.
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QuoteLien QuoteCaptainCorella QuoteRockman Some observers claimed that Jagger was wearing a “dress” or even a “little girl’s white party frock”. In fact, he was wearing a costume inspired by the uniform of the Greek National Guard, a white tunic-and-trousers ensemble created by the British fashion designer Michael Fish. It came from his boutique, Mr Fish, which had opened in 1966 at 17
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QuoteRockman Some observers claimed that Jagger was wearing a “dress” or even a “little girl’s white party frock”. In fact, he was wearing a costume inspired by the uniform of the Greek National Guard, a white tunic-and-trousers ensemble created by the British fashion designer Michael Fish. It came from his boutique, Mr Fish, which had opened in 1966 at 17 Clifford Street, off Savile Ro
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QuoteRockman Micks white smock got massive press comments at thee time .... I have a recollection that the "smock" - aka short white dress - was actually intended for Sammy Davis Jnr, and that he (Sammy) was might pissed off that Jagger had hi-jacked it. Does anyone recall that, or another version?
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QuoteTaylor1 Is that Princess Anne in photo 2 Yes. I think that she's now more correctly called The Princess Royal. (See )
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QuoteDeanGoodman When they're done with the Union Jack they just toss it across the chair? At least the flags are the right side up. The UK Consulate in L.A. always gets it upside-down. Flying the flag upside down is an international sign of distress. Arguably, it may be correct for the UK Consulate in LA to fly the flag in that manner. :-(
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QuoteDoxa Basically they sound like some Frisco hippie bands at the time, Big Brother or something - or, say, Blind Faith back home - jamming through the set (totally wild set list by today's standards), - Doxa A bit of my brain is telling me that the idea of the free show came about because Blind Faith had done their debut show at the same place about 2 weeks prior.....
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Quotefrankotero Not against AI but up to this point I don't think consumers have access to the good stuff. Imagine we had Peter Jackson capabilities the bootleg market would be flooded. Imagine indeed! Slightly off topic, but to reinforce your point, Peter Jackson now owns the original recordings of The Beatles at the Star Club. The Beatles KNOW this, and they are comfortable with him do
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Interesting. I have a legal DVD release of the Granada TV show which is only 52 mins, and that's also got a lot of background stuff on it. I tried to check how the two compare, but gave up when there was far too many bits in differing sequence to make it other than a mammoth life consuming task. I'm not really up to date on various re/re/re-releases. Has a fuller version of th
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I've always enjoyed the version of Brown Sugar that they did in this sequence of recordings. It's a backing track with Mick singing and somehow it really rocks (nearly as much as the Clapton version). At the very end, knowing that he's done a killer version, Jagger says ... "Gor Blimey!" Love it.
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Steelyard Blues is a truly great movie. One of the few movie I've seen when the audience stood and applauded at the end.
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QuoteEllipooh Mick did a weird thing humping thing from his knees towards the end of Satisfaction, did anyone else see that? Shades of the graveyard scene from Saltburn… Nothing Saltburn about it, but very reminiscent of moves from The Rock and Roll Circus when he's up close with the camera (taking attention away from Brian in his totally damaged state).
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Quotea bigger nut I applied Canada eTA last Thursday and its status no update. Almost 10 days. There are still more than 2 weeks to go. But anyone have same issue ? I got my last one within a couple of hours, so you are definitely right to be chasing this. Good Luck.
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What you've picked up is a typical (unfathomable) crib/copy of one YouTube posting by another. The original is at and is slightly more informative (as you'd expect from the actual auctioneer!) For the record, the auctioneer's web site is (I saw this about a week ago, but for the life of me I can't recall/trace where it was that I saw it. It may have been posted her
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RIP Chris Eborn. He certainly led us down a path that many of us have followed. We exchanged emails a few times many years ago. I shelve my books alphabetically by author. His book is filed under E for Eborn, not G for rip-off.
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