Tuesday, March 18, 2008

The Rock and Roll Circus


A moment in time: December 11-12, 1968, London. Venue: The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. Remastered 2004 DVD edition.

Get to see John Lennon dancing around to a raw, stripped down version of "Sympathy for the Devil" (no chorus in the background) performed live just six months after the assassination of Bobby Kennedy ("he shouted out who killed the Kennedys . . . after all, it was you and me . . ."), same for "You Can't Always Get What You Want," fresh and new and not yet bludgeoned to death by radio overplay. Mick Jagger and the boys in fine style, Brian Jones' last public performance. Marianne Faithfull hiding under her hat in the final moments, having earlier done a solo number ("Something Better").


The Dirty Mac: Eric Clapton, John Lennon, Mitch Mitchell (The Jimi Hendrix Experience), Keith Richards. Also, Yoko Ono caterwauling . . . The Who waltzing through "A Quick One While He's Away," . . . Taj Mahal . . . Jethro Tull . . . Mick and Lennon bantering . . .

Thanks to my sister Vickie Stavish for giving me the heads up. I'd only seen snippets of it. The Stones alone are well worth seeing. . . Happy birthday, Vickie, and all those other birthday people!

Today's Rune: Harvest.

5 comments:

Joe said...

That sounds cool. I've never seen it, hadn't even heard of it before now. Thanks!

Pythia3 said...

Wow, I have to look for that DVD. What a time - what a culture.
Happy Birthday Erik's Sis!
Hope you had a happy, hearty harvest today.
:)

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Sorry about the double comment posting - I only hit the button once, honest! This thing, this blogger thing - it's alive!

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