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welcome back with open arms to the making of the Rolling Stones Beggars Banquet album

part two

I had no idea where part two was gonna go and as I dove deeper and deeper it just got

longer and longer and it's really about the album cover photo session and Sympathy for

the Devil and godar's movie and how it was made and information about it a lot of details

to break this down along with the song the lyrics the music you can enjoy this you go

sit back and relax and those of you who are donators thank you thank you I have a message

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PayPal as this takes a hell of a lot of work for me thank you [Music] pleased to meet you

[Music] [Applause] [Music] first thing I want to mention is I was called out on something

from a fellow YouTuber who I respect and I had to dig deep as they pointed out Ry Cooter

was not with the stones in 68.

and not playing with them and not at the Redlands until 69.

this also includes Anita's story which would take place in 69.

I did point out that I was not sure the timeline so this is a full correction to make sure

I got it right because I do take everything seriously so also there were pictures of Ry

Cooter at the Redlands that was 69.

so we got that straight and just want to make sure you the viewers knew this the two folks

that helped me out with this was the Brian Jones resource YouTube channel I've talked

about him before does a great job and also there's a new podcast out called the Ry Cooter

story and who else would know besides Rye I talked to him also and got some information

and I found out the connection on how rye and Jack Nichi and how they met Rye met Jack

while he did work for Terry Melcher looks like in 1967 while working as a studio musician

with the band called The gentle soul that's what we hear in the background Jack also worked

on the tune and it's called Tell Me Love Now Terry Melcher he was a California record producer

known for the Beach Boys the birds he did plenty of work and contribution to rock and

roll music and other things Jack would use Rye for so many sessions of working he would

not get credit for much of it though he's even on the monkeys album called Head as we

go along this tune also includes Neil Young on guitar it's pretty sweet well Wright was

also contributing to the movie candy but it was rejected so he did about 20 albums and

singles all together between 68 and 69.

working like I said in the studio all the time he could not even remember who he worked

with the day before he would just go in and leave sounds similar to like what Jimmy Page

did in the early 60s and he was just on the low visibility end [Music]

going to introduce you to a new character in The Stone sessions Phil Brown it was George

jakayans that would introduce Phil to Glenn Johns Phil would work as a tape operator an

assistant engineer and be at the stone sessions in June Phil being young and green would pick

up so much while working with Glenn he would work with Glenn with traffic and small faces

and the move in February of 68 working on traffic's new album Phil has a book out are

we still rolling Studios drugs and rock and roll a book that talks about his experiences

and the stone sessions among others so Phil has a drawing that he made a layout of the

studio shown here which shows the studio and the control room

we did become more familiar as we did see goddard's movie Sympathy for the Devil what

the studio did look like it was Phil's first time he'd be working with the stones as a

new Outsider he would say how easy it was and how friendly Bill Charlie and Brian were

no egos Phil mentions how Brian was rumored to be drinking two bottles of scotch a day

single Mall he talked about how he observed brine being somewhat depressed state of mind

and that he would spend a lot of time crouched on a low chair in his Booth hunched over his

guitar which he held high on his chest it looked like he was having a difficult time

keeping up in what was going on or even breathing properly Phil wouldn't really communicate

with Mick or Keith Nikki however was an absolute sweetheart he said he would say he was mellow

and relaxed and a real gentleman each song would have a run through at first and rehearsed

with Brian Mick and Keith then Bill and Charlie would come in when the verses in chorus were

agreed upon as we have seen in goddard's movie at that time frame using Studio Effects were

not available so they would have to work at the source itself for recording they would

try out a few guitars and amp sounds and also microphones at various locations in the studio

just to get it right

the band would really Define their future and come into their own in this time period

a true personal growth spurt with this very young band

and they have grown quickly out of oldham's Pop mold and have the seeds start blooming

quickly into what will Define the stones as the best rock and roll band in the world so

they're in Olympics still working towards the end of the sessions with one more tune

to develop but more on that later now remember Christopher Gibbs from the inner circle the

one that was decorating mixed Chelsea pad during the summer of 68 well Chris is the

one to come up with the album's name and theme they played around with tramps mush-up so

Along Comes the photo session to meet the album's image Chris would do the assistance

too on this photo session set

so now the time is Friday and Saturday June 7th and 8th keeping in mind the album's expectation

for release now was going to be mixed 25th birthday July 26th the location of the shoot

was sarum Chase Hamstead Northwest London Sam Chase was the home of the artist painter

Frank O Salisbury the home was a neo-tutor mansion built in the 1930s when Salisbury

passed in 62 the house was handed over to the British Council of churches they sold

it so at this exact time period I'm not sure who owned it but this is where the photo shoot

started

[Music] it was known photographer Michael Joseph that was big in the advertising world

with clients like Nivea Benson and hedges Christie's Pirelli Malaysian Airlines and

Schweppes to name a few

but what got him the gig was an ad he had in 1965 for White Horse Scotch whiskey it

was posted all over London and it had a real white horse in the picture

Michael had arrived at sarum Chase early he had art director Michael Peters with him and

was setting up the set with props and some real food and also with Christopher Gibbs

now it's thought that this photo shoot was inspired by a scene in a 1961 movie viridiana

by Louis Bunnell

it was a scene called Beggar's Banquet and as you can see here different beggars but

the feels the same

so the lighting was set and placed perfectly and Michael was talking to the animals that

were on the set there was goats sheep cats three dogs he had a megaphone sort of like

that old-time Hollywood producer

so the banquet table was set there was wine added also and the whole dinner was laid out

on that medieval banquet table it was ready

they would have only two hours to do this shoot the stones would all arrive on time

at 11AM

the band was given choices of clothing to wear they would be ready in about 10 minutes

Mick dressed as a swell a person of high social position Charlie is a stable groom and the

others were just medieval no makeup was applied Michael had positioned each Stone he would

also talk about this shoot in an article in the guardian how Brian was having fun playing

with the labrador dog Keith with his dog of choice Michael had put out a real Bowl of

Cherries and he caught the goat eating it

got some wonderful shots as we see capturing the moments the band was very cooperative

and all finished on time as we know this was the idea for the gatefold

the next day's shoot was to be in sworkstone Hall Pavilion that was in Derbyshire Mick

would ask Michael if he and his girlfriend his wife to be would want to drive with him

and Marianne up to the Pavilion this was about a two-hour Drive and it was at a 17th century

site Michael would say that this location was scouted and chosen as it had the look

sort of a derelict look with the windows now the original intention were these photos were

going to be for the album cover front and back

so they were going to start off with the back cover first Stones would be playing Cricket

in a grass field and then they would add a white three-legged piano as a prop the stones

playing Cricket is highly unlikely I believe Brian though played when he was younger but

it was a tongue-in-cheek shot then on to the front cover photo of them just lying in the

grass in front of the old Pavilion they would add some smoke now some police would arrive

thinking it was a fire but they would be greeted by the mock setup they would leave before

Michael thought of using them as props and I read in an interview of Michael another

one by Michelle Bob Paris he said that while they were doing this shoot Mick thought of

the idea not to use any of these photos for the front or back of the album

Michael had a photo made from the first day shoot and he brought it with him the he wanted

to have the band sign it well he had a chance he used the Kodak kodolith film which is a

super high contrast 35 millimeter black and white he also used a hasselbad top of the

line camera but Mick saw this photo and he grabbed it he snatched it away from Michael

and he loved it he wanted it for himself

actually Mick gave Michael another promo picture and had that signed but Mick saw it as it

was in black and white and he did feel it was a little bit dull so he took this photo

with him and it was Tom Wilkes that had added that old style photo coloring technique onto

the faces Tom was an art director and partner with photographer Barry Feinstein more on

that later I want to now bring in mix brother Chris Jagger I don't want to take away from

his wonderful seven minute piece on YouTube I'm gonna post a link to it and you could

watch the full length

but he takes a visit to the photo shoot site as it is today and you hear the stories from

fans also talks to Michael Joseph Chris mentions that the Pavilion it can be rented out to

stay in as we know that great Hits album Hot Rocks three years later in 71.

we get to use a photo from these sessions

and it open hand or better yet a huge hug to Marianne she was the Catalyst for this

next tune among others we have a new character Lucifer not regarding a lifestyle or a partner

in crime but he is used as a metaphor the representation of the dark side of humanity

Mick would mention in 1995 in Rolling Stone about Sympathy for the Devil being an inspired

by a French poet Charles budler but it is then acknowledged that it was brought on when

Marianne would buy Mick a book this is not new news it's definitely out there but for

those who don't know enjoy this book was written by a Russian author Mikhail bolgerkov he was

born in Kiev in 1891.

the book is the Master and Margarita this novel was written over the time period of

1928 to 1940 shortly before his death it would be considered a masterpiece by some in Russian

literature the manuscript would not be found until 1966.

a censored Russian version was published in 6667.

I will supply you a brief description of the book's premise to get a feel for what Mick

read and what was inspiring to him there is a lot going on in here so many twists so many

little subplots and information so two men the writers authors are sitting and discussing

one of the other men's poems they're sitting on a bench in Moscow and one man is criticizing

the other saying he made Jesus look to be too real in his poem now both these authors

or atheists and so the other writer defends his story saying Jesus was not real and never

existed they were then interrupted by a foreigner someone named Wallen yes this was Satan he

introduces himself and says he was there he witnessed what went on between Jesus and Pontius

Pilate and the sentencing and execution he also would say to one of the writers that

they're going to die that day from a decapitation by being thrown under a train and he did what's

really interesting is how this story does not reveal the devil as an evil character

the story takes place in Jerusalem Biblical times but opens up in Moscow in the 30s the

book contains an array of mysticism vanity greed and forthrightness of the Soviet public

this story has so much deep meaning and drama and twists that I'm stopping right here

mix mind expansion with intellectual achievement he started his quest in developing an acoustic

folk song

so what does Mick gather from all this well he introduces an aristocrat type version of

the devil he's laying claims to historical tragedies like the Russian Revolution SARS

Bolsheviks Lenin massacres the Hundred Year War World War II and of course the Kennedys

Mick would say the song is more about the darker side of man and is not a celebration

of the devil at all they the stones would be accused of devil worship of course and

corrupting influence on the youth gotta remember the last album and what that was called Mick

is just pointing out the evils of mankind but it gives the listener an actual finger

pointing to one culprit bottom line it represents humanity and its evils Charlie said the first

time he heard Mick's new song in the front foyer of his Sussex home they were having

dinner and Mick was there Mick played the entire song as the sun was setting and Charlie

thought it was fantastic the title was the devil is my name now the original title that

I am hearing also is Fallen Angels Jean-Luc godar he wanted to make a film about abortion

in London but an abortion Act was just legalized and passed so it scratched that idea so he

was discussing with producers in London coming over there and he would want to work with

the Beatles or the stones now it takes so much time to break down godar and reveal why

and how he's one of the greats and respected directors out there during this time a French

New Wave looking for a new method of expression and freedom he had an improvised style along

with radicalism and some films without a script our great producer Jimmy Miller had a friendship

connection with a talent agent MIM Scala Beggar's connection is mim introduce Jimmy to the band

family and as I mentioned Jimmy went on to produce them Jimmy had played MIM an early

version demo of Sympathy for the Devil there is another scenario of events that is not

archived by timeline so I could only piece it based on my observations godar was filming

the riots and the protests that were going on in Paris and MIM was in Paris also he knew

godar and his work and he had a conversation with godar at dinner godar was not aware of

the London protest scene that was going on concurrently men must have known godar wanted

to make a new film when men returned to London he sent godar a demo the one that Jimmy gave

him of Sympathy for the Devil and he also sent him some Beatles albums MIM then received

a letter from the producer of godar that he wants to make a movie with the Beatles or

the stones as I said before MIM just naturally asked for a script the producer writes back

the film will have a beginning a middle and an end but not in that order so MIM brought

the idea to John Lennon and he thought okay this might be cool godar was thinking about

a film about Leon Trotsky the Marxist revolutionary from 1905 and 17.

opposition to Stalin it would Star John beetles will meet godar for two meetings for this

film eventually Lenin turned him down and was very suspicious of godar so mem had also

brought the idea to the Stone's ancient Sandy levison who passed it on to Mick and everyone

else well they just said let's do it not sure what they were going to do but they wanted

to move ahead and they wanted godar Keith would call him JLG in life and would say that

he looked like a bank Clerk will eventually godar would say that he really wanted to work

with the stones more they were perceived as more anarchists given their past drug busts

now there is a tie-in for the stones with godar in 1966 he made a movie called made

in USA and it had Marianne in it and she does sing

[Music] I sit and watch as tears go by

Mick had mentioned that there was a lot of meetings with the heads and godar to have

him identify what this movie was about there was no real sign to identify this quote our

tribe but he couldn't paint the picture or objective he just said he wanted to create

a new Cinema convert political dialect into film Scripts you can imagine the stone sitting

there in a meeting and hearing this and saying okay okay okay but still they had no idea

and still no one had a clue godar would want to leverage the stones working on a song in

the studio and use that as a metaphor for growth beginning and see how it progressed

he then would want to intermingle contrasting scenes of radical destruction versus the construction

which was the song while the producers of what was to be the abortion film had gotten

two financiers for godark the two were Ian Courier a novice producer and an actor and

director and then also the son of an English Lord one of the England's richest men Michael

Pearson so the connection Ian did know Marianne through her theater connections the budget

for this movie was a hundred and eighty thousand pounds Godard would arrive May 30th to London

despite really wanting to stay in progress for the revolution and choose an unknown cinematographer

Tony Richmond for this project

well Tony Richmond he connected with the stones already he first met them while filming Jumping

Jack Flash and child of the Moon the promo videos with Michael Lindsay Hogg codard's

approach in filming was to film some bits and pieces then review it then decide what

to do next this is really in sync of how the stones approach their work also

so Tony Richmond was home in London when he got a call from an Eleni collard Elaine was

to be the producer of that abortion movie she didn't know Tony but asked if he would

like to talk about a movie She's producing so Tony got picked up in the Rolls-Royce limo

and he was drinking the cognac with Delaney and they would arrive at Cheyenne walk mix

house Tony and Laney went up the stairs and Tony mentioned how it reeked of pot ash Tony

walked in and the stones were just hanging lying around strumming a guitar what a scene

that must have been godar was sitting in this corner and Tony was kind of shocked godar's

assistant brought Tony over and introduced him and they both talked and they talked and

they went on through the night godar then excused himself to leave and his assistant

told Tony well Jean-Luc wants you to do it he wants you to go to Paris every weekend

for three weeks to discuss the movie shooting time wise this would have been a few weeks

before June 5th in May sometime and we know so much was happening in Paris they would

discuss how to shoot the stone sequences as they knew the ceilings that the Olympic Studios

were high Goddard had Tony go to the studio and shoot some black and white tests this

is mining cameraman and um what uh as a cameraman uh lighting her man operated is it the first

time yes and how do you find him what do you find it very different to other books well

yeah it's very different because everything is very immediate [Music] um there's really

virtually no camera rehearsals or anything like that uh what about the crew

you work with well yeah because we have um I mean normally one would have a camera crew

you'd have a lighting camera man then a camera operator Focus full of Clapper loader um on

this um he wanted me to operate myself which of course I find very exciting you know but

it's it's different it's unusual if I didn't do that um from the way we shoot I really

wouldn't really know what was going on you know I mean um because I say we just sit there

and this is right we shoot and if I wasn't operating myself I'd never know where the

lens was pointing I see and what's the problem about well it's about uh two parallel themes

of one's destruction the other one uh creation and does good old work closely with the order

scene very much to himself and they see very independent title director than normal I think

he's very independently now a contract was signed which would say that the film would

still go ahead if Brian was in prison following his trial on June 5th was the first day of

the shooting what was great about the shoot was that the stones were not performing for

the movie but they were doing it for themselves their natural behavior and the crew they were

just voyers we get a feel and peeking into the stones creative process in a studio of

how they piece a tune together never done before also there's not much footage of Olympic

Studios at that time so we get a real nice glimpse of where and how the next two albums

were created

the crew would shoot four nights in a row Glenn would help them out and set up an assist

with the audio being he knew with her all be positioned and this helped the crew out

tremendously make it said well it just so happened they caught us at a good time it

was any other days then it would have been a real boring session they covered the beginning

till the end of the song 32 takes of the folky version were filmed and worked on now the

biggest compliment of making this song it was tried six different ways six different

styles

we get to see the opening scene where Mick teaching Brian the structure on the acoustic

Nick with the Gibson Hummingbird Brian with the Gibson J 200 Charlie's fluffing around

his Kick Drum is miked and a cushion in his bass drum and Bill sitting so patiently they

worked on this also the night before after Keith just talked to Bill he walks over and

sits down with his Gibson Hummingbird an open D we see the Capo there and he's working with

the boys and they're playing along

s in and at the 323 mark at the police to meet you part we get a feel how dylanesque

this tune sounds right now

game [Music] at the 412 Park comes the part where it's more serious with Keith on the

Gibson Black Beauty he's feeling Out Of Tune standard tuning with Bill chugging along and

we get to hear and see Nikki at the Oregon yes I rode a tank held a generous rake he's

all ready we also get to see the control room as it looks really intense and Brian is in

this small acoustic space nodding his head to the Rhythm

555 Keith stops to express he cannot hear himself in the headphones the cans as Mick

relays this to the control room and [Music]

okay I thought that in the solo on the third on the fourth one instead of the is it that's

the way it's the way it sort of is you know the last verse is different like three verses

straight through and then the solo should start off very cool [Music] plenty of Trials

and noodling going on with Keith and we love the banter love to hear the banter Keith at

8 24 mentions that he wants to move amps and go through the small box as Better Sound foreign

[Music]

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what could Mick be talking to Nikki about

interaction scene at 9 47 when Brian asked Keith for a button match

at 10 25 we hear a solo of what is to become and Keith starting to feel a Groove he's locked

in till 11 minutes at 11 10 Keith is asked if he won't get nasty if he's asked to turn

his guitar down make answers back yes I will [Music] ask

yes I will

nice to meet y'all

[Applause] oh [ __ ] hell you gotta come on in that other bit Charlie

we got to see Bill playing the maracas there's also long stationary shots taken to Brian

from back of his head

should I make it a bit more alive a bit dead you know not clipped enough somehow as the

stones were recording Tony and godar had to do long takes so the band wouldn't get interrupted

so with Tony being the Director of Photography and handling the camera shots Tony had a four-wheeled

dolly for the slow panning shots gledar would say stop and wherever Tony was he would stay

on one image not knowing what he would find

now you see how brightly lit the room is keep in mind when going into a rehearsal or a studio

many musicians like the ambience low lighting dark for atmosphere and feeling this studio

looked like a Sun was shining through all the time the studio is vibrant colors so let's

just say Tony covered the ceiling with hundreds of photo floods hot lights and he covered

them with tracing paper for a softer top lighting I listened to Tony Richmond give some lectures

and another crew member and he were discussing something and continue talking as they went

downstairs to go to the bathroom at the studio they were in there having a pee then they

hear a terrific crash in one of the Stalls it out comes Brian Jones with his sleeve rolled

up he was holding a hypodermic needle and a string he had asked Tony if he can tie him

up he did and Brian went back in the stall and Tony just continued talking I'm sure many

Brian Jones fans are shaking their head now but I'm just the messenger here this was Tony

Richmond's experience at the 3134 mark That's where Mick says rode the tank in a general's

rank when the SS raids and the body stank

[Music] the tank held a generous

at 3212 this is where Mick says Kennedy in the singular fashion most of us know this

story and what it became plural the Kennedy version is from the second night the following

third night it was Kennedy's [Music] Shout It Out kill Kennedy when all the time I knew

it's just you and me we didn't get Keith just so relaxed playing a little tender Jam different

sounding guitar tune while mixing sympathy they have no idea how much this will change

[Music] just notice how relaxed the stones are they were into their world and they felt

good

foreign

[Music] if I was around with Jesus Christ at his moment down

it is about 46 minutes 21 seconds when we're brought into the samba riff and we get to

see Rocky and the Rhythm Section and Keith on his pumping Baseline Rocky's last name

was visit zornu but Keith gave him the name Dijon from Ghana

he played with Ginger Baker Stevie Wonder Billy Preston Joe Walsh Nick Drake

look at the control room everybody is up they know they're on to something here

[Music] at 51 minute Mark Jimmy gives his input you couldn't get a Groove happening

and you see Mick and Keith they're chuckling [Music]

yeah ready [Music]

oh Jimmy okay we'll try for a Groove

you wanna do another one um [Music] nice

it's a 52 minute Mark we see Mick's new friend co-actor from performance James Fox he noticed

he's getting films so he decides to walk away he was doing some character research

52 minute mark 's talking about a time before they must have had some kind of GrooVe that

he liked he's also singing I got no expectations

what's that all about

yeah what is that it's like completely different [Music] be ready [Music] I'm ready [Music]

I got now

[Music] okay

53-38 mark they know their Direction and mix as to let Rocky start it Rocky Style [Music]

at the one hour nine minute 40 second Mark who what and how does that woman that's sitting

get in this studio

mix leg now shows how much he needs to get this perfect hung around for a long long year

I've stole many a man's soul to baby I was ran when Jesus Christ had his moments about

a pain me damn sure the pilot washed his hands sealed his face

foreign but we also see their patience and respect for Jimmy

no I know but I just I don't have to be seeing a double time because the bass isn't playing

it but the rhythm's still playing it's so nice yeah

we get to see and hear the fabulous woo-hoos we gotta love Charlie not wanting to give

one of those who who's just standing there for the camera any other fellow that we see

at the 10 o'clock position that's Michael Cooper the photographer now was that Marianne

or Suki portier to the right of Brian he gives her a Gentle Touch of Love on her back [Music]

well Anita gives Keith a pack this is beautiful to watch and hear and see Keith leading and

directing [Music] he knows how critical this is and he directs the group

at the 114 19 Mark bring it up mick is so into this with his extra nervous energy

he gives his pure Master delivery I'm [ __ ] believable how he did this

at the 126 Mark they're playing a jam Glenn's discussing with Mick Charlie's feeling out

his oats and they discuss some direction Bill's still playing the tune on his acoustic notice

the bass leaning in the back

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at the 129.50 Mark I do believe this is Michelle Breton she's the one dressed in the suit and

hat Michelle was the second female alongside Anita in performance and I'm not sure who's

this in the purple pants

at the 135 Mark starts the end of the beginning First Cut is done

[Music]

now to fulfill the obligation of completing this one plus one movie of Goddard need to

discuss his destruction portion here's the connection of the stones and what Goddard

had in his mind we see a section outside black novel with red letters spelling love the man

sitting in the wheelbarrows reading from Eldridge Cleaver an autobiography called soul on ice

from 68.

Cleaver was an American black militant the book is about black alienation in U.S Cleaver

was involved in the shootout in April of 68 in Oakland between the Black Panthers and

the police

appeared in America so we hear the man in the wheelbarrow reciting about the blues of

the black man and working on convincing us into thinking that black music was exploited

by the white men English version of the Black Panthers actually hired actors from TV series

here that are portraying them we're filmed in a junkyard located at Lombard Wharf badassee

a Caucasian woman dressed in white brutalized a contrasting visual more political messages

including voice-overs of godars other passion and interest Marxism

now there's a long segment a woman wandering in the woods they're on location actually

on Tony Pearson's property producers

is a state she is being interviewed but with only responding with a yes or no her name

is Eve democracy representing political answers

this is actually godard's recent wife married in 67.

and do you think that a woman in the home today you think she is miserable yes

do you think the lower classes have more sexual Vitality than the upper classes yes she would

also be in several other scenes spray painting revolutionary slogans this was done real time

as they would drive around West London finding locations hopping out of the car and shoot

for a minute and race back in the car and move on this was real property damage they

were doing

then there's the shot of the bookstore Bodega it was full of Nazi propaganda men's porn

and comic books Mein Kampf is being recited

now patrons are entering the store they pick up a magazine or book and they exchange them

for a piece of paper it's Ian choir playing the role reading the mind comf

the patron will then walk over to two maoist hostages and slapped them in the face and

then give a Nazi salute and they would leave

the last scene is a beach scene with a bloody Urban gorillas it's eve democracy that collapses

and it's Goddard pouring red paint on her body as her bloody body is lifted up in the

crane that's the final scene this is the destruction all this well sympathy is playing in the background

I want to bring this about that a serious dramatic event would happen on the last night

of godar's shooting Tony Richmond admits this was due to his lighting that's what he would

say the hot lights on set actually set the Olympic Studio on fire at approximately 4

a.m while they were jamming the ceiling started on fire and falling down well Tony of course

and the crew were concerned about the equipment Stones were so high they didn't really give

a [ __ ] here's actually some footage that was taken by the crew but they didn't take

much at all and Tony would say he really wished that they focused on that fire that would

have been beautiful [Music]

[Music]

[Music] move everybody else in everyone escaped out and firemen came in and had to soak the

set and Equipment thanks to Quick thinking Bill and Jimmy to the tapes were saved prior

to this fire Phil Brown the assistant engineer he would mention when Mick was working on

his Vocal Track he saw Marianne write a message in red lipstick to Mick on the control room

window just very random it said burn baby burn and Mix A Lot just how bizarre that is

so while Mick was singing during the take there was a loud pop sound Mick looked up

to the ceiling and saw a little piece of paper floating down and so did more debris he stepped

to the side and he was just watching it fall everyone saw what was going on the action

was right above the piano the Hammond and the amps Phil had stopped the tape machine

and he said to Glenn I think we got a fire we gotta get out of here he and Glenn entered

the studio and now they saw the fire for real and saw how serious it was a bulb had set

fire to the Hessian burlap like fabric cloth and then the ceiling insulation caught on

where we shot the moon was Barnes recording student which had started its life as a cinema

and when they turned it into a recording studio apparently they had a sound pretty lots and

lots of Sawdust

and we were shooting one and then sudden it was like machine gun I was getting bang bang

bang bang bang bang bang all these lights started to explode and basically it happened

because it was wild gotta is fast now of course everybody went into major panic mode under

the stones something kept playing and then then they disappeared and then you know we

we try to turn the cameras up onto the fire but then we you know being professional Movie

Makers we the the most important thing was to get the cameras out which really I wish

we had I wish we'd have shot the fact that we've been rather exciting

Phil had talked about how he moved the mics away from under the fire the film crew moved

their equipment and turned off all the lights they could stones and Roadies would grab guitars

and move amps as the danger progressed it was only guitars and small lamps that were

saved the Hammond the piano and large amps would not make it out Glenn was the one that

called the fire department

Jimmy was very cool in this moment and he had his focus on one thing he had spooled

off the eight-track tapes and gathered the boxes of Masters he asked Phil to help carry

them out and to make sure all the other masters from the tape storage room were removed and

then when he's done call a cab Glenn was still talking to Godard in the studio still while

the fire was raging and while the fire department bringing in their hoses but they came in also

through the ceiling all fire escape doors now open and all have been evacuated after

Flames couldn't be seen from the street but the smoke can the fire was put out in 30 minutes

and under control and Phil and Glenn were allowed back in they went in of course the

smell was awful and there was a hole in the ceiling big enough you could see the sky outside

godar would catch up with Tony and he would tell him listen don't say anything but I'm

going back to Paris tomorrow morning and he was gone he was gone for two weeks and production

was stalled godar would return to London and finish those sprays painting scenes in London

so that hole in the ceiling it remained for about two weeks until they finished recording

the album's tones while they were recording they had to stop sometimes whenever a plane

flew over it was later found out that the studio had a load of sawdust in the ceiling

that was used to dampen the sound for the studio

and its ministers while Anastasia dreams in vain

Go to Tank hail the generous rank

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the opening of the movie Sympathy for the Devil was by Cupid Productions at one hour

39 minutes November 29 1968.

so the back story that's well known The Producers took their own Liberties to alter the final

version of the movie that Goddard completed Goddard was so annoyed at the ending as it

was unauthorized I inquire would change the title and also insert the full and completed

Sympathy for the Devil song the album cut the original title is one plus one kedar had

specific intentions of the ending by having an unfinished version of the song at the end

his artistic mind was in thinking that art is never finished there's no ending or it

should not be complete so godar was Furious and so critical of what the producers had

done to his work now his art is finished at the opening the inquire was speaking at a

Podium Goddard had gone up to the mic stand where Ian was and he punched him in the head

he wanted the audience to get their money back and to donate it to elridge cleaver his

defense fund guard had received his version of the movie from Tony Richmond he would say

at that Podium this is not my film my film is being screened outside he had arranged

for projectors outside he knew ahead he wanted the theater burned down however it was raining

outside the attendees would boo him and Goddard would end up calling them fascists eventually

Goddard would end up talking to Mick to see if he could influence the producers to put

back his ending of the version well this didn't happen

Tony Richmond knew a lot of people did not understand what this film was about creation

and destruction and that it's never finished Keith would write in his book life and he

mentions where was godar going no plan the film was a total load of crap he was surprised

as he said Goddard up until then was making well-crafted movies it's cocky and work in

the early 70s this movie was shown as a double feature along with Gimme Shelter so after

all that was said and done the star of the movie was the song and probably for most of

us Stones fans would agree now to the song and the lyrics narration exhibits narcissistic

Delight it recalls the escapades over the course of human history and the Dark Side

of mankind the opening lyrics are pretty obvious but pure 100 percent pure absolute sheer downright

Brilliance all of it the first lines were originally please let me introduce myself

ain't I a man of wealth and taste

let me introduce myself I'm a man also pleased to meet y'all these lines were grammatically

corrected it leads into the trial of Jesus

we have talked now with the Russian Revolution from 1917-18 and the Romanov family execution

especially the line Anastasia screamed in vain the revolution brought on the rise of

communism Anastasia being one of Tsar Nicholas's daughters supposedly not all the daughters

perished from the Bolsheviks killing an execution of most of the family World War II The Devil

is Incognito I wrote a tank held a general's rank when the Blitzkrieg raged and the bodies

stank Mick did have the prior lyrics as I mentioned in displayed earlier I wrote a tank

when the SS raids and the bodies stank

Blitzkrieg the meaning lightning war in German I mean a short conflict

I watched with Glee while your kings and queens fought for 10 decades for the gods they made

relates to the Hundred Year War atrocities of England and France in the 14th 15th century

as you can imagine this is one hell of a story in time

and on June 6 and June 7th when Mick sang Kennedy and changed it to Kennedy's

has sadly Bobby was assassinated not gonna go there but I'm just going to mention I did

have about two pages of stories of this topic for the Troubadours and for they reach Bombay

I'm just going to keep it brief here several discussions about this can't be sure of course

let's first understand what a troubadour means relating to music or poetry a composer or

a performer so we have some that think they represent the Beatles being they were just

in India there were robbers and killers and murderers also known as The thugi Cult hence

the term Thug they were assaulting Travelers on roads in India now also in the 60s many

hippies who took on the beatnik philosophy they would travel through these side roads

be robbed and violated these lyrics are ones that got them in trouble the lyrics are just

as every cop is a criminal and all the Sinners Saints this was totally misinterpreted by

many I metaphor and not meant for violence which is what folks would interpret it as

violence against police we know there's real tensions filling that time frame with police

in the world song would be banned by some radio stations and got criticism from the

law next time and a listener is warned however to be nice give some sympathy or he's gonna

turn so if you meet me have some courtesy have some sympathy and some taste use all

your well-learned politics or I'll lay your soul to waste

powerful effective and to the point let's confirm politests is politeness or etiquette

use all your politeness or I'll lay your soul to waste

so what do we got here we got Lucifer explaining all the interactions that he had throughout

history problem doesn't come from external entities but the devil is us mankind which

is why we keep hearing hope you guess my name it is you and I we are the devil and Evil

you know God changed the devil's name from Lucifer to Satan when he got expelled from

heaven Keith would say it's all about looking the devil in the eyes right in his face he's

there all the time evil people tend to bury it and hope it sorts out by itself and doesn't

rear its ugly head don't forget him if you confront him then he's out of a job that was

Keith's 2022 definition

it took a lot of balls to make this tune I should not really need to break this tune

down but will as it is just so [ __ ] good first off hatsoft Jimmy Miller for pulling

the album To Masterpiece level I've talked about his genius work plenty in several documentaries

remember Jimmy was about the groove this didn't happen by accident it would be Jimmy that

put the icing on many of these Tunes let me have some fun now playing some of the isolated

pieces of this tune I'm gonna kick off with little pieces of Nikki

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Keith's pounding pounding rhythm of bass I have to add this that when I hear this bass

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to get to hear some of Brian's acoustic strumming very low in the mix

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when you hear the opening of this tune it's so crisp so clear so simple so in front takes

our breath away mixed vocals are just so pure like a glacial stream and it's chilling we

hear is yells and then here the girls giggling for three seconds

please allow me to introduce myself I'm a man of Will and taste Rocky just doing his

thing Keith space and Nikki and the percussions it is so cool how the bass starts off so simple

and then goes into a rhythm Frenzy just like all the other instruments [Music]

not on the original but when I hear this isolated version of mix singing I just got to add this

doubt and pain me damn sure the pilot washed his hands and sealed his face oh and eventually

it goes into the woohoo's they come in they don't dominate used as a nice simple instrument

we all have that visual memory now with Keith leading them

identities after all yeah I'll bring this story up now with Anita she heard Jimmy talking

to himself in the control room Jimmy saying who you singing about Mick who who repeated

who who a few times Anita would tell Mick what just went on in the control room and

suggested to use that as backing vocals the stones tried it and after the first take it

would morph from the who who's to the wooz

I'd mentioned about with the who who's that seventh person in the group shot not Jimmy

Miller as many people say it is Michael Cooper's the seventh person Michael is mentioned throughout

and he needs a little attention he met up with Robert Fraser at the peak London swinging

times and became close with the stones and the Beatles and photographed plenty of their

early period some brilliant photos he even lived with Keith and Anita at one time he

did the sergeant pepper and satanic album covers sadly he would die of suicide from

depression and heroin Addiction in 1973 the age of 31.

at 2 48 we get that masterful Keith solo that cuts through like a hot blade through butter

it's so piercing this is proof again faster is not better

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at 3 23 that guitar all I could say is the Pow slide

thank you [Music] simple playing through the job no need for the blistering fast notes

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crashing around 4 33.

Mick and Keith They trade off solos 529 Nikki's piano is phenomenal belonging to mix falsettos

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mixed performance I can't even find words except to say it's Outsider Galaxy is delivery

is just pure genius rock and roll

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as we stop and think about this how could they cook this tune up and brought us their

version of Mozart this is another stamp of why the stones are the stones and the greatest

ever [Applause]

sympathy is the number seven all-time song the Stones played live 827 times

now as you see on this list really cool list from guest spectacular.com it shows Sympathy

for the Devil from 68 to 2022 on how many times it was played the black background is

the events the tours the amount of shows they played for each year and the red line shows

the sympathy how many times they played it on the tour you'll notice 1981 was one time

that was located in the Worcester Massachusetts

in 1972 they played it once in San Diego but there was a gap 72-73 78 81.

and as the years went on the tune to decline as the tour dates did also

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so there you have it part two as you can imagine there's more to come [Music] and as you could

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