The brilliant and inimitable Nicky Hopkins on piano, playing a great variation on the studio cut. Funny, I don't think the camera shows Nicky even once in the film clip. Oh well, those who know best, know that Nicky was the heart and soul of the early '70s Stones, just as his piano part was the heart of "Loving Cup."
@mittensleon Actually this IS the studio cut version of of Nicky Hopkins' piano part, exactly, and note for note. I know, because I listened to it for months while rehearsing this song on piano myself with my own band. This is the exact same piano track as on "Exile on Main Street" (except the album version fades earlier). I also noticed that Nicky's never shown in the video. They must have had a recording of Nicky's piano track playing in the background for them for this session/performance.
They arestill rehearsing and playing to a partial backing track BUT the look like they are having FUN? Imagine that writing a song that you enjoy playing just 'cause you like it! I Fucking LOVEThe Stones
Keith is just plain gorgeous here. And the lyrics, I think, are his. I think most of the stuff on Exile, aside from 'Tumbling Dice' was Keith's, wasn't it?
One band member said they would all lay around the chateau for days and then Keith would get up and look at someone in the band....I'm thinking maybe Bobby Keys?...and they would realize he had an idea and they were about to play.
Anyone with more Stones knowledge please jump in. I would like to know for sure.
@nestorian9 Hello stones fan :) yeah thats true, apperently he use to be up for days coming up with riffs and lines of lyrics for example "All down the line" he said to mick "I hear it coming, all down the line" then mick would finish it off :) the exile on main street album is the album if i knew id be stranded on a desert island i would bring :O such a variety on it, with acoustic, blues, pure rock n roll! Happy and rocks off are my fave tracks :) wbu?
Oh yeah, I just found out that the third song they played in their 'Goat's Head Soup' TV promo was 'Silver Train'. They always did three songs for those shows, which I already saw and mentioned about 'IORR'.
FatPie123 the lead vocals are live but the music is all from the actual recording on exile. plus, look at charlie watts, usually he's not even doing the fills when you hear them in the music. and where is the horn section? still awesome nonetheless.
Yeah, I've saw them do that in the promo videos for 'Goat's Head Soup', where they played 'Angie' and 'Dancing with Mr. D', and 'It's Only Rock 'n' Roll', where they played 'Ain't Too Proud to Beg', ''It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)' and 'Till the Next Goodbye'. The singing from Jagger, Richards and Taylor was all authentic (you can hear the slight differences in sound from the recorded versions), but the instruments were all dubbed via backing track.
For me, the two most hilarious things about those videos (which continued on, with promos for songs like 'Start Me Up' in 1981) were:
1) Watching the Stones try to keep a straight face while pretending to play their instruments (for instance, at the start of 'Angie', Charlie Watts nearly cracks up with laughter at having to fake hitting his drums, with the camera never focusing on him as a result, due to the obviousness of him not actually playing them and drumming the air instead!)
I get what they were trying to do. I know they couldn't get Jagger to just mime along to his own songs (either because he found it far too ridiculous or the songs would seem way too fake that way), and I suppose the idea was that there could be a sort of 'live' performance with Jagger et al. singing but without the rawness or mistakes of the band playing by using a backing track (thus also making it a proper preview for the songs on the record), but it just ends up looking very awkward.
@FatPie123 that trombone at the end sounds terrible!!!!! Fuck that, sounds like the Joe's garage band from frank zappa!! Jagger: whats he care!! Hes way over the top always....he shot out of his mamas womb dancin and prancin, shuckin and jivin
@awhiteman1986 Yeah. I think it legitimized their legacy to a large degree. They always wanted to be a real blues band, but, of course, they were more a boy's band for a while. The really good musicians bowed out very early as they were forming and left the stage for the pretty Mick and Keith. Keith was really into the old music and making real music. Mick was the performer---and a good one. They wouldn't have made it without his good looks, stage skill and business sense. But it's Keith's band.
Whell..FatPie....Although Jagger&Richards are singing live here with the tape,,especialy near the end you can hear the whole orchestration,and you can see nobody's playin' anymore.
This is definitely a setting for some Exile promo.
(Charlie also starts grinning on the 'Start Me Up' promo too, still air-playing the drums 8 years later!)
2) The sound of instruments playing on the backing tracks for the songs that clearly aren't being played by the band, or by anyone for that matter! For instance, there are a phantom piano and mandolin playing with the Stones on 'Till the Next Goodbye', despite neither the players nor the instruments appearing anywhere on stage! Strange indeed...
Gimme a little drink from the furry cup.
paulfield1 1 week ago in playlist Stones
I love how Keith isn't wearing a strap ! "and I know I play a bad guitar"" :D. Who knows if it was Jagger or Richards who wrote this masterpiece ???
doyadoyawannadome 1 month ago
Qué complicidad se les nota a Mick y a Keith en esa época, qué pena que su relación se haya ido deteriorando tanto con el paso del tiempo.
honkytonkwomen69 3 months ago
How cant you like this?
HABILUSJIM 5 months ago
My 2 fave Micks EVER.
crazycatlady68 7 months ago
what a beautiful buzz....beautiful
dwags2424 7 months ago
The brilliant and inimitable Nicky Hopkins on piano, playing a great variation on the studio cut. Funny, I don't think the camera shows Nicky even once in the film clip. Oh well, those who know best, know that Nicky was the heart and soul of the early '70s Stones, just as his piano part was the heart of "Loving Cup."
mittensleon 8 months ago
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and then there is the brass section ...
khris98hsv 7 months ago
@mittensleon Actually this IS the studio cut version of of Nicky Hopkins' piano part, exactly, and note for note. I know, because I listened to it for months while rehearsing this song on piano myself with my own band. This is the exact same piano track as on "Exile on Main Street" (except the album version fades earlier). I also noticed that Nicky's never shown in the video. They must have had a recording of Nicky's piano track playing in the background for them for this session/performance.
Entertainer114 2 months ago
the bass kills me. thanks for uploading this <3
vsister 8 months ago
Stones made the music that is the sound track of my life. They simply are the greatest rock band of all time.
jbstonesfan 11 months ago
Where I can find sheet music for this song.
shenshak 11 months ago
They arestill rehearsing and playing to a partial backing track BUT the look like they are having FUN? Imagine that writing a song that you enjoy playing just 'cause you like it! I Fucking LOVEThe Stones
andy65guitar 11 months ago
Keith is just plain gorgeous here. And the lyrics, I think, are his. I think most of the stuff on Exile, aside from 'Tumbling Dice' was Keith's, wasn't it?
One band member said they would all lay around the chateau for days and then Keith would get up and look at someone in the band....I'm thinking maybe Bobby Keys?...and they would realize he had an idea and they were about to play.
Anyone with more Stones knowledge please jump in. I would like to know for sure.
nestorian9 1 year ago
@nestorian9 Hello stones fan :) yeah thats true, apperently he use to be up for days coming up with riffs and lines of lyrics for example "All down the line" he said to mick "I hear it coming, all down the line" then mick would finish it off :) the exile on main street album is the album if i knew id be stranded on a desert island i would bring :O such a variety on it, with acoustic, blues, pure rock n roll! Happy and rocks off are my fave tracks :) wbu?
MrRollingStone72 11 months ago
@MrRollingStone72 'Just Wanna See His Face' it's like 20 years ahead of its time
loserbabysowhydontyo 9 months ago
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easyrider332 1 year ago
That's Hopkins on piano, for sure.
nathanscott76 1 year ago
Glimmer Twins on fire. Some of their very best.
Twotontessie 1 year ago
Thank you for posting the orginal audio with this classic footage!!!!!!
lickss 1 year ago
i think it would prob be ian stewart on piano
DrSquidley 1 year ago
Thank you for this video. It's my favourite song! I am from Russia. Russians love Rolling Stones too!
tankia1 1 year ago 4
@tankia1 A rockin hello from the states!!!
lickss 1 year ago
fantastic piano
gards2 1 year ago
The first time I got this album. I rocked it hard for about 6 months straight.
Amazing.
kingofthedeep 1 year ago 3
black fucking woman dutu dut ^^
mr931126 1 year ago
ouh yesfuckin'awesome,they changed my life.......
MrHiwatt1974 1 year ago
I love KEEFS voice in this!!!!!!!!
myangelmyall 1 year ago 21
@myangelmyall you should hear him on Dead Flowers played live during the "Ladies and Gentlemen" concert. he's amazing there as well
rolodexroulette 1 year ago
@rolodexroulette I know!! I have it. He is very amazing LOVE HIM!!! ;) xx
myangelmyall 1 year ago
what a beautiful buzz! what a beautiful buzz!
JessicaTowery 1 year ago 18
Oh yeah, I just found out that the third song they played in their 'Goat's Head Soup' TV promo was 'Silver Train'. They always did three songs for those shows, which I already saw and mentioned about 'IORR'.
FatPie123 1 year ago
This may look live ,but isn't.
They're playing with an out take session tape.for a planned live promo film.
Doesn't antimatter,it's magic all the same.
PAULLONDEN 2 years ago
How do you know that?
FatPie123 2 years ago
FatPie123 the lead vocals are live but the music is all from the actual recording on exile. plus, look at charlie watts, usually he's not even doing the fills when you hear them in the music. and where is the horn section? still awesome nonetheless.
jjr5179 2 years ago
Yeah, I've saw them do that in the promo videos for 'Goat's Head Soup', where they played 'Angie' and 'Dancing with Mr. D', and 'It's Only Rock 'n' Roll', where they played 'Ain't Too Proud to Beg', ''It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)' and 'Till the Next Goodbye'. The singing from Jagger, Richards and Taylor was all authentic (you can hear the slight differences in sound from the recorded versions), but the instruments were all dubbed via backing track.
FatPie123 2 years ago
For me, the two most hilarious things about those videos (which continued on, with promos for songs like 'Start Me Up' in 1981) were:
1) Watching the Stones try to keep a straight face while pretending to play their instruments (for instance, at the start of 'Angie', Charlie Watts nearly cracks up with laughter at having to fake hitting his drums, with the camera never focusing on him as a result, due to the obviousness of him not actually playing them and drumming the air instead!)
FatPie123 2 years ago
I get what they were trying to do. I know they couldn't get Jagger to just mime along to his own songs (either because he found it far too ridiculous or the songs would seem way too fake that way), and I suppose the idea was that there could be a sort of 'live' performance with Jagger et al. singing but without the rawness or mistakes of the band playing by using a backing track (thus also making it a proper preview for the songs on the record), but it just ends up looking very awkward.
FatPie123 2 years ago
@FatPie123
Also mick Taylor having a good strum on his les paul in the middle 8 when there is no electric track in that bit!
louisguitarslinger 1 year ago
@FatPie123 that trombone at the end sounds terrible!!!!! Fuck that, sounds like the Joe's garage band from frank zappa!! Jagger: whats he care!! Hes way over the top always....he shot out of his mamas womb dancin and prancin, shuckin and jivin
ioriorioriorio 1 year ago
@ioriorioriorio That's because it's a sax!
TheQueenb888 1 year ago
@ioriorioriorio i hate you my favorite ablum ever
awhiteman1986 1 year ago
@awhiteman1986 Yeah. I think it legitimized their legacy to a large degree. They always wanted to be a real blues band, but, of course, they were more a boy's band for a while. The really good musicians bowed out very early as they were forming and left the stage for the pretty Mick and Keith. Keith was really into the old music and making real music. Mick was the performer---and a good one. They wouldn't have made it without his good looks, stage skill and business sense. But it's Keith's band.
nestorian9 1 year ago
Whell..FatPie....Although Jagger&Richards are singing live here with the tape,,especialy near the end you can hear the whole orchestration,and you can see nobody's playin' anymore.
This is definitely a setting for some Exile promo.
PAULLONDEN 2 years ago
I see. Thanks for the info.
FatPie123 2 years ago
(Charlie also starts grinning on the 'Start Me Up' promo too, still air-playing the drums 8 years later!)
2) The sound of instruments playing on the backing tracks for the songs that clearly aren't being played by the band, or by anyone for that matter! For instance, there are a phantom piano and mandolin playing with the Stones on 'Till the Next Goodbye', despite neither the players nor the instruments appearing anywhere on stage! Strange indeed...
FatPie123 2 years ago
Beautiful Mick and Keith and Ron and Charlie and Mick
kccolicchie 2 years ago
@kccolicchie ron ????? he isn't even there ???
goonchistaw 2 years ago
yes, sorry, too much wine
kccolicchie 2 years ago
@kccolicchie ha ha , double vision ?
thx .
goonchistaw 2 years ago
@kccolicchie It's not Ron Wood, it's Bill Wyman. Anyone know who the other musicians are? I'm assuming it's Nicky Hopkins on piano.
TheQueenb888 1 year ago
@TheQueenb888 Horns JIm Horn and Bobby Keys I assume.
lickss 1 year ago
just how good are this band ? too good !
goonchistaw 2 years ago
One of their best songs.
standupstella 2 years ago
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I can never get enough of this
VIRGINIAJAGGER 2 years ago
what a beautiful buzzzzzzzz ...Love this song!
Ladyfooo 2 years ago
esses foram e sempre serão, maior banda que já existiu nessa porra de planeta!
alvarosantiagoferrei 2 years ago
Que lindo ver a Mick y a Keith cantando en el mismo micrófono, cuando eran amigos de verdad.
argiovi 2 years ago
Danke schön !!! Ich hatte schon von Mick Taylor gehört, aber ihn nie in der Gruppe gesehen.
Stones forever !!!
humbahumbateteree 2 years ago
Was hatten die Stones da für einen Gitarristen? Kann man nicht so genau erkennen, trotzdem, 5 Sterne fürs Video und tausend Dank !!!!!
humbahumbateteree 2 years ago
mick taylor. was besseres kam nicht nach ...
jowahl 2 years ago
It really doesn't get much better than this.
Sailormomz 2 years ago
f*****g awesome.
TangerineTangerine 2 years ago
Rolling Stones 4ever!
OldSchoolBR 2 years ago