Nellcote, Villefranche sur Mer, July 2007

[zzubuzz]

"The Riviera Hippies"...Come and listen to story bout a man named Keith, big rock star but he had some rotten teeth, than U.K claimed they owed a lot of tax, his buddy Mick said "well I guess we gotta pack", for France that is,..The Rivera, big beaches, legal tittes.....huge yahts, (Tele riff goes here)...

[zzubuzz]

I think there should have been a t.v. sitcom "The Riviera Hippies"...Come and listen to story bout a man named Keith, rich rock star but he had some rotten teeth, than one day he got fed up with tax, his buddy Mick said "well I guess we gotta pack", for France that is,..Rivera, big beaches, legal tittes.....yahts, (Tele riff)...



[tweedy151]

good video, thanks for uploading! Exile continues to be the most fascinating album ever made imo.

[hpdrifter1]

Thanks, nice film...if I ever come into some cash I'm goona buy that place!!!

[hpdrifter1]

Thanks, nice film...if I ever come into some cash 'm goona buy that place!!!

[scallly64]

Does anyone know what "Nellcote" stands for? Wonder if it was the first Owners of this property..........Thx for posting this great footage.

[aarfeld]

I wonder if Keith or any of the others have ever been back in the intervening years for a nostolgic look around the old place. Who lives there now?

[IdolHans]

You should have taken a screwdriver and pryed the "Nellcote" sign off the gate! hahaha!

thanks for saving it for me!

[foxykazz]

i did a mini tour in 2006 i went to the stones gig in nice and then stayed at vilefranche for a week coudnt find nellcote so disapointed ill have to go back now i have address i flew back from france in time for don valley sheffield and two days later cardiff so i clocked up 3 stones gigs in 3 weeks in 3 different countries, Expensive... yes ! worth it........ of course! do it again ......... in a heartbeat best 3 weeks ever !

[kopaxanderson]

hi, what's the song of this vidéo plzzzz

[django030358]

Sweet Virginia, Exile On Main St.

[aarfeld]

@django030358: Although, it should be noted, they didn't actually record Sweet Virginia at Nellcote, though it appears on Exile On Main Street. It was actually recorded the previous year (1970) before they departed from England. It was recorded at Mick's country house, Stargroves, again using the mobile truck as they did in the summer of '71 at Nellcote.

[django030358]

@aarfeld, I know that as I collect Stones bootlegs since the mid seventies, but the song fits perfectly to the atmosphere of this place (and the clip) IMO.

[dkstryker]

who the heck even owns that place now? cuz they should totally make that into a ROLLING STONES MUSEUM!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! =)

[LoudOfficial]

exile on main street!!!

[goldenoriol]

Watching this vid for 1.000th time, I though that, in some way, that´s something like the Graceland of our generation...

[goldenoriol]

i must confess I´m absolutely jealous bout your 2007 vacations at the Cote d´Azur....Did you know if there´s anybody living there now? greetings from Spain...

[django030358]

Hi, Thanks for your feedback. It was big fun visiting this place. I wanted to go there since I read about the Exile sessions for the first time 30 years ago. I am sure that someone is living there but I have no idea who it is.

[huguenot40]

@goldenoriol some Russian guys had it for a while now its an Italian banker that lives there.The place was totally renovated,one guy has pictures,that place is a real mansion now!

[jaysfca]

Was there a week ago. Place is being refurbished on the outside and roof. A bunch of workers there.

Tricky to find but worth it. Took a good pic with the Exile LP resting above the Nellcote sign at the gate that is seen at 1:46

[knalter]

I was planning to go there sometime too, but it looks like you cannot have a peek around, can you?

[Thiskittenneveralone]

Looks like somewhere I saw in a movie

...if walls could talk, meow

[Ssssstones]

remind me the book of Robert greenfield; Exile on Main Street: A Season in Hell With the Rolling Stones ..

Excellent vid !

[Thiskittenneveralone]

It seems there was some heaven mixed in with the Hell... It produced Exile 10*

[LarryDaMetFan]

what a great video...where the greatest rock album ever recorded was recorded!!!!

[dutchdreams831]

Onl;y 8,000 views? Whats wrong with this world lol?

[goldenoriol]

Now it´s nearly 11.000 views, but the question stills being the same....

[dutchdreams831]

Really??????????Thats the real shit? fuccccckin a. Fuckin A. Fuck me. Scrapin' the shit off mt shoes and pickin up a bottle for all y'all....

[redwoodrebelgirl]

Sheee-it!!!

That was awesome!

I read "Exile on Main Street: A Season In Hell With The Rolling Stones" recently--and it was really cool to be able to put a visual to all the images that I had created in my head around the stories!

What an amazing time! What an amazing ALBUM!!!

Wish I had been there!!!

Thanks for posting and sharing this GREAT video!!!

[abracadabraca]

please..do you remember the villa house number?

please replay its important !

[django030358]

Hi,

20 Avenue Louis Bordes if I remember correctly.

Regards,

Wolfgang

[zorbazig]

Nice vid of your pilgrimage... Next stop: Chateau la Fourchette, near by the "Châteaux de la Loire", one of Mick J's houses... And Montreux, Switzerland, where they recorded too with their good friend Claude Nobs !...

[HOVMM]

@django030358 10 Avenue Louis Bordes to be exact...

[sandrajagger]

gracias!!!me hubiera gustado estar en las

grabaciones de exile..no pido nada!!!

rolling stones foreverrrrr

[ravensmead]

if they turned it into a recording studio they'd make a fortune!!!!!

[Exilemainstreet]

ravensmead, whoever owns the house already has a fortune.

[ravensmead]

yeah but i got the silver baby!!!! ha ha

[TheOutspan]

thanks for vid

im in Nice now and

going to visit it tommorow

[ForceRecon75]

Wow....thank you very much!

[abracadabraca]

great !

[Exilemainstreet]

I'm saving my money to buy Nellcote when I retire.

[candyfromstranger]

No chance, I don't sell it! ;~)

[satisfaction2000]

Who lives there now?

[zorbazig]

Probably some Russian maffioso...

[californiagrace68]

thanks, i was mistaken that Nellcote was gone. now the pilgrimage is back on!

[candyfromstranger]

Mmmhhh...ich rieche förmlich die warme Brise,

die vom Meer kommend sich mit der schwülen,

Rock'n'Roll-historisch schwangeren Atmosphäre

dieses Ortes vermischt und mich an meinen

eigenen Aufenthalt dort in den 80ern zurück Träumen läßt...der Song gibt ein Übriges dazu.

(Ha...außerdem bin ich 'in deutsch' viel poetischer;})

Alles gute für Dich und deine Familie und natürlich vielen Dank für's posten.

[Charliaeffchen]

A beautiful video, and a wonderful place, and a crazy summer the band and their families, friends etc must have had there. I´loved this are, I've been there (we also did a tour along the Cote d'Azur), and it was beautiful. And although we were very close,I didn't visit Nellcote, though, will do that next time, for sure!

Thanks for the video!

[kentucy9999]

One more comment. I once found The Stones the Andy Warhol "factory" days etc. endlessly fascinating. At 54 {they are 63 now} I guess a lot of the glamor has worn off as far as the hedonism and drug use. There were ALOT of casualties from that era. To me only the terrific music {from their younger days} survives. Geriatric rock bands do nothing for me. No youth.........not glamor.

[kentucy9999]

Looks like a nice place. The Stones looked for another place to record but were dissatisfied in their search so what began as a temporary thing {Nellcote} became....the thing. It has become legendary over the years but was probably pretty mundane for most of the Stones at the time. Recording can often be boring and time consuming. It takes two days to get one good minute. It was the last gasp as far as a youthful Stones is concerned. They were never youthful again.

[SISTERM0RPHINE]

Hah, Righteous. I wonder if it still has Nazi morphine in the basement...