Rock And Roll Circus rehearsals

[@marty6779]

God this version of Ruby Tuesday... The slower pace, Keith's beautiful acoustic, and (what i assume to be) Nicky Hopkins' piano.... Stunning.

[@w1lf1ewoo]

They certainly utilized Nicky Hopkins that year!

[@marty6779]

Who wouldn't, to be fair

[@w1lf1ewoo]

Brian being incapacitated brought out the best in Keith as a guitar player

[@lfader]

Agree his lead work was fast crisp aggressive ....

[@TheaterPup]

Only if you forget Brian on No Expectations.

[@w1lf1ewoo]

@@TheaterPup yes but thats irrelevant insofar as Keith was working up both guitar parts on pretty much everything else The Beatles called Clapton in in 68 even when they didn’t need him, perhaps the stones should have too

[@w1lf1ewoo]

No Exceptions is a beautiful exception ~ it must have been a sort of sixth-sense , swan song that made him show up

[@TheaterPup]

@@w1lf1ewoo Oh well regardless of drugs, Brian had lost interest in guitar. He’d started out with instruments like the clarinet, etc. So that did give Keith more necessity and opportunity to expand his own guitar skills.

[@noname1st139]

Love this, it's bitter sweet listening to Ruby Tuesday without Brian and his recorder, I resd he wasn't well enough to play that night, Very upset backstage, it's crazy how they're still doing the music,love them

[@hammer44head]

He was screwed up drinking brandy with Pete and Keith and who knows what all else he was on, he played a wonderful solo on No Expectations but couldnt play for shite on electric for some reason.

[@MrAschiff]

Bill sounds great on Sympathy

[@lfader]

Richard's lead work !! 🤗 Gem upload 🌟

[@MrChristopherMolloy]

Keith was on fire during these rehearsals!

[@jimcollins4239]

Better than the "released" versions that I have heard. Thanks!

[@spiritof6663]

Interesting, no? A lot of people were surprised by that version of "Ruby Tuesday" when it leaked. There has been some dispute on the recording date--some insisted it was an early outtake from its initial recording in late '66, others from sessions in the spring of '69--but the best experts on the subject have pinpointed it to the R'n'R Circus rehearsals in December 1968. It should have been in the film!

[@jimcollins4239]

It was nice. I liked thread guitar work throughout Sympathy rather than just a solo break.

[@spiritof6663]

@@jimcollins4239 Indeed!!

[@lfader]

​@jimcollins4239 Richard's continuous fills showcase his best lead work till '70 tour ...... Gem upload

[@emmanuelsantana3369]

fantastic

[@wkuiper1]

Very nice!

[@rossammellino9045]

Brilliant 👏

[@WolfKreide]

excellent

[@axxellein]

TRES Cool/Heavy

[@hammer44head]

Brian was a mess during R & R Circus cept a brilliant No Expectations hawaiin style slide and the end, one of my favorite scenes was Brian laughing at a very drunk Pete and Keith Moon during Salt of the Earth finale.

[@란후-v7n]

Was brian play a guitar in stray cat blues?

[@sergiomoron2519]

Impresionante, no se entiende algo tan bueno, nada más que decir

[@jamiecamarillo1995]

If rehearsal why does mick say Kennedy instead of Kennedy's Bobby died in june

[@BigSky1]

Two guitars on Stray Cat so either Brian or Mick. Probably Mick.

[@jamesbowen8960]

It definitely wasn't Mick

[@BigSky1]

@@jamesbowen8960Then it must be Keith overdubbed because I doubt it is Brian.

[@jamesbowen8960]

@@BigSky1 Me too. But Brian did play beautifully on No Expectations so you never know. He was certainly capable of playing good guitar at this point, No Expectations proves that. Despite all of the historical revisionism that followed.

[@BigSky1]

@@jamesbowen8960Brian’s slide on No Expectations is exquisite as is his playing on the unreleased ‘Still A Fool’ but playing slide and playing rhythm parts and lead requires different abilities. I don’t think Brian was that competent anymore on guitar to play this and I am not sure he was even interested in doing it. By all accounts at the RnR Circus rehearsals at the Londonderry Hotel the band had to get him to stop playing guitar because he was not coherent enough to tune it.

[@jamesbowen8960]

@@BigSky1 According to Mick and Keith. Who I don't trust. They' screwed Mick Taylor over also. They've taken credit for songs they didn't write also. They're not to be trusted.