Rolling Stones' Mobile Recording Truck | Inside Tour

A Calgary museum has acquired a mobile recording studio built for The Rolling Stones and used by rock titans ranging from The Who to Bob Marley.
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[@LIGHTintheHALLS]

The truck where Glynn Johns tracked The Who’s “Won’t get fooled again”! That truck is ground zero magic. ✨🔊🤠👍

[@ST-xg3gy]

Where is it now?

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

@@ST-xg3gy National Music Center, Calgary, Alberta.

[@KemptonLam]

This piece of mobile history is epic! :) 2:53 Oh Red, "Is that white powder there?" Red, you are awesome! :)

[@maxmoon2254]

“On the Lake Geneva shoreline-Making records with the mobile”

[@georgiethumbs2438]

Led Zeppelin 4 was recorded on that thing which to me makes it the Holy Grail of recording studios. Before one even thinks of entering it, one should be make to get on their knees and bow to show reverence.

[@dorian3260]

You know you're old when it was Louie Louie, not Smoke on the Water, that you first played on the guitar!

[@Rhs7715]

great! bravo! greetings from Argentina!

[@danmaltby3271]

That thing is history, original Helios console , awesome

[@nicolasblanckaert2035]

This is the console that made me stick to music I was 7, literally, recorded my ever favorite top 3 albums... Didn't know it at that time of course...

[@flyingburritobro68]

Some Sticky Fingers tracks recorded with the Mobile at Jaggers mansion Stargroves including the track Sway.

[@stephenpickells2003]

and Wild Horses was done at Muscle Shoals

[@grobbler1]

The original chassis and cab was a BMC truck, registration number FMK438J. The whole thing was painted in two-tone olive drab camouflage. In the mid-70's it was £1500 + VAT per week to hire.

[@ClassicTVMan1981X]

They changed it to a DAF F218 (F1600) in 1979, which had a more fuel-efficient turbocharged diesel engine.

[@babagandu]

3:35 shows it

[@bradgotch]

They used it for exile on main st when they left the UK and went to the south of France to avoid the massive taxes.

[@davidmellish3295]

I thought exile was recorded in the basement of nellcote (Keith's rented villa in the south of France) I know they had the truck there I've seen pictures but I always thought the record was recorded in nelcote not the truck

[@johngarbarzyk5549]

+ David Mellish. They recorded EOMS at Keith's house in France using the Stones Mobile truck. That is, the musicians were playing inside the house and the microphone cables ran into the truck where the mixing console and tape recorders were housed.

[@hazysativa3045]

This is astounding! This was for their live gig recordings and spontaneous locations.

[@mostlyharmless88]

Zeppelin 4 was recorded with this. One of THE greatest rock albums of all time, not to mention one of the most ground breaking productions at the time. STAIRWAY TO HEAVEN WAS DONE ON THIS FFS.

[@JohnBassarcticsoundstudios]

Wow that is so cool. Love it.

[@sebastian993]

And Deep Purple even mentioned it it in the song

[@1970pierino]

Fantastic, thank You!

[@ST-xg3gy]

Wouldn't Exile on Main Street be the most important?

[@doitnowvideosyeah5841]

Smoke night be even bigger than Stones

[@ST-xg3gy]

What a find!

[@ST-xg3gy]

@@doitnowvideosyeah5841 Got to be Exile!

[@acousticshadow4032]

@@doitnowvideosyeah5841 BS - only in your dreams, pal

[@clownpocket]

5:00 Let go of the Machine Head album. Now. Be excited for all the albums that have been made with the truck, not the ones that will be made. They will never top any of it.

[@clownpocket]

Mark Vestibule 😂😂😂

[@massapower]

ANALOG BABY!!!😎👍🏻👍🏻

[@goodun2974]

"What other recording studio has made so many records that touched hundreds of millions of people?". Sound City. See the documentary movie!. Dave Grohl now owns that legendary Neve console.

[@doitnowvideosyeah5841]

Studio B in Nashville

[@goodun2974]

@@doitnowvideosyeah5841 , FAME studios, and Muscle Shoals, certainly deserve credit as well.

[@maltycultural7793]

Abbey road?

[@goodun2974]

@@maltycultural7793, Off the top of your head, can you name any famous bands besides the Beatles that recorded in Abbey road? I can't. Sound City and the other studios mentioned here had dozens if not hundreds of famous bands cut records there.

[@maltycultural7793]

@@goodun2974 Don't get me wrong, I love the albums that have come from the truck, but how many hundreds of millions of people have listened to the Beatles?

[@EricWGagnonEZE]

I got the Black Lips started with my 16 track mobile studio!

[@imannonymous7707]

I thought he was gonna say I can smell the weed lol.....good job CBC I enjoyed seeing this

[@onqfilm]

Great clip!

[@ChrisDN]

3:18 - A hundred thousand sphinchters all clench at once.

[@markruane3660]

Thats where 2:50 keith had his cocaine so in between recording songs he could relax until they were ready to record again!!!

[@goodun2974]

Mark Ruane, cocaine isn't "relaxing".

[@markruane3660]

@@goodun2974 It is to the people who use it.

[@boris2342]

analog is coming back

[@davebroad642]

Black and Blue.

[@davebroad642]

@ "Just a momentita!"

[@FromTheRoomOfLittleEase]

With respect: One thing you can try is playing the riff correctly. It's not on the E string, it's a double stop (both strings played together simultaneously on the same fret like how Chuck berry starts a rocker such as "Oh Carol" or "Johnny B. Goode") on the A and D strings. The rest of the "chord" is produced by John Lord's organ throughout the song, but Richie can clearly be heard playing the very dissonant double stop (that kind of mocks the sound of an organ naturally) in the first four bars at the opening. (If anybody can remember the theory term for that natural "chorus" or organ-like effect when two strings...overtones?... waiver?...I'd love to hear it, after starting to make this comment I keep thinking 'what is that called' but can't remember for the life of me, maybe it's not the overtones, maybe it's the frequencies cancelling each other out or something, I can't remember, heh)

[@terebrate]

"phasing" ? or flanging ?

[@FromTheRoomOfLittleEase]

@@terebrate Yeah, that's the kind of thing I intend...phasing maybe...I could swear there's a more technical term though, but I can't remember. You're definitely on the same page here, maybe it is called phasing, I should look that up since I have this device in hand, huh.

[@tomkent4656]

Powered from a single phase outlet?

[@peterthart531]

Try the riff in G....

[@divingduck1970]

Thank you.

[@doitnowvideosyeah5841]

Well nobody plays itvright cause it needs to be plucked with fingers not pick

[@garyjones7044]

@@doitnowvideosyeah5841 i pluck the strings with my thumb and four finger but I'm pretty much a nobody.

[@doitnowvideosyeah5841]

@@garyjones7044 well you are doing it right then...:)

[@doitnowvideosyeah5841]

@@garyjones7044 Tho it only requires thumb and one finger, most use index (i)

[@francescocatalano5855]

Fantastic

[@jerrymorelos9273]

Machine head

[@wheelie63]

best album ever.

[@garyjones7044]

@@wheelie63 not a bad note on MH

[@howardcohen4845]

Cool 👍 😎

[@krisscanlon4051]

Headley Grange is a great example of where the truck went. Starwood as well...lots of old Brit buildings perfect for recordings.

[@chasbodaniels1744]

Also, Mick’s Stargroves Manor in Berkshire.

[@glenesis]

Thank GOD they never modernized it. Thank God. I couldnt be happier than to know that these guys now own and maintain this rock holy relic.

[@sunlight253]

~WOW!!

[@rickster1957]

Stones borrowed the French power companies electricity for Exile on Main Street

[@judewessel5713]

Exile, zeppelin 4, physical graffiti, it’s just endless 😂

[@bradc32]

GOOD SCORE

[@bookbm]

I would love to have that dude's job

[@SeRIoUsPlaYeRx]

Can anyone Tell me the Song Name at 0:37?

[@mhkuaker2]

Uau!!!!

[@lightningrt434]

Awful journalism. Tell the guy doing the voice over that the place in Switzerland he is referring to is called ‘Montreux’ not ‘Montro’.

[@terrycarthy4433]

Er...how do you pronounce it then ?? Ian Gillan pronounces it same. God only knows wotcha' mean...

[@lightningrt434]

Terry Carthy rubbish. He says Montreux.

[@nomorebushz]

Change the acoustic strings!

[@LauraBatic]

"is that white powder there?"

[@silverbasscross]

did the bands actually record inside there? how can you fit guitars, basses and drums in there?

[@frankblunt2482]

Some overdubs would be done inside the mobile, but in general in would be set up outside wherever you were recording.

[@mcqueenfanman]

It wasn't a sound studio, it was just for recording.Led Zeppelin did stuff inside of churches.

[@chasbodaniels1744]

There was no line of sight communication possible between this “control booth” and the artists. I wonder if that affected the process in any way ... guess the mixing board techs would use the standard talk-back links to the tech and possibly the producer stationed in the performance space?

[@nomorebushz]

Oh yes of course. In fact, the entire London Symphony Orchestra played inside the Mobile Studio to rehearse “You Can’t Always Fit What You Want”. :-)

[@flyingburritobro68]

Jeff Zabelski Too funny😂

[@acousticshadow4032]

Deep Purple is not THE ALBUM associated with this truck. That would be "Exile On Main St" - no contest!

[@thetruthhurts6652]

Love the Stones but Purple actually sings about the Rolling Truck Stones thing.

[@jumpingjaggerflash]

​@@thetruthhurts6652Space Trucking! 🌌🚐

[@paulnewsom7629]

Very Surprised it Was Sold But At Least Its In Good Hands And Yes Every Album Made From That Mobile is A Classic at Some Point But With The Music Business Today Lol I Laugh At It ,,What Music Business ,Its Dead Now ,I Am All For New Bands To Record But 1 ,,Talent Is A Must ,2 Again ,,REAL TALENT Not Americas Got Bullshit ,Then And Only Then Should it Be Used Otherwise Its A Museum Peace For Next 100 years

[@willypotts100]

"♫"

[@ST-xg3gy]

Reporter is a total nerd for thinking Deep Purple is "the" act that made the van important.