Mrs was out on a girl's weekend this past weekend, so I finally got around to watching the Stones' "Rock And Roll Circus" show. It was a thing the Stones filmed in 68, with performances from Jethro Tull (lip synced, but with Sabbath's Tony Iommi on guitar), Taj Mahal, The Who, Marianne Faithful, "Dirty Mac" (John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards and Mitch Mitchell) and The Stones. Dirty Mac did "Yer Blues" and then did a blues jam with a bewildered concert violinist sawing away while Yoko Ono screamed and howled next to him - it was surreal. There was a bunch of circus stuff, too.
Nearly all of it was at least pretty good. But, The Who's bit was the best:
What a monster band.
It's much better on a big screen with lots of volume, and no audio sync problems, but this will have to do.
The rumor was that the Rolling Stones shelved this film because The Who blew them off the stage.
i don’t doubt that for a second.
The Stones’ pieces were good enough. standard Stones stuff: everyone looked a bit bored except Mick, who worked pretty hard to keep things fun (from Wiki, they didn’t even go on until many hours past midnight). but even at their best, The Stones just can’t compete with The Who for stage presence. Keith Moon alone is at least twice as much fun to watch as all the Stones put together.
The only live Rolling Stone I could ever get excited about is Mick Taylor. The rest of them are fine, but Taylor was just magic. I don’t think it’s a coincidence their best work was when he was in the band.
I mean, come on.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ryRDcE2sB2A