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Subject: New Glyn Johns interview on BJ, LIB, MT
Date: Friday, August 07, 2015
Time: 12:44:16 PM
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Message ID: 296680
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One of my friends sent me this this morning, and gosh, some of it is so close to what we are talking about in the Keith thread down below that I half thought of posting this there, but, he talked about other stuff, like about the B&B sessions, which had nothing to do with that thread, so here it is as a new post. But he directly talks about Brian and Stu and, IHO, who started the band.
This interview is in the May 2015 GoldMine Magazine , but I only so far had time to read the part about the Stones and the Beatles, and a bit more, but so far, a very interesting interview indeed. From what I'm told, he talks a lot about the Who, too. Plus he also talks about the proposed Beatles, Stones and Dylan joint album that never happened and why, plus he also talks about why Led Zep was turned down by the Stones (in favor of Tull) at the Rock n roll Circus. But below is everything he had to say about the Stones, and if you want to read the entire interview, then go here
Okay here it the Stones part:
GM: You worked on 13 Rolling Stones albums. What’s your perspective on Brian Jones, as he’s a misunderstood figure in Stones lore and seems to get less respect as the years roll on. By contrast, you were greatly impressed with his abilities and described him as the “king of the riff.”
JOHNS: On the very first session that the Stones ever did with me, Brian was definitely the leader of the band. He put the band together with Stu (Ian Stewart); we need to get that straight. Once Mick and Keith started to write songs, Brian’s role as the leader disappeared fairly swiftly. He was a fine musician and he could get a tune out of any instrument that you threw at him without any question (laughs). He was an extremely accomplished musician and certainly in the initial sound of the Rolling Stones, he was equally responsible as any member of the band if not more so. The last period of his life, the last few months that Brian was in the band, he became completely not physically capable of holding a chord down, so he was contributing very little.
GM: You’ve cited “Let It Bleed” as your favorite Stones album, why?
JOHNS: I really like the material on it. When Mick Taylor joined the band, there was that change of sound – plus the fact that they finally had what I call a lead guitar player in the band made a massive difference to the sound. As it turns out, in parallel with that, it was during that period where they came up with some of the better songs they ever wrote while Mick Taylor was in the band.
GM: With killer songs like “Hand of Fate” and “Fool to Cry,” 1975’s “Black and Blue” remains an underrated record in the Stones canon, a record that found the group trying out various players on the record including Harvey Mandel, Wayne Perkins and Ron Wood.
JOHNS: Mick Taylor left the band the night before we went to Germany to start recording the “Black and Blue” album. So we turned up on the first session without Mick and it was brilliant for me. I don’t mean to be horrible about Mick because in a way it was sad that he wasn’t there, but equally it was just like reverting back to the beginning of the band only without Brian. So Stu was there and Nicky Hopkins was there still, but it was an even smaller unit. There was no producer — I was supposed to be the producer but I don’t think I really was, although I did produce the initial sessions. We all got on tremendously well and we got an immense amount done in a fairly short period of time. Then we moved to a studio in Holland to finish the record and that became inordinately boring because the facility we were working at wasn’t suitable and they were using the sessions to try out guitar players. Frankly, I got really bored. We went from working really quickly and efficiently to not doing anything at all. So I quit on the whole project and went home.
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