cytania Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Sky showed the Granada documentary concert as part of Nik Powell Night. Stones appeared to be having real problems getting anywhere near tight for the whole concert. Maybe they didn't have alot of onstage monitoring, maybe it was Mick Taylor's newness. Charlie and Bill were locked in but the guitars failed to ignite (WEM amps sabotage just like Jimi at Isle Of Wight?) and Jagger just couldn't find his groove. Only really got going on Sympathy For The Devil, perhaps the african drummers brought in some mojo, unfortunately this appeared to be the closing song :-( Not the classic concert it's made out to be? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
wateroftyne Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 Hmmm... I don't think it's considered to be a classic, is it? As for the lacklustre performance, maybe the death of a founder member a couple of days earlier had something to do with it? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
OldGit Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 (edited) Informative report here [url="http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/stones-in-the-park.html"]http://www.ukrockfestivals.com/stones-in-the-park.html[/url] Stage monitoring was very much in its infancy then. Reputedly started at the Isle of Wight festival the year after. Here's Free Mr Big. Look for the WEM columns behind Kirk (at 1:34) That and a couple of side fills was it .. I'm not surpised bands had a hard time hearing themselves back then. I was hard enough in a club. EDIT Just spotted the WEM monitor columns in the footage of the Stones at Hyde Park here (1:57) so I guess they had some. No wedges for vocal monitors though ... Edited April 27, 2009 by OldGit Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
chris_b Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 They should have killed the film. They were stoned and hated each other at the time. Band relations were at an all time low and they were just going through the motions. They probably didn’t have a sound check and if the sound on stage was anything like FOH then they were on a hiding to nothing. Strangely they were very creative at that time but the band didn’t start to get on together until Ronnie Wood joined. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ahpook Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 i saw (some of it) last night...i agree it was very poor. but some the footage around the event of the laaahdon flower children was quite amusing. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
cytania Posted April 27, 2009 Author Share Posted April 27, 2009 Nice link, the personal accounts of the day are great and it's great to have the other bands personnel and set lists immortalised. Documentary is a fine timecapsule of the London formulation of hippy. Even the hells angels have that British wannabee factor (didn't one of them have a home-made German helmet, looked covered in bacofoil). Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skankdelvar Posted April 27, 2009 Share Posted April 27, 2009 [quote name='cytania' post='473304' date='Apr 27 2009, 12:40 PM']Even the hells angels have that British wannabee factor (didn't one of them have a home-made German helmet, looked covered in bacofoil).[/quote] Standard Operational Procedure then and now. Stops 'The Man' from reading your thoughts. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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