The Rolling Stones 1964 ...

[SpruceTop]

... and here they are channeling a mixture of country and blues on The Red Skelton Show. RIP Brian Jones (you made it raw, Bro) & Charlie Watts. Has anyone else besides me noticed that Charlie and bassist Bill Wyman always seemed like the adults in The Rolling Stones room?

[Bob from Brooklyn]

It took years before Bill admitted he was 5 years older than the others.

[Silly Moustache]

I knew the Stones the year earlier - 1963 - when they had a residency on Eel Pie Island.
I'd cycle from school on Wednesdays to the little bridge to the island and await their rusty VW van, to help them unload, and help Charlie take his drums to the hotel. He was my mentor as a drummer, and Mick and Keith were evangelists for what we then called "R&B". Good blokes all.

[airborne1]

Originally Posted by SpruceTop

... and here they are channeling a mixture of country and blues on The Red Skelton Show. RIP Brian Jones (you made it raw, Bro) & Charlie Watts. Has anyone else besides me noticed that Charlie and bassist Bill Wyman always seemed like the adults in The Rolling Stones room?

Thanks for sharing that, I really enjoyed it!!

[raysachs]

No mics, no cables from the guitars or bass. Hmmm, a little Milli Vanilli action from one of my favorite bands? It was a good record, though. And they for sure played and sang it in their concerts. But, TV, particularly in those days, lip syncing was probably the rule, not the exception.

-Ray

[SpruceTop]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

I knew the Stones the year earlier - 1963 - when they had a residency on Eel Pie Island.
I'd cycle from school on Wednesdays to the little bridge to the island and await their rusty VW van, to help them unload, and help Charlie take his drums to the hotel. He was my mentor as a drummer, and Mick and Keith were evangelists for what we then called "R&B". Good blokes all.

Andy, thanks again for your first-hand insight into contact with British bands that were and are loved on both sides of the Atlantic and around the globe!

[A Scot in Otley]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

I knew the Stones the year earlier - 1963 - when they had a residency on Eel Pie Island.
I'd cycle from school on Wednesdays to the little bridge to the island and await their rusty VW van, to help them unload, and help Charlie take his drums to the hotel. He was my mentor as a drummer, and Mick and Keith were evangelists for what we then called "R&B". Good blokes all.

You should write a song about that brush with Rock immortality. Call it Eel Pie Island Blues. Mind you, I'd be dining out on wee story that forever (of course, embroidering the story to my heart's content

I've had no musical Forest Gump moments, at least not that I can recall just now, but my wife had the chance to sing with the Corries (who were big in Scotland back in the day) and was too shy to get up and do it. There slams shut that sliding door!

[frankmcr]

[Bob Womack]

That was the year they were chasing a female friend of mine around the UK.

Bob

[DavyM]

Originally Posted by Silly Moustache

I knew the Stones the year earlier - 1963 - when they had a residency on Eel Pie Island.
I'd cycle from school on Wednesdays to the little bridge to the island and await their rusty VW van, to help them unload, and help Charlie take his drums to the hotel. He was my mentor as a drummer, and Mick and Keith were evangelists for what we then called "R&B". Good blokes all.

On a visit to the old country this October we stopped off at the Eel Pie Island Museum in Twickenham. Well worth a visit, lots of memorabilia and the two ladies running it it were a joy. We crossed over the river on the much improved little bridge.

[FrankHudson]

Love that clip. Bill is holding his "bass like Bill Wyman" as the Smithereens song later described it. Jagger, Richards, and Jones look so young, as someone noted upthread, the rhythm section looks more grown up.

Richard's solo on that song is a nice piece of work. Is he playing an Epiphone? The clip is so grainy/blurred I can't tell for sure, but it looks like it may have those "NY pickups."