"You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?...Eleven. Exactly. One louder."
The opening of the studio take of this song is probably the most ominous, foreboding and evil intro's in all of rock. A close second would be 'Gimme Shelter'. The Stones were so f'n good.
The guitar arrangements changed drastically when Mick Taylor joined. I have a bootleg named Obsidian DL’d from a BitTorrent site and it has on it an early Jumping Jack take from 1968 and I’m sure Mick Taylor is playing lead guitar on it, it certainly sounds like him. In those days there wasn’t that many recording studios and only so many recognised musicians in London. I have heard that prior to joining Taylor jammed with the Stones.
This instrument looks like the 1973 2nd Les Paul Custom which I sold some years ago due to being very heavy and cumbersome to play. It had a blond top with black back and gold tone pickups and accoutrements. If this is the one, the player handles it well!
I know you tend not to do solos, but could you possibly do a lesson on Sympathy for the devil, off of the same live album? I love the solo and the licks he's playing through the entire song, but can't quite figure them out.
I couldnt even get a bootleg of this concert growing up. Now through the magic of youtube, I discovered that this is my favorite version. Brian is definitely out of it though
I profoundly disagree about Brian. Had he been "out of it" he never would have been able to play so beautifully on " No Expectations" at this performance. His playing on No Expectations was brilliant at the Rock and Roll Circus.
There’s supposedly bootlegs where you can hear Brian’s parts, but I’ve yet to come across it. I’m amazed they kept No Expectations, not because Brian played badly, but because all they wanted him to do was play maracas or not be there at all.
Brian played slide on No Expectations. If he’s got a good ear, like Brian Jones did… Even though he was tweaked out on drugs and pills he could still play the slide guitar parts beautifully, as he sat on the floor. But for him to sustain musicianship for rhythm guitar or cello or sax or whatever instrument he chose, it would’ve been a waste of time in the studio, as it already took many many hours of studio time to lay tracks down as they were developing songs.
Brian plays the following instruments on Beggar's: Slide on No Expectations Sitar & Tanpura on Street Fightin' Man Mellotron on Jig-Saw Puzzle & Stray Cat Blues Harmonica on Dear Doctor and Prodigal Son Also played rhythm guitar on the studio cut of JJF and soprano saxophone on JJF's B-Side, Child of the Moon. His last substantial recording was autoharp on You Got the Silver, recorded in March '69 for Let it Bleed.
ua-cam.com/video/4h1sdp3-U-o/v-deo.html hear (with headphones) You can hear Brian playing JJF at the Circus. He is playing the bass guitar sounding rhythm guitar, downtuned very low and then mixed very very low by the Stones. You need headphones or a good stereo system to hear it even here because the Stones mixed him so low when they released the Circus. But he was playing on all songs. He plays a Chuck Berry style rhythm on Parachute Woman.
@@jamesjames9275 I listen to the album version since 1998 and I have watched the movie too. It’s hard to tell them appart, except towards the end when Keith does those bendings on the outtro on the B chord. I feel Brian comes after a few bars but not very sure. They almost play the same thing. I think Keith called that the “ancient art of something” or “dual return”? 🤔
@@jamesjames9275 ua-cam.com/video/bxkP_LlLldU/v-deo.html Brian comes in at 8 seconds here, Bill's bass has been removed. Listen with headphones. Brian is the bassy guitar doing power chords on rhythm.
nice. if you haven't got $100k lying around for vintage a Black Beauty and P-90 Gold Top, the Orville will have to do. that thing sounds chunky on the neck but still cuts nicely. do ya' think Keith's BB had 57's? ♫ Ü
He played on it at the original show, but was mixed out for the official release. Not unplugged. He plays the riff and rhythm parts with single strings at the Circus; not an essential part per se but if left in it would've given a very raw "bottom" to the Circus version.
He played it without it as shown here. Then he played the intro on the 7th fret at times without capo then he used capo on 2nd, 4th and then 7th currently he uses 4th fret for capo
Good one. I thought that I was the only one who noticed this guitar version of Jumping Jack Flash, at the time before Keith had adapted (and modified) the guitar riff with his adopted open-G style (I believe) by the time of the July 5, 1969 Hyde Park, London concert, in that case capoed at the 4th fret in the key of B. And Mick Taylor and Ron Wood (and for what it's worth, Brian Jones) have played in 7th fret position standard tuning. It's unclear if an open-E tuning is used on the record's main riff but all manner of approaches have been used.
I've always noted the omission of the intro that was always dropped when played live from the time that the track was released, and I suspect that the reason is that it was done in an alternate tuning in the studio. But I still can't believe that it can't be replicated onstage and I always miss that part because it's killer. Jeez, I also never heard anyone ask Keith about this although we all know that the recorded riff's sound was achieved with an acoustic guitar miked overloaded through a tape player for that unique half acoustic/half electric sound that was also used for "Street Fighting Man". No hate on Keith but I doubt that he remembers and it doesn't necessarily have to do with drug use. The amount of work that The Stones have done writing, recording and performing across a lifetime is staggering. "Jumping Jack Flash" is Keith's favorite Stones track and one of mine, too. Thanks for the lesson, your videos are always great.
Thanks, that's what I thought it was. That recording/video was done in 1968 when Keith was still playing the standard tuning version as your video demonstrates. It's unclear if the ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS version has the intro edited out because it almost appears to cut straight to the main riff (for some reason). BTW I've also seen other earlier live Stones performances where Mick sang live to a record's actual instrumental track. But as I noted earlier, by '69 Keith switched to the capoed alternate tuning version. Would you happen to know what guitar part Brian was playing? It appears that Mick Taylor was playing a barred shuffle pattern behind Keith's main riff. I'm also unsure about Ron Wood's part except that I know that he replicates the fill that appears on the record's descending riff. BTW I also understand that it was Bill Wyman and not Keith who came up with the main riff. Thanks again and great job.
Man, you're great! Awesome! Love your Led, stones and AC/DC videos most than any other channel.. By the way, you video of "Ramble on" was cut off by youtube. A question: how do you record your videos? You just play with the camera recording or you're using a interface to record the audio? Anyway, keep on with your videos, man.. you're fuckin' great!! Cheers from a brazilian fan!
I've read on a few sites lately that people seem to think Keith was a mediocre or average guitarist. I personally disagree completely, but what are your thoughts JJ? From your videos I think it's safe to say you regard Keith as one of the greats, but I don't want to assume.
James, would it be too much to ask if you could make a video of the JJF version played by Keith on MSG? The one the record is pretty good, but how he played it on the clip on the Gimme Shelter movie it's simply beautiful
Dare I say, you improved the mix. I thought they sounded kind of sluggish on this particular performance. I think it's because Brian's mic and or amp was reputedly turned off without his knowing it. Either way, it was missing something and you brought it.
You really didn’t like it? It’s one of their best performances of it live IMO. and Brian’s amp is on, his guitar just has a very bassy tone and gives it this cool heavy bass sound. There’s an isolated mix on UA-cam where you can hear the guitars
"You see, most blokes, you know, will be playing at ten. You're on ten here, all the way up, all the way up, all the way up, you're on ten on your guitar. Where can you go from there? Where?...Eleven. Exactly. One louder."
The opening of the studio take of this song is probably the most ominous, foreboding and evil intro's in all of rock. A close second would be 'Gimme Shelter'. The Stones were so f'n good.
This is the coolest version imo. Makes the song a lot heavier. Great cover!
Can't believe that song is over 50 years old already.
By god don't wipe the old channel!
Sooo damn good! Has to be the most powerful version of this song! Hits your chest like a magnum
The guitar arrangements changed drastically when Mick Taylor joined. I have a bootleg named Obsidian DL’d from a BitTorrent site and it has on it an early Jumping Jack take from 1968 and I’m sure Mick Taylor is playing lead guitar on it, it certainly sounds like him. In those days there wasn’t that many recording studios and only so many recognised musicians in London. I have heard that prior to joining Taylor jammed with the Stones.
Early 1968??? Mick wasn't in the group yet. He replaced Brain in the summer of 1969. Brain was sack in June 1969.
@@kennethmoffat7409if you read the last line of the post...
Captured the tone perfectly. Love it
real raunchy, this could almost be slash playing rhythm, i love it
what a great movie - long live the RR Circus
awesome, definitely a cool arrangement. I love that Les Paul James, out of all your guitars it's definitely my favorite.
Chris C I dig the black PT
Mate,love the sound on this,wanted to play this & yours is easily the best version,brilliant,cheers 👍
From Mick and Keith and Jack the gardener ... it's a gas, gas, gas ... 🎩
Just want to say big thank you for teaching me all those songs over the past year. So BIG thank you and I wish you all best.
All hail his Majesty Brian Jones!!!
Excellent! Very Many Thanks for the Beginner's tips as well. Very considerate of you and they made great sense. You're a Gent.
Espectacular lo tuyo, 💜 rolling stones. 🇦🇷🇬🇧🇺🇸
This rocks mate wonderfull heavy alternative...
Fantastic!
Hi James !!!
fantastic and BIG SOUND.
Fom France.
thanks.
i NEED that tshirt.
my most fav !
My favorite version, thanks!
Easier than i thought
I remember waiting for Rock and Roll Circus and they never showed it here.
Cool Shirt!
you are awesome, well done. I echo everyone's comments about that guitar, its one of my favs you play. Nice work as always.
well done i love playing stones riffs for my friends who dont know who they are
Great lesson as usual thanks
Fantastic man!
great as always pt/jj
Awesome. Thank you
Great job James.
So great - Thanks
Nice one🤘🏻
This instrument looks like the 1973 2nd Les Paul Custom which I sold some years ago due to being very heavy and cumbersome to play. It had a blond top with black back and gold tone pickups and accoutrements. If this is the one, the player handles it well!
Man! That guitar...
HI James!
Thanks for your understanding !!
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TUC!
Nice one..thanks.
Just found this channel binging stones stuff
I know you tend not to do solos, but could you possibly do a lesson on Sympathy for the devil, off of the same live album? I love the solo and the licks he's playing through the entire song, but can't quite figure them out.
I couldnt even get a bootleg of this concert growing up. Now through the magic of youtube, I discovered that this is my favorite version. Brian is definitely out of it though
He still plays fine though, they just mixed him low for the official release.
I profoundly disagree about Brian. Had he been "out of it" he never would have been able to play so beautifully on " No Expectations" at this performance. His playing on No Expectations was brilliant at the Rock and Roll Circus.
Very cool. I’ve been playing in A for years. B sounds much cleaner and easier to follow. Thanks JJ
Put capo and play in a
thank you man
Thanks for that
Cool. I resist the D tuning, and love the song. I will add it to my reportoire
Good job
This is the heaviest, while Texas 78 is a straight forward fast rocker
Dig it!
What's your set up to get that cool sound?
groovy
speaking of songs in B, Have you taken a crack at the new song, Angry?
Nigel Tufnel at the end there?
Sorry chico is it possible to find your T shirt to buy online or something?
nice tshirt
Where did you get the shirt? Awesome.
There’s supposedly bootlegs where you can hear Brian’s parts, but I’ve yet to come across it. I’m amazed they kept No Expectations, not because Brian played badly, but because all they wanted him to do was play maracas or not be there at all.
Brian didn't play badly on No Expectations, IMO. But he played great on Beggars Banquet. It was what was probably his swansong.
Brian played slide on No Expectations. If he’s got a good ear, like Brian Jones did… Even though he was tweaked out on drugs and pills he could still play the slide guitar parts beautifully, as he sat on the floor. But for him to sustain musicianship for rhythm guitar or cello or sax or whatever instrument he chose, it would’ve been a waste of time in the studio, as it already took many many hours of studio time to lay tracks down as they were developing songs.
Brian plays the following instruments on Beggar's:
Slide on No Expectations
Sitar & Tanpura on Street Fightin' Man
Mellotron on Jig-Saw Puzzle & Stray Cat Blues
Harmonica on Dear Doctor and Prodigal Son
Also played rhythm guitar on the studio cut of JJF and soprano saxophone on JJF's B-Side, Child of the Moon.
His last substantial recording was autoharp on You Got the Silver, recorded in March '69 for Let it Bleed.
ua-cam.com/video/4h1sdp3-U-o/v-deo.html hear (with headphones) You can hear Brian playing JJF at the Circus. He is playing the bass guitar sounding rhythm guitar, downtuned very low and then mixed very very low by the Stones. You need headphones or a good stereo system to hear it even here because the Stones mixed him so low when they released the Circus. But he was playing on all songs. He plays a Chuck Berry style rhythm on Parachute Woman.
I kinda like this arrangement better than the one on the record.
Sounds menacing...lol
Yes it does!
Its the Johnny Winter And version. The stones and JW liked to exchange tunes.
Where did you get that Stones t-shirt?
Well it's alright JJ you are the CEO of an incredibly cool T-shirt company! The video is a gas, gas, gas! thanks...tMwtF
Great version as usual. Quick question. What do you have more of? Guitars or t-shirts? :)
And the starts with 1 guitar.
Right?
Ar what exact time Brian joins in?
I really love that version.
I think they used DSL Marshall amps.
Honestly, I can't hear Brian at all on this recording, although other commenters say he's in there.
@@jamesjames9275 I listen to the album version since 1998 and I have watched the movie too.
It’s hard to tell them appart, except towards the end when Keith does those bendings on the outtro on the B chord.
I feel Brian comes after a few bars but not very sure.
They almost play the same thing.
I think Keith called that the “ancient art of something” or “dual return”? 🤔
@@jamesjames9275 Brian starts at 8 seconds and is playing power chords in a bassy tone setting
@@Melvorgazh Brian comes in at 8 seconds
@@jamesjames9275 ua-cam.com/video/bxkP_LlLldU/v-deo.html Brian comes in at 8 seconds here, Bill's bass has been removed. Listen with headphones. Brian is the bassy guitar doing power chords on rhythm.
I just bought a strat. do I have to now go buy a les Paul too?
John Cesta if you want to play Stones Stuff from the 60's you definetly have to
Should have bought a les paul in the fist place
Yes, and a Tele, variety is the spice of life.
Where do you get your tee shirts from? They’re bada$$ in all your vids. Awesome playing 🤘🏻🤘🏻
What year les Paul is that your playing? Sounds great!
That's around 1988.
nice. if you haven't got $100k lying around for vintage a Black Beauty and P-90 Gold Top, the Orville will have to do. that thing sounds chunky on the neck but still cuts nicely. do ya' think Keith's BB had 57's? ♫ Ü
The arrangements may have come from the fact that Brian wasn't wv n plugged in
Was Brian kind of (for lack of a better word) drowned out of this Circus recording of JJF ?
Mixed out. I don't hear him at all on that one.
I think his amp was unplugged
He played on it at the original show, but was mixed out for the official release. Not unplugged. He plays the riff and rhythm parts with single strings at the Circus; not an essential part per se but if left in it would've given a very raw "bottom" to the Circus version.
I read somewhere that his hand was sprayed or broken and they had the amp turned down on low volume cause he couldn’t hit the chords flush?
@@BROOKS39 and yet he does fine on "No Expectations". Good luck finding any videos of Brian playing live.
Did Keith play this with a capo on the second for the seventh three tour?
Good question. I've never bothered to check. I'm not really a fan of the post-69 versions.
He played it without it as shown here. Then he played the intro on the 7th fret at times without capo then he used capo on 2nd, 4th and then 7th currently he uses 4th fret for capo
Good one. I thought that I was the only one who noticed this guitar version of Jumping Jack Flash, at the time before Keith had adapted (and modified) the guitar riff with his adopted open-G style (I believe) by the time of the July 5, 1969 Hyde Park, London concert, in that case capoed at the 4th fret in the key of B. And Mick Taylor and Ron Wood (and for what it's worth, Brian Jones) have played in 7th fret position standard tuning. It's unclear if an open-E tuning is used on the record's main riff but all manner of approaches have been used.
Definitely open D or E on the studio version. There's a lesson and a demo (electric) on the PT channel.
I've always noted the omission of the intro that was always dropped when played live from the time that the track was released, and I suspect that the reason is that it was done in an alternate tuning in the studio. But I still can't believe that it can't be replicated onstage and I always miss that part because it's killer. Jeez, I also never heard anyone ask Keith about this although we all know that the recorded riff's sound was achieved with an acoustic guitar miked overloaded through a tape player for that unique half acoustic/half electric sound that was also used for "Street Fighting Man". No hate on Keith but I doubt that he remembers and it doesn't necessarily have to do with drug use. The amount of work that The Stones have done writing, recording and performing across a lifetime is staggering. "Jumping Jack Flash" is Keith's favorite Stones track and one of mine, too. Thanks for the lesson, your videos are always great.
That promo clip had a live-in-the-studio recording as the backing for Mick's live vocal. It's the only time I've ever heard them do that intro.
Thanks, that's what I thought it was. That recording/video was done in 1968 when Keith was still playing the standard tuning version as your video demonstrates. It's unclear if the ROCK AND ROLL CIRCUS version has the intro edited out because it almost appears to cut straight to the main riff (for some reason). BTW I've also seen other earlier live Stones performances where Mick sang live to a record's actual instrumental track. But as I noted earlier, by '69 Keith switched to the capoed alternate tuning version. Would you happen to know what guitar part Brian was playing? It appears that Mick Taylor was playing a barred shuffle pattern behind Keith's main riff. I'm also unsure about Ron Wood's part except that I know that he replicates the fill that appears on the record's descending riff. BTW I also understand that it was Bill Wyman and not Keith who came up with the main riff. Thanks again and great job.
James James open D. You have to hit that open D in the chorus and intro.
Man, you're great! Awesome! Love your Led, stones and AC/DC videos most than any other channel.. By the way, you video of "Ramble on" was cut off by youtube.
A question: how do you record your videos? You just play with the camera recording or you're using a interface to record the audio?
Anyway, keep on with your videos, man.. you're fuckin' great!! Cheers from a brazilian fan!
Nothing complicated, just using the mics on the camera.
Dude
Brian was the the Best
Did I miss it or did you say this is drop D?
No, it's not drop D.
That is epic! How did you get the warm sound through the amp?
It's just a good amp - Peavey Vypyr 100. A LP Custom on the neck pickup has a great tone, too.
It seems like your playing more...live...for a better word. Taking over the backing track instead of following it.....fukin awesome!
I've read on a few sites lately that people seem to think Keith was a mediocre or average guitarist. I personally disagree completely, but what are your thoughts JJ? From your videos I think it's safe to say you regard Keith as one of the greats, but I don't want to assume.
Matthew Dalalian Anyone who doesn't appreciate Keith's playing doesn't know squat about rock.
James James exactly how I feel!!
So I notice Keith plays it capo IV open G, sometimes
He's played a lot of different guitar arrangements for this song, going back to when they first started playing it onstage.
I love to figure out all the cool ways to do it..
do you care for Keith's 1969 NA tour version?
Yeah, I like just about every arrangement from that tour.
James, would it be too much to ask if you could make a video of the JJF version played by Keith on MSG? The one the record is pretty good, but how he played it on the clip on the Gimme Shelter movie it's simply beautiful
I agree about the GS movie! ya ya's is good, but I think GS movie sounds great!
Dare I say, you improved the mix. I thought they sounded kind of sluggish on this particular performance. I think it's because Brian's mic and or amp was reputedly turned off without his knowing it. Either way, it was missing something and you brought it.
You really didn’t like it? It’s one of their best performances of it live IMO. and Brian’s amp is on, his guitar just has a very bassy tone and gives it this cool heavy bass sound. There’s an isolated mix on UA-cam where you can hear the guitars
this man is related to keith richards somehow
Wow you're actually doing barre chords instead of that thumb on the top trick. Very unlike you my man. Great cover! My new way of playing the song.
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Hmmm. Tell us more.