moonchildhippy
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Posted: Feb. 28 2007, 08:07 |
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Today marks what would have been Lewis Brian Hopkin Jones',( better known as Brian Jones of the Rolling Stones) 65th birthday. I've grown up with the Stones, My Dad (1944-2005), was a Stones fan since 1963. I think one of my earliest memories was asking my Dad to play The Rolling Stones' "She's A Rainbow"on good old fashioned LP, 
In his tragically short life Brian was the founder member of the Rolling Stones (you could be forgiven for thinking it was Jagger/Richards). A multi instumentalist, he could play many diffeent instruments, guitar, saxophone, piano, organ,mellotron, accordian, harmonica to name a few.
Check out Brian's slide guitar the Stones' cover of Willie Dixon's Little Red Rooster, just blew me away when I first heard it. Their UK second album Rolling Stones No.2, Brian's slide guitar features heavily. Also the way Brian attacks his sitar with much aplomb on "Paint it Black" His accordian playing on "Back Street Girl" off Between the Buttons is so beautiful. HIs Mellotron contribition on 2000 Light Years From Home really contribute to the trippy,eerie effect of the song  .
Brian helped bring the music of other cultures to the Western World , as had George Harrison two years earlier learning to play the sitar with Ravi Shankar, and not forgetting Mike Oldfield's Ommadawn for it's use of Irish pipes and heavy use of African drums as played by Jabula . During a visit to Morroco Stones friend Brion Gysin , guided Brian and recording engineer George Chkiantz to Marrakesh to record local musician G'Naoua and the Maalimin Musicians . The trio captured the Master Musicians of Jajouka in the Atlas Mountains. This was later posthumously released on album in 1971 as "Brian Jones plays with the Pipes of Pan at Jajouka", a rarity , (as it's now deleted). The Stones later revisited Morrocan music on their 1989 album Steel Wheels, the Master Musicians of Jajouka contribute to the track "Continental Drift".
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Yes some people might just think of Brian as being a drugged out rock star, as I guess most of the Establishment at the time did, shock horror these long haired Neanderthals corrupting  young people !!!! LOL
Yes I know Brian could be off this head, but I feel Brian's contribution to music is often overlooked in relation to the drug busts of various members of the Stones and the Beatles in 1967. Brian Jones , underrated ????Yes most definitely. Brian rightfully DESERVES the credit he seems to have been denied in life some 37 years after his death.
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