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Have to agree. Great guitar sounds. DPM.

I agree, he was a great innovator and he always looked so cool!

One tends to remember him mainly as a guitarist, although he was an impressive multi-instrumentalist, first playing saxophone as a 15 year-old.

Bill

With the exception of a couple of singles, I have not liked anything the Stones have done since they stopped playing "British R & B" - an official album of those wonderful BBC Sessions around 1964 is long overdue, but probably wiped from the BBC vaults long ago . From listening to many unofficial releases of those broadcasts, I get the impression that in a lot of cases, the taper kept his recorder on pause until Brian Matthew announced the next Stones session song and released the pause button a couple of seconds too late! My favourite Stones session track is Hi-heeled Sneekers from Saturday Club18 April 1964, when they also did a cracking version of Beautiful Delilah.

dave robinson wrote:When Brian Jones left the Stones they died in my mind. Regardless of what anybody thinks, to me HE was The Rolling Stones image, either with his green Gretsch Anniversary or the Teardrop by Vox - always will be for me.

I agree with you on this one. He provided the colour in their music of the time with his multi-musical ideas with all the instruments he could play. After he was gone..So was the imagination in their music sadly.
If you listen to one of their first albums and then to one of their most recent, there is no comparison by any stretch of the imagination

http://tela.sugarmegs.org/alpha/r.html

Scroll down ro Rolling Stones - How Britain Got the Blues for many BBC sessions in varying appalling quality!

Hi Stephen/uncle boko

Somewhere here I have cassette recordings of both 'The Stones at the Beeb' and the Beatles at the Beeb.

My dear old mate in the UK taped these radio specials years ago and sent copy tapes to me. They were broadcasts of the old BBC Saturday Club programmes.
Excellent live sets in both cases.
There was also a Jimi Hemdrix at the BBC session which was released on CD some years ago- I remember hearing that one repeated on radio here in Australia in the late '60's.

I also preferred the early Stones with Jonesy, although I still like 'em today nearly 50 years later, and they can still put on a bloody good live show..

When I was 15 or 16, I almost perfected Brain Jones hairstyle and clothing style- he was the man, style wise! And a great rhythm guitarist too...

I learnt much of my basic playing from listening to the Stones' first LP and copying the rhythm and lead parts on my Hofner Club 40- then I was getting it together, using light gauge strings for Keith's Chuck Berry lead stuff..... and it was time to join my first group in mid 1965..!

http://www.4shared.com/file/WkyI-P_n/01 ... at_Cl.html

Here's one from Saturday Club in April 1964 which I pieced together from 2 sources just after Brian Matthew's voiceover!

Ah it's in FLAC format, I'll convert to awful mp3.

http://www.4shared.com/mp3/R8qNvDGd/01_ ... ers_S.html