The (1960s) Rolling Stones Make DrHGuy’s (2008) Day
Yesterday, I logged into eMusic1 for my monthly cheap MP3 fix to discover a bevy of Rolling Stones albums had been added to the download lists. Like any red-blooded, testosterone-supersaturated American male who simultaneously endured both his adolescence and the 1960s in the heartland only through infusions of Rock and Roll delivered via a Sears “better” model Silvertone stereo phonograph purchased via the mail order catalog, I already owned a batch of tracks from the World’s Greatest Rock & Roll Band. But, knowing Mick and the boys to have been a prolific lot, I suspected – correctly – there would be beaucoup songs and versions awaiting only a click from the mouse to be delivered up for my enjoyment and edification.
Within a few minutes, I had tracked down 30 or so songs to download, all of which turned out to be treasures. The montage above comprises some of the albums from which I greedily downloaded songs.
But wait, there is more. Yes, I got all this – and a bonus.
The Rock and Roll Circus
It turns out that the Stones got together with a few of their friends in 1968 to put on a show that would be broadcast later on TV as Rock And Roll Circus. Partying down were their groupies, roadies, knife throwers, tigers, midgets, and a few musicians whose names you may have heard before: The Who, Jethro Tull, Taj Mahal and Marianne Faithful (AKA Mick Jagger’s girl friend, AKA “big titted angel”).
For the occasion, John Lennon2 put together a nifty group, The Dirty Mac,3 with Winston Leg-Thigh (Lennon), Eric Clapton, Mitch Mitchell (the drummer from The Jimi Hendrix Experience), and Keith Richards.
Dirty Mac performed “Yer Blues,†a song Lennon wrote for the Beatles White Album. Unfortunately, the only other work this especiallysupergroup found was backing up Yoko Ono and violinist Ivry Gitlis on a “Whole Lotta Yoko,” the name of which is its sole interesting aspect.
So, enjoy the best darn song Dirty Mac ever performed in public.
Update: Information about the bootleg of The Dirty Mac Sessions, including a link to the download site, is posted on Heck Of A Guy at Best Bootlegs: The Dirty Mac Sessions – John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, Mitch Mitchell
_____________________- See previous Heck of a Guy post, eMusic : Get It While The Gettin’s Good↩
- Ominously, this was Lennon’s first professional appearance without the other Beatles.↩
- Lennon chose the name, “Dirty Mac,” as a play on “Fleetwood Mac,” a group enjoying popularity in England at the time↩
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