The Stones and Jazz Presenters on BBC

[Quarky]

Caught completely by chance this morning about 3am a fascinating programme on Radio 6 about The Stones encounters with the BBC before they were a known quantity and attempting to present themselves as an R&B band. They got an unbelievably stuffy letter from Brian Matthew et al "....regret that in the circumstances...". They did get eventually a slot on Saturday Club -about 1963- but the presenters of that period appear well and truly stuffy establishment figures.

Particularly liked the reminiscences of an impresario of a Jazz Festival where The Stones had a spot, at the exact time that The Stones went viral. Completely to his surprise he was presented at the gates with "about 2000 little girls .....about knee-high....". Obviously not into the lolita set - but he didn't complain about the receipts.

[aka Calum Da Jazbo]

afternoon Oddball .... it wasn't just the Stones that the old greys were not getting in the early sixties ....

[Byas'd Opinion]

In an odd coincidence, I'm currently reading Stanley Booth's "The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones", in which Ian Stewart (the Stone's roadie and occasional pianist) says, talking about the band's early days

Mick and Keith and Brian were about the only people in the country who knew the music and were trying to play it. Everyone else were jazz musicians trying to play the blues... They thought R&B was a jazz thing and there should be three saxophones. They said, What, two guitars and a bass guitar, that's rock and roll, we don't want to know about it.

[Serial_Apologist]

In an odd coincidence, I'm currently reading Stanley Booth's "The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones", in which Ian Stewart (the Stone's roadie and occasional pianist) says, talking about the band's early days

Jack Bruce's view too in them early days - if you read his intro to Dick Heckstall-Smith's "The Safest Place in the World"