Not a tremendous amount of activity, but you might say,
well, are the Stones slowing down?
Well, everybody's slowing down at this point.
As we've made the transition from singles being the dominant thing,
which is the way it was during the 63 through 66, 67 period.
You needed to have three singles out a year.
So that you know every three or four months, there was a new single.
Hopefully, you would, we could a full life span of each single.
By the time new one came out,
the other one had gotten all the chart action it could possibly get.
And you'd start with a new one.
And that's the way you do it.
So you had to be bringing this material out every three or four months.
And you bring out albums as kind of extra things people could buy if
they really like the singles.
Well, when this, when the emphasis changes away from singles to the albums
themselves, usually Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band is the album that
really kind of firmly establishes this album oriented rock kind of idea.
Then it's the albums that are the important thing, and
they take longer to, to produce.
And so we see this with all groups that, you know,
if you can get an album a year at this point you're doing pretty good.
So at this point their Satanic Majesties Request December 67.
Beggar's Banquet that's December 68.
The Stones are really pretty much on track here.
They haven't really slowed down.
They've just changed their emphasis from the singles to the albums themselves.
And because of the artist mentality,
they just can't crank out cover versions anymore.
Each song has to kind of do something important or novel or
interesting, they can't just do the same thing over and over again, so the, it gets
a little bit harder to crank out a full album's worth of that kind of material.
So it's, it's not just that way for them, as I say, it's that way for
everybody, it's a sign of the times, just the way the business is.
Let's just take a minute to talk a little bit about video and
television with regard to the Rolling Stones.
Was, haven't said too much about it, we have, I've dropped some remarks here and
there as we've gone by, but let's sort of pull all that together.
During this period, 1968, they start to have numerous videos directed by
Michael Lindsay-Hogg including 2000 Light Years From Home,
Jumpin' Jack Flash, and Child of the Moon.
Michael Lindsay-Hogg is interesting because he ends up
directing Rock and Roll Circus, The Stones television show.
For the television broadcast that was supposed to be broadcast in December of
1968, but that Mick decided he didn't like the way it ended up looking and working
out so he sort of put the kabash on the broadcast, and it was never broadcast.
You can see it now on DVD or YouTube or wherever it is that you find video.
But at the time, it was recorded produced and, and, and
not done the Rock and Roll Circus included The Rolling Stone, performances by
The Rolling Stones including a fantastic performance of Sympathy for the Devil.
with, John Lennon is on that is on that show with Yoko Ono.
The Who A Quick One While He's Away, I think is what they do.
Jethro Tull does a, does a couple of numbers with Tony Iommi,
who would later be in Black Sabbath filling in on guitar, because
Mick Abrahams had just left the group, and Martin Barre had not yet joined the group.
So Tony Iommi sort of like did that gig um,as a favor to Ian Anderson.
And there are other, others on that, that show as well.
It was meant to promote the Beggar's Banquet, but the show was never aired.
Various explanations have been offered.
Some people say Mick didn't like it because he thought The Who
blew The Stones off the stage.
I've, I've watched the video, I don't think that's the case.
The Who are fine.
They put in a great performance,
thank you very much, but I think The Stones are awesome.
On that, and I think Sympathy for the Devil is absolutely a classic if
you haven't heard, seen them perform Sympathy for the Devil on the Rock and
Roll Circus, it's a must see if you're a Stones fan.
But Michael Lindsay-Hogg, interesting because he goes on to to