The Rolling Stones

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The Rolling Stones
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Overview The British are Coming

• Many British rock stars attained popularity in
  their own country
• Unable to export their success back to the United
  States
• From 1964 on several important trends were
  initiated or co-founded by British rock artists

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Overview The British are Coming

• Did the British dominate the charts?
• With the British invasion came a split in rock's
  mainstream
• The dichotomy within the Beatles themselves is
  the prototype for an even larger division within
  the British invasion as a whole

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The Rolling StonesThe Years Before Satisfaction

• Early years
• Alexis Korner
• The Blue Boys
• Brian Jones
• Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts

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The Rolling StonesThe Years Before Satisfaction

• NEMS
• May 1963
• Counter-image to the Beatles
• Stones join the British invasion of America
• James Brown

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Satisfaction

• Ed Sullivan Show
• 16 bar chorus
• I bVII I bVII
• Phrase 4 guitar riff

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Satisfaction

• Alternates chorus with verses based on this
  guitar riff
• Intro on riff

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Satisfaction

• Chorus (AABC) 16 bars
• Verse (CCCC) 18 bars (2-bar drum break before 4th
  C)
• Chorus (AABC) 16 bars
• Verse (CCCC) 18 bars
• Chorus (AABC) 16 bars
• Verse (CCCC) 18 bars
• Riff x 3 (CCC) 12 bars
• Fade-out on riff

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Satisfaction

• Drugs and alcohol
• A string of hits
• Andrew Oldham formed Immediate Records
• Scandal and increased controversy
• Satanic Majesties Request was a gross
  disappointment

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Jumpin Jack Flash

• less innovative in form
• quintessential rock beat
• chorus is delineated by active harmony
• modal harmony

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Jumpin Jack Flash

• rock-defining groove
• loose, variable texture
• equality of instruments or at least virtuosity
• Jaggers singing and Richards guitar project
  insolence

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Sympathy for the Devil

• Basic harmonic vocabulary
• Chorus consists six phrases
• Repetitions
• Five-bar phrase

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Sympathy for the Devil

• Intro on drums (add maracas on bar 4) 10 bars
• Lead vocal and full accompaniment enter
• Chorus 1 (aaaa) 17 bars (bb) 8 bars (fourth
  statement of a is 5 bars long)
• Chorus 2 (aaaa) 17 bars (bb) 8 bars

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Sympathy for the Devil

• Chorus 3 (aaaa) 17 bars (bb) 8 bars (add
  background vocals)
• Chorus 4 (aaaa) 17 bars (bb) 8 bars
• (add guitar lead in a-section lead vocal
  re-enters in b-section)
• Chorus 5 (aaaa) 17 bars (bb) 8 bars

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Sympathy for the Devil

• Closing Section (aa) 8 bars
• Vocal interjections over guitar lead (with
  piano)
• Repeat and fade-out

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Sympathy for the Devil

• Samba beat
• Timbral changes
• Visceral
• Stones simplicity and repetiveness

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The Rolling Stones

• Stones rid Brian Jones
• Mick Taylor
• The Hyde Park concert

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Altamont

• The American Tour
• The Hells Angels
• Sympathy for the Devil

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After Altamont

• Altamont created considerable resentment toward
  the group
• Tax trouble
• Brown Sugar
• America tour 1972
• 1974-1976
• Keith vs. Mick

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The Bad Boys of Rock

• The first significant rock group to foster an
  overtly negative image
• Brian Jones
• Keith Richard
• Mick Jagger
• Concert behaviour
• Anti-social violence

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Summary

• Since the end of the 1950s, rock had gradually
  moved away from its R B roots.
• This fundamental split within the ranks of the
  British invasion, the fork in the road created by
  the Beatles and the Stones, is central to the
  history of rock since the mid-1960s.

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Summary

• Since its beginnings, rock had always had a
  seamier underside.
• 4. Finally the Stones deserve an important
  place in rock history simply because of their
  longevity.

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The Rolling Stones