This was from the movie Rock and Roll Circus. Did you notice John Lennon and Yoko Ono and Keith Moon in the crowd. The Stones didn’t want this film to be produced because they just came off a tour and we’re working off a few hours of sleep and didn’t feel it was their best performance. They were right but the rawness of the songs and performance was so compelling it had to be released, and we’re all glad it was 🤘
This studio recording for this song began June 4-5, 1968, and then finished June 8-10, 1968. The original lyric was going to be "I shouted out Who killed Kennedy", but JFK's brother Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on June 6, 1968, so the line was changed to "Who killed the Kennedys".
This was filmed in December of 1968 for a concert film the Stones put on called The Rolling Stones Rock 'n Roll Circus. It has The Who, Jethro Tull in their first filmed performance (with Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath no less!) and John Lennon performing with Keith, Eric Clapton and Mitch Mitchell from the Jimi Hendrix Experience too. It was never released until the 90's, rumoured to be because The Who outperformed the Stones.
The Who did outperform everyone. The Who did get their segment long before the 90s, or so I've heard. Lack of release could also be down to the sad state of Brian Jones!
Exactly. People blame the devil for their sins, but it's humans who do the crimes and evil. The devil doesn't need to lift a finger. That was always the way it came across to me.
These are the best reaction videos (this and Gimme Shelter) ive ever watched. Authentic, real, i learned stuff i didnt know even though ive been a huge fan of The Stones all my life. Ive read so many books about them, by them, seen documentaries one after another and i still learned from your videos. Thanks!
The song is from the perspective of Satan basically saying humans do all sorts of horrible things then blame Satan instead of taking responsibility. So they should at least treat him with manners and respect if you use the name. Loved the angle , a lot of conservatives were demonizing Jagger and the Stones as well as Rock in general. All the time atrocities are committed all the time without accountability. ☮️ my friend
This is from a forgotten film that never saw the light till early 2000. It's called Rolling Stones rock and roll circus. That's why they are in a big tent and dressed up. There were a lot of great artists and performances including the Beatles. You should see it! At the end everyone sings "All you need is love"!!!
You must watch the Who's performance at the "Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus". The Who were considered the highpoint of the evening. They played "A Quick One While He's Away", and Keith Moon's drumming was insane! Overall, the best live drum performance ever filmed! After the "Circus" show finished, Mick Jagger felt that the Stones were not good enough, and they didn't let the show air on TV. Though years later it was released, and while The Who were the best, The Stones were actually quite good too.
I think this is perhaps the best drum performance ever but now i’m curious and will have to compare th-cam.com/video/LWRMOJQDiLU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=k1TAjY8FZjjaBPug
The same happened after Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" live performance, the Stones didn't want to play after that act. I like seeing Mick is a humble guy and can recognize a great performance and bow to it being superior (as he felt) to his own band, even though the Stones are no slouches. That's why they are know as greats because inside & out the industry people know them, always real no pretension.
The Who weren’t even close to being the best here. The Stones had easily the best performance. The Dirty Mac song was also better than the Who. That Who song is okay, same as their performance.
I, myself, have only listened to this song in recent years here on the Internet, because local Oldies Rock radio stations won’t play it (I live in a Conservative Catholic city in Eastern Ohio).
I was age 10-20 in the 1970’s and I consider myself so lucky when it comes to music. The parents hated The Rolling Stones and the kids loved them, everything about them. 😁 btw -those are drawings, not tatts. What a jam.
"Stop saying _The Devil made me do it,_ I didn't _make_ anyone do anything, I just put the choices in front of you. You can't blame me for lack of morals, I just expose your hypocrisy" - some fallen angel probably
Great reaction! And if I'm not mistaken, Guns n' Roses did a version of this for the "Interview With a Vampire" soundtrack that was very befitting of the closing scene. 🙂❤ Note: Didn't wait til then end of the reaction where you read that GNR did a remake.
Nicky Hopkins was the piano player he was asked to join the Who at one point , he’s on a lot of albums from multiple bands as a well respected session player in the 60s and 70s .
The 60s/70s were a wild time when rock was young and the performers, lyrics and the music was great. Mick's performance personified the devil. This was a concert film and that was John Lennon at 9:33, 15:46 and 16:09. BTW: The Romanov's were the royal family of Russia who the 1917 Russian revolutionaries murdered (the Tsar, Tsarina and all all 5 children).
It's from the Rock and Roll Circus. They also did this song during the infamous Altamont Concert where four people died, one by the hands of the Hells Angels who were baked on acid when they were their security, they didn't play it live after that for several years. Many people consider it one of the turning points against the whole hippy movement along with the Manson murders.
This is footage of the original Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals), Keith Richards (guitar), Bill Wyman (bass), Charlie Watts (drums/ percussion), and Brian Jones (the late original guitarist) is playing the maracas... They have addition musicians on bongos and piano. This was filmed w/ various bands in 1968 as a movie "Rock n' roll Circus" w/ The Rolling Stones as the main band... It was also, tragically, one of the last performances to feature founding Stones guitarist Brian Jones, who quit the band in 1969 and ended up drowning in his own pool. The movie did not get released until 1996, but it captured a special moment of British rock in its prime. In 1968, The Beatles filmed what became a turbulent recording session and the footage was finally remastered and recently released as the series 'Get back'... Just seeing the iconic band doing what they did best in the studio was just incredible, especially since John Lennon and George Harrison are no longer w/ us anymore...
All the events in the song are political. This is the opening track of the Rolling Stones most political album 1968's Beggars's Banquet ( Salt Of The Earth, Street Fighting Man). 1968 was the most violent year in the history of the US ( race riots, war protests, student riots);
You'll love the Guns n Roses version... You can definitely hear and see shades of Axel Rose in Mick Jaggers performance at the end of the clip. This song also features in the closing scene of Interview with the Vampire yeah it's an amazing song and performance
One of the greatest songs ever written.... It's all about horrible atrocities we do to one another. You start with Pontias Pilate washing his hands after crucifying christ, Anastasia and czar Nicholas's entire family being slaughtered in the Bolshevik Revolution, the bodies stinking in Poland as they were left to rot in the sun during the blitzkrieg of WW2, fighting for 10 decades during the 100 years war, between England and France, etc. Mick knows his history
They aren’t real tattoos. In 1968 the taking off of his top was very sexual. Even after the summer of love things were still very straight laced especially compared to today’s standards lol
@@surfersilver6610 Lucifer dared to question "The Plan"... and then when he didn't accept the answer of "Don't ask questions about the plan", and decided that he didn't want to live in a reality where he wasn't allowed to ask questions.... he was cast into the flames for eternity. I mean... that's KINDA an overreact from the Supreme Deity, right?! Anyone that says, "Look, Boss... you kinda made a mistake here" gets put in the position of 'Fight or be Destroyed', and cast into the worst situation for the rest of conceivable time for picking the 'Fight' option?!... 🤔
I mean... Imagine if you told your Boss that they were doing something that might be a problem later, and they decided that the only way to keep you in line was for you to live in COMPLETE pain and anguish until the entire universe had ended... 💯 You'd pretty much think that dude was a dick too. 🤣💯
He never talks about acts done by the devil. It's all been done by us over centuries and we always said it was satan, beelzebub, the devil... But it was always us humans. And the devil want's us to apoogize for putting the fault on him. We are and will always be the beast of destruction on this planet, but it's fine to put our faults on devil or god... Think about. Just another sight on our world..
Great reaction. I don't think those tattoos were real on Jagger. I have heard about the Rock N Roll Circus that was never aired on the BBC. I have to see it now ! They must have digitally remastered the video. There's no way something that clear was from 1968.
At that time most TV was shot on film, so it would be a very good start. the big reason most stuff from late 70's to mid 90's is very poor quality if still around as it was mastered on videotape and most of it was reused. There is just no good version to re-master from for HD release.
Was that John Lennon and Yoko Ono at appx. 15:45 (and then again later? Also, to say the "hippie movement" was "turned against" because of the random acts of a few nutters-- and yes, the meidia have said just that-- is just asinine. It's like saying hanging chads caused people to turn away from democracy-- one just doesn't know where to begin to respond to such an inane remark-- one that no one who knew anything about what was going on with hippies, the anti-war movement, the meaning of "flower power" and all the rest of the profound questioning of what the country had always been spoon fed would respond to with anything but an eyeroll, a sneer, or an incredulous shake of the head. You may as well believe what Hoover had to say about the Panthers, if you're going to take seriously what these outsiders said about the Movement, the hippies, and other goings-on of the sixties.
Umm.. Try a different video sample. Lol. There are many good ones. This one is famous for Mick being completely chemically wasted on international television. Loses the song’s meaning a bit. (Unless you take from it that everything was so screwed you might as well just get fried out of your mind.)
The christians don’t get it. He’s asking for sympathy because He gets the Blame for the Evil that Men Choose to do! The more religious they are, the More they blame Their own Choices on the devil. The devil made me do it is a cop out lol So, he’s asking for consideration of that simple fact.
Thanks never saw that angle, probably because the devil is us, so there's no one really, to have sympathy for in that sense. The Christian cop out is 100% accurate.
This was from the movie Rock and Roll Circus. Did you notice John Lennon and Yoko Ono and Keith Moon in the crowd. The Stones didn’t want this film to be produced because they just came off a tour and we’re working off a few hours of sleep and didn’t feel it was their best performance. They were right but the rawness of the songs and performance was so compelling it had to be released, and we’re all glad it was 🤘
This studio recording for this song began June 4-5, 1968, and then finished June 8-10, 1968. The original lyric was going to be "I shouted out Who killed Kennedy", but JFK's brother Robert F. Kennedy was assassinated on June 6, 1968, so the line was changed to "Who killed the Kennedys".
😂that was John Lennon dancing in the crowd..
This was filmed in December of 1968 for a concert film the Stones put on called The Rolling Stones Rock 'n Roll Circus. It has The Who, Jethro Tull in their first filmed performance (with Tony Iommi from Black Sabbath no less!) and John Lennon performing with Keith, Eric Clapton and Mitch Mitchell from the Jimi Hendrix Experience too. It was never released until the 90's, rumoured to be because The Who outperformed the Stones.
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The Who are soooo great too
I play it for my students. Jagger even almost invented the twerk in it. 😆
The Who did outperform everyone. The Who did get their segment long before the 90s, or so I've heard. Lack of release could also be down to the sad state of Brian Jones!
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"You will never see anything like this now".
That just made my allergies act up and some Goosebumps.
He’s talking about the devil, but it’s making the point throughout, that it’s really us humans who eff everything up and do all the evil! 👿
Exactly. People blame the devil for their sins, but it's humans who do the crimes and evil. The devil doesn't need to lift a finger. That was always the way it came across to me.
@@aricp9173 Yup. Me too. And they did it so well!
His point is wrong. The devil deflects again just like the evil democratic party
You're so right!!!! Saw them all in and around Europe! 73 years old so figure it !! Love you're interpretaion of music !!! Great!
he gets a lot of credit for choices men make,
Piano courtesy of Nicky Hopkins 1 of the few people to play on a rolling stones record and a Beatles record
There's a reason the Stones have been around for 60+ years. The music and messages they have delivered to the earth will live forever.
Keith can write a helluva hook too tho.
Brian Jones was playing the maracas. Don't know why he wasn't identified. A fabulous talent who died too young.
I think MMBxmob research was on the original recording and not the video special. It was Brian's last video appearance before his drowning.
These are the best reaction videos (this and Gimme Shelter) ive ever watched. Authentic, real, i learned stuff i didnt know even though ive been a huge fan of The Stones all my life. Ive read so many books about them, by them, seen documentaries one after another and i still learned from your videos. Thanks!
As it says in the song the devil is you and me, mankind.
This song is a whole history lesson of horrible events through time.
Great reaction..this is one of my favorite Stones song and performance.. Mick really sold this song.. great instrumentals..
Boy. This Devil guy was like Forrest Gump. He was there for everything.😄
Devil "Momma always said Evil is as Evil does.👿"......😈
This is the first time playing this song live.
Ever.
Rock N Roll Circus Dec 12, 1968
The song is from the perspective of Satan basically saying humans do all sorts of horrible things then blame Satan instead of taking responsibility. So they should at least treat him with manners and respect if you use the name. Loved the angle , a lot of conservatives were demonizing Jagger and the Stones as well as Rock in general. All the time atrocities are committed all the time without accountability. ☮️ my friend
That was John Lennon and Yoko Ono there in the end. I also saw Pete Townshend from The Who
This is from a forgotten film that never saw the light till early 2000. It's called Rolling Stones rock and roll circus. That's why they are in a big tent and dressed up. There were a lot of great artists and performances including the Beatles. You should see it! At the end everyone sings "All you need is love"!!!
Basically don't blame the devil for everything... We brought it upon ourselves
Yes, the 60’s and the 70’s were the best for music….the creativity was on a weekly basis with new albums coming out every week.
Yes
On piano is the great Nicky Hopkins himself.
My favorite Stones song. Just love this song.
You must watch the Who's performance at the "Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus". The Who were considered the highpoint of the evening. They played "A Quick One While He's Away", and Keith Moon's drumming was insane! Overall, the best live drum performance ever filmed! After the "Circus" show finished, Mick Jagger felt that the Stones were not good enough, and they didn't let the show air on TV. Though years later it was released, and while The Who were the best, The Stones were actually quite good too.
I think this is perhaps the best drum performance ever but now i’m curious and will have to compare th-cam.com/video/LWRMOJQDiLU/w-d-xo.htmlsi=k1TAjY8FZjjaBPug
The same happened after Lynyrd Skynyrd's "Free Bird" live performance, the Stones didn't want to play after that act.
I like seeing Mick is a humble guy and can recognize a great performance and bow to it being superior (as he felt) to his own band, even though the Stones are no slouches.
That's why they are know as greats because inside & out the industry people know them, always real no pretension.
The Who weren’t even close to being the best here. The Stones had easily the best performance. The Dirty Mac song was also better than the Who. That Who song is okay, same as their performance.
Good catch on the piano!
Can't you hear me knocking
She's a rainbow
I, myself, have only listened to this song in recent years here on the Internet, because local Oldies Rock radio stations won’t play it (I live in a Conservative Catholic city in Eastern Ohio).
I was age 10-20 in the 1970’s and I consider myself so lucky when it comes to music. The parents hated The Rolling Stones and the kids loved them, everything about them. 😁 btw -those are drawings, not tatts. What a jam.
The instrument credits were from the studio. Brian Jones was on the video.
We are the devil my friend. Always have been. We are legion
"Stop saying _The Devil made me do it,_ I didn't _make_ anyone do anything, I just put the choices in front of you. You can't blame me for lack of morals, I just expose your hypocrisy" - some fallen angel probably
Great reaction! And if I'm not mistaken, Guns n' Roses did a version of this for the "Interview With a Vampire" soundtrack that was very befitting of the closing scene. 🙂❤ Note: Didn't wait til then end of the reaction where you read that GNR did a remake.
Nicky Hopkins was the piano player he was asked to join the Who at one point , he’s on a lot of albums from multiple bands as a well respected session player in the 60s and 70s .
The 60s/70s were a wild time when rock was young and the performers, lyrics and the music was great. Mick's performance personified the devil. This was a concert film and that was John Lennon at 9:33, 15:46 and 16:09. BTW: The Romanov's were the royal family of Russia who the 1917 Russian revolutionaries murdered (the Tsar, Tsarina and all all 5 children).
Mick was the original frontman, Morrison and Plant came after. And tattoo's are temporary ones lol
The studio lineup was a bit different than the live one you saw, that was Brian Jones on the maracas in this performance.
The Guns n Roses version appeared on the soundtrack for the film Interview with a vampire, with Tom Cruise and Brad Pitt.
What a treat!!! WOW WOW WOW...born 1965 and this is a first for me. THANK YOU....THANK YOU.
Listen to “yer blues “from “Rock and Roll Circus”, has John Lennon, Eric Clapton, and Keith Richards playing bass
Beelzebub!!!! He is the Devil....talking about what he's been there for through history!!! Killer Classic!!🎶🎼🎵🥁🎹🎤🎸🔥🔥🔥🤘🤘🤘
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"Did someone say 'bub'?"
It's from the Rock and Roll Circus. They also did this song during the infamous Altamont Concert where four people died, one by the hands of the Hells Angels who were baked on acid when they were their security, they didn't play it live after that for several years. Many people consider it one of the turning points against the whole hippy movement along with the Manson murders.
I was at Altamont. The Stones had hired the Angels as bodyguards. The devil made them do it.
When Sonny throws that guy off the stage it makes me laugh every time.. that look is priceless ✌️
Guy was killed during Under My Thumb
You should have seen our parents' reactions to the likes of The Stones. Great reaction.
Did you notice John Lennon, Yoko Ono and Pete Townshend of THE WHO in the audience?
This is footage of the original Rolling Stones: Mick Jagger (vocals), Keith Richards (guitar), Bill Wyman (bass), Charlie Watts (drums/ percussion), and Brian Jones (the late original guitarist) is playing the maracas... They have addition musicians on bongos and piano.
This was filmed w/ various bands in 1968 as a movie "Rock n' roll Circus" w/ The Rolling Stones as the main band... It was also, tragically, one of the last performances to feature founding Stones guitarist Brian Jones, who quit the band in 1969 and ended up drowning in his own pool.
The movie did not get released until 1996, but it captured a special moment of British rock in its prime.
In 1968, The Beatles filmed what became a turbulent recording session and the footage was finally remastered and recently released as the series 'Get back'... Just seeing the iconic band doing what they did best in the studio was just incredible, especially since John Lennon and George Harrison are no longer w/ us anymore...
The devil was just an excuss
All the events in the song are political. This is the opening track of the Rolling Stones most political album 1968's Beggars's Banquet ( Salt Of The Earth, Street Fighting Man). 1968 was the most violent year in the history of the US ( race riots, war protests, student riots);
Honestly thought this was a Guns'n'Roses song at first, because I only knew their cover for a long time.
You'll love the Guns n Roses version... You can definitely hear and see shades of Axel Rose in Mick Jaggers performance at the end of the clip. This song also features in the closing scene of Interview with the Vampire yeah it's an amazing song and performance
The reveal is that we are the devil
Plot twist....no Life twist.
@@surfersilver6610 Could you say that in English please.
Check out paint it black should be next.
I have a suggestion for the Stones, "Paint it Black".
He already did it several days ago.
Nobody touches MICK! 💯
The best frontman of all time!
And that's LIVE!!!
Check out Jack Sparrows dad on guitar.
Mick was strongly influenced as he says from Tina turner's movements
Yup lot´s of covers of this, my go to is Motorhead´s.
That's John Lennon in the audience.
Maybe Donovan too.
You've got to react to Heartbreaker from the Goat s head soup .album.
Brazilian music has a lot to offer you. I could introduce you to some dope songs when you want to discover a parallel universe.
#NoJonesNoStones
clever boy 😁👍
One of the greatest songs ever written....
It's all about horrible atrocities we do to one another. You start with Pontias Pilate washing his hands after crucifying christ, Anastasia and czar Nicholas's entire family being slaughtered in the Bolshevik Revolution, the bodies stinking in Poland as they were left to rot in the sun during the blitzkrieg of WW2, fighting for 10 decades during the 100 years war, between England and France, etc.
Mick knows his history
Not a tattoo. It was just part of the show.
That’s a drawing on Mick, not a tattoo
Unidentified was Brian Jones
Well, Just remember; Mick J is the Number one frontman of all time.
This song is saying that mankind is to blame for all these atrocities the Devil. that is just an excuse.
They aren’t real tattoos. In 1968 the taking off of his top was very sexual. Even after the summer of love things were still very straight laced especially compared to today’s standards lol
Banished for eternity for asking a question?!
How can you NOT have sympathy for the Devil?
I have a question, what question is in question might I ask?
@@surfersilver6610 Lucifer dared to question "The Plan"... and then when he didn't accept the answer of "Don't ask questions about the plan", and decided that he didn't want to live in a reality where he wasn't allowed to ask questions.... he was cast into the flames for eternity.
I mean... that's KINDA an overreact from the Supreme Deity, right?! Anyone that says, "Look, Boss... you kinda made a mistake here" gets put in the position of 'Fight or be Destroyed', and cast into the worst situation for the rest of conceivable time for picking the 'Fight' option?!... 🤔
I mean... Imagine if you told your Boss that they were doing something that might be a problem later, and they decided that the only way to keep you in line was for you to live in COMPLETE pain and anguish until the entire universe had ended... 💯
You'd pretty much think that dude was a dick too. 🤣💯
Gram Parsons
He never talks about acts done by the devil. It's all been done by us over centuries and we always said it was satan, beelzebub, the devil... But it was always us humans. And the devil want's us to apoogize for putting the fault on him. We are and will always be the beast of destruction on this planet, but it's fine to put our faults on devil or god... Think about. Just another sight on our world..
Why are these reacters still not smart enough to look songs up as the official audio to get the right version we all know and love!
Was that John Lennon in the audience??
Great reaction. I don't think those tattoos were real on Jagger. I have heard about the Rock N Roll Circus that was never aired on the BBC. I have to see it now ! They must have digitally remastered the video. There's no way something that clear was from 1968.
At that time most TV was shot on film, so it would be a very good start. the big reason most stuff from late 70's to mid 90's is very poor quality if still around as it was mastered on videotape and most of it was reused. There is just no good version to re-master from for HD release.
Parents all over the world believed he was the Devil. The tattoos were washable. Maybe that's why it was never released for a long time.
Was that John Lennon and Yoko Ono at appx. 15:45 (and then again later? Also, to say the "hippie movement" was "turned against" because of the random acts of a few nutters-- and yes, the meidia have said just that-- is just asinine. It's like saying hanging chads caused people to turn away from democracy-- one just doesn't know where to begin to respond to such an inane remark-- one that no one who knew anything about what was going on with hippies, the anti-war movement, the meaning of "flower power" and all the rest of the profound questioning of what the country had always been spoon fed would respond to with anything but an eyeroll, a sneer, or an incredulous shake of the head. You may as well believe what Hoover had to say about the Panthers, if you're going to take seriously what these outsiders said about the Movement, the hippies, and other goings-on of the sixties.
Not random acts... All evil / the devil Add Hamas to the list
Mick only had fake tattoos.
Umm.. Try a different video sample. Lol. There are many good ones. This one is famous for Mick being completely chemically wasted on international television.
Loses the song’s meaning a bit. (Unless you take from it that everything was so screwed you might as well just get fried out of your mind.)
The studio version is lots better. The tattoos are fake BTW.
Not real tats
Nope. Wrong.. He's not the devil.
The name you were supposed to guess is "Mankind"
The Devil is just an excuse.
The christians don’t get it. He’s asking for sympathy because He gets the Blame for the Evil that Men Choose to do! The more religious they are, the More they blame Their own Choices on the devil. The devil made me do it is a cop out lol So, he’s asking for consideration of that simple fact.
Thanks never saw that angle, probably because the devil is us, so there's no one really, to have sympathy for in that sense.
The Christian cop out is 100% accurate.