BB King, Mick Jagger, Buddy Guy, Jeff Beck, Keb Mo Celebrate the Blues at the White House (2012)

thefilmarchive.org February 27, 2012 Blues is the name given to both a musical form and a music genre that originated in African-American communities of primarily the "Deep South" of the United States at the end of the 19th century from spirituals, work songs, field hollers, shouts and chants, and rhymed simple narrative ballads. The blues form, ubiquitous in jazz, rhythm and blues, and rock and roll is characterized by specific chord progressions, of which the twelve-bar blues chord progression is the most common. The blue notes that, for expressive purposes are sung or played flattened or gradually bent (minor 3rd to major 3rd) in relation to the pitch of the major scale, are also an important part of the sound. The blues genre is based on the blues form but possesses other characteristics such as specific lyrics, bass lines and instruments. Blues can be subdivided into several subgenres ranging from country to urban blues that were more or less popular during different periods of the 20th century. Best known are the Delta, Piedmont, Jump and Chicago blues styles. World War II marked the transition from acoustic to electric blues and the progressive opening of blues music to a wider audience, especially white listeners. In the 1960s and 1970s, a hybrid form called blues-rock evolved. The term "the blues" refers to the "blue devils", meaning melancholy and sadness; an early use of the term in this sense is found in George Colmans one-act farce Blue Devils (1798). Though <b>…<b>

The Rolling Stones – (I Can’t Get No) Satsfaction (Live) – OFFICIAL

The Rolling Stones performing "(I Cant Get No) Satsfaction", live on Copacabana Beach, Rio De Janeiro, Brazil, February 2006. This is the largest concert of all time, attended by 1.5million people. This version features Mick Jagger on vocals, Keith Richards on guitar, Charlie Watts on drums, Ronnie Wood on guitar, Darryl Jones on bass, Chuck Leavell on piano, Lisa Fischer and Bernard Fowler on backing vocals, Blondie Chaplin on backing vocals and percussion, Bobby Keys in saxophone, and Tim Ries and Kent Smith on horns. (I Cant Get No) Satisfaction – Live itunes.apple.com

Brian Jones – ‘A Story of Our Time’ BBC Radio 1971

"A Story Of Our Time – Brian Jones The Rolling Stone" by Michael Wale. BBC, 2nd March 1971: Incl.: – interview with Michael Aldred – interview with Lewis Jones (BJs father) – interview with Alexis Korner – interview with Cliff Richard – interview with Les Perrin – interview with Mick Jagger

The Rolling Stones – Rip This Joint (Live) – OFFICIAL

The Rolling Stones performing "Rip This Joint", live in Texas, June 1972. "Rip This Joint" was featured on the 1972 double album, Exile On Main St, which reached number 1 in both the US and the UK album charts. This version features Mick Jagger on vocals, Keith Richards on guitar, Charlie Watts on drums, Mick Taylor on guitar, Bill Wyman on bass, Nicky Hopkins on piano, Bobby Keys on saxophone and Jim Price on horns. The Brussels Affair is the live album of the European leg of this tour. "Rip This Joint" itunes.apple.com Exile on Main St itunes.apple.com The Brussels Affair www.stonesarchivestore.com

Charlie Watts & Mick Jagger listen to an Altamont Hells-Angel

The Death of Meredith Hunter and a comment on from Sonny Barger in a Radio Broadcast, San Francisco 1969.