The Rolling Stones and the Most Important Music Studio on Wheels
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- Опубликовано: 2 окт 2024
- Did you know that The Rolling Stones owned the world's first independent recording studio on wheels? The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio, built into the back of a truck, not only produced some of the band's biggest albums but was also used to record some of the most iconic albums of the 1970s by other legendary bands such as Fleetwood Mac, Deep Purple, Led Zeppelin, and Black Sabbath.
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It is our great honour to home and preserve this legendary studio on wheels in our collection in Calgary!
photos online? link?
That's great to hear !!
Absolutely teaming with Rock history!😄
WHY is it in Canada? It SHOULD be in Britain!
@@MaySecond07 It's IN the video! Wrote before you watched didn't you?
@@DMSProduktions I couldn't put two and two together today!! My apologies!
Ian was so important to the Stones legacy.
Stu was the genuine '6th Stone'. The whole band totally respected & loved him.
Charlie said to Keith at Stu's funeral "whose gonna tell us off now?" ☺️
Just one of the many people these maggots screwed over down through the decades.
Definitely and bobby keys!
Pfeh!!
Nicky Hopkins. 🔥🤘🤘
DAT's da RILL SHYT! 🤘🤘
Oh to have been a fly on the wall....in that mobile studio....and bearing witness to the music it recorded.
@chilicayenne...I was fortunate to work with bands in the 70s and 80s doing concert sound engineering and a few gigs were recorded live with the Stones Mobile or the Manor Mobile studio. Unfortunately I don't remember which 'Mobile' was used at which concert.
Whitesnake Live in the Heart of the City at Hammersmith Odeon, Kate Bush Hammer Horror recorded at the Rainbow London during rehearsals, used during the tour gigs which she danced to, (not mimed) not released.
Can't remember the others sorry.✌️🇬🇧
No talking about Deep Purple...shame on you.
*This is one of the greatest story's ever!* felt the pain about when "creativity pops up" Nothing better than a personal studio space wherever and whenever you want to record with your band! It definitely helped the sound of the *Stones*
Thanks for uploading 👍✅
There needs to be a full documentary film on this studio. I've loved docs like Muscle Shoals and Sound City (to only name a couple) because of the incredible stories they told, and moments like Mick's smile while re-listening to Merry Claytons raw vocals on Gimmie Shelter in the film 20 Feet from Stardom. This studio is terribly important and has it's own story that will be lost to history.
ive watched the sound city doc like 5 times.🍻
Love Sound City.
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Totally agree w/-That more Awareness of the Stones 'Savy'+(To me Thats Mick Jagger+The other Stones Awreness that having the 'R.S Mobile.avail..24/7!)'That has to have a lot to do w/-M.J.getting his Degrees (?)@'The London School of Economics!'L.S.E.Its been credited in 'Smoke on the Water'&others The R.S.O.'Mobile'..So clever for that time !
The Roling Stones Greatest Band for timeles's👑👅🔥🎶🎧♥️💋
I've always been fascinated with this amazing piece of music history. So many times I would be reading the liner notes(yes, I'm old) and see "recorded with the Rolling Stones Mobil Studio on Location", and just wonder what exactly this was. Knowing that most recording studios has TONS of equipment, I always wanted to see it for myself. Looks like a trip to beautiful Calgary, Alberta is in store for my vacation soon!
"...The Rolling Truck Stones thing just outside..."
Deep Purple - Smoke on the Water
_Requires a full on documentary ;_
The story, of Deep Purple, (Machine Head), and the long winding trail from where the music was recorded to where you could hear playback in the truck, is an interesting one.
*(tons of stories)*
We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile, yeah
We didn't have much time now
Frank Zappa and the Mothers
Were at the best place around
But some stupid with a flare gun
Burned the place to the ground
Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky
(Smoke) on the water, you guys are great
They burned down the gambling house
It died with an awful sound
Funky Claude was running in and out
He was pulling kids out the ground now
When it all was over
Find another place
Swiss time was running out
It seemed that we would lose the race
Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
Burn it down
We ended up at the Grand Hotel
It was empty, cold and bare
The Rolling truck Stones thing just outside
Huh, making our music there now
With a few red lights and a few old beds
We made a place to sweat
No matter what we get out of this
I know, I know we'll never forget
Smoke on the water, a fire in the sky
Smoke on the water
(I can't hear anything)
one more time
(Smoke on the water) hey!
Funny how a disastrous event helped to provide the story line for one of Rock and Rolls classic hits!
You write about what you have experienced in your life and in this case along with a classic rif, a true classic song was born.
Yeah I was certainly hoping to hear Deep Purple Machine Head mentioned in this video
Exactly. This iconic song actually mentions the mobile unit and it’s not mentioned. Still, I enjoyed the vid.
Smoke on the Water ~ THEE Power Ballad!
@@fuzzyjax It's mentioned at 8:34.
The awesome "Machine Head" album from Deep Purple was recorded with that mobile studio. The Stones are not only the most important rock band but also the most innovative. Apart from the mobile studio, they released the first video clip. And they were the first rock band that performed in arenas using speakers that they were not on stage.
The Stones did not release the first Promo film clip. The Beatles for Paperback Writer and Rain was first in June ‘66. The Stones first specially made Promo was in September ‘66 for Have You Seen Your Mother Baby…
Yes, they should have mentioned that in the video.
You spelt the plural of stadium wrong! (YOU should know better! )
@@DMSProduktions sorry but English is not my mother tongue. Si usted quiere, hablamos en Español 😀
@@josevi5835 I KNOW that!
The LATIN plural should have been obvious to you Senor!
Stadium IS a Latin word! (Not English, which is Germanic!) Stadium s, stadia pl!
Deep Purple: With the rolling truck stones playing just outside, making music there.
@rockit6553 Close, but: "The Rolling truck Stones thing just outside
Huh, making our music there now"
when i was 15 i listened to deep purple singing "with a rolling truck stones parked just outside" i was confused and it took like 5 years to actually make sense!😂
Fantastic
Herzlichen Dank für diese informative Rückschau...Raritäten, diese Einblicke in verschiedene Studios, enorm interessant für mich....ich freue mich...👌🔝...🌻...
@Syd McCreath Danke für die netten Worte der Anerkennung...dein Deutsch war hier perfekt 🔝.....wünsche dir noch ein schönes Wochenende....☀ 🍀 🌷
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All thanks to Ian Stewart and the bands cash. Mick Jagger's no fool and realized right away the economics and the freedom it would give the band, so he and his mates went along. with it, and it proved to be a great success.
What an incredible story! I've known about the truck ever since hearing the lyrics to "Smoke On The Water" where Ian talks about the "Rolling Truck Stones". Amazing that it's still running after all this time. Fantastic.
They also mentioned Frank Zappa was using the truck...
@@Jack-nu4un Yessir!
Levee breaks drum sound was done with a Binson Echorec echo unit. Deep Purple recorded Machine Head with the Stones Mobile in Montreux. They were supposed to record the Machine Head record in the Casino concert hall, cabled up to the mobile, but with no audience. The night before during Zappa's performance, "some stupid with a flare gun".... They secured another venue called the "Pavilion", recorded Smoke on the Water, then got kicked out for too much noise. Thats when they ended up at the Grand Hotel.
Was also done with Bonham. Just about could have rigged up a jam tin on a tight bit of string. But yes...
I mean that 3M machine , just based on its sound , would be hard to rival with the best digital today as well.
Would suck for myriad of other reasons, but the sound....
This very truck inspired me to what would be an entire career in the making of the Artisan Mobile in 1976. My second truck - Mobile Red - is still in existence though I’m in the process of decommissioning it for sale in 2023. Ownership of a very well setup truck has given me opportunities I would not otherwise have had including, ironically, the recording of The Rolling Stones’ “Flashpoint” live record.
A mobile recording studio will typically see use by a far more diverse group of artists than will an equivalent investment in a stationary studio. In the case of Artisan Mobile, the client list is almost beyond belief and makes me proud. Artisan is not leaving the field but rather leaving the truck for a more logistically flexible system based on current state of the art. The maintenance and operation of a high-level truck is daunting to put it mildly. My new flight pack system will permit more flexibility and lower operating costs while sharing the high level of quality needed for location production.
I will very much miss the relative glamour of driving up in a tractor trailer containing a beautiful and great sounding space for monitoring. I don’t doubt that for a minute. I used to marvel at the feeling of hopping into the cab on the same day of arrival and driving to the next location or home. That glamour came at a very steep price though, one fewer and fewer customers were willing to pay.
The advent of recording capability built right into touring FOH sound consoles changed everything for not only me but many of my colleagues in the business, whom I owe endless gratitude. We are a family, us old-school mobile operators. Dave Hewitt, Guy Charbonneau, Kooster McAllister have all been great influences and supporters over the years.
You should consider making a RUclips video detailing your set-up and a listing of the bands and venues for your sake and for music history.
Get your experiences into print fella,lots of interest out there on the history of recording
...and Deep Purple`s Machine Head.
Also used to record Iron Maiden: Live After Death
Great video, I wish they would have talked more about the gear. ALSO: the Stones didn't use a 3M-m79 24track, that machine came out in the mid to late 70's! They most likely started with either an Ampex, Studer or 3M 8 track 1" machine in 1968. 16 track machines were just starting to be produced around early '69, so they may have upgraded very quickly. Led Zeppelin III was most certainly a 16 track recording as was "Who's next"!
Good call.
One of the Best bands of all history
One of the best....jajajajaja
Are you insane?
Are you stupid?
ROLLING STONES...EDGAR COCKSUKERS...
ALL THE REST KEEP ON SUCKING...
amazed Pearl Jam hasn't bought it yet.
...also, remember that large parts of Zeppelin's Houses Of The Holy were able to be recorded outside because they had this mobile studio to work with.
and Physical Graffiti too
Machine Head will go down in history as the cream of the RSM crop. It's just "different".
Stones😍😍
It's easy to overlook in this age of a everyone having a mobile studio on their laptop just how innovative an idea this was. It seems obvious now but I imagine in the day this must have been revolutionary. It took some very rich artists who could afford the indulgence to record in a less organize, professional way. It changed the way a lot of bands started recording and I think really changed the culture of recording studios as well.
leaving Deep Purple's MACHINE HEAD off the list of great Albums recorded with the RSM was a major oversight by curator man. It is one of THE great recording stories . See the "Classic Albums" documentary. I love that story of hardship turned EPIC. wb
Especially when the truck gets a mention in Smoke on the Water! That was how I first heard about the truck.
AGREED!! My comment included the lyrics for Smoke on the Water. How could they leave that out?
Some stupid with a flare gun! Lol.
ALBUMS RECORDED USING THE RSM
Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street- The Rolling Stones
Zeppelin III and Zeppelin IV - Led Zeppelin
Machine Head, Burn, and Live in Europe - Deep Purple
Penguins and Mystery to Me - Fleetwood Mac
Live! - Bob Marley and The Wailers
Alchemy: Dire Straits Live - Dire Straits
Harvest - Neil Young
Live in Italy - Lou Reed
@@markfryer9880 I think it's how everyone first heard about the truck. They also recorded the criminally underrated "Who Do We Think We Are" on the RSM.
Having Glyn Johns involved in this undertaking was a great idea too. Hes a production wizard!!
I don't think this was the first independent mobile recording studio. Wally Heider did it way before this and did many famous recordings.
some of the footage looks like Exile on Main St recordings.
Besides being a performer and musician, Mick Jagger was a business major in school. It doesn't surprise me that he would be involved in the creation of this concept.
first to comment LMAO
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Headley Grange stairwell drum sound also found on Bad Company's first record.
Very interesting and nice to see that it is still in use. However, I think it's a shame that they forgot to mention one of rock's most influential albums of all time that were recorded with the Rolling Stones Mobil. Of course, it's "Machine Head" by Deep Purple!
Exactly! The truck gets a mention in 'Smoke on the Water!'
Once again we hear the story (which has now been debunked) that the drum sound for "When The Levee Breaks" was created by the room sound of the stairwell. Andy Johns has stated in multiple interviews that the echo was achieved by using limiters and a Binson Echorec.
Yes snd it was recorded in the stairwell too adding to the sound. The Stones did the same thing at Stafgroves with Charlie and at Nelcote during the Exile recordings.
Wasn't Deep Purple one of the more iconic bands that used the mobile recording studio of the Stones to record Smoke On The Water?
Legend's! Every album is Great. Make history rock and roll's. l love this guys for ever! 🎧🎶👅👑♥️
@Syd McCreath Really?
I've been the biggest fan for over 45 years since Black and Blue was released.
You need to give it another spin.....
Hand of fate
Hay Narita
Crazy Mama
and of course,
Hot stuff.
Jagger's vocals are absolutely at their peak, and Ronnie who was meant to be a Stone was joining the band.
Curious that you left out that Led Zeppelin's Houses Of The Holy and much of Physical Graffiti were recorded with the Rolling Stones mobile at Stargroves.
y love
I thought that Sticky Fingers was largely recorded at Olympic Studios, with only some of the album having been recorded at Stargroves with the truck, perhaps just a couple of tracks. Three tracks, Brown Sugar, Wild Horses, and You Gotta Move, were actually recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound, in December '69, in Alabama. Also, I think that Black and Blue might be the last album on which The Stones may have used the truck to record one or two tracks, in Rotterdam. That album was largely recored at the now closed Musicland Studios in Munich.
You’re correct. This recorded Exiled on Main Street. And it was recorded in the South of France. This documentary is false.
Great video! Great comments! Although I was aware of that trucks use throughout the 70's, I really learned a lot from this, and the knowledge-base in the comments. Such an amazing piece of equipment!!!
The greatest band of all time 🌟
@Syd McCreath OH yes, second place on my top ten. I have this album, first edition. Greetings from Croatia Tanja. Exile is my favorite of all time.
@@tandod269agree with you my friend. Exile is the greatest album ever!
@@Trump-rv4nz Nice to hear you my friend ✌️Great minds think the same 😉Hope you doing well and nice weekend to you and your family ☺️
@Syd McCreathAgree with you ✌️Nice day😉
Best wedding/cover band of all time, definitely.
Many inaccuracies in this story, unfortunately. It’s a shame to hear this in what is presented as a documentary account.
I’m surprised that there was no mention of how important it was to the recording of Exile on Main St.
The RS were living in the South of France due to their tax situation and needed money badly. They sent Ian Stewart in search of a recording studio, but there were none, not even a large hall to rent. So they ended up bringing the Mobile Unit to Keith’s rental mansion to record Exile. The RS documentary, The Stones in Exile, explains all the details.
And they hacked into French power grid for their electricity?
@@rickster1957 of course
There finest hour my friend.
@@thomasgoodisson8877 Their
Argentina loves The Rolling Stones 💙🤍💛🤍💙
Argentina is the worst country ever, man.
Brazil rules. Pelé is the best.
@@EdubertoPalitroke My wife, who is Brazilian, says that Messi is the best.
@@Luichi7Stone A sua mulher tem ser sapatona para ficar com um argentino brega como vc.
@@Luichi7Stone Messi si so boring... Aguanteyshon The Dié of The People.
Don’t forget Ten Years After’s live album!
There was a large delivery van with trailer, in the 1970'S, called the Multi Track studio. It did this same thing. It was used to record 1970s live albums like Bob Seger’s Live Bullet, Lynyrd Skynyrd’s One More From the Road, and Alive! from KISS. The converted 1969 Chevrolet P30 van also recorded sound for movies like Robert Altman’s Nashville and was even used to record President Jimmy Carter’s inaugural address on January 20, 1977.
Jack White and Third Man Records owns it now. Getting restored and says it will be used again. Analog is back.
Interesting. The equally important truck and trailer American version was just found via the TV show "American Pickers". Jack White and 3rd Man Records are restoring it. Among many important recordings from that truck, check out Bob Seger and the Silver Bullet Band Live. The plan, upon restoration, is to get it back on the road and recording.
La mejor banda.✌
Deep Purple were supposed to have used the RSM to record at the Montreux Casino, but the night before they were to record, the casino burned down. Instead, they pulled the truck up to the Grand Hôtel de Territet, and set up a makeshift studio in the hallway. The incident, and the RSM, were immortalized in the lyrics of "Smoke on the Water":
We ended up at the Grand Hotel
It was empty, cold and bare
But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside
Making our music there
With a few red lights, a few old beds
We made a place to sweat
No matter what we get out of this
I know, I know we'll never forget...
Smoke on the water
A fire in the sky
Deep Purple mentions The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio in their infamous tune "Smoke on the Water" ( _Machine Head_ [1972]):
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I guess Deep Purple was around the Stones' mobile recording-studio about when Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention were also recording there, as mentioned earlier in the tune.
Deep Purple's Machine Head was recorded in the Grand Hotel at Geneva. The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio was outside and the band had to walk on a path in the snow in order to listen what they recorded.
Why didn't they call it The Rolling Studio???? Missed opportunity.
I didn't know it was Stu's idea!!! Fu**in Awesome! And yet another reason he is a musical pillar to The Stones and many more. Rest in well deserved peace Ian.
I can't believe you did a video on the Rolling Stones Mobile and didn't mention Machine Head and Smoke on the Water by Deep Purple which actually name-checks "the Rolling truck Stones thing"
Sorry to burst your bubble but Wally Heider started doing mobile recording in 1958 in the USA.
Its just sad how no of my classmates know about the best band in existence 😭
no way no one knows the rolling stones
Status Quo also used the mobile to record their classic double live album "Quo Live!", at the Glasgow Apollo Theatre in 1976.
So cool
I believe this studio was mentioned in the song Smoke On the Water by Deep Purple.
Activate subtitles, please!
3 minutes in and they must have explained the concept of what a mobile studio is 10 times. It's not that hard to understand what a mobile studio is. I'm as being a very strange mood to bother complaining about this to The ether 😜
Brian, can we be friends? That was funny! 🏆😂🇬🇧
So this is the Rolling Stones truck thing just outside
We all came out to Montreux
On the Lake Geneva shoreline
To make records with a mobile, yeah
We didn't have much time
And now we have Garage Band. Thinking of that progress melts my brain… in a good way.
“It was then that John Bonham created the seminal track for the Beastie Boys ‘Rhymin’ and Stealin”
garageband is a bit limiting. Apple users typically use logic.
To not mention Machine Head is ridiculous.
WoW ! This is the most Important studio in British History ! ❤ Never knew this cheers 🍺 Pink Floyd are the only ones missing
How fascination and interesting. Would love a full tour of the studio (inside and out) and maybe some specs on the truck too.
Excellent! This is worth at least a mini-series, would be great to do a tech dive into various machines and equipment inside. The inventory, setup, features, maintenance, running through a session, etc. So glad this studio has been preserved - want to see a lot more of it! Thanks for doing this.
Edit:
Rolling Stones Mobile Studio Tour - Part 1 History of the RSM / Jason Tawkin Interview
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Rolling Stones Mobile Studio Tour - Part 2 Future of the Helios / Jason Tawkin Interview
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Skippy's wrong about "Levee". There was a bunch more to it than two mics and the stairwell.
the accessibility of having the truck is still a playing factor on everything that was needed after the fact. they’re not gonna spend that much time breaking down the entire history behind it bc it’s a stones video.
Glyn Johns only ever used 3 mics on the drums back in those days
That mobile studio is epic and legendary. Love they did a video on it. As an artist who has his own recording studio and RUclips channel, there's so much knowledge that you can get from something like this. The Stones were my 1st and 2nd concert (Steel Wheels 9 yrs old and Voodoo Lounge 14) and huge influence on me especially Keith.
5:53 WHEN* The Levee Breaks
And it's Glyn Johns. Not Glen Johns.
"We all came out to Montreux, On the Lake Geneva shoreline, To make records with the mobile, yeah, We didn't have much time now".
Well done.
Story makes no sense. It would’ve been a “logistical nightmare” to bring all the studio gear to the Stargroves Estate, so their solution was to …. bring all the studio gear to the Stargroves Estate? If it can fit in the truck and be driven to the Estate, it can just as easily be carried into the house.
Still, a legendary piece of music history
The Mobile Studio Was in lynch pin the Stones, wanted at the time. Also Led Zeppelin, recorded one of their best albums of all time, in that Rolling Studio.... But Get it Right, I'm a Stones fan 1st!!!!!! 😂
Ian Stewart - *CO-FOUNDER OF THE ROLLING STONES* - was one of the many people this cover-band ripped off over the decades.
@8:34 - FINALLY you mentioned Smoke on the Water. Thought I was going to have to give you a thumbs down. "To make records with a mobile... But with the Rolling-truck-Stones-thing just outside Making our music there!"
And it's NOW based in Calgary, Alberta... ??? Really???? 👃✌️🥰🇨🇦
Can't You Hear Me Knocking? Sticky Fingers!
As a long-time Zeppelin fan, this mobile truck is almost synonymous with zep!
Some inaccuracies here. They showed a lot of photos from the Exile days in France during segments about Stargrove. Also, the Fleetwood Mac photo they showed was not the incarnation that recorded in the truck. FM recorded in the truck before the Buckingham Nicks days. Having said that, I'd give just about anything to record in that truck!
Deep Purple, Machine Head "Smoke on the Water": "...with the rolling truck stones thing just outside, making our music there.."
not the first,Wally heider 1967 in california,EMI had mobile recording in the 30s
No mention for Deep Purple’s “Machine Head”???!!!, even when Smoke on the water mentions “The Rolling Truck Stones”?.
MACHINE HEAD and BURN albums were recorded there. Yes laids, DEEP PURPLE IS A IMPORTANT BAND TOO
The music made history thanks to Glyn Johns
YUP.. The Mobile RECORDING STUDIO... Time to bring back a few more ! 😁🤟
not with current fuel costs!
Yes! Do more of this content! This is fantastic. THANK YOU!!
I love analogue gear. I’ve fallen out of love with computers.
There's a band here who bought up all the 2" and 1" tape available around here!
WHY didn't you mention Machine Head? "We ended up at the Grand Hotel
It was empty, cold and bare
But with the Rolling truck Stones thing just outside
Making our music there"
The Led Zeppelin IV fact is 100% false. The iconic drum sound for When The Levee Breaks was achieved with an echo filter machine after the recording. You can find early takes of the song online that lack the echo/delay sound of the final recording.
The very obvious “non-mention” of Deep Purple’s Machine Head album and the reference made to “The Mobile”
In Smoke on the water is rather curious.
🎶We all came out to montreux on the lake Geneva shoreline to make records with a mobile yeah we didn't have much time now🎶
1:46 "Fresh off the success of...The Satanic Majesties" ?! Haha, good one, so successful that they did a 180 and relaunched their career with JJFlash !
If that tape machine was 80 grand in 1970, I can't imagine what that custom Helios console must have cost, and what its worth today.
It's mentioned in deep purples smoke on the water, lyrics say, Rolling stones truck thing just outside, great track,👍