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Now, one very important person we haven't yet mentioned is Ian Stewart.
He's important because when the Rolling Stones were first formed,
there were six members, not just the five who were known later.
Ian explains how he got involved.
Well, from my point of view, the [Bb] group started with Brian, really.
_ He was the first one I met.
[G] And he had put an advert in the jazz news
saying [B] that he wanted to start [D] an R&B group.
[Bb] And he was trying to get a group together in a pub in Lyall Street.
_ [G] And there was only him and a couple of other guys.
He didn't like the piano player I'd got,
so I just started playing [Abm] piano and we went through different people.
But then [G] this was at a time when the singing and healing was [Gb] starting
and the marquee thing with Alexis was [G] starting.
And, of course, Brian knew Alexis,
and [Bb] so therefore he got [Gb] to know Mick and Charlie.
So what [Bb] eventually we did, we had this group with Mick [D] and Keith
and they brought Dick Taylor and Brian
[B] and then it just used to be a case of any drummer [A] we could find.
But we didn't really play in public at all.
In fact, we sometimes went weeks without playing
cos, you know, it [Bb] didn't seem to be getting anywhere
and Brian would get pissed off with it and vanish.
[C]
So eventually we sort of thought about starting clubs [Eb] ourselves,
you know, in pubs the way the jazz clubs were at [C] the time.
Had one here in Sutton.
We didn't really [B] get Charlie with us permanently for a long time
because he was playing with [A] another group that was making money
and Charlie needed the money, so we just [Bb] had to.
We must have used about eight or nine different drummers.
Dan Drolden [C] was a publicity man.
_ [Db] He was very [G] conscious of [B] producing a Beatle-type pop group,
although [Gm] without actually changing the [B] music too much.
He sort of [G] admitted that he knew nothing about music
but he [A] wanted to cut the group down to five people.
I mean, I was much older than them.
I didn't like long hair.
I've never had my hair long. _
And also you've got to iron out the fact that I'm a rotten piano player.
[Eb] The only thing I regret about it is if I'd stuck to it,
I'd probably been [B] quite a good piano player [G] now
if I'd forced myself to do it, but I was not a good piano player then. _
And I didn't really like the way Andrew steered the group.
And in fact, if he'd have stuck to his publicity thing,
which he was brilliant at,
I think he's very responsible for what they eventually achieved
[N] and kept his nose out of the music.
They might have been better today, actually.
But in 1969 there were bigger problems.
What had [E] once been a split between Brian and the rest of the group
was rapidly becoming a yawning chasm.
[Gbm] Ian Stewart, who'd started on piano with Brian in the [E] original group,
explains how [Eb] he saw it.
It might have been making me feel pretty bad for a long time
because [Bb] he wasn't really thinking too much about playing.
_ He seemed to be bitter about various things.
_ [G] _ [Bb] When I first met him, he was a really nice [A] guitar player
who could play various styles.
_ He still felt he was leader of the group
for a couple of years after it started.
He used to be a bit bitter under the surface
that Mick was the leader of the group, not him,
and the fact that, you [N] know, they were recording all Mick and Keith's songs.
I mean, Brian was incapable of writing music,
and so I'm not really quite sure what else he wanted them to do.
And then he rather lost interest in guitar playing whatsoever.
He did break his wrist one time in Africa.
And from then on he just didn't want to play guitar.
He played soprano sax on a Beatles B-side. _
He just seemed to lose all heart, [Gbm] and he was [G] talking about leaving anyway.
So I mean, I wasn't surprised.
I didn't really feel particularly bad about it
because he was potentially brilliant and a very, very intelligent person.
[C] But he just seemed to be set on destroying himself.
[Db] So Brian was out, and his [Gb] replacement in the group was 20-year-old [Eb] Mick Taylor.
Ian Stewart approved of this choice.
Well, if I [Bb] didn't like him, I wouldn't have got him.
I never get any credit for doing anything in this band,
but it was me that [B] rather [Eb] got Mick Taylor in this.
I mean, there wasn't really very many choices.
It was going to be him, and my other choice was Ronnie Woods at the time.
But the faces had been, you know, really down and doing nothing,
and they were just starting to look up again with Ronnie Woods playing with them.
And so he doesn't know about this, actually.
So Ronnie Lane said,
Oh, for Christ's sake, don't pinch him.
You know, we need him sort of thing.
And so I then thought about [B] Mick Taylor,