And we finished the track.')īrian helped with the sound effects on 'Yellow Submarine' and the backing vocals. 'He staggered into the control room and fell, right in front of the console. 'So I said, 'Brian, come into the control room and listen to what we've done,' Kramer continued. Not wanting to cause a scene, Kramer quickly came up with a way to get Jones out of the studio. But he was in the middle of a session and Brian wasn't doing well.' The look was, 'Can we get him to stop?' Jimi was so polite, never wanted to hurt anybody. 'Out of his mind, and started to play piano on 'All Along the Watchtower.' Jimi looked at me. 'Brian Jones stumbled into Electric Lady Studios,' Kramer told Esquire. (In a interview, Eddie Kramer, Hendrix's longtime engineer, provides the details. *He played some piano part for All along the Watchtower too.

(All along the Watchtower*and My Little One/ Ain't Nothing Wrong With That (apparently)) 😅īrian played various percussion instruments for him and some sitar.

He did the whistling on 'Something Happened to me Yesterday' and 'Walking the Dog' too, but I wasn't sure where exactly to put that. Others: Recorder, Flute, Mellotron, Saxophone, Oboe, Clarinet, Trumpet, Trombone, Euphonium, Congas, Double Bass, Kazoo, Clavinet, Banjo, Accordion, Glockenspiel, Xylophone. Then we have the more exotic ones: Appalachian Dulcimer, Vibraphone, Sitar, Koto, Harpsichord, Marimba, Tanbura, Harp, Autoharp. Let's start with the most obvious ones: Guitars (acoustic, electric, bass, slide, rhythm), Harmonica, Percussion, Tambourine, Maracas, Backing-vocals, co-lead vocals, Piano, Organ and Keyboards. ☺įirst, what instruments did he play for the Rolling Stones? I couldn't, so I tried to track down every instrument Brian was credited to on songs and so on and I probably still missed some. That Brian played more then just guitar is a pretty known fact, but can you name every instrument he was able to play? To continue publishing, please remove it or upload a different image. Oops! This image does not follow our content guidelines.

So he brought more exotic tones to the band.' - Keith Richards, in a BBC Documentary, 1989 Hence he'd pick up some sort of primitive instrument he's heard, and he'd be able to play it. And everyone thought what a wonderful piece of orchestration, but it was (his) sheer excellence and Brian's ability to get something out of an instrument. And so he used to use vibraphones and stuff mainly just because they were lying around the studio. Brian could walk into a studio and no matter what instrument was lying around, even though he had not played it before, he'd be able to knock something out of it very very quickly. he was really the first one in the band to bring in other elements of other people's music-the sitar he was very interested and also he was very adept.

Yellow submarine song with brian jones