News item: Canadian owners of the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio plan to refurbish and restore the recording truck with an eye toward bringing it back to use.
Once upon a time, I might have been the only eighth-grader in America with a picture of the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio in his locker.
I had souvied a mid-’70s magazine from somewhere, and the mag had an ad in it with a big picture of the Stones’ legendary recording truck.
(I don’t remember what the ad was for. Clearly it wasn’t for the truck itself; it must have been for some component of the truck. Maybe it was a “Use Maxell tape like the world’s baddest recording studio does!” kind of pitch.)
I knew I liked the Stones then. And I had some dim perception that owning your own mobile recording studio was just part of the wild excess of being a superstar band.
So I tore out the picture and put it up in my locker … where, as far as I can recall, it spent the school year totally unremarked upon by the handful of other people who had occasion to stop by.
Not sure what I think of the whole idea of a mobile recording studio now. Today it seems like just another crutch to insulate rock stars from anything resembling the real world — which turned out not to be the greatest approach to life.
(If Led Zeppelin could record most of an album without leaving Mick Jagger’s mansion, is that ultimately a good thing?)
Time will tell whether the refurbished Mobile Studio ends up helping a new generation of rock stars create their own posh cocoons.
Interesting that people would travel to the mansion to use the mobile studio. Was this some Spruce Goose, in permanent dry dock after one test drive to the pub?
I like that the leader of the Britain took his breakfast of toast and beer there, and I’m not talking about Churchill.
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stargroves