Here are the Stones at Hyde Park in 1969 playing a cover of “I’m Yours and I’m Hers” that is horrendously sloppy, just barely in tune . . . and completely badass. The Replacements may have been the only other band with the attitude and panache to be simultaneously so bad and so great.
Some background: this was their first show in two years due to drug busts and Brain Jones’s decline, and their first gig with a 20 year-old Mick Taylor. They had kicked out Brian Jones a month previously, and sadly, he died two days before this gig. Jagger begins by reading a portion of Shelley’s “Adonais” in his honor. They opened with “I’m Yours and I’m Hers” because it was one of Brain’s favorites. Music begins at about 3:00.
Love it!
I expected a companion interview from about thirty years later, where Jagger says “wow… I don’t remember that at all.”
“I was in a band?!”