Yer Blues

PBS again rewards me. Last week I was watching Frontline and it was excellent as usual. Then afterwards comes The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll Circus. I’ve only seen segments of the concert and this is one of the best on the program (the Stones killed and it’d be silly to put ‘em up here because everyone knows they killed that show.) The segment here is John Lennon’s band The Dirty Mac (the name’s reportedly a play on Fleetwood Mac, who were huge in 1968) consisting of Keith Richards on bass, Jimi Hendrix Experience member Mitch Mitchell on drums, Eric Clapton on guitar (Cream had just disbanded), and Lennon. “Yer Blues” is the tune. The show was filmed in December of 1968.