Rome!! and Brian..
I was involved with Rock and Roll Circus… the original shoot lasted until the wee hours of the morning and when the Stones went on, they were exhausted. They did not like their segment and wanted to reshoot. We came up with the plan for their segment to be shot at the Coliseum in Rome. We got the permissions and flew there with Michael Lindsey Hogg to scope the possibilities…Everyone usually has this image of the Colisium being similar to any outdoor sports arena and that was the concept of the shoot..but…. when we arrived and went inside we found that it wasn’t a flat field but all catacombs and with that Michael Lindsey Hogg said…”I don’t know how to shoot this” and everything was canned until 1996 when the old footage was gathered by ABKCO (Robin Klein) and reedited and released.
Ahh Brian..I remember when he got the dulcimer and used to sit and compose. Prior to his dying (or murder) he was into African drumming and was working on a different kind of music. there is a sweet shot of Brian playing monopoly on my site as well as a shot of all of us at Ondine’s after the Ed Sullivan show.. Brian is bandaged because he got pushed thru the glass door of the theater while we waited for them to unlock the door..
