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    The Rolling Stones were heavily influenced by American music in their early years but were introduced to Indian music through founding member Brian Jones who learned to play the sitar. This influence can be heard on their 1966 song "Paint It Black" which featured sitar and Eastern melodies. Jones' growing interest in Indian music led the band to experiment more with psychedelia and Eastern sounds on their 1967 album Their Satanic Majesties Request, featuring songs incorporating Indian instruments like sitar, tabla, and dulcimer. This marked an increased period of Indian influence on the band's musical style and experimentation in the mid-1960s.

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    The Rolling Stones were heavily influenced by American music in their early years but were introduced to Indian music through founding member Brian Jones who learned to play the sitar. This influence can be heard on their 1966 song "Paint It Black" which featured sitar and Eastern melodies. Jones' growing interest in Indian music led the band to experiment more with psychedelia and Eastern sounds on their 1967 album Their Satanic Majesties Request, featuring songs incorporating Indian instruments like sitar, tabla, and dulcimer. This marked an increased period of Indian influence on the band's musical style and experimentation in the mid-1960s.

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    Eastern Influences on The Rolling

    Stones: “Paint It Black,” Brian Jones, and Psychedelia


    By Tyler Bolden
    The Rolling Stones
    ● Formed in 1962
    - London
    ● Heavily influenced by American music
    - blues, gospel, soul, country, and rock
    and roll

    ● First stable line-up


    - Mick Jagger
    - Keith Richards
    - Brian Jones
    - Bill Wyman
    - Charlie Watts
    Brian Jones
    ● Founding Member
    ● Multi Instrumentalist
    - dulcimer, alto sax, accordion, koto, marimba

    ● Ingenuity often led the Stones off their


    “bluesy” course, especially 1966-67.
    ● Learned sitar from Harihar Rao
    - senior disciple of Ravi Shankar

    ● Died in 1969
    “Paint It Black”
    ● 1966
    ● Sitar
    - Plucked string instrument from India
    ● Uptempo and Eastern pentatonic melody
    - Eastern-sounding phrases akin to the Middle East
    ● One of the earliest rock songs to use the sitar
    - Early example of “raga-rock”
    “Paint It Black”
    Indian Influence

    Mick Jagger and Brian with Maharishi in 1967


    Their Satanic Majesties Request (1967)
    ● Excursion into Psychedelic music

    ● Answer to The Beatles’ Sgt. Pepper

    ● Album artwork features Indian mandalas


    and portraits

    ● Features their most pronounced Eastern-inspired


    music, such as “Gomper” and “Sing This All
    Together.”
    “Gomper”
    ● Psychedelic love song
    ● Based on Moroccan rhythms and Indian melody lines
    ● Jones plays vox bijou
    - electric dulcimer designed to emulate sitar sound

    ● Charlie plays tabla


    - pair of drums found in Hindustani music from India
    ●
    More Indian Influence
    ● “Street Fighting Man” (1968)
    - sitar
    - tanpura: long-necked pluck string instrument;
    provides harmonic bourdon or drone.
    - shehnai: wind-blown instrument

    ● “Factory Girl” (1968)


    - tabla

    ● Famous “tongue and lips” logo inspired by


    Hindu goddess Kali.

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