Who Knew?

I consider myself a pretty educated man when it comes to music both playing it and general knowledge of the field as a 25 year semi professional guitar player and singer, however I never knew that Mick Jagger had a brother named Chris who is also a musician in his own right.

A few weeks ago Mick stepped onstage in front of 40 or so people to accompany his bro in an old Stones staple Dead Flowers. Here's a YouTube cell phone video of the off the cuff performance that's pretty good.

This brought back fond memories of a Stones impromptu performance here in Chicago I was fortunate enough to win tickets to on a radio show before work the very day of the secret appearance. This took place at a well known Chicago club called the Double Door as they were similarly preparing in town for an upcoming concert back in September of '97 with just a few hundred lucky Chicagoans. This was during their Bridges to Babylon Tour.

I just now found out looking at the Double Door website for the post that it was turned into a very popular but hard to get DVD. Most definitely one of the highlights of this garage band man's life indeed.

Jagger joins brother on pub stage

LONDON, England (AP) -- Little known musician Chris Jagger had been saying for years that his famous brother Mick would one day join him on stage. When it finally happened, the audience numbered about 40.

Grainy footage of the gig late last month at the Bull's Head, a riverside pub in southwest London, was available on YouTube, posted by someone who captured the event on a cell phone.

The Rolling Stones kicked off a European tour in Belgium this week and will be headlining at the Isle of Wight music festival on Sunday. read more

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