The Rolling Stones with Jon Wurster

Dubbed the World's Greatest Rock and Roll Band, they invaded America, its TV screens, and changed it all. It's an episode that would maybe even make Ed Sullivan proud. It's THE ROLLING STONES week!Joining the show is iconic drummer and the King of rock and roll weirdness, Jon Wurster (Shannon/Narducy & Friends, The Mountain Goats, ex-Superchunk)! Jon and the guys watch a pod-record 8 performances from 1964 to 1978, tracking the ever-changing styles and looks of this quite popular band! The group’s first ever live TV performance comes on a British sketch comedy show hosted by Arthur Haynes. The Stones morph across 5 drama-filled Ed Sullivan performances with screaming girls, censorship, and Brian Jones getting progressively weirder. A 1972 clip from Beat Club shows the band at the height of its power. And a big 1978 comeback is captured in a supremely messy SNL performance.Check out Jon on tour with Michael Shannon/Jason Narducy & Friends doing REM's Fables of the Reconstruction and much more right now!Want to watch along with us? Check out the links below for the performances discussed this week!I Wanna Be Your Man/You Better Move On (8:37 mark), 2/7/1964 on The Arthur Haynes ShowAround and Around/Time is on My Side, 10/25/1964 on The Ed Sullivan ShowSatisfaction/As Tears Go By/19th Nervous Breakdown, 2/13/1966 on The Ed Sullivan ShowPaint it Black/Lady Jane/Have you Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing in the Shadow? (22:42 mark), 9/11/1966 on The Ed Sullivan ShowRuby Tuesday/Lets Spend the Night Together (32:12 mark), 1/15/1967 on The Ed Sullivan ShowGimme Shelter/Love in Vain/Honky Tonk Woman, 11/23/1969 on The Ed Sullivan ShowJam Session/Tumbling Dice/Shake Your Hips/Loving Cup, May 1972 on Beat ClubBeast of Burden/Respectable/Shattered, 10/7/1978 on Saturday Night Live