Picture an ugly truck maybe still painted camouflage to be concealed during a Frank Zappa film or maybe catching on fire and becoming a lyric in Deep Purple's Smoke On The Water and you would have
The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio conceived back in 1968.
Basically the band was tired of being constrained to recording in a studio under ordinary working day schedules. So they wanted to be able to record on location...thus they needed a mobile studio they could roll right up anywhere. It just so happened that Mick Jagger bought his country home,
Stargroves, and now with the mobile unit right outside his home they could play inside. Who wants all that equipment cluttering up the inside of a 16th century country home?!
In fact the studio became so popular the Stone's rented it out to bands like The Who,Led Zeppelin,Deep Purple and many more.
Here's some more background at a great blog resource for Classic UK Recording Studios by
Phil Burn's and here's the
The Rolling Stones Mobile article.
Mike Smith-The Showbiz Kids
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