Now, we all know The Rolling Stones from their famous sobriquet The World’s Greatest Rock And Roll Band…And in 1968 became a band with the most important studio on wheels. Many rock acts at that time had to spend countless hours in the recording studio recording, re-recording, and mixing the albums that they would soon be putting out to the masses of their adoring fans. The idea of a mobile recording studio was an idea of the Stones piano player and road manager Ian Stewart. He proposed a mobile recording studio so that the Stones could record anywhere, anytime and free them up from the hectic schedule of being penned up in the studio from nine to five. So, the band commissioned a mobile recording truck where the control room of Olympic Studios in the back of a bus made from a DAF F1600 Turbo Truck. “Sticky Fingers” and “Exile On Main Street” were two of the Stones iconic albums recorded in the mobile studio as well as “Led Zeppelin III” and Led Zeppelin IV”. The Who, Deep Purple, and Fleetwood Mac are just a few more acts to utilize the RSM. The mobile studio was also in the lyrics of the Deep Purple timeless classic “Smoke On The Water” where the band was using it when the infamous casino fire broke out in Montreux, Switzerland while recording their “Machine Head” album. After a glorious run and so many rock and roll memories, the Rolling Stones Mobile Studio now resides at the National Music Centre in Calgary, Alberta, Canada.
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