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The Dirty Mac was the ultimate supergroup, featuring John Lennon, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton, and Mitch Mitchell (the supernaturally gifted drummer from The Jimi Hendrix Experience). They only came together for one show, a TV special called The Rolling Stones’ Rock & Roll Circus, which never aired, presumably because many of the acts—like Jethro Tull, Taj Mahal, The Who, and especially The Dirty Mac—upstaged the Stones themselves.
Anyhow, The Dirty Mac played a Beatles song, “Yer Blues,” and they killed, they were awesome, but then they launched into another number called “Whole Lotta Yoko” and you can see where this is going, can’t you?
Press play. Listen. Starts off great, doesn’t it? And then they introduce a violin into the mix—not bad at all, eh? But wait, wait for it, wait for it—there. Hear that sound? Does it sounds like an alley cat having its guts pulled out? Yep. That’s Yoko Ono’s contribution. She got to hang out with the coolest band in the world, and she fucking ruined it. Of course, that’s arguably what she did to The Beatles, so we should’ve seen this coming.
The Dirty Mac was a British super-group that formed for just one performance, on the Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus TV special, filmed in December of 1968 but never aired. The Dirty Mac was composed of John Lennon, Eric Clapton, Keith Richards, and Mitch Mitchell of The Jimi Hendrix Experience, which is just too much awesomeness for any one band to establish a monopoly on. Anyhow, they performed a Beatles song, “Yer Blues,” which was amazing, but then John Lennon, who had a habit of putting together great bands before letting his girlfriend fuck everything up, brought Yoko Ono onstage and…
You know what? Give me a couple days to work on this and I’ll dedicate an entire day to the never-aired Rolling Stones Rock & Roll Circus TV special. I’ve dug around through YouTube and I can’t find all the performances I want to show, so I’ll have to upload them myself. But trust me, folks, you’ll want to check this out.
