Steel Wheels indeed!
The Rolling Stones owned the world’s first independent recording studio on wheels. That’s a true story as told in the new mini-doc, The Rolling Stones and the Most Important Music Studio on Wheels.
It was on the advice of their piano player and road manager Ian Stewart in 1968, that they commissioned a mobile recording truck, which they used to record the albums Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street.
The Rolling Stones Mobile Studio was built into the back of a box truck and it not only produced some of the Stone’s biggest albums but was also used to record some of the most iconic albums of the 1970s by other legendary bands.
The truck, which still functions and is part of the National Music Center in Calgary, Alberta, was also used by Led Zeppelin for their third and fourth albums, as well as Houses of the Holy and Physical Graffiti; Fleetwood Mac for Penguin; Deep Purple for Machine Head and Burn; and The Who for Who’s Next; as well as recordings by Black Sabbath, Bob Marley, Iron Maiden, Dire Straits, Nazareth, Santana and Bad Company.
So, yeah, just a few iconic artists and albums were recorded in a studio on wheels.
[YouTube: The Rolling Stones]
