Originally Posted By: David Snyder


Eddie,

That may be where you are going terribly wrong.

I heard a really funny recording some years back of a Rolling Stones song writing session captured in the studio.

Billy Preston kept playing this clever riff over and over and over and all the while Mick Jagger was just babbling gibberish into the microphone...until..

"And I miss you...yeah...

"And I'm walking Central Park...singing after dark...yeah...and I miss you!"

Maybe you should try it. Just sayin' man.



Oh, I bought the 12" single of Miss You at the time. A tremendous bass line, riff & melody from their last decent album.
The insanity of the credits for that song blow me away...
Wiki tries to explain...
""Miss You" was written by Mick Jagger jamming with keyboardist Billy Preston during rehearsals for the March 1977 El Mocambo club gigs, recordings from which appeared on side three of double live album Love You Live (1977). Keith Richards is credited as co-writer as was the case for all Rolling Stones originals written by either partner or in tandem.
For the bass part, Bill Wyman started from Preston's bass guitar on the song demo.[6] Chris Kimsey, who engineered the recording, said Wyman went "to quite a few clubs before he got that bass line sorted out", which Kimsey said "made that song".[7] Wyman recalled: "When I did the riff for 'Miss You' – which made the song, and every band in the world copied it for the next year: Rod Stewart, all of them – it still said Jagger/Richard. When I wrote the riff for 'Jumpin' Jack Flash', it became Jagger/Richard, and that's the way it was. It just became part and parcel of the way the band functioned."[8]"
There was a little less shimmer from the Glimmer twins each time they ignored a band member's due.

Last edited by rayc; 03/11/22 06:27 PM.
Cheers
rayc
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