I don't want to discuss the technical side here (remarkable, anyway), but IMO wood nailed the quintessential stones solo!

This stuff I love!!!

I never will understand why when played live Keith took the spot on this one, I believe it should belong to Wood!

C

Woody nailed it in '81/'82 - Keith took it over in '02 (although woody could occasionally be heard struggling to get some lead fills in toward the end) because that's what Keith does these days - he lays down a Chuck Berry lead on just about every song he can - someone a few months ago hilariously suggested he was waiting for the day when Keith dropped a CB lead onto Angie - NOT FAR FROM REALITY.

I like it too. The pianio solo is also off the hook... sometimes they played it in '81, sometimes they didn't...

played what? the song itself was in every setlist in 81/82....

Love the dueling guitars, love Mick's vocal, especially love Charlie on that song.

It's a good fast rocker as a live track but, much like Start Me Up, part of what makes it so good is the excellent production on TY.

Yes, that solo is great. As Keith said somewhere once, it sounds like a slide at the start of it but it aint, it's all Ron's fingers. I also love in that song where Charlie plays a pretty basic bass drum and snare beat the whole song, but after Mick says his "Neighbours! Neighbours! Neighbours! Neighbours!" bit the second time (the time after the sax solo), he changes the beat a little and starts playing on the cymbal. Great.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2006-02-23 18:35 by deuce.

ron's use of the whammy bar is what gave it the "slide effect."

(There's no slide on Neighbors), but it sounds like it. Ron plays that solo, and a lot of his things on regular guitar sound like they're slide. He's wangled a way of playing it without them, because he keeps losing them (laughs). At the start of that solo he's bending about four strings. Sounds like slide.

- Keith Richards, 1982

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> ron's use of the whammy bar is what gave it the
> "slide effect."

Absolutely no whammy bar: that intro is 100% fingers!

C

prove it!

T&A Wrote:
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> prove it!


Of course I can't prove it, but that is exactly what it sounds like. No whammy bar at all! At least, I always did it with a bending and it sounds as if it was done that way.

C

There's no slide on Neighbors), but it sounds like it. Ron plays that solo, and a lot of his things on regular guitar sound like they're slide. He's wangled a way of playing it without them, because he keeps losing them (laughs). At the start of that solo he's bending about four strings. Sounds like slide.

- Keith Richards, 1982

ok - then on MY version, he's playing a whammy bar...

Haha I posted that quote a few posts up Markdog

Nice solo--great tune--I like the tone of the guitars on that one.
They had killer tone on that whole record which is amazing since it was recorded at vastly different times. Superb job my Mick, Bob Clearmountain and Chris Kimmsey in the production--and unlike alot of things recorded in the '80's it does not sound dated.

I have not listened in a while, but I seem to recall hearing a whammy towards the end of the solo. It sticks out in my memory because the Stones did not use vibrato arms much at all.

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> played what? the song itself was in every setlist
> in 81/82....

Stu's piano solo... that always made song come alive...

liddas:
>Absolutely no whammy bar: that intro is 100% fingers!

T&A:
> ok - then on MY version, he's playing a whammy bar


Peace, brothers, peace... As far as I recall, there is NO whammy bar on the studio version, but there IS whammy bar on some 81 live versions...

Great solo indeed!




[There'll be no wedding today...]

Without saying this is in any way outcome determative
however the fact that he played it that way live is suggestive
of the fact that he used a Strat in the studio and further
used a whammy bar.

Especially when you consider that the Stones very very rarely
used the bar.

personally, I just like saying "whammy bar" so I'm gonna keep posting this once in awhile...

LOL

I'll eat my wammy bar if there is a whammy bar there!

C