What about Street Fighting Man, with its giant acoustic guitar and great walloping drumbeat?
“That was done with a tiny little drum kit, a toy drum kit, and Keith Richards playing acoustic guitar into an old cassette recorder. We used to experiment with a lot of things like that, then we tried it in the studio and overdubbed the bass drum. In fact, I think the bass drum was played by Dave Mason, the guitarist from Traffic.
Funny how these little bits of info come out, even decades later. I wish Dave would open up and talk about his contributions to Beggars Banquet.
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"We’ve been lucky that we’ve been able to afford the time to do that, because most people are in the studio for the day and out again,” he reflects. As a case in point, his ABC&D outfit are about to release a live album recorded on a loose-change budget at the Duc des Lombards club in Paris. “There’s no mixing or anything,” he says. “It’s called cheap.”
I'll be getting that - I wonder if that's the same night that was broadcast on French radio?
Charlie: "I don’t think Led Zeppelin had the heart to carry on without John Bonham. John was so much a part of that sound. I don’t know if you ever stood near them onstage, but it was a hell of a bloody sound.” Oh, come on, Charlie, I think most people have stood next to Zeppelin on stage!
(P.S. Why do people LOOOOVE to proclaim there won't be tours? People posted that before the last two tours. I think at a minimum the Stones'll do a residence somewhere, like Rod Stewart's been doing recently at the Colosseum in Las Vegas—where I saw him last year and he was fantastic. I guess people love to imagine themselves oracles of Delphi)