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punkfloyd
Wait. I got the Radio Version from Itunes and I hear a drum machine instead of Charlie.
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tatters
I'm curious as to why everyone is so sure it's not Charlie. Because the drums are too simple? What about the drums on (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction?
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tatters
What about the drums on (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction?
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tatters
I'm curious as to why everyone is so sure it's not Charlie. Because the drums are too simple? What about the drums on (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction?
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custom55
Is it Keith ? Is it Charlie ?
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Justin
Charlie and Keith are both on it. There is no conspiracy here. If you want straight ahead Stones with no frills...stick with the iTunes version. Old-school fans won't find much to like in the radio edit remix that's on YouTube.
On the iTunes version: Keith can be heard throughout the track mainly in the left channel. You can hear his classic pull off on the bass root note a couple times...notably at 3:36 (also more prevalent on the radio edit version but on the right channel). Keith is there but mixed evenly with the other guitars...either Mick or Ronnie. Probably Mick on the lead guitar since this is most likely a song penned by him. The guitars are arranged much like "Don't Stop"...Mick focused on rhythm and Keith buried in the back. Not much "fairy dust" from him this time around.
Charlie is lying down a basic dance beat with next to zero fills. Not sure how you can hear the way that stick hits that snare and think it's not Charlie. Straight ahead 4x4 beat and he's mixed (and maybe spliced together?) so that he's consistent throughout the track. In this particular song, there isn't much room for him to try different things. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Mick's specific direction to Charlie to keep the fills to a minimum and keep it as close to a hypnotic techno/electronic beat as possible.
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punkfloyd
I had similar thought about the drums.
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deuce
That can mean lots of things and doesn't necessarily mean they're all on this track. In fairness to Keith, we know One Last Shot is his tune so his guitar might show up on that one...but I really don't think he's on here.
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deuce
I've listened to the song a few times now and I am 99% certain Keith is nowhere to be found on this track. I've played guitar for years and studied his playing inside and out and I'm just not hearing him here. What I do hear is someone playing something that vaguely sounds like something Keith Richards might play, but missing the mark. There are certain figures in this song that Keith just wouldn't play. They aren't in his vocabulary. And given his general decline in playing over the years, especially after the "tree incident", I don't see him coming back and pulling this out out of nowhere. It's too smooth. Too controlled. My guess is that it's either Mick on rhythm and Ronnie on lead (the leads do sound like Ronnie), or it's Ronnie on all guitars. I would say it's most likely the former, though. Let's not forget, this IS a Mick penned song and Mick has recorded Keith-esque guitar parts over the years (Sad Sad Sad, for example). Hell, this is the same guy who wrote the riff to Brown Sugar. And Mick's playing has progressed over the years. I don't see it being too inconceivable that this could be Mick doing his best Keith impersonation.
As for Charlie, he's definitely not on the radio remix, You Tube lyric video. That's a drum machine or someone went in and recorded a really simple drum part and gave it weird production. It's just not his style on that version at all. As for the iTunes/album version...all I can say is that if that IS Charlie, it may be his most phoned in drum performance ever.
So what we basically got is a Mick solo song written to resemble a Stones song.
Now, I'm aware the press release for Grrr! stated that these new songs were the first time all four of the Stones had been together in the studio for a number of years. That can mean lots of things and doesn't necessarily mean they're all on this track. In fairness to Keith, we know One Last Shot is his tune so his guitar might show up on that one...but I really don't think he's on here.
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audun-eg
Listen to the iTunes download. Both Keef and Charlie are present. In my setup the iTunes version features Keith in the left channel. Mick right. The radio remix on youtube, the opposite. And there Charlie is wiped out to a programmed drumbeat.
Also I believe Ronnie has the lead themes as it it surely something he could play.
Very Darryly bassplaying, but where is Chuck?
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Justin
Charlie and Keith are both on it. There is no conspiracy here. If you want straight ahead Stones with no frills...stick with the iTunes version. Old-school fans won't find much to like in the radio edit remix that's on YouTube.
On the iTunes version: Keith can be heard throughout the track mainly in the left channel. You can hear his classic pull off on the bass root note a couple times...notably at 3:36 (also more prevalent on the radio edit version but on the right channel). Keith is there but mixed evenly with the other guitars...either Mick or Ronnie. Probably Mick on the lead guitar since this is most likely a song penned by him. The guitars are arranged much like "Don't Stop"...Mick focused on rhythm and Keith buried in the back. Not much "fairy dust" from him this time around.
Charlie is lying down a basic dance beat with next to zero fills. Not sure how you can hear the way that stick hits that snare and think it's not Charlie. Straight ahead 4x4 beat and he's mixed (and maybe spliced together?) so that he's consistent throughout the track. In this particular song, there isn't much room for him to try different things. I wouldn't be surprised if it was Mick's specific direction to Charlie to keep the fills to a minimum and keep it as close to a hypnotic techno/electronic beat as possible.
I agree both Keith and Charlie as well as ole Chuckie are all present and accounted for on this track. On the itunes version what Charlie is playing sounds similar to what he played on You Got Me Rockin' with it's heavy use of tom. Mick seems to like Charlie playing that way for some reason. I don't there's been many interesting fills on a Stones album in several years, certainly not on ABB. On the lyric version it seems they used Charlie's beat to build up drum machines and samples over top of, but he's on their as well. As for Keith you can hear him in the left channel starting at :02 seconds into the song. As for Chuckie, you can hear organ clearly at the end of the song.
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backstreetboy1
charlie is a machine.but i think its john lennon not keith.