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Charlie said "On 'Waiting On A Friend' he went into that Santana style of playing. It was incredible, and it really worked."
I've mentioned this before here wondering WTF he's talking about because there's no kind of playing like that on the LP version. So it must be that he was on it playing leads back in 1972 if Charlie said that. Charlie doesn't say A LOT about their songs but it seems that was one that he remembers.
He meant Time Waits For No One or CYHMK, surely.
Not too much Santana in WOAF
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We may never know wether Taylor played bass or not.
However, looking on tracks from Goats Head Soup, Bill was very absent in general.
Bill only played on Angie, Winter, Can You Hear The Music and Star Star, so it's not imposible Yaylor played on the Tattoo You tracks as well.
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We may never know wether Taylor played bass or not.
However, looking on tracks from Goats Head Soup, Bill was very absent in general.
Bill only played on Angie, Winter, Can You Hear The Music and Star Star, so it's not imposible Yaylor played on the Tattoo You tracks as well.
That's Wyman playing bass on WOAF.
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So, most likely, there never was a Taylor contribution on WOAF?
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So, most likely, there never was a Taylor contribution on WOAF?
If Taylor made such a hassle about his contribution, that would imply he's actually lying. Is there proof that it is Keith playing the guitar on WOAF? I know a good guitarist who played with Mick, knows and analyzed his playing very well, and he suspects that it is actually Taylor playing the guitar on WOAF. I share his opinions to a certain extend.
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Firstly, I'm not sure if it was Taylor that made a hassle. it could very well have been the media that noticed that there were two tracks from the Taylor era on TY. Taylor reacted on Tops, that we know. However, spesific comments about his involvement on WOAF are hard to find.
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The strumming on WOAF is very basic indeed, could be anyone, even Taylor
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Firstly, I'm not sure if it was Taylor that made a hassle. it could very well have been the media that noticed that there were two tracks from the Taylor era on TY. Taylor reacted on Tops, that we know. However, spesific comments about his involvement on WOAF are hard to find.
But you, Dandie, yourself gave us a straight quote by Taylor claiming that (page three)???
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Firstly, I'm not sure if it was Taylor that made a hassle. it could very well have been the media that noticed that there were two tracks from the Taylor era on TY. Taylor reacted on Tops, that we know. However, spesific comments about his involvement on WOAF are hard to find.
But you, Dandie, yourself gave us a straight quote by Taylor claiming that (page three)???
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True, but there is nothing about Taylor making a hassle out of lack of credit on that song - neither anything about him claiming to play the guitar on it.
So it's still a mystery what he allegedly played - hence my bass-theory...
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Nobody knows everything, though, and I have been wrong before, of course. For instance about Luxury, apparently. Sources next to the horse's mouth uphold that guitar #3 (the syncopated one) was played by Taylor
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Nobody knows everything, though, and I have been wrong before, of course. For instance about Luxury, apparently. Sources next to the horse's mouth uphold that guitar #3 (the syncopated one) was played by Taylor
There's no Taylor on Luxury. That's all Keith.
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Taylor did claim he played on WOAF and Tops.
Thing is: he probably did play on it, as they probably did 40 takes of that track, and they either used the one where Taylor just happened to take a piss, or they wiped his contribution and that's the only take that has ever leaked.
It could very well be the same case as with Brown Sugar: Taylor has stated he still is very proud of Brown Sugar whenever he hears it. Truth is that he isn't on the released version, as Keith wiped all his original and overdub parts, and did all the guitars by himself.
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Firstly, I'm not sure if it was Taylor that made a hassle. it could very well have been the media that noticed that there were two tracks from the Taylor era on TY. Taylor reacted on Tops, that we know. However, spesific comments about his involvement on WOAF are hard to find.
But you, Dandie, yourself gave us a straight quote by Taylor claiming that (page three)???
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True, but there is nothing about Taylor making a hassle out of lack of credit on that song - neither anything about him claiming to play the guitar on it.
So it's still a mystery what he allegedly played - hence my bass-theory...
Since I have nothing better to at this very moment: Did Keith claim it?
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Playing that guitar I mean ?
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In an interview Chris Kimsey stated in 1981 it was only Jagger who did the vocals overdub. The instrumental track was ready when Taylor was with them and no instrumental overdubs were done in 1981.
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"Only 'Waiting On A Friend' was already complete. The main thing missing from most of them was Sir Mick's vocal, because he hadn't finished writing the lyrics, so those parts were recorded in Paris in mid-1981. They'd rented a bloody warehouse on the edge of the Peripherique [ring road] in a horrible part of the city — all industrial sites and train sidings... no restaurants! I don't know who'd found the warehouse, but it was big and cheap, they put the mobile truck inside there, and it was so cold that, when Mick did the vocals, you could see icy breath coming out of his mouth. I remember that place to this day. It was absolutely diabolical."
Chris Kimsey.
I still haven't got the ultimate answer. I guess I'm gonna ask the man himself
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"Only 'Waiting On A Friend' was already complete. The main thing missing from most of them was Sir Mick's vocal, because he hadn't finished writing the lyrics, so those parts were recorded in Paris in mid-1981. They'd rented a bloody warehouse on the edge of the Peripherique [ring road] in a horrible part of the city — all industrial sites and train sidings... no restaurants! I don't know who'd found the warehouse, but it was big and cheap, they put the mobile truck inside there, and it was so cold that, when Mick did the vocals, you could see icy breath coming out of his mouth. I remember that place to this day. It was absolutely diabolical."
Chris Kimsey.
I still haven't got the ultimate answer. I guess I'm gonna ask the man himself
Let's hope he remembers it better than with a few other songs, then
On a serious note, it can be difficult to say whether one indeed has played on a track, if your contributions "vanish" during a mixing process on a multi-tracked recording (like, for instance, Brown Sugar)...
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Another thing to notice is that human memory has certain limits... When we are talking about a song that never made the final cut, or wasn't even considered making it, who did and what could be rather hard to remember years later. I mean, making "Brown Sugar" in those circumstances (Muscle Shoals) was surely a thing to remember afterwards, especially as the song was such a big one and to be heard in a radio daily (to refesh one's memory). But when the case is an unreleased demo, popping up suddenly some nine years later, memory can be rather hazy or make tricks. I guess most Taylor - who had recorded countless other non-released tunes with the Stones along the years as well - can do is recall the tune somehow and doing something with it. If his contributions have 'vanished' from the released version, like it did with "Brown Sugar", could be easily possible.
Of course, it could be that he has an incredible memory, and he can distinguish things like that, but I am a bit skeptical...
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In an interview Chris Kimsey stated in 1981 it was only Jagger who did the vocals overdub. The instrumental track was ready when Taylor was with them and no instrumental overdubs were done in 1981.
There were only vocals, sax and percussion overdubs in 1980. The guitar part is most likely from 1972.
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In an interview Chris Kimsey stated in 1981 it was only Jagger who did the vocals overdub. The instrumental track was ready when Taylor was with them and no instrumental overdubs were done in 1981.
There were only vocals, sax and percussion overdubs in 1980. The guitar part is most likely from 1972.
The outtakes, circulating and uncirculating, clearly reveal that they did quite some overdubbing: a 6-string acoustic and a 12-string acoustic, a percussion track removed, then half a dozen of percussion instruments, then layers of vocal overdubs, then Sonny Rollins doing various takes.
But the basic track was there: Keith's electric, Watts on drums, Wyman on bass and Nicky Hopkins on piano.
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Another thing to notice is that human memory has certain limits... When we are talking about a song that never made the final cut, or wasn't even considered making it, who did and what could be rather hard to remember years later.
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In an interview Chris Kimsey stated in 1981 it was only Jagger who did the vocals overdub. The instrumental track was ready when Taylor was with them and no instrumental overdubs were done in 1981.
There were only vocals, sax and percussion overdubs in 1980. The guitar part is most likely from 1972.
The outtakes, circulating and uncirculating, clearly reveal that they did quite some overdubbing: a 6-string acoustic and a 12-string acoustic, a percussion track removed, then half a dozen of percussion instruments, then layers of vocal overdubs, then Sonny Rollins doing various takes.
But the basic track was there: Keith's electric, Watts on drums, Wyman on bass and Nicky Hopkins on piano.
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Yeah, but do we know when the acoustic guitar overdubs were done?