Re: Time to retire the 5-string...on record?
Date: April 18, 2005 11:04
Open E: No Expectations, Dear Doctor (one guitar), Parachute Woman (one guitar), Jigsaw Puzzle, Prodigal Son, Salt of the Earth, slide on Love in Vain, slide on Let it Bleed, YCAGWYW.
Open D: Jumping Jack Flash, Child of the Moon, Street Fighting Man, Stray Cat Blues (one guitar), Prodigal Son, You Got the Silver, Gimme Shelter.
>On the song Some Girls, I think that could go either way (standard or 5)
No, it's Jagger (you're right, not Richards!) on rythm guitar in open G. You hear how he slides to the D on the 7th position (with the phase 100 on). And, soundwise is sounds like the A and D played in open G and not standard tuning. Again you're right, on the various outtakes it's more clear it's open G. Jagger played it in open G on the NS tour btw.
>Black Limousine sounds standard to me, too. Again, unless he put on
No, you can clearly hear the sus2 and sus4 chords in the rythm pattern, and the run at the end of bar 12 is run with the D and G string, with the low G added in the bass. Again, also the sound is typical open G, not standard tuning.
>Now, Tops I think can go either way again. You can play it on 5-string
Nope, open G again, and in my believe written by Taylor in open G, and not by Richards. The chords are very identical to the outtake Separately, which are all open chords with the high E string lowered to G ringing allong. You then get this airy, Jeff Buckly like sound scape. Then when the chorus comes you clearly hear the sound of open G, with the added sus4 chords. Btw, in 1981 live, Keith played it in open G (although he couldn't remember how it went...)
>Heaven is MJ on guitar
Absolutely true, but it is open G.
>Then again, he said Little T&A was 5-string and that's BS.
If I remember correctly it wasn't Keith that stated it was open G, but it was the interviewer (forgot his name) that got things all wrong. That interviewer also mentioned a 12-string live on Shattered and that Wood played the solo on Tumbling Dice in some kind of wierd E11 pedal steel tuning. Clearly the interviewer didn't know what he was talking about. Of course, T&A isn't in open G, you hear the low E string and the Am and Dm chords.
Brown Sugar was completely written by Jagger, as stated by Jagger, Richards, Wyman and Taylor.
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