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Mathijs
There are two? Never heard that.
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René
Comments, input and alterations are very welcome!
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René
Comments, input and alterations are very welcome!
It's not 'Paint It Black' It's Paint, It Black
Although, admittedly, Keith has stated the comma was a Decca's doing.
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Silver Dagger
That explains Mick's perfect enunication on Ready Steady Go. He says Paint It...then pauses, and says Black.
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rootsman
Brian also plays acoustic guitar, btw.
Nope, that's Richards.
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DandelionPowderman
It´s likely, but based on what you´re listing we don´t really know
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Silver Dagger
That explains Mick's perfect enunication on Ready Steady Go. He says Paint It...then pauses, and says Black.
I actually prefer the title as 'Paint It, Black' The addition of the comma creates a moment of suspense that the song rightly warrants.
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His Majesty
Brian played acoustic guitar on Paint It, Black...
* Mick say's so in Rolling Stones Monthly in 1966
* Bill's books credit Brian with sitar and acoustic guitar
* The rhythmic acoustic part matches what Brian played live during 1966 - 1967
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24FPS
I'm confused. Brian didn't play Sitar live on Paint It Black? Or did he pull a Rahsaan Roland Kirk and play two instruments at one time?
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DandelionPowderman
It´s likely, but based on what you´re listing we don´t really know
We don't really know who played most of the instruments on their records then.
There's more proof about the main rhythmic acoustic guitar being played by Brian than there is for a whole number of instrument credits which get way more easily accepted.
His live playing in 1966 is the best proof there is, the part is near enough exact.
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DandelionPowderman
One hour and two minutes time difference?
I second what you both state here. A very important and defining (in many ways) crossover number. Stones fans on iTunes have it among the top 5 (even higher?) as well.
A brilliant track, where all the members of the band shine simultaneously
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24FPS
A quite singular song that is among the very best the band ever created. Jack Nitzche created the rhythm? I thought it was pretty much history that Bill got that strange thing going by getting on his the floor and pumping the bass on an organ with his fists (or something very similar).
There's a 1967 American TV music special hosted by the conductor Leonard Bernstein called 'Inside Pop: The Rock Revolution'. Along with Beatle songs, Beach Boys (Brian was at the height of his powers) At 13:13 in he plays a snippet of Paint It Black and calls it Arab Café Music.
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I think it works on many levels. It's timeless and yet for me it takes me back to teenage darkness and angst and I hear, "I see the girls walk by dressed in their summer clothes. I have to turn my head...."
Later I saw it as sort of an eerie premonition of Brian's fate. "I could not foresee this thing happening to you."
They retired it for quite a while. When they finally did bring it back to the stage, it was wildly received. I would put it in the top 5 of my Stone favorites.
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His Majesty
They are often right as well. Micks 1966 comment a few months after the session and Bill's books in tandem with the playing make it as factual as you can get with that sort of thing.
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howled
I think some are reading too much into it.
The song started off with Keith's riff and they were doing novelty joke like things with it in the studio according to Keith and they probably would have had no idea when they were first playing around with it that it would end up as a potential single.
For how the Stones play around with arrangements, see the Goddard Sympathy video where it goes from an Acoustic song to a Samba.
Anyway, they played around with what would become Paint It Black and I think Jack Nitzsche got the rhythm going in a certain way and the Sitar playing the riff spun it in a certain way and then Mick probably finished off the lyrics to suit it (maybe inspired by some things he's read) and that was Paint It Black.
It could have ended up as a Mothers Little Helper thing with a middle eastern riff and different lyrics to suit.
The lyrics are about someones funeral that the person has known and the after effects, and Eleanor Rigby was sort of similar and recorded a bit earlier and later then when Paint It Black hit the charts.
This was in the period where the Beatles had stopped singing about Love and just about any subject could theoretically be used for a pop song.
Satisfaction was Keith suggesting Satisfaction as the title and Mick just focused on how he couldn't get it in the lyrics, which just worked.
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DandelionPowderman
Of course they are! But they're often wrong as well. That makes it difficult to trust them. Keith is impossible to trust