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DandelionPowderman
He's talk8ng about the song like it's brand new, saying it needs drums etc.
He says:
"...really need a drummer, we've always done it with drums, never did it sitting around"
Which alludes to the song having been played often (always).
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Bashlets
the studio version was magical. I was 19 and I remember reading about a song called Waiting on a Friend and Neighbors in A Rolling Stone magazine article. people magazine had a photo of Jagger and Hall going to Mr Chows in NYC after Waiting on a Friend video shoot. Several weeks later my local rock station said new Stones single arrives tomorrow so I called out of work and had my cassette player ready and was expecting to hear either WOAF or Neighbors and the announcer says START ME UP. The opening riff was killer and it rocked. It wasn’t disco. It kicked ass and I played it back in awe 50 times. Went away that weekend to a beach in Maine. Every station was already playing it in heavy rotation something that didn’t happen with the song Emotional Rescue. The stones were back. Total war horse now but god was it exciting when it first hit radio airwaves
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Bashlets
the studio version was magical. I was 19 and I remember reading about a song called Waiting on a Friend and Neighbors in A Rolling Stone magazine article. people magazine had a photo of Jagger and Hall going to Mr Chows in NYC after Waiting on a Friend video shoot. Several weeks later my local rock station said new Stones single arrives tomorrow so I called out of work and had my cassette player ready and was expecting to hear either WOAF or Neighbors and the announcer says START ME UP. The opening riff was killer and it rocked. It wasn’t disco. It kicked ass and I played it back in awe 50 times. Went away that weekend to a beach in Maine. Every station was already playing it in heavy rotation something that didn’t happen with the song Emotional Rescue. The stones were back. Total war horse now but god was it exciting when it first hit radio airwaves
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Bashlets
the studio version was magical. I was 19 and I remember reading about a song called Waiting on a Friend and Neighbors in A Rolling Stone magazine article. people magazine had a photo of Jagger and Hall going to Mr Chows in NYC after Waiting on a Friend video shoot. Several weeks later my local rock station said new Stones single arrives tomorrow so I called out of work and had my cassette player ready and was expecting to hear either WOAF or Neighbors and the announcer says START ME UP. The opening riff was killer and it rocked. It wasn’t disco. It kicked ass and I played it back in awe 50 times. Went away that weekend to a beach in Maine. Every station was already playing it in heavy rotation something that didn’t happen with the song Emotional Rescue. The stones were back. Total war horse now but god was it exciting when it first hit radio airwaves
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Bashlets
the studio version was magical. I was 19 and I remember reading about a song called Waiting on a Friend and Neighbors in A Rolling Stone magazine article. people magazine had a photo of Jagger and Hall going to Mr Chows in NYC after Waiting on a Friend video shoot. Several weeks later my local rock station said new Stones single arrives tomorrow so I called out of work and had my cassette player ready and was expecting to hear either WOAF or Neighbors and the announcer says START ME UP. The opening riff was killer and it rocked. It wasn’t disco. It kicked ass and I played it back in awe 50 times. Went away that weekend to a beach in Maine. Every station was already playing it in heavy rotation something that didn’t happen with the song Emotional Rescue. The stones were back. Total war horse now but god was it exciting when it first hit radio airwaves
Those were the days! How exciting it was to go out and get the new LP! And yep, the first single. The last time i was so excited about a Stones single was when Mixed Emotions came out. Obviously, Mixed Emotions was not another Start Me Up but the excitement of having a new single on the radio was something I will never forget.
I have always wondered why Start Me Up never has THAT guitar sound when the band play it live. The studio version has this playfulness, lightness, tightness about it. I cannot play the guitar so I do not know why the studio sound has never been replicated live. Is that something that would be difficult to achieve live?
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Spud
They have never seemingly been able or wishing to replicate the recorded tempo.
That's certainly one factor . It rather races live, losing some tension and syncopation.
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MadMax
The best live versions IMHO are from 1989, 1990 and 2007. Without Charlie it's deffo not the same. Steve handles all other tunes all right.
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MadMax
The best live versions IMHO are from 1989, 1990 and 2007. Without Charlie it's deffo not the same. Steve handles all other tunes all right.
Jordan sticks to the 4 on the floor of the original in that live version just above - and a good bit to the studio version.
But STEEL WHEELS was the best live version period. For me. It soared.
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GasLightStreet
I couldn't discern anything in that bizarre link.
Ronnie plays "the bottom" - it's an F, as well as some wonky riffs. Keith is all of the loudest riffage heard, and what seems to be some Ronnie leads here and there.
2 overall, with a third here and there.
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Nikkei
wow that is huge. fits like a glove too, especially compared to *cough* Windows 95
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GasLightStreet
I couldn't discern anything in that bizarre link.
Ronnie plays "the bottom" - it's an F, as well as some wonky riffs. Keith is all of the loudest riffage heard, and what seems to be some Ronnie leads here and there.
2 overall, with a third here and there.
The leads are Keith.
Mathijs
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GasLightStreet
I couldn't discern anything in that bizarre link.
Ronnie plays "the bottom" - it's an F, as well as some wonky riffs. Keith is all of the loudest riffage heard, and what seems to be some Ronnie leads here and there.
2 overall, with a third here and there.
The leads are Keith.
Mathijs
How my seems have been correctified! Seems like I would notice given how slow and bendy they are! Maybe it was the fantastically mimed video of them playing?
I've never read anything but it would be interesting how they determined to come up with a solo that Ronnie plays in 1989 (and ever since).