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DandelionPowderman
– Jack, the gardener, was jumping about in Keith's garden that day to inspire them
– They wrote the music
– They came up with the title
– Mick finished the lyrics
– They recorded it the very next day, and Bill didn't get to play the riff he wrote, nor the bass track
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DandelionPowderman
– Jack, the gardener, was jumping about in Keith's garden that day to inspire them
– They wrote the music
– They came up with the title
– Mick finished the lyrics
– They recorded it the very next day, and Bill didn't get to play the riff he wrote, nor the bass track
Yes, not in that order. More like:
- Bill was fooling around on the piano (playing Satisfaction backwards as a joke).
- The Glimmers came in, liked the sound of it and decided to write a song around it.
– The Glimmers went to Redlands and stayed up all night developing the music.
– Early in the morning Jack, the gardener, was jumping about in Keith's garden to inspire them.
– They came up with the title phrase that fit the music and Mick finished the lyrics.
– They recorded it. Bill didn't get to play the riff nor the bass track (and he couldn't claim to have written it because "it" was Satisfaction backwards).
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More Hot Rocks
Coming up with a lick really isn't writing a song. Where are the chord changes? The Structure? The vocal melody. If I came up with lick to let's say My Girl and thats it. Thats only a small percentage of the song. The song can go in many many directions like DandelionPowerderman said it depends he producer and many other factors. If I dug a hole doesn't mean a built a house.
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Redhotcarpet
It isnt Satisfaction backwards (that is Keiths excuse since he didnt write the riff) it is a riff played on organ
and it's so good that Keith and Mick used it as basis for JJF. No need to Keithwash this.
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wonderboy
I am not a musician, but surely others had played around with that riff before. The world is full of riffs and little bits, but a song is what you do with them.
And the magic of the Stones is more than the riffs, it's the way they created sounds in the studio. With this song, the story is the way Keith electrified the acoustic instruments through his tape deck.
Also look at the chronology -- Bill was fooling around with something as a lark -- but Keith saw the potential, Mick and Keith wrote the words, Keith played with the riff and did something else with it, Keith created the sound. If Bill had been out to Redlands in the writing process or played a bigger role in the studio (like MT probably did in later years) I'd feel he had a stronger claim to a writing credit.
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Rocky Dijon
I always figured Bill was trying to play Buffalo Springfield's "Mr. Soul" on organ, but I can't prove that.
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GasLightStreet
That was in ROLLING STONE I think, about the LICKS tour or whatever, the one with Keith on the cover.
Mick and I were in my house (laughs) in England in the country... and we'd been up all night and it was 6:30 in the morning, a dismal day, you know, English, grey. And we were just both crashing, Mick was on the couch and I was in an armchair with a guitar and we were, like, on the verge. And suddenly this sound of these boots (laughs) went by the window, clump clump clump - really, I mean, you had to be there to hear it - and woke Mick up, What was that? And I said - I looked out the window and I thought, Oh, that's Jack, that's jumpin' Jack. You know and then we started to play with those words. But I mean, really, it was sort of virtually woke up out of a stupor by this guy's boots, he was my gardener, he was a great guy but he's another story. And but... I just said, That's Jack. Well he's leaping about a bit. Yeah, I said, it's jumpin' Jack and then flash came and suddenly we were wide awake and we started to work, you know. You never know when they're going to come.
- Keith Richards, 2003
And then this bit from wherever:
Jumpin' Jack Flash comes from this guy Jack Dyer, who was my gardener. He'd lived out in the country all his life. I'll put it this way: Jack Dyer, an old English yokel. I once said, Have you ever been to town? And town, to an Englishman, means London, right? And he says, Oh Yeah, I was up there V.E. Day, when the war finished. That cathedral is something. He meant Chichester, the local big town, seven miles away... Mick says, Flash. He'd just woken up. And suddenly we had this wonderful alliterative phrase. So he woke up and we knocked it together.
- Keith Richards, July 1997
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Mathijs
The riff as played during the R.G. Jones Studios rehearsals is quite a bit different than the official studio version, so Keith did change the riff around quite a bit. As he did when he played it in standard tuning, and even more so to how he played it in open G.
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DandelionPowderman
– Jack, the gardener, was jumping about in Keith's garden that day to inspire them
– They wrote the music
– They came up with the title
– Mick finished the lyrics
– They recorded it the very next day, and Bill didn't get to play the riff he wrote, nor the bass track
Yes, not in that order. More like:
- Bill was fooling around on the piano (playing Satisfaction backwards as a joke).
- The Glimmers came in, liked the sound of it and decided to write a song around it.
– The Glimmers went to Redlands and stayed up all night developing the music.
– Early in the morning Jack, the gardener, was jumping about in Keith's garden to inspire them.
– They came up with the title phrase that fit the music and Mick finished the lyrics.
– They recorded it. Bill didn't get to play the riff nor the bass track (and he couldn't claim to have written it because "it" was Satisfaction backwards).
It isnt Satisfaction backwards (that is Keiths excuse since he didnt write the riff) it is a riff played on organ and it's so good that Keith and Mick used it as basis for JJF. No need to Keithwash this.
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– They recorded it. Bill didn't get to play the riff nor the bass track (and he couldn't claim to have written it because "it" was Satisfaction backwards).
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gotdablouse
Great info, now please tree the f***er ;-)