Rockman Wrote:
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> RICHARD "DIDYMUS" WASHINGTON (AMYL NITRATE)
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> Nicknamed Amyl Nitrate on the credits, Richard
> Washington was a percussionist working with Dr.
> John. He participated in the Stones' L.A. sessions
> for Exile on Main Street and contributed marimbas
> to Sweet Black Angel.
>
> Taken from....WHY DON'T WE SING THIS SONG ALL
> TOGETHER?
>
> Time Is On My Side -
> [
www.timeisonourside.com]
Here's a quote from Dr. John's book "Under a Hoodoo Moon: The Life of the Night Tripper":
In 1972, soon after my dustup with Bennett Glotzer, I got a call from Keith Richards. “We’re gonna be coming to LA to cut an album,” Keith said. “You want to play?” they needed all kinds of musicians, so I rounded up a crew that included the singers Shirley Goodman and Tami Lynn, my guitarist Shine Robinson, Didimus, and myself.
The sessions with the Stones, which turned into their album ‘Exile on main st’, came out all right. They weren’t necessarily totally stand-up people, but I dug working with them, even though I wasn’t a big fan of their music. I liked the rhythms their drummer, Charlie Watts, was putting down: His style clued me that he had listened to at least some jazz and fonk stuff.
…During these sessions, I came up with the idea to write an album of songs with Earl King for the Stones to wax. The album, to be called ‘Pornographic Blues’, was a takeoff on the raunchy blue versions of popular songs I remembered from the New Orleans clubs and whorehouses after hours, when the hustlers, cons, pimps, and whores came in to carouse at the end of their working evening. Earl King and I wrote handfuls of tunes for the project; later, I got pissed off at the Stones for their ‘@#$%& Blues’, a rip-off of our album concept but with no compensation or credit to me or Earl for the ideas. At the same time, Didimus really got steamed at them because they didn’t give him proper credit for playing on ‘Exile’; they had put down the percussionist’s name as Amyle Nitrate.