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René
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Back Street Girl
(Mick Jagger / Keith Richards)
RCA Studios, Hollywood, Los Angeles, California, US, August 3 - 11, 1966 and
Pye Studios & Olympic Sound Studios, London, UK, November 8 - 26, 1966
Mick Jagger - vocals
Keith Richards - acoustic guitar
Charlie Watts - percussion
Bill Wyman - bass
Brian Jones - French accordion
Jack Nitzsche - harpsichord
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neptune
There's also an organ here. I used to think it was actually a marimba. It's played from begining to end, accompanying Keith's acoustic elegantly. This simple organ part sounds like Brian to me, so maybe he played two instruments on BSG.
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neptune
There's also an organ here. I used to think it was actually a marimba. It's played from begining to end, accompanying Keith's acoustic elegantly. This simple organ part sounds like Brian to me, so maybe he played two instruments on BSG.
Are you meaning the percussive melodic part that plays throughout? If so that ain't no organ.
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neptune
Vibraphone it is! HM, you da man. Thanks.
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His Majesty
Interesting interview, with very abrupt answers.
So Bill says Brian made up the riff for The Last Time, but didn't play accordion on BSG nor piano on Ruby Tuesday.
I guess the writer, not bill, must have put that Brian did play piano on RT in stone alone/rolling with the stones. Those books do have other errors regarding crediting.
Note how he makes it clear that Brian didn't help write any of Mick and Keith's songs, but helped with arrangements.
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His Majesty
Is there any info regarding the circumstances of this interview, its seems slightly at odds with what his books say and the answers seem to come across in a bit of an unfriendly way!?
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His Majesty
A positive way of seeing it and I agree that he was no puppet, it backs up what I've mostly felt, that he added great ideas to the arrangements, but didn't help with the actual song writing.
Adding sitar was a nice idea, but the melody he plays is simply the vocal melody, which we can assume was Mick and Keith's creation.
It does also back up a few negative aspects about Brian, being out of it more often from circa Between the Buttons etc.
Is there any info regarding the circumstances of this interview, its seems slightly at odds with what his books say and the answers seem to come across in a bit of an unfriendly way!?
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neptune
I think there was a reason Brian belched in Frank Zappa's face when the latter declared his love for Between the Buttons.
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His Majesty
That reason being Brian thought Btb's was a load of crap?
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His Majesty
Yeah, interesting, his contribution to Yesterdays Papers is musically pretty stellar, his vibraphone part is way cool. I'm on the fence as to what that weird sounding instrument is on C,C,C, it ain't a sitar though, the banjo or dulcimer seems much more plausible.
There are days when I feel BtBs is a great album, other days the songs seem pretty weak and irritating. It seems to lack any emotion coming across more like a song writing - production experiment.
Hmmm.