Posted on 06/28/2025 9:33:49 AM PDT by DallasBiff
It was a spring morning in 1965, several weeks before the start of the Rolling Stones’ third North American tour, when Keith Richards rolled out of bed and noticed something strange. The Philips cassette player that he kept in his London bedroom appeared to be broken. He’d put a new tape into the machine one day earlier, but now the cassette was at the end of its spool, having somehow wound its way through 45 minutes of useable tape. Curious, he rewound the cassette and pushed play.
A three-note guitar riff came blasting out of the speakers, followed by some basic chords and a simple refrain. “I can’t get no satisfaction,” went the melody, sung by Richards in a sleepy, half-conscious voice. After several repetitions, the music faded out and gave way to 40 minutes of snoring. Richards had apparently woken up with a melody in his head, recorded it with his acoustic guitar and then fallen back asleep.
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I like the Stones, but not that song. Ever.🤔
That tune comes with a free burrito! 😉
Hmmm...
Sounds similar to what happened to me in the 1960s with Barbara Eden...🙄
Beethoven’s 9th.
I’m not going to criticize Satisfaction, but it’s not really among my Stones favorites. My favorite may be The Spider and the Fly. I also like their covers of old blues songs like Look What You’ve Done. I also like Oh, Baby, We’ve Got a Good Thing Going.
Fascinating. I’ve heard many background stories behind hit songs that really make you think.
Good grief. Since everyone on this thread knows so much about music, name the best symphony ever written.
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Romeo and Juliet - Shakespeare. One of the greatest stories ever written. Got a couple of teenagers in heat and the grupps holding a blood feud.
Romeo and Juliet Symphony - Tchaikovsky. Tchaikovsky was a rowdy, understood the high emotions involved and how to portray them through music. (C’mon, canons? 1812 - that’s a rowdy)
Conducted by Karajan, Berlin Philharmonic. Karajan knew how to bring the symphony to life. You can hear the kids emotions and the grupps hate and combat.
My two cents American.
There are a slew of jokes about his seeming immortality, like:
“We need to start thinking of the type of world we want to leave for Keith Richard’s.”
And he gets no girlie action...
I went to see them a few of months ago. I looked over to my friend and said that Richards was older than Biden and look at how on top of it he was. Never missed a beat. The show was just as good as the one I saw them perform 552 years before (as far as I could remember).
I’m watching my TV when a man comes on to tell me how white shirts can be but he can’t be a man cause he doesn’t smoke the same cigarettes as me
Yes that is straight from memory. It’s actually got really good lyrics about commercialism and consumerism.
>> name the best symphony ever written.
That “Theme from the Lone Ranger” thing...???
Voodoo Chile (Slight Return)
You got to scrape the shit right off of your shoes. Sweet Virginia.
I remember the first time I heard it. I was maybe 5 or 6, and was then listening to my transistor radio in bed after lights out. The basic fuzzy guitar score absolutely stuck in my head, and I wandered around the next day humming/verbalizing it, much to my older sister’s chagrin. Then, a day or two later, SHE heard it, too, and it was collectively our favorite song. Will never forget those days.
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“Richards had apparently woken up with a melody in his head, recorded it with his acoustic guitar and then fallen back asleep.”
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Richards had apparently woken up with a melody in his head, recorded it with his acoustic guitar and then passed out again.
There, fixed it.
Mahler #3
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