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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The hit tune we have been listening to, was never meant to be. Keef and the boys laid it down, buzzing guitar riff as a rough draft. He wanted horns to play the riff. It wasn’t intended for release, and he didn’t know it had been released as a single until he heard it on the radio. “WTF is this?”. He was pretty pissed off at the time.
Not a symphony but a great tune.
I started playing electric guitar in 1965, and got one of the early Maestro FZ-1 FuzzTone pedals. Used it for years until in 1970 or so I traded up to an Ampeg Scrambler, and while I still have (and use) that Scrambler, the FuzzTone is long gone. Now that unit is considered a classic, of course, but at the time it felt somewhat limited in range.
I'd think about getting a used FZ-1 just to have one, but I've got like six great overdrive / distortion pedals (Scrambler, FuzzFace, TS-9, Octavia, TubeDriver, etc.) and really don't need more at the moment.
I thought that in "I Found a Girl," Jan & Dean were singing "I found a girl in Huntington Beach [Calif.]." What they actually sang was, "I found a girl, anybody can see."
Stairway to Heaven is one of my favorite songs of the 1960s.
The same cigarettes as me…
I used this in a Logic class when teaching negation, inverse, contrapositive, etc.
As I recall it was not very successful - but I had fun!
I remember hearing “Satisfaction” for the first time when it came out; I was in Jr. High School, and just starting to play guitar. Every guitar player I knew flipped out over Keith’s sound with that fuzz pedal. We all went out and bought one ASAP!
Yeah, I guess Marty Robbins used a fuzz pedal first, but come on man... the Stones had a WAY larger audience, so this was the first time most people heard one. It was really a groundbreaking moment in the world of electric guitar. The fuzz pedal has remained popular ever since. (I now have several, LOL)
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