57 years later, this song is still relevant, especially politcally.
Brian Jones was part of the group, Bill Wyman is closing in on 90, Charlie Watts has passed away, the perennial survivor Keith Richards is alive and kicking, and Mick is still Mick.
Here is a link to the 1964 TAMI show that the Stones did back in the day. Girls were definitely screaming then.
The band was pissed that they had to follow James Brown but they did okay.
For more than five decades, I was certain that the opening notes of “Satisfaction” were played on a baritone saxophone. Only recently did I learn that they were played by a guitar hooked up to some sort of device to make it sound like a saxophone.
Yep, saw them in the summer of 1975. They did not play “Satisfaction” or “Sympathy For The Devil.” Still a good show. Saw Jethro Tull too, the “War Child” tour. The t-shirt is folded up in my closet. I gave the Stones t-shirt to my cousin. It made him the coolest dude in HS. It had a four-prop airplane on it, recently selling for $2,000 on eBay.
Short story about the Stones t-shirt. I wore it to my physical in Richmond to join the Navy. A second class petty officer at the front desk said that the Stones worshipped the devil. I smiled, should have gotten a clue before I signed my life away. NAVY, Never Again Volunteer Yourself. But the GI-Bill paid for college.
A performance in Clearwater FL from March 1965 was the subject of multiple newspaper stories. Tickets were $2.
“Screaming teen-age fans of the Rolling Stones rioted here last night, bombarding a police cordon with toilet paper, giant firecrackers and smoke bombs.” - Tampa Tribune
“They don’t believe in bathing (”it’s bad for your health”), they wear dirty old clothes, their hair is twice as long as the Beatles’ and they never comb it,”
— Dorothy Kilgallen in the Miami News.
“Clearwater officials were livid, proclaiming there would never again be another rock show like that in the city.
The police chief said the vulgar language “made me sick to my stomach,” - Tampa Tribune of May 8, 1965.”
Now they’re respected in society. RIP Brian and Charley.
The screaming girls liked “Under my thumb” better.
Read an interview with Keith Richards a few years back. He said he always kept a tape recorder near his bed to record ideas that came up at a moment’s notice. Late one night, he woke up and grabbed his guitar, played what would become the opening riff and promptly fell back asleep. The next morning he played the tape and there was about 30 seconds of the riff, a loud clang (from his guitar dropping to the floor) and 45 minutes of snoring.
One day in a bus full of Americans motivating along somewhere in Kaiserslautern Germany this song, performed by a German band, came on over the PA. For some reason it struck the entire bus as very funny.
Here’s a tutorial showing some of the lead guitar work (from the recording) that’s not audible, or being played in its entirety, on the live version.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XfpwgqljltU
In the early days the Stones used Fender Showman amps. Those amps had enormous power that added a unique depth to the chordal riffs in Satisfaction.
I would have liked to see them when Brian Jones was in the band but I was too young . His last performance with The Stones was in 1968 when I was just 16 . Never had any interest in seeing them live after that . Last album I bought them was Sticky Fingers ( 1971 ) . Did buy the Start Me Up 45 in 1981 , though .
Nice. But I still think Devo’s version is better.
Always hated that song. One 0f their worst.
A great song from my youth but played to death. Like “Hotel California”, “Raindrops Keep Falling on My Head” and “Candyman” I never have to hear it again.
I saw them on a cable channel on Sling tv that had 4k performances from a stadium. They were awful sounding.
I am guessing they are studio band and not a live band.