Rolling Stones to Release All-Star 50th Anniversary Show as Live Albumĭo you have more respect for it after those six months? Will you write the words?” And that was this one. And they say, “Mick, we’ve done this great track. And sometimes there’s a track that you didn’t turn up on the session. And sometimes you write the melody first and you have to write all the lyrics.
You just sit down and write it as you would anything else, you know? Sometimes you write the lyrics while you’re sitting down playing the piano or guitar, and the lyrics come to you while you’re writing the song.
And it’s daunting in the beginning, but after a while you get into it. I started from scratch - I mean, that’s what I do, and I’ve done it many times before. The core tape of it was the piano and the drums, bass, and guitar. Tell me about “Following the River.” That’s a brand new vocal, right?
We kind of figured it out because of that. Most of it was recorded on an eight-track, some of it was recorded on a 16-track. Who’s playing what? It wasn’t always put down who’s playing guitar and who’s playing keyboard and that sort of thing. It was just where and when and with who was another matter. So that was my time period.Īre there songs on the set that you just couldn’t recall making in the first place? The first recording was “Loving Cup” in 1969, and then the last sessions for Exile were done in 1972. So I set myself a sort of time frame for it. Some of it was recorded in Olympic Studios in England, some was recorded in France, and then there was stuff done in L.A. But I think in the end it’s very much sounding like it was in those days, so to speak.Įxile was recorded over quite a long period. In the spirit of Exile we added some girl background vocals on “Tumbling Dice” and “Shine a Light.” We had some nice background vocals on the originals. “Pass the Wine,” for example, was very, very long, so I edited it down.
I added some acoustic guitar and some other things. What sort of bits and pieces did you add? They all had to be baked in ovens last forever. But then they said, “Please, will you look?” I was quite surprised to find the tapes in such a good state. And secondly, ’cause I couldn’t really be bothered. And I said, “Well, I doubt it very much.” One, ’cause I thought we probably used most of the tracks anyway, ’cause it was a double album. Universal wanted to rerelease Exile, and they asked me if there were any tracks that we didn’t use when we released it originally. Tell me how this new edition of Exile on Main Street came together. The intimate Rolling Stones: photos from the band’s 1969 tour. Here’s more from our conversations with the two Rolling Stones and producer Don Was. In the new issue of Rolling Stone, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards talk about plundering their vaults for the upcoming rerelease of their 1972 masterpiece Exile on Main Street.
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