If Mom stands there much longer, she'll go blind...
208. Rolling Stones "Have You Seen Your Mother, Baby, Standing In The Shadows"
Legend has it that the Stones used Keith Richards' big, fuzzy guitar riffs as a stand-in for the horn sections on the old soul records they loved. This usually worked pretty well. For instance, it was years before I realized that 'Satisfaction' didn't have horns on it. When they got more successful, they could get horn players, and this 1966 record was the first time they used them.
Keith's response? Fuzz the guitars up even more. The feedback-laden rubbery riff he offers here, along with the most manic rhythm Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman ever came up with, wailing background vocals from Keith (always the Stones' secret weapon), and yes, the horns all add up the audio equivalent of an out-of-control truck careening down the road with a drunken brass band in the payload. (The infamous cross-dressing photo on the 45 sleeve added to the Stones' bad-boy legend as well)
Also, I have no idea what, if anything, this song is actually about. But that dosen't stop me from agreeing with it totally.
Legend has it that the Stones used Keith Richards' big, fuzzy guitar riffs as a stand-in for the horn sections on the old soul records they loved. This usually worked pretty well. For instance, it was years before I realized that 'Satisfaction' didn't have horns on it. When they got more successful, they could get horn players, and this 1966 record was the first time they used them.
Keith's response? Fuzz the guitars up even more. The feedback-laden rubbery riff he offers here, along with the most manic rhythm Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman ever came up with, wailing background vocals from Keith (always the Stones' secret weapon), and yes, the horns all add up the audio equivalent of an out-of-control truck careening down the road with a drunken brass band in the payload. (The infamous cross-dressing photo on the 45 sleeve added to the Stones' bad-boy legend as well)
Also, I have no idea what, if anything, this song is actually about. But that dosen't stop me from agreeing with it totally.
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