Composers: Keith
Richards & Steve Jordan
Recording date: August-September
1987 & November 1987-May 1988
Recording locations: Le
Studio, Montreal, Canada; various studios, New York City; Bermuda Sound
Recording Studios, Bermuda;
Air Studios, Montserrat; Atlantic
Studios & The Hit Factory, New York City
Producers: Keith
Richards & Steve Jordan
Chief engineer: Don
Smith
Line-up:
Drums: Steve Jordan
Bass: Charley
Drayton
Acoustic guitars: Keith
Richards
Electric guitars: Keith
Richards & Waddy Wachtel
(incl. solo)
Acoustic slide guitar: Waddy
Wachtel
Lead vocal: Keith
Richards
Background vocals: Keith
Richards, Steve Jordan & Patti
Scialfa
Piano: Ivan
Neville
Keyboards: Ivan
Neville
How I wish that you
Were here again
But if I could see you
And touch you with my hand
If I could feel you
But I know damn well I can't
Honey, honey, honey, yeah
How I wish I had you
Near again
If I could see you
Oh just now and then
But if I could feel you
Well I'd do my time again
If I could kiss you
Caress you now and then
Just to thrill you
I'd do life again
TrackTalk
Actually, that was the first track we recorded. The more I got into it, the more I realized that I didn't have to keep verses and choruses the same length.
We'd let things evolve just by playing. Like
in the song How I Wish, those guitar stabs, those syncopations.
Nobody can play those parts like Keith. So I'd just go the other way and
play straight through. So if Keith's doing this dotted eighth-note figure
and I'm keeping the straight eighth-notes going under that, when you hear
it back, it sounds like ten guitars working together.