Composers: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: January-February
1979 & April-July 1981
Recording locations: Compass
Point Studios, Nassau, Bahamas; Atlantic Studios,
Electric Ladyland Studios, Hit Factory & Power Station, New
York City, USA
Producers: The
Glimmer Twins
Associate producer & chief
engineer:
Chris
Kimsey
Performed onstage: 1981-82,
2006-07, 2016
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass:
Keith Richards
Electric
guitars: Keith
Richards & Ron Wood
Lead
vocal: Keith
Richards
Background
vocals: Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Piano:
Ian
Stewart
TrackTalk
Well, that song's just about every good time I've had with somebody I'd met for a night or two and never seen again. And also about the shit that sometimes goes down when you just sort of bump into people unknowingly, and not knowing the scene you're walking in on, you know? You pick up a chick and end up spending the night in the TANK, you know?
(The guitar sound is) our equivalent of that
rockabilly thing. I think you'll find that comes from using a lot of
analog
delay on Ron's guitar or my guitar or both of them, and I dampen it.
That'll
give you that ticka-tacka-ticka. I always use that green MXR
analog
delay. I'm told it's quite out of date now and old-fashioned, but Ig ot
it free and I forgot that time marches on and they make better ones or
so they say. I don't know. I've worked very well with those MXR things,
and they've been very reliable.
(I'm using a) Telecaster, a '57 set up in
5-string tuning. It's open G 5-string, without the heavy string... You
can get a drone going so you have the effect of two chords playing
against
each other.
I could have fucked around with (the mix)
for ages. The final mix brought back a bit of the naïveté of
the earlier sessions, otherwise it would have been too slick. It's nice
and dumb, which is what it's supposed to be...