Composers: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date:
March-July 1997
Recording location: Ocean
Way Recording Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producers:Don
Was & The Glimmer Twins Chief
engineers:
Rob
Fraboni & Dan Bosworth
Mixer: Tom
Lord-Alge Performed
onstage: 1998
Line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Blondie
Chaplin
Electric guitars:
Keith Richards, Ron Wood & Waddy
Wachtel
Slide electric guitar:
Ron Wood
Lead vocals: Mick
Jagger
Background vocals: Keith
Richards, Bernard Fowler & Blondie
Chaplin
Saxophone: Joe
Sublett
Trumpet: Darrell
Leonard
Shaker: Jim
Keltner
Maracas: Blondie
Chaplin
Won't you give me the low down just as quick
as you can?
Baby, I've been out of touch, just give me
the scam
Don't give me the sports page, baby, no political
news
Don't you give me the gossip, just give me
the truth
Just between me and you
Give me the low down if you can
I don't want a show down
I just want to know where I stand
Don't read me the horoscope, baby, that ain't
what I need
Our future will never last but that's between
you and me
I don't want the movie section, I'll see for
myself
I don't want the news that fits, shove it
back on the shelf
Give me the truth
Just between me and you
The headlines are screaming, they change every
day
As long as I ain't in them, I'm happy that
way
I know that you won't lie to me but you hold
back the truth
Please give me the low down, I can only get
it from you
Give me the low down as quick as you can
I don't want to hear about it, I want it straight
from you
Come on, baby, give me the juice
Oh yeah
TrackTalk
(When we wrote it), I started playing drums in the studio and Keith playing guitar... It was only Keith and me. So I am playing the drums and he is playing guitar. It was quite fun.
Low Down is the first song that Mick
and I wrote specifically for Bridges To Babylon.