Composers: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording date: September
1993-April 1994
Recording locations: Sandymount
Studios, Ron Wood's home, St. Kildare, Ireland; Windmill Lane
Recording, Dublin, Ireland;
& A&M Recording Studios, Los Angeles, USA
Producers: Don
Was & The Glimmer Twins
Chief engineer: Don
Smith
Never performed onstage
Line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Darryl
Jones
Electric guitars:
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards & Ron Wood (incl. solo)
Lead vocal: Mick
Jagger
Background vocals: Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, Bernard
Fowler &
Ivan
Neville
Organ: Ivan Neville
Harmonica: Mick
Jagger
Saxophone: David
McMurray
Trumpet: Mark
Isham
Percussion (incl. maracas):Lenny
Castro & Luis Jardim
Been keeping cool and lying low
And dancing smooth and dancing slow
Keeping myself to myself, my nose is clean
But I'm a man, not a machine
All get together and feel all right
All get together and rock (fuck) all night
Get ready, for sure
Okay, let's go
Suck on the jugular
Want to change my shape and change my name
Want to get out of myself for a while, don't
feel no shame
I love men to be men and women women
On special occasions, diving and dipping
All right
Okay, let's go
All right, oh no
Let's live lasciviously, down in the muck
And when tonight's over, you're going to watch
me blow and self-destruct
All get together and rock
All get together and rock all night
All get together and feel all right
TrackTalk
Mr. Watts again. I mean, it's all drums. The arrangement is all to do with the drums. Charlie laid down the beat and I said, Well, if you can keep that up for several minutes, we've got a track. Hey, no problem. And he always makes it look like it isn't.
It used to be called Holetown Prison,
and we did that in Barbados near Holetown. That's what we would loosely
term a groove song. I like those a lot. We did a whole bunch of those types
of songs, but a lot of them didn't get on the record, 'cause it wasn't
the right time to use them, really. I like those songs more than our type
of ballads.
Mick had this idea of funking it up one night.
We didn't sing anything, we just starting playing. Ding, ding -
that is the missle knob on the Telecaster, just hangs it at full maximum,
so I'm not playing anything on it. I'm just going Ding, ding. I
know it's a good sound.
Suck on the Jugular is strange harmonica-playing.
It's more like a trumpet piece.