The Storm

Composers: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
First release: Love Is Strong single B-side, July 1994
Recording date: September 1993, November 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

Probable line-up:

Drums: Charlie Watts
Dobro acoustic guitar: Mick Jagger
Slide acoustic guitar: Ron Wood
Electric guitars: Keith Richards
Slide electric guitar: Ron Wood
Lead vocals: Mick Jagger
Background vocals: Mick Jagger & Keith Richards
Harmonica: Mick Jagger
Tambourine: Mick Jagger
 

Can't you... can't you have this in mono?

I must've been foolish
I must've been blind
I must've been crazy
And out of my mind

For so long

And minutes turned to hours
And hours turned into days
The storm started howling
I'm out of my brain

I'm out of my brain

For so long

And the fall turned into winter
The winter turned into rain
The storm kept on a-howling
I'm out of my brain

I'm out of my brain

I'm out of my mind

For so long - for so long
For so long
So long
So long, yeah mm yeah

I'm out of my mind for so long

I felt a mighty rumble
Coming from the ground
The house it started shaking
And tumbling down
And tumbling down

For so long
For so long

I must've been crazy
I must've been blind
I must've been foolish
I'm out of my mind

Out of my mind

For so long
For so long
For so long - so long
For so long

Mm-mmm

Uh huh huh
So many days
Uh huh huh

So many days



TrackTalk

I wrote the B-side of the single Love Is Strong (on demand). Don Was said, Well, you know, we should have the B-sides done this week. It was always, like, next week we were gonna do the B-sides. And when we were there the last night in Dublin, Don said, Well, we should really have done the B-sides. I said, Well, I didn't do any B-sides. I didn't write any B-sides. He said, Well, couldn't you just go and write them? This is like at the end of the 6 weeks. And I said, Don, I feel, like, really tired. I do not want to write the B-sides. And he said, Well, why can't you just go in the corner of the cafeteria and do them? I said, Okay, I'll try it. So I went in and wrote The Storm and the next one, which is called Jump on Top of Me, and the next one, which is called, ah... (laughs). I forget what I called it! It's called Drive something - I don't know - Ride All Night or something. I can't remember; I changed it. But anyway, I wrote the three of them in one go. Walked in the room and just sat down and played them. And then we did them all in one take. So they were written and played all in one take. So that's writing on demand. And then I'll finish the lyrics up later.

- Mick Jagger, June 1994


(I've got an old Dobro that I call) Uncle Harvey... I bought it from John Dopyera, one of the Dopyera brothers (founders of Dobro). It's very special... It's a gold-plated and wooden Dobro. In fact, Mick's playing it on The Storm, which is the B-side of the first single, Love Is Strong.

- Ron Wood, June 1994


I like The Storm, which is the first B-side. I'd hoped that was going to be on the album, but you can't have everything.

- Ron Wood, 1994



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