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Author: | Gregory [ Wed Jun 02, 2010 11:23 pm ] |
Post subject: | STREET FIGHTING MAN |
I just love this. That great big drum sound from Charlie...
- Keith Richards, 1977 I remember the first cassette machines came out. I thought, Oh great, a portable tape recorder, fantastic. And then I started to like put songs down on it and I realized that... that little microphone in there had something. If you overloaded it, it basically became a pick-up. - Keith Richards, 2003 (The Phillips) didn't smooth the sound out, it broke up a lot. So recording in bedrooms, and with little tambourine sets or little percussion things, sounded thunderous. - Charlie Watts, 2003 I'm leaning right over into the mike and Charlie's got this little - he had this practice (drum kit)... It was for drummers on their train ride. And it had a little sort of tambourine thing and a little sort of fold-up cymbal. It was so cute and it had been made in the '30s. And it was like an antique, you know. And two little sticks. And... that's how we cut the track. - Keith Richards, 2003 Street Fighting Man was recorded on Keith's cassette with a 1930s toy drum kit called a London Jazz Kit Set, which I bought in an antiques shop, and which I've still got at home. It came in a little suitcase, and there were wire brackets you put the drums in; they were like small tambourines with no jangles. The whole kit packs away, the drums go inside each other, the little drum goes inside the snare drum into a box with the cymbal. The snare drum was fantastic because it had a really thin skin with a snare right underneath, but only two strands of gut... Keith would be sitting on a cushion playing a guitar and the tiny kit was a way of getting close to him. The drums were really loud compared to the acoustic guitar and the pitch of them would go right through the sound. You'd always have a great backbeat. - Charlie Watts, 2003 |
Author: | Kelly [ Tue Jun 08, 2010 6:30 am ] |
Post subject: | Re: STREET FIGHTING MAN |
Kewl read Greg. |
Author: | Gregory [ Tue Jun 08, 2010 1:22 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: STREET FIGHTING MAN |
I wonder why Keith keeps harping on "some drummer on a train." I envision all these drummers riding trains practicing with their suitcases open on their laps. |
Author: | cliff [ Tue Jun 08, 2010 6:47 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: STREET FIGHTING MAN |
Gregory wrote: I wonder why Keith keeps harping on "some drummer on a train." I envision all these drummers riding trains practicing with their suitcases open on their laps. I'll guess that train was the primary means of transportation into London clubs for middle/lower middle class musicians, back in the day, so a mini kit the only way to go. |
Author: | Gregory [ Tue Jun 08, 2010 9:13 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: STREET FIGHTING MAN |
cliff wrote: Gregory wrote: I wonder why Keith keeps harping on "some drummer on a train." I envision all these drummers riding trains practicing with their suitcases open on their laps. I'll guess that train was the primary means of transportation into London clubs for middle/lower middle class musicians, back in the day, so a mini kit the only way to go. That might be the explanation, but he seems to suggest it was for practicing en route and not for playing the venue. At least one explanation I've heard for bass drums once being so large was that the entire kit could fit inside for easy transport. But tiny, with tiny sticks? |
Author: | cliff [ Tue Jun 08, 2010 10:08 pm ] |
Post subject: | Re: STREET FIGHTING MAN |
It could be just what the interviewer thought he said. |
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