999
Composers: Keith
Richards, Steve Jordan &
Waddy
Wachtel
Recording date: March-September
1992
Recording locations: The
Site, San Rafael, California; Studio 900, Master Sound Astoria,
New York Giant Recording Studios
& The Hit Factory, New York City, USA
Producers: Keith
Richards, Steve Jordan & Waddy Wachtel
Chief engineer: Don
Smith
Line-up:
Drums: Steve Jordan
Bass: Charley
Drayton
Electric guitars: Keith
Richards & Waddy Wachtel
Lead vocal: Keith
Richards
Background vocals: Keith
Richards, Waddy Wachtel, Steve Jordan & Sarah
Dash
Organ: Ivan
Neville
Clavinet: Ivan
Neville
(Making it) Making it
It doesn't matter how many
(Taking it)
Taking it
Well I can't shake it off of my back - damn monkey
It's either too tight or it's too slack
(Ninety nine) That's all it is - ah...
(Ninety nine)
How much - yeah
(Ninety nine)
Ah, ninety nine - better hack it, baby
(Ninety nine)
Yeah, my time exploded, space blew up (gimme, gimme - gimme, gimme)
Need something in my dixie cup (gimme, gimme - gimme, gimme)
Oh let me get it right (gimme, gimme - gimme, gimme)
There's the best pair of lips I've kissed all nigh (gimme, gimme - gimme, gimme)
How much?
(Ninety nine) Well give it to me, I'll pay you later
Ninety nine -
I've got a pocket calculator
(Ninety nine)
Yeah, it don't make sense - nickles and dimes (taking it)
Ninety nine
Yeah, the lion and the lamb are locked in an embrace
You won't get it till it's in your face
Oh, get me out of deeper red (heba)
Don't panic
(Nine ninety-nine)
(Ninety nine)
It's where I want to be (heba)
(Ninety nine)
Yeah, a useful member of society (nine ninety-nine) (heba)
(Ninety nine)
I just need a little of that old money (heba, heba)
(Ninety nine) Give me ninety nine, yeah (heba heba) (nine ninety-nine)
Yeah, I can't shake it off of my back, goddamn monkey (heba, heba heba, heba, heba heba)
Yeah it's too tight or it's too slack (heba, heba heba, heba, heba heba) (nine ninety-nine)
Yes, some things never change, price of bullets remains the same (heba, heba heba, heba, heba heba)
Here we go, hand over fist, slap on the wrist - nine (heba, heba heba, heba, heba heba)
(Ninety nine) (heba heba) That's all I'm asking for
(Ninety nine) How much? (nine ninety-nine)
(Ninety nine)
I just need a little of that old money (heba, heba)
(Ninety nine)
Give me ninety nine, yeah (heba heba) (nine ninety-nine)
How much do you want to give? (heba, ninety-nine, heba heba)
Yeah, it's just a little bit - ah (heba, heba heba, heba heba) (nine ninety-nine)
Yeah they operate - look at the state of me, baby (heba, heba heba, heba, heba heba) (nine ninety-nine)
Well, cost twenty grand, pitiful (heba, heba heba)
Yeah, that's a nine
(heba heba)
(Ninety-nine)
(heba heba) Put your money where your mouth is
(Ninety-nine)
Cough it up, baby, yeah... ooh (nine ninety-nine)
(Heba) (ninety-nine)
Nickels and dimes, yeah
(Heba)
(Ninety-nine) (heba heba, heba)
(Heba, heba heba)
(Heba, heba heba)
(Heba, heba heba) (nine ninety-nine)
(Heba, heba heba) (ninety nine) (nine ninety-nine)
(Heba, heba heba) (ninety-nine)
(Heba, heba heba)
(Heba, heba heba) (ninety-nine)
(Heba, heba heba) (nine ninety-nine)
(Heba, heba heba)
(Heba, heba heba) (nine ninety-nine)
(Heba, heba heba)
(Heba, heba heba) (nine ninety-nine)
(Heba, heba heba) (nine ninety-nine)
(Heba, heba heba) (nine ninety-nine)
(Heba, heba heba) (nine ninety-nine)
(Heba, heba heba) (nine ninety-nine)
(Heba, heba heba) (nine ninety-nine)
(Heba, heba heba) (nine ninety-nine)
(Heba, heba heba) (nine ninety-nine)
(Heba, heba heba)
TrackTalk
(The distortion's) bad, huh? Yeah... Believe it
or not, that's through a Palmer simulator. A little box, no speakers. This
is against all my principles, right? I plugged that mother in, and it's
also through a Twin. But that sound basically comes out of the Palmer.
Waddy and I are purists about amp sounds, but we couldn't deny that thing.
At the right setting, it was, Whoa! Hey! We can get this now, but it's
taken a long time to find it.
-
Keith Richards, September 1992
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