Composers: Keith
Richards & Steve Jordan
Recording date: October 1987-May 1988
Recording locations: various studios, New York City, USA; Bermuda Sound
Recording Studios, Bermuda;
Air Studios, Montserrat; Atlantic
Studios & The Hit Factory, New York City, USA
Producers: Keith
Richards & Steve Jordan
Chief engineer: Don
Smith
Line-up:
Drums: Steve Jordan
Bass: "Bootsy"
Collins
Electric guitars: Keith
Richards
Lead vocal: Keith
Richards
Background vocals: Keith
Richards, Steve Jordan & Sarah
Dash
Organ: Bernie
Worrell
Alto saxophone: Maceo
Parker
Percussion: Keith
Richards & Steve Jordan
TrackTalk
It's not exactly the first thing (recorded), but it was fairly early on. It was just Steve and myself, just drums and guitar. It was incredibly long, almost a jam. But the groove on it was just so strong and, as you say, the James Brown feel of it was so evident that what happened was, during last winter, James played the Apollo. Steve and I went up there, and we saw Maceo (Parker), and we looked at each other, and we went, Dig it. Maceo. So we got in touch with Maceo to give it that horn thing. The bass end was another problem, because the fact that we cut it with just guitar and drums, we had the drums tuned very low down. There was an awful lot of bass on the drums. And every time we tried to put a bass on it, it would just get in the way. So we thought about it, and once again, Steve, who's got a great ear: Ah, it's got to be Bootsy...
Well Bootsy (Collins) don't fly so he drove
up from Ohio. It was great because Bootsy used to work with James Brown
and the horn player on the track, Maceo Parker, runs James Brown's band.
So it was a little hats off to James Brown. There are a lot of little tributes
on this album.
It's kind of a hybrid James Brown-meets-the-Caribbean
thing thrown in.