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: Charley
Drayton
Bass: Steve
Jordan
Electric guitars: Keith
Richards & Waddy Wachtel
(incl. solo)
Lead vocal: Keith
Richards
Background vocals: Keith
Richards & Steve Jordan
Piano: Ivan
Neville
Keyboards: Ivan
Neville
TrackTalk
(Charley Drayton)'s a great drummer, and he's equally good on bass. So I switched him and Steve around. They'd listen to the songs, like on Take It So Hard, and Steve would say, That's Charley's beat - he can kick the shit out of that more than I can! (laughs)
(I used a) Fender Twin, the amp. The guitar
I can't remember, probably the one I call Micawber, whichi s my main
Tele
5-string. It's a '57, with the humbucker in the front... (The solo is)
Waddy.
I believe it was (recorded in one take), yeah. We had done several run-throughs, but I believe that was the first: OK, cut it.
(W)e liked (the snare rattle at the beginning)
(laughs). Because it's the promise of things to come, the shivers as
the
guitar starts up... It's a quiver in the air.
I’ve wondered ever since (what I was writing
about). I think probably, you see the thing is, I actually had it going
before the Winos became a possibility. I had been playing around with
it. When I wrote it, I was thinking of Mick singing it. And that’s the
true convolution - it sort of ends up with me singing about him.