Composers: Mick
Jagger, Keith Richards & Ron Wood
Recording
date: April-December
1985
Recording
locations: Pathé
Marconi
Studios, Paris, France; RPM Studios & Right
Track Studios,
New York City, USA
Producers:
Steve
Lillywhite & The Glimmer Twins
Chief engineer:
Dave Jerden
Performed
onstage: 1989,
1995
Drums:
Charlie
Watts
Bass:
Bill Wyman & John
Regan
Acoustic
guitars: Keith
Richards & Ron Wood
Electric
guitars: Keith
Richards, Ron Wood (incl. slide) & Jimmy
Page
Lead
vocals: Mick
Jagger
Background
vocals:
Keith
Richards, Ron Wood, Bobby
Womack, Don
Covay, Patti
Scialfa & Beverly
D'Angelo
Keyboards:
Chuck
Leavell
TrackTalk
That started with Keith.
Woody went out and played acoustic on the
basic
track. He was trying to come up with an electric guitar
part, and it
wasn't
grooving enough, so he went out and started banging on the
acoustic.
Woody's
really great at coming up with ideas like that.
One Hit to the Body starts with Woody on acoustic guitar, Keith's 1967 (Martin) D-18. That sitarish drone during the verse is the National resophonic guitar.
I was
one acoustic (guitar), Ronnie was another,
and then there's the 2 or 3 different electrics all coming in
different
places. I never, or I very rarely, use an overdub all the way
through.
I might do 3 different overdubs and 2 of them might be the same
thing.
(Jimmy Page) rang me at the studio one
night
and said, How's it going? Do you mind if I come and hear
how the
album's
going? I said, no, I didn't mind. He's a very shy guy.
After he'd
done
that overdub on One Hit, he left the studio saying,
I'm
sorry,
man, I'm sorry. I said, Don't apologize... you did
all right!