Composers: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Recording
date: February,
April-May & August
1974
Recording
locations: Musicland
Studios, Munich, West Germany; Rolling Stones Mobile
Unit,
Mick
Jagger's home, Newbury,
England;
&
Island Recording Studios, London, England
Producers: The
Glimmer Twins Chief
engineers:
Keith
Harwood, Andy
Johns
& Glyn
Johns
Never performed
onstage
Probable line-up:
Drums: Charlie
Watts
Bass: Bill
Wyman
12-string acoustic guitar: Mick
Taylor
Electric guitars: Keith
Richards & Mick Taylor
Lead electric guitar: Mick
Taylor
Lead vocal: Mick
Jagger
Backing vocals: Mick
Jagger & Keith Richards
Piano: Nicky
Hopkins
Hi-fly guitar synthesizer: Mick Taylor
Chimes: Ray
Cooper
Congas & other percussion: Ray
Cooper
TrackTalk
(Can You Hear the Music? and Time Waits for No One) were my particular riff but got taken up by others in the band. Those songs got turned into something I didn't even imagine. Whereas something like Angie turned out pretty much as I expected.
(We used a guitar synthesizer called a) hi-fly.
It's a white flat box that looks like a bathroom scale when you
put it
on the floor, and you can get a lot of different sounds out of
it.
Well, I co-wrote that particular song but
I didn't exactly like that (album) much.
I liked (that song) a lot.
The best one (on that album) - for a guitar
solo, anyway - is Time Waits for No One, which is the
first song
we recorded for It's Only Rock 'N Roll. We hadn't seen
each other
for about 3 months, and it was done in one or two takes. We had
done a
bit of a layoff because we'd finished an American tour (sic),
and
everybody went to different parts of the globe and had a rest. I
went to
Brazil, which is possibly why there is a little Latin influence
there.
(M)y favorite (Stones song) in terms of my
own guitar playing is Time
Waits for No One.
I love that solo. I think it's probably the best thing I did
with the
Stones. It's not one of their hits; it was an album track. But
it's
quite lyrical and it's a bit different from a lot of other
Stones
songs. I'd done something that I'd never done. Because of the
structure
of the song. It pushed my guitar playing in a slightly different
direction. It's more - I don't like to use the term Carlos
Santana-esque because it sounds too pretentious, but I kind of
played
in a different mode. I was playing over a C maj 7 to an F maj 7,
which
aren't chords the Stones used that much. You know, they had
their rock
and roll songs and they had their ballads as well, and they were
very
different. And mostly the ballads were usually written by me.