Composer:
Bob
Dylan Original
performer: Bob Dylan (1965)
First release:
Stripped,
November
1995
Recording date:
July
1995
Recording
location: Brixton
Academy, London, England (live)
Producers:
Don
Was & The
Glimmer Twins
Chief
engineers:
Ed
Cherney &
Chris Kimsey
Performed
onstage: 1995,
1997-99, 2002-03, 2014, 2016-19, 2022
Drums:
Charlie
Watts
Bass:
Darryl
Jones
Electric
guitars: Keith
Richards & Ron Wood
Lead
vocal: Mick
Jagger
Background
vocals: Keith
Richards, Darryl Jones, Chuck
Leavell, Bernard Fowler &
Lisa
Fischer
Organ:
Chuck
Leavell
Harmonica:
Mick
Jagger
TrackTalk
It's a fantastic song. I did it once at the Rock & Roll Hall of Fame (1988). Bob Dylan was being inducted, and Paul Shaffer, during the jam, struck up the intro. But nobody was singing it. Bob never came up to the microphone. Finally me and Bruce (Springsteen) did it. Keith and I used to do it (years ago). I said to him, You used to play it in such-and-such tuning. I always boss him around (grins), tell him what to do.
I think Like a Rolling Stone was unusual
to do. We've never done a Dylan song before...(M)elodically I
quite
like
it. It's very well put together; it's got a proper three
sections to
it,
real good choruses and a good middle bit, and great lyrics. It's
a
really
well-constructed pop song, in my opinion... (I)'ts very much to
the
point,
it doesn't waffle too much. I sang it a lot of times on the
European
tour
- maybe 50 times. So I really got inside it, and I enjoyed it. I
love
playing
the harmonica on it.
We got
over
the built-in reticence. If he
had written Like a Beatles, we probably would have
done it
straight
away. We've been playing that song ever since Bob brought it
out; it
was
like a dressing room favourite, a tuning room favourite. We
know it
really
well. It was just a matter of screwing up the courage, really,
to get
over
the feeling like we were riding on its back. We also realized
that,
hey,
we took our name from a Muddy Waters album, a Muddy Waters
song.
Suddenly
it didn't feel awkward to pay it.