That opening Riff sets the groove for the whole song. It’s lean and mean! And then it morphs into these psychedelic notes and tones that are brilliant! This is a classic Sixties Stones song. Never gets old! Always picks you up! Great Rock n Roll! Even Lennon was jealous of this song! He liked the raw Rock n Roll power of this song. The Stones at their best!
Keith Richards at his finest... Fun Fact. The first line of Jumpin Jack Flash; *"I was born in a crossfire hurricane"* ... Was written by Keith and it refers to a WWII bombing raid intended for London but the Luftwaffe dumped their bombs on Dartford Kent the very night Keith Richards was born there in an air raid shelter December 1943. When his mom returned home the next day their house had been leveled. Above anything else Keith is a survivor.
This is magical. I have memories of reading about Townshend, many years ago, talking about how people should remember the feeling that they got when they heard the opening few seconds of this song, and that his first experience of it made the hairs on the back of his neck stand to attention...
@@randybackgammon890 It’s the snare from Charlie’s suitcase drum kit - a goatskin covered hand drum with 2 snare wires. It’s recommended that you heat them for a couple of minutes which sends the pitch soaring. Charlie overdubbed his full kit on later.
The story of Kieth's guitar on this song is incredible. I'd recommend anyone reading about it, well worth it. He did some weird thing where he's playing an acoustic into a child's recorder at full blast, and doubling it over multiple times to create a crazy electric guitar like sound with reverb. Something like that anyway. Also did it on Street fighting man.
@@markgroesbeck2717 The bass playing in JJF is credited to Keith in the liner notes. Keith is a better bass player than Bill, just as Bill is a much better keyboardist than Brian was. Whenever Bill couldn't fulfil Keith's vision for the bass part on any of his songs...Keith would just pick up his own bass guitar and play the bass track the song needed , rather than argue with Bill and try to teach him. Bill was always cool with it. In live performances Bill had no choice but to play the bass part Keith composed and recorded. Other songs Keith played bass guitar on were "Sympathy for the Devil", "Street Fighting Man", and "Stray Cat Blues"; as well as on their singles "Jumpin' Jack Flash" "Brown Sugar, Under My Thumb and "Live With Me". Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood were also known to replace Bill on the bass in several recording sessions. Wood is famous for playing bass in the Jeff Brck Group
@@williardbillmore5713 Explain then why the music they made after his departure/death sounds so different. The "Jumping Jack Flash" riff was in fact composed by Brian and Bill, but they got no credit (Wikipedia), Brian describing the song in a 1968 interview as "getting back to the funky, essential essence," which suggests he deliberately partook in the band's stylistic evolution.
@@wonder6789 Keith came up with the JJF hook during an all night creative session with Mick at Keith's estate. In fact Jack was Keith's Richards gardener Jack Dyer. " *“‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’ comes from this guy, Jack Dyer, who was my gardener - an old English yokel,” Richards remembered. “Mick and I were in my house down in the south of England. We’d been up all night; the sky was just beginning to go grey. It was pissing down raining if I remember rightly.” That morning, the gardener’s heavy footedness startled Jagger. “Mick and I were sitting there, and suddenly Mick starts up,” Richards recalled. “He hears these great footsteps, these great rubber boots - slosh, slosh, slosh - going by the window. He said ‘What’s that?’ And I said, ‘Oh, that’s Jack. That’s jumpin’ Jack.’” Richards revealed that he and Jagger created ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’ after Richards came up with the title that morning. “We had my guitar in open tuning, and I started to fool around with that. [singing] ‘Jumpin’ Jack…’ and Mick says, ‘Flash.’ He’d just woken up. And suddenly we had this wonderful alliterative phrase. So he woke up and we knocked it together.”* Your ridiculous "alternative facts " don't hold any water anywhere.
@@wonder6789 The 60s were over and Keith was looking for a new guitar sound and he found it by playing his acoustic guitar into a Philips Cassette recorder and overdriving the tiny built in mic. Every true Stones fan knows the story...Why don't you know that? Jones had nothing whatsoever to do with Jumpin' Jack Flash.Jones was so drugged out and inebriated he couldn't tell you his own name , let alone write a new song. You followers of the Saint Brian sect are willing to make up any desperate bullshit at this point, aren't you...Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
@@trabongo 4 if you include Mick Taylor (Tumbling Dice and a couple of others) and Ronnie who played bass in The Jeff Beck Group and plays on a number of Stones songs.
It cracks me up to think that Jones said that in a live interview on BBC and now Jones worshipers claim that Jones wrote Jumpin Jack Flash, based in lies and fantasies in Paul Trynka's books about the Stones.
@@bernardo7492 Brian said it in a BBC interview as a slam against Keith and Mick ...and it proves that Brian and Bill had nothing to do with the writing of JJF. No one could ever slam Brian for the songs he wrote, because there aren't any.
Lyrics: Watch It! I was born in a crossfire hurricane And I howled at my ma in the drivin' rain But it's all right now, in fact it's a gas But it's all right, I'm jumpin' jack flash It's a gas, gas, gas I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag I was schooled with a strap right across my back But it's all right now, in fact it's a gas But it's all right, I'm jumpin' jack flash It's a gas, gas, gas (oh) I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled Yeah, yeah I frowned at the crumbs of a crust of bread Yeah, yeah, yeah I was crowned with a spike right through my head My, my, yeah But it's all right now, in fact it's a gas But it's all right, I'm jumpin' jack flash It's a gas, gas, gas Jumpin' jack flash, it's a gas Jumpin' jack flash, it's a gas Jumpin' jack flash, it's a gas Jumpin' jack flash, it's a gas Jumpin' jack flash, it's a gas Jumpin' jack flash, it's a gas
Keith plays every guitar on the original Jumpin' Jack Flash, including the bass guitar. Keith also wrote the refrain and the first verse. This is very much a Keith Richards song.
You are correct, Keith’s bass isn’t as fluid as Bill’s but I think he does a great job on JJF as well as SFM and sympathy. Brian only played on this live twice, once at the NME Awards and the other for the Rock & Roll Circus.
Should be the theme of a show, especially at 0:37 and 1:15. I really want a CD version of this without compression. I can tell it's a bit muffled by lossy compression.
Exactly. And it sucks the way they play it live (other than a couple of very early recordings that exist that were in line with the original recording).
Multiple acoustic guitars, played into a cassette recorder (among other things). Gonna be kinda hard to reproduce that sound on stage, particularly in a stadium setting.
@@georgepapabeis2964 Yeah and a lot of those vintage suitcase drum kits recommend heating the goat skin on them for a few minutes to get the best sound - I tried it on a goat skin hand drum and it sent the pitch soaring! You can see why it jumps out of the mix like that - plus it’s on the cassette track so it’s also pretty distorted. Charlie overdubbed a standard kit in the studio but I read an interview with Jagger at the time where he said they recorded the cassette track at his house then overdubbed to it in the studio 😳
It never ceases to amaze and amuse me that some people like to believe that Keith did not write the guitar hook for Jumpin Jack Flash, Just listen to it... The riff is almost the same as the opening riff to I Can't Get No Satisfaction only turned inside out. It is incredibly obvious that the same guy who dreamed Satisfaction composed the lick in JJF... Unless the Jones worshipers want to claim that Jones and Wyman somehow got inside Keith's dream and wrote Satisfaction for him as well.. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha By the time this masterful composition was committed to vinyl this was definitely NOT Brian Jones' band. At this point Keith had fully taken on the role of musical director and chief writer giving Mick a brilliant platform to prolifically write some of the most inventive and clever lyrics ever in the genre of popular Rock music.
@@vigorkomar7296 More Trynka lies from his ridiculous book. Do you have any idea how stupid you sound rattling off his fantasies. There is a video of an interview where a BBC reporter with Brian and Mick and Brian cheekily criticizes Keith and Mick for writing Satisfaction and Jumpin Jack Flash...Two songs that have very similar sounding guitar hooks. You people are absurd. Paul Trynka lied to you.
It's no surprise, then, that Richards did exactly what he did on 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' when it came to the bass as well - he took over. Wyman was absent from the session and so he couldn't object to having Richards playing the electric bass, the only electric instrument on the track.
You think Bill would have successfully objected to Keith playing the bass part? It's just like the songwriting credits...it was "almost" completely a closed shop, and everyone knew it and accepted it (because there was no choice or, because like Charlie, they knew their role and relished it). The Stones are Keith and Mick, surrounded by musicians who can achieve the sound that they (mostly Keith most of the time) are looking for. Bill, as fine of a bass player as he is, could have left the group at any time and there'd have been no drop off. Wisely, he waited until he was a very wealthy man.
@@jernigansaintthomasphiland1240 Yes...When you find yourself working with time proven geniuses, who made you famous and wealthy, you don't question what they do. You provide what they need and play what they ask. It would be stupid and foolhardy to do otherwise.
Keith and his pathetic attempt at historical revisionism. Brian Jones founded the band,named the band, but never played on any recordings? Keith is full of crap.
This is excellent, but the piano kind'a obscures the guitars a bit too much. I'll keep looking for the isolated guitars... maybe someday someone will upload just the guitars. I was playing in a band waaaaay back in the early-mid '90s. We would intermingle covers with our originals. "Jumping Jack Flash" was one of the covers we'd play. Of all the cover bands I'd seen, none of them ever played the correct guitar parts. I think I was the only one out there playing Brian's solo as close to 100% accurate as possible.
The first guitar 🎸 you hear at the start of the song 🎵 is Brian playing a Les Paul thru a Vox AC/30 - and is most definitely electric. Think you'll find Keith's layering of his guitars 🎸 were all acoustic but electric guitars 🎸 were definitely in the final mix.
Think it's all Keith on guitar. Brain added melotron. Use to think the twiny 12 string sounding bridge was Brians. Sound like his style. But not. Keith's slide work on Begars Banquet sounds in style simular to Brian's. Now the yeah Yeah version might have Brian playing some guitar.Accually I am mistaken. Bill plays organ at the outro. And the great bass lines are Keith. In fact Keth plays bass on some of the Stones most famous songs. Now if you believe Wiki Brian plays electric Rythem guitar.
Keith played at least three guitar tracks... Brian ...zero. Jones was out to lunch without a menu... he was still alive but he was a non functioning human being by the time this number was recorded.
@Parachute Wyman There is no harmonica at all on Jumpin Jack Flash. The harmonica-like drones you hear around 2:51 is an organ being played by Bill Wyman... By April 1968 Jones was so drugged out and drunk it is doubtful that he could have even known what side of a harmonica to blow into. Brian would only occasionally come to recording sessions in 1968, and when he did show up he was pretty much useless according to Mick. "He wouldn't turn up half the time and when he did show up he wasn't in any condition to do anything...We had to baby him...It was very sad... He just wasn't functioning as a musician" Keith played at least three guitar tracks ( two accousics and electric with various alternate tunings) and bass guitar on JJF .Having also written the first lyric line of the song, the melody, the hook the chords and most of the coda. Keith is also credited as Producer. This was very much Keith's song.
@@williardbillmore5713 There is a harmonica, it is double tracked which may be Brian. There is a keyboard part after played by Bill Wyman. As to Brian’s contribution on guitars on this song, it is uncertain. In April 1968 Brian was actually still a functioning member of the band albeit not as interested as he once was. Jimmy Miller who produced Beggar’s Banquet credited Brian with playing flutes, saxophone, Mellotron on the album. Brian plays on the following tracks on Beggar’s Banquet: Street Fightin’ Man - Sitar and Tanpura (confirmed by Keith) Jig-Saw Puzzle - mellotron (confirmed by Keith and Jimmy Miller) Dear Doctor - Harmonica (can hear him on the demo which is live) No Expectations- slide lead guitar - Confirmed by Mick, Keith, others Prodigal Son - harmonica Stray Cat Blues - Mellotron Child of the Moon - saxophone (confirmed in an interview with Mick and Brian from May 1968 - not on the album, but recorded during the same sessions). Possibly: Factory Girl - possibly Mellotron set to mandolin setting.
@@williardbillmore5713 Mick tends to conflate the later years as a blur but it’s probably 1969 he’s referring to as Brian didn’t show up for most of the Let it Bleed sessions such that his only contribution to Let it Bleed is autoharp on You Got the Silver and some drumming on Midnight Rambler
Just used this as a karaoke backing track and delighted (?) my wife. I think I sang it better than that Jagger chap...
Of course you did. You go dude!
You didn't.
Jaeger?
That opening Riff sets the groove for the whole song. It’s lean and mean! And then it morphs into these psychedelic notes and tones that are brilliant! This is a classic Sixties Stones song. Never gets old! Always picks you up! Great Rock n Roll! Even Lennon was jealous of this song! He liked the raw Rock n Roll power of this song. The Stones at their best!
They never played it this good again….
Keith Richards at his finest...
Fun Fact.
The first line of Jumpin Jack Flash; *"I was born in a crossfire hurricane"* ...
Was written by Keith and it refers to a WWII bombing raid intended for London but the Luftwaffe dumped their bombs on Dartford Kent the very night Keith Richards was born there in an air raid shelter December 1943. When his mom returned home the next day their house had been leveled. Above anything else Keith is a survivor.
best group of all time... and I love the Dylan, Doors, Beatles and the Animals, et al!!!
Best rock song 🎵 written by any group ever. Only The Beatles' Get Back comes close. Cheers ✌ 🍻
This is magical. I have memories of reading about Townshend, many years ago, talking about how people should remember the feeling that they got when they heard the opening few seconds of this song, and that his first experience of it made the hairs on the back of his neck stand to attention...
I liked the added touch that Mick gave to the instruments
I love the psychedelic ending in fade out. Epic!
Brian - you Rock God. NO wonder the other two were so jealous.
Incredible sparkle from all the guitars Just a superb recording the feel is something special
Yes, dangerous sound. Not found anymore. Love the tinny snare, very DIY, raw.
@@andrewknudsen6674 Agree, but I think it's sounds like a snare with a high tom overdub
@@randybackgammon890 It’s the snare from Charlie’s suitcase drum kit - a goatskin covered hand drum with 2 snare wires. It’s recommended that you heat them for a couple of minutes which sends the pitch soaring. Charlie overdubbed his full kit on later.
My favorite all time song and single. Definitely stands the test of time
Greatest Rock & Roll riff of all time. #1
Oh yeah.
The story of Kieth's guitar on this song is incredible. I'd recommend anyone reading about it, well worth it. He did some weird thing where he's playing an acoustic into a child's recorder at full blast, and doubling it over multiple times to create a crazy electric guitar like sound with reverb. Something like that anyway. Also did it on Street fighting man.
Great intro! Never duplicated it live though
@@josephgurzynski1053Impossible to recreate live.
I heard he did it in Multiple tunings as well, I believe one tuning was open E, and the other was possibly Nashville tuning
Such high quality work. Could it be possible to release some of the isolated tracks from this song?
gotta get Jumping Jack Flash fast while we can!
FANTASTIC !!!!
Fantastic guys...
I love your work!
Love the sound of those overdriven acoustic guitars with Wyman’s thumping bass line.
Keith plays bass on this
@@gigagod3384 u sure Keef plays bass on JJF? The bass line sounds like something Wyman would play. Where’d u read that? Thanks
@@markgroesbeck2717 The bass playing in JJF is credited to Keith in the liner notes.
Keith is a better bass player than Bill, just as Bill is a much better keyboardist than Brian was.
Whenever Bill couldn't fulfil Keith's vision for the bass part on any of his songs...Keith would just pick up his own bass guitar and play the bass track the song needed , rather than argue with Bill and try to teach him.
Bill was always cool with it.
In live performances Bill had no choice but to play the bass part Keith composed and recorded.
Other songs Keith played bass guitar on were "Sympathy for the Devil", "Street Fighting Man", and "Stray Cat Blues"; as well as on their singles "Jumpin' Jack Flash" "Brown Sugar, Under My Thumb and "Live With Me".
Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood were also known to replace Bill on the bass in several recording sessions.
Wood is famous for playing bass in the Jeff Brck Group
This sounds great
Brian Jones' band = Da best
This was by no means Brian Jones band.By the time they were recording JJF Jones was nearly a vegetable.
@@williardbillmore5713 Explain then why the music they made after his departure/death sounds so different. The "Jumping Jack Flash" riff was in fact composed by Brian and Bill, but they got no credit (Wikipedia), Brian describing the song in a 1968 interview as "getting back to the funky, essential essence," which suggests he deliberately partook in the band's stylistic evolution.
@@wonder6789 Keith came up with the JJF hook during an all night creative session with Mick at Keith's estate. In fact Jack was Keith's Richards gardener Jack Dyer.
" *“‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’ comes from this guy, Jack Dyer, who was my gardener - an old English yokel,” Richards remembered. “Mick and I were in my house down in the south of England. We’d been up all night; the sky was just beginning to go grey. It was pissing down raining if I remember rightly.”
That morning, the gardener’s heavy footedness startled Jagger. “Mick and I were sitting there, and suddenly Mick starts up,” Richards recalled. “He hears these great footsteps, these great rubber boots - slosh, slosh, slosh - going by the window. He said ‘What’s that?’ And I said, ‘Oh, that’s Jack. That’s jumpin’ Jack.’”
Richards revealed that he and Jagger created ‘Jumpin’ Jack Flash’ after Richards came up with the title that morning. “We had my guitar in open tuning, and I started to fool around with that. [singing] ‘Jumpin’ Jack…’ and Mick says, ‘Flash.’ He’d just woken up. And suddenly we had this wonderful alliterative phrase. So he woke up and we knocked it together.”*
Your ridiculous "alternative facts " don't hold any water anywhere.
@@wonder6789 The 60s were over and Keith was looking for a new guitar sound and he found it by playing his acoustic guitar into a Philips Cassette recorder and overdriving the tiny built in mic. Every true Stones fan knows the story...Why don't you know that?
Jones had nothing whatsoever to do with Jumpin' Jack Flash.Jones was so drugged out and inebriated he couldn't tell you his own name , let alone write a new song.
You followers of the Saint Brian sect are willing to make up any desperate bullshit at this point, aren't you...Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
@@wonder6789 Jones never took part in any stylistic evolution of the Stones.
He had no imagination and no creativity. He was strictly a "hanger on".
rock solid!!! yeaaah!
Lurve this version. Really shows how great Bill’s bass work is. . Sir Nicky on piano once again is sensational ! 😎👍🏻
Piano very low in mix if there is one.Thought Bill was on coda organ on this one with KR on bass...who knows
Keith is playing bass
@@BigSky1 still sounds great ! Whoever is playing bass ! 😎🎸👍🏻
@@BigSky1 Like he does in If You Can´t Rock Me. Great lines!!!! The Stones had 2 great bassplayers!!!!
@@trabongo 4 if you include Mick Taylor (Tumbling Dice and a couple of others) and Ronnie who played bass in The Jeff Beck Group and plays on a number of Stones songs.
As Brian said (much to Keith’s dismay), the riff is just satisfaction in reverse
It cracks me up to think that Jones said that in a live interview on BBC and now Jones worshipers claim that Jones wrote Jumpin Jack Flash, based in lies and fantasies in Paul Trynka's books about the Stones.
Keith himself said this in his book
@@bernardo7492 Brian said it in a BBC interview as a slam against Keith and Mick ...and it proves that Brian and Bill had nothing to do with the writing of JJF.
No one could ever slam Brian for the songs he wrote, because there aren't any.
Lyrics:
Watch It!
I was born in a crossfire hurricane
And I howled at my ma in the drivin' rain
But it's all right now, in fact it's a gas
But it's all right, I'm jumpin' jack flash
It's a gas, gas, gas
I was raised by a toothless, bearded hag
I was schooled with a strap right across my back
But it's all right now, in fact it's a gas
But it's all right, I'm jumpin' jack flash
It's a gas, gas, gas (oh)
I was drowned, I was washed up and left for dead
I fell down to my feet and I saw they bled
Yeah, yeah
I frowned at the crumbs of a crust of bread
Yeah, yeah, yeah
I was crowned with a spike right through my head
My, my, yeah
But it's all right now, in fact it's a gas
But it's all right, I'm jumpin' jack flash
It's a gas, gas, gas
Jumpin' jack flash, it's a gas
Jumpin' jack flash, it's a gas
Jumpin' jack flash, it's a gas
Jumpin' jack flash, it's a gas
Jumpin' jack flash, it's a gas
Jumpin' jack flash, it's a gas
Awesome!
Thank you! Cheers!
any more isolations for this one? thanks!!!!
@@LazerBrendan I’ll see what I can do!
Brian Jones, Bad boys, l'ame des Rolling stones, l'ange blond, es toujours là, je ne t'oublie pas ✨ merci.
thank you !!!!!!!
The instrumental exceeds the vocal imo.
And besides everything that everyone else has said, I really love the outro.
Keith plays every guitar on the original Jumpin' Jack Flash, including the bass guitar.
Keith also wrote the refrain and the first verse. This is very much a Keith Richards song.
You are correct, Keith’s bass isn’t as fluid as Bill’s but I think he does a great job on JJF as well as SFM and sympathy. Brian only played on this live twice, once at the NME Awards and the other for the Rock & Roll Circus.
Could it be possible to release some of the isolated tracks from this song?
@@Bklyn93 Check this out czcams.com/video/V7aBSWdgAOo/video.html
Sehr gute musikalische Harmonien......👏🔝🎼
Ja!
jimmy miller
Don't need. No words..... That's as good as it gets right here...sorry Mick,. You almost made it............"laff". Almost man....
Should be the theme of a show, especially at 0:37 and 1:15.
I really want a CD version of this without compression. I can tell it's a bit muffled by lossy compression.
I wonder if Brian's 12-string Rickenbacker in the instrumental solo was repeated at the end by tape or actually playing?
Neither a 12 string nor Brian.
They do not seem to play it this way live, sounds totally different
Exactly. And it sucks the way they play it live (other than a couple of very early recordings that exist that were in line with the original recording).
Multiple acoustic guitars, played into a cassette recorder (among other things). Gonna be kinda hard to reproduce that sound on stage, particularly in a stadium setting.
Charlie sounds like he's hitting a high Tom on the snare beat.Any ideas?
I think he was playing his suitcase drum kit on this one.
I read somewhere, words of Charlie, that KR played a Tom.
@@georgepapabeis2964 Yeah and a lot of those vintage suitcase drum kits recommend heating the goat skin on them for a few minutes to get the best sound - I tried it on a goat skin hand drum and it sent the pitch soaring! You can see why it jumps out of the mix like that - plus it’s on the cassette track so it’s also pretty distorted. Charlie overdubbed a standard kit in the studio but I read an interview with Jagger at the time where he said they recorded the cassette track at his house then overdubbed to it in the studio 😳
Think Brian Jones played a fender telecaster on this
Brian plays a tele on the promo which was mimed. It is doubtful that Brian plays on studio version.
He did not play on it
That, may or may not be so.
@@driesvandongen1803 You cannot trust Wiki. It is edited by the people for the people. There are so many mistakes on it. You or i can edit it.
I can identify 4 guitars on the JJF... the rhythm guitar (more bass) doesn't seem like KR style to me....
It never ceases to amaze and amuse me that some people like to believe that Keith did not write the guitar hook for Jumpin Jack Flash, Just listen to it...
The riff is almost the same as the opening riff to I Can't Get No Satisfaction only turned inside out. It is incredibly obvious that the same guy who dreamed Satisfaction composed the lick in JJF... Unless the Jones worshipers want to claim that Jones and Wyman somehow got inside Keith's dream and wrote Satisfaction for him as well.. Ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha ha
By the time this masterful composition was committed to vinyl this was definitely NOT Brian Jones' band.
At this point Keith had fully taken on the role of musical director and chief writer giving Mick a brilliant platform to prolifically write some of the most inventive and clever lyrics ever in the genre of popular Rock music.
you are completely insane believing that bill and brian wern't the chiefs of jjf masterpiece authors!?
@@vigorkomar7296 More Trynka lies from his ridiculous book. Do you have any idea how stupid you sound rattling off his fantasies. There is a video of an interview where a BBC reporter with Brian and Mick and Brian cheekily criticizes Keith and Mick for writing Satisfaction and Jumpin Jack Flash...Two songs that have very similar sounding guitar hooks.
You people are absurd.
Paul Trynka lied to you.
It's no surprise, then, that Richards did exactly what he did on 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' when it came to the bass as well - he took over. Wyman was absent from the session and so he couldn't object to having Richards playing the electric bass, the only electric instrument on the track.
Hammond Organ is electric.
@@georgeburns8447 I stand corrected, George... Say goodnight to Gracie for me...
You think Bill would have successfully objected to Keith playing the bass part? It's just like the songwriting credits...it was "almost" completely a closed shop, and everyone knew it and accepted it (because there was no choice or, because like Charlie, they knew their role and relished it). The Stones are Keith and Mick, surrounded by musicians who can achieve the sound that they (mostly Keith most of the time) are looking for. Bill, as fine of a bass player as he is, could have left the group at any time and there'd have been no drop off. Wisely, he waited until he was a very wealthy man.
@@jernigansaintthomasphiland1240 Yes...When you find yourself working with time proven geniuses, who made you famous and wealthy, you don't question what they do. You provide what they need and play what they ask.
It would be stupid and foolhardy to do otherwise.
It has been stated many times by Keith Richards that Brian never played on any of their records. Common knowledge
He was in the band for 7 years but never played?
That's wrong.
Keith and his pathetic attempt at historical revisionism. Brian Jones founded the band,named the band, but never played on any recordings? Keith is full of crap.
This is excellent, but the piano kind'a obscures the guitars a bit too much. I'll keep looking for the isolated guitars... maybe someday someone will upload just the guitars.
I was playing in a band waaaaay back in the early-mid '90s. We would intermingle covers with our originals. "Jumping Jack Flash" was one of the covers we'd play. Of all the cover bands I'd seen, none of them ever played the correct guitar parts. I think I was the only one out there playing Brian's solo as close to 100% accurate as possible.
In his book KR insists all the guitars were acoustic through various amps etc. apart from the bass.....don't sound like it
I agree. There is electricity going through most of those strings
The first guitar 🎸 you hear at the start of the song 🎵 is Brian playing a Les Paul thru a Vox AC/30 - and is most definitely electric. Think you'll find Keith's layering of his guitars 🎸 were all acoustic but electric guitars 🎸 were definitely in the final mix.
@@RikiNewtonMusicianSongwriter Don't want to sound like the inquisition but how do you KNOW that's Brian's Les Paul through an AC 30....just asking
Think it's all Keith on guitar. Brain added melotron. Use to think the twiny 12 string sounding bridge was Brians.
Sound like his style. But not. Keith's slide work on Begars Banquet sounds in style simular to Brian's. Now the yeah Yeah version might have Brian playing some guitar.Accually I am mistaken. Bill plays organ at the outro. And the great bass lines are Keith. In fact Keth plays bass on some of the Stones most famous songs. Now if you believe Wiki Brian plays electric Rythem guitar.
One of 'em sounds like Nashville tuning. And I think he ran the acoustics through a cassette player, to an amp , then mic'ed
There are no electric guitars on this record apart from the bass. Everything you here is played on acoustic.
Funnily enough most people are unaware that Keith played the bass part on the record
Keith played at least three guitar tracks...
Brian ...zero.
Jones was out to lunch without a menu... he was still alive but he was a non functioning human being by the time this number was recorded.
@Parachute Wyman There is no harmonica at all on Jumpin Jack Flash. The harmonica-like drones you hear around 2:51 is an organ being played by Bill Wyman...
By April 1968 Jones was so drugged out and drunk it is doubtful that he could have even known what side of a harmonica to blow into. Brian would only occasionally come to recording sessions in 1968, and when he did show up he was pretty much useless according to Mick. "He wouldn't turn up half the time and when he did show up he wasn't in any condition to do anything...We had to baby him...It was very sad... He just wasn't functioning as a musician"
Keith played at least three guitar tracks ( two accousics and electric with various alternate tunings) and bass guitar on JJF .Having also written the first lyric line of the song, the melody, the hook the chords and most of the coda. Keith is also credited as Producer. This was very much Keith's song.
You don't know what you are talking about.
@@mcashnv I know exactly what I am talking about. Keith has described the situation many times.
@@williardbillmore5713 There is a harmonica, it is double tracked which may be Brian. There is a keyboard part after played by Bill Wyman. As to Brian’s contribution on guitars on this song, it is uncertain.
In April 1968 Brian was actually still a functioning member of the band albeit not as interested as he once was. Jimmy Miller who produced Beggar’s Banquet credited Brian with playing flutes, saxophone, Mellotron on the album.
Brian plays on the following tracks on Beggar’s Banquet:
Street Fightin’ Man - Sitar and Tanpura (confirmed by Keith)
Jig-Saw Puzzle - mellotron (confirmed by Keith and Jimmy Miller)
Dear Doctor - Harmonica (can hear him on the demo which is live)
No Expectations- slide lead guitar - Confirmed by Mick, Keith, others
Prodigal Son - harmonica
Stray Cat Blues - Mellotron
Child of the Moon - saxophone (confirmed in an interview with Mick and Brian from May 1968 - not on the album, but recorded during the same sessions).
Possibly:
Factory Girl - possibly Mellotron set to mandolin setting.
@@williardbillmore5713 Mick tends to conflate the later years as a blur but it’s probably 1969 he’s referring to as Brian didn’t show up for most of the Let it Bleed sessions such that his only contribution to Let it Bleed is autoharp on You Got the Silver and some drumming on Midnight Rambler
Bill Wyman looks like the scare crow from the wizard of oz