How about Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - S.O.B. (Live on BBC Two) czcams.com/video/2_pqOJt7gE8/video.html ? I am sure this song will get stuck in your brain for a while. It's catchy for sure!
They sat at the same brownstone that was on the cover of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti (1975) album. Now why that brownstone was chosen for that album cover, idk....
@@email5023 They rented an apartment there (possibly Jagger's own place) while recording portions of Houses of the Holy. I guess they took a picture of the building, then decided to use it for something.
One of the guys hanging out on the stoop with Mick Jagger is the late Peter Tosh who played lead guitar in The Wailers along side Bob Marley. He's the guy Keith Richards shakes hands with when he shows up. The sax solo in this song is played by jazz great Sonny Rollins.
Rollins is the guy sitting behind Mick. The guy next to Rollins is former Santana percussionist Michael Carabello. All three played on the song, though Tosh went uncredited due to contractual stuff.
@@Unlitedsoul Don’t think Tosh had anything to do with this track which was cut years before in 1972 with Mick Taylor. The musicians listed on it were the Stones 1972 period plus Nicky Hopkins on piano. Sonny Rollins overdubbed the sax and they guy you mentioned added percussion. The sax and piano were added just before the 1981 release. Tosh was not in the Stones orbit in 1972. It was years later when he signed to their label.
@@flyingburritobro68 November 25, 1972, the Stones entered Dynamic Sound Studios in Kingston, Jamaica to begin work on Goats Head Soup. They would spend 3 weeks on and off recording in Jamaica before going to LA. This was where they recorded the initial work for Waiting on a Friend (and several other songs). Marley and Tosh were also in Dynamic Sounds until early December completing the final mix of Catch a Fire so that Marley could rush it back to London and Columbia Records for distribution. Tosh, as well as Bunny Wailer, remained in Jamaica until a legal dispute around the album involving Island Records and Columbia was resolved and the band was cleared to tour in April 1973. Keith Richards stated that quite a few Jamaican musicians were brought into the studio... including "that guy across the hall". Mick would state at the time of signing Tosh to the Rolling Stones label in 1978 that it was working with him on those sessions that caught their eyes and made them all wish to work with both him and Bob Marley in the future. So, maybe Tosh didn't work on the song... or the album years later, but Mick and Keith allude to his being there.
The video, shot in July 1981, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg (who also directed their 1968 special ), became very popular on MTV. Matching the song's lyrics, Jagger is seen waiting for Keith Richards in the doorway of an apartment block. The building, at 96-98 St. Mark's Place in Manhattan, is notable for having also appeared on the cover of Led Zeppelin's 1975 album . The two then walk down the street and enter the St. Mark's Bar & Grill where the other three band members are already drinking. Ronnie Wood appears in the video, although he was not a musician on the original recording. Jagger sings the song to Richards and the video concludes with the band setting up for a gig at the back of the bar, largely ignored by the other patrons.
U asked about the building they were sitting at. It's 96-98 St. Mark's Place in Manhattan which was made famous as the cover of Led Zeppelin's classic Physical Graffiti album in 1975.
My oldest brother passed away not too long ago. He turned me on to the Rolling Stones when I was a very young girl. This is one of the songs that reminds me of him. ❤️🌹❤️
Imagine walking down the street and randomly seeing Mick Jaggar sitting on a stoop or Keith Richards walking by you on the sidewalk in NYC. It was still possible in the 1970’s, it’s impossible now
In West Los Angeles you still see that a lot. I've seen lots of people just hanging out or walking around. Dustin Hoffman, Alanis Morissette .. to many to mention. Just walking by you on the street or sitting someplace. I used to see Glenn Frey all the time at the same Pizza Place and same Car Wash often in Santa Monica on Wilshire, small talk each time I saw him, really nice, easygoing guy (RIP).
Amazing if true Keith lived in an apt. above Tower Records. Used to have a a “flea market” in parking lot next to building, and I used to frequent. Don’t believe. Could be wrong.
@@jerseygirl7908 I've been to that flea market a few times myself a long time ago. It's true about Keith living there. It's known as the Silk Building, and he had a penthouse apartment. I knew a guy who went to private school with Keith's son Marlon and had been in the apartment many times. Britney Spears owned it more recently and sold it a few years ago.
I think what he's trying to say is , that friendship , is more important than a sexual encounter with a beautiful woman. A Friend is an Amazing thing to have.
Hilarious that reggae artist Peter Tosh (dude bottom of steps) sneezes... Stones notoriously doing videos in 1 take... Mick says something (probably bless you) then covers mouth chuckling, realizing he’s supposed to only be saying the lyrics. Super reaction Jamel. Mick and Keith are like an old married couple so the song and video work perfectly as a metaphor for their relationship.
@@icegypsy99 Watched this a million times on MTV in the 80's and never noticed it. Watched it again in March 2020 for the first time in ages and saw it right away. Wasn't sure what I saw so reviewed it on a big screen over and over. Hilarious!
One of the most memorable days of my life was when I saw the Stones at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in the early 80s. Opening for the Stones were the J. Geils Band, George Thorogood and the Destroyers, and Prince. I skipped school that day, and rode my bicycle to the venue. Good times.
@@classic-kool yeah, it was pretty brutal to watch all the cardboard drink trays and cups being thrown at Prince. I was watching from the very top row of the Coliseum, at the complete opposite side of the stadium. Audiences weren't very open-minded back then. @Scott Morschhauser, was Prince on the bill in Buffalo? I think that third opening band was interchangeable at different cities. @Antoinette Lopes, it was awesome! @Unlitedsoul, it was an amazing show!
Three fun facts: 1.The building Mick was standing in front of appeared on Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti album cover, 2.Peter Tosh was one of those men with Mick, and 3.Mick Taylor played guitar on this song, not Ronnie Wood.
Was going to mention the same thing too about Mick Taylor. The music was recorded much earlier ‘72 or ‘73 ish. Maybe the lyrics were later, I can’t remember. It does sound more like their earlier stuff though.
@@wrldchamps04 always cool to learn new info, thank you! They’ve had a long and interesting history. Their eighties period was not their strongest, but I was a child/teen during those years. I saw them for the first time I think in ‘94, incredible how they have remained relevant and touring all these years. Also, I do like Ronnie Wood, I think he balances them in a way.
@@blackbird8900 My only time seeing them was that same tour. (I saw Show #2 of that tour in DC.) The second they came on stage, I jokingly said to my friend, "Let's go. I just wanted to be able to say that I have seen the Stones." My friend shot me a look like he was going to kill me.
@@gregorykrug8034 lol I became a fan in 1981 and soon became convinced that I would never see them because they were breaking up...8 years later I saw them the first time on Steel Wheels Tour (best concert I ever saw by anyone) and a couple of hours later, at home in my driveway with my buddy we were decompressing the whole night and it dawned on me that after waiting so long, I'd FINALLY seen them......but now it's over and they were surely going to retire and I'll never see them AGAIN 🤣🤣🤣...I saw them 3 more tours lol.
Well, maybe John Coltrane. Or Pharoah Sanders. But Sonny's definitely up there. Of course Coltrane was dead by then so maybe he doesn't count in this context.
@@Russ_Keith If we're counting people who were dead when this was cut, then Charlie Parker. I saw Sonny live in 2009, he still put on a great show, I'm glad he's still with us.
@@invisibledooley For sure. Don't get me wrong, I've got loads of his albums. Let's face it, when we're talking about this level, it really just comes down to individual taste and sometimes just the mood you're in. I say why choose when you can have them all?
Wow! nearly 40 yrs gone by, Some of those Jamaican dreads I known of in the East Village/lower east side. They would hang out at Washington Square Park in the 70s/80s, one of the Stones I think Keith had an apartment not far from St Marks Place over Tower Records at Broadway & 4th St.
Wow! guitarist Keith Richards looks so young in this video. He's the guy that comes up to Mick Jagger sitting on the porch, and then Richards gives him a friendly hug. I love this song, because it was my best friend's favorite "Stones" song. He died just this last August. This reminded me of him. Thank you.
This is why I Love your 'Reactions', Jamel...because you GET it...And you help others 'GET' it, as well...When You break down songs...And that goes for me, as well...There is almost always something I didn't catch when I've heard these songs so many times that YOU do...You Rock, Dude🎼
@@paulmcilroy7508hmmm … I don’t think so. I’ll attach the Wiki link, and I’ve heard interviews with Sonny and with Mick talking about his involvement. www.google.com/search?q=waiting+on+a+friend+saxophone&ie=UTF-8&oe=UTF-8&hl=en-us&client=safari
song, as well as two other songs on the album. On his contribution to the track, Jagger said in 1985: "I had a lot of trepidation about working with Sonny Rollins. This guy's a giant of the saxophone. Charlie said, 'He's never going to want to play on a Rolling Stones record!' I said, 'Yes he is going to want to.' And he did and he was wonderful. I said, 'Would you like me to stay out there in the studio?' He said, 'Yeah, you tell me where you want me to play and DANCE the part out.' So I did that. And that's very important: communication in hand, dance, whatever. You don't have to do a whole ballet, but sometimes that movement of the shoulder tells the guy to kick in on the beat."[2]
Back in 1981 in Hampton Va, I saw The Stones put on the Best thing I’ve ever seen. It was Keith’s birthday. When he came down to the end of the walkway when they played you can’t always get what you want and you could feel the love in the room, Man it was sweet!!! They recorded it and you should give it a watch. Love all that you do!
Indeed he is. There is cute story that Mick and Charlie tell about hiring Sonny. He intimidated them a bit. After all, the guys a legend. But they went a head and asked. The rest is history. For me, his sax part at the end just makes the tune..
Great Rolling Stones song, definitely one of their best by far!!! Glad you brought this one up for us to hear!! Thanks Jamel aka Jamal for your great reactions, and the great tunes of yesteryear... keeping coming, were all here to listen. Your one of the few that do the best reactions!!! ❣️🖤❣️🖤🎶🎶🎶
Jagger waited for Richards sitting in the front door of the very same building that appears in the Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti album cover. Meanwhile Peter Tosh is smoking a big joint sitting on Jagger’s side 😅
This would have been after Mick Jagger's duet with Peter Tosh on "Walk And Don't Look Back". Peter recorded his album 'Bush Doctor' on Rolling Stones records.
Wow; I had no idea. It was so cool when Peter Tosh was the musical guest on a 1979 episode of "Saturday Night Live" and Mick Jagger just showed-up right in the middle of one of his songs and sung the rest of the song with him.
Always loved this song! The sitting on the steps portion of this video always reminded me of Sesame Street (my mind tho😂) In the back of my mind, I'm always kind of "waiting" on Big Bird to shuffle by in the mix of people strolling down the sidewalk! Thanks for doing this song, and for being a positive soul💕 If you haven't listened to "Shattered" yet, please consider it. Have a great week!
Old school Sesame Street vibe ABSOLUTELY..... It's almost like it would've been normal to see Keith run in to Big Bird while Snuffy visits Mick on the step hanging with the local Rastafarians.........The old metal garbage can nearby flips open and Oscar pops out when Keith and Big Bird arrive to greet all singing the song together.... :) Hell yes....
Watching girls passing by, it ain't the latest thing I'm just standing in a doorway I'm just trying to make some sense Out of these girls passing by, the tales they tell of men I'm not waiting on a lady I'm just waiting on a friend A smile relieves a heart that grieves, remember what I said I'm not waiting on a lady I'm just waiting on a friend I'm just waiting on a friend Just waiting on a friend I'm just waiting on a friend I'm just waiting on a friend I'm just waiting on a friend Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah Don't need a whore I don't need no booze Don't need a virgin priest But I need some one I can cry to I need someone to protect Ooh, making love and breaking hearts, it is a game for youth But I'm not waiting on a lady I'm just waiting on a friend I'm just waiting on a friend Just waiting on a friend Waiting on a friend I'm just waiting on a friend I'm just waiting on a friend, waiting on a friend Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah
Jagger's lyrics for this song are amazing. I love the lines "I need someone I can cry to, I need someone to protect". That is a very special friend to have.
Mick's Dear Friend and Lifetime Buddy Keith Richards shows up; the two of them have written Almost All of the Rolling Stones Songs. BTW "Waiting on a Friend" is a Slang Street Term for - Waiting on your Connection, Friend meeting: HEROIN. KEITH and MICK BOTH Dabbled in HEROIN during there Rock and Roll Careers. Keith Richards Expecually! ...Newk from Kentucky.
A light hearted tune which brings to mind that these guys have been friends their whole career, including a couple of them since grade school. 60+ years of friendship especially among rock band mates is something incredible and special. Long Live The Rolling Stones.
Well, that's one of the buildings that was used for Led Zepplin's "Physical Graffiti" album cover, for what it's worth. And that was Sonny Rollins on the sax (and on the steps), with Peter Tosh and a Santana drummer.
Peter Tosh was a founding member of The Wailers.He went solo after their 3rd album for Island records.He was close friends with the Stones who owned property and frequently recorded in Jamaica.
As someone noted thats not Ronnie Wood playing on the song, but Mick Taylor. The Stones were in their prime with Taylor. Just my opinion, but yeah, I'm right. ;)
"The least Rolling Stones sounding song ever". It's still awesome. This song is so damn chill. Oh BTW, I'm still gonna plug Fingerprint File and Dead Flowers, until you do it. I'm a persistent SOB. Thank you for this great reaction.
@@joeycarter8846 What?! He hasn't done Angie yet either? Next you'll say he hasn't done Tumbling Dice or Moonlight Mile. Just playin'. Damn the Stones have so many. Apparently they've gone and done a shit ton of official lyric videos. Just watched She's a Rainbow the other day. I'm like wow, some guy is really getting paid to put these all together. Nice.
Mick and Kieth had a slight falling out in the late 70's this song was about them burying the hatchet sort of speak at least that was the story back in the day ✌️🧡
Undercover of the Night (is a great song by them that might get overlooked) (i almost forgot) too many to mention, here's a few more; Start Me Up Under My Thumb
Definitely Soul Asylum! Growing up in Minneapolis, they played their stuff on a alt rock station all the time. “Black Gold” is one of my favorites of theirs.
The building Mick is waiting at during the first half of the video or so is an apartment block called St. Mark's Place that In the 60s-70s was commonly used as a rental for musicians recording at Electric Ladyland and other studios in the area. They filmed this video, while still working on completing the Tatoo You album, much of which they recorded at Electric Ladyland. The three guys sitting with him are backing musicians/vocalists featured on the album. The same building is featured as the cover art for Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti album. They stayed there as well while recording portions of Houses of the Holy in 1972. It has been speculated that Mick may have had an apartment in that building for as much as 15 years, and that several of his friends used it while working in New York.
Now that Lemmy is dead, after a nuclear war it will only be oaks, roaches and Keith left haha Stones version of Love in Vain, a cover of a Robert Johnson tune is awesome
Isn't that the truth! Hang Fire comes to mind. Do not recall If One Hit to the Body is one of the tracks on that album but an underrated 80s gem from the Stones with an interesting video since apparently Mick and Keith really weren't getting along at that point.
Thank you!! You took me back to tenth grade. I watched this video on MTV while doing homework. My Mom gave me the time before sending me to my room to do homework in silence. She was very influential in my life. Music was one of the greatest gifts she ever gave me, besides my life, of course! Great memory. I love Sonny Walker on the sax. Please understand, I am trying to catch up with your reactions. You are a cool dude. Keep up your path to enlighten others regarding humanity.
I'm sure others have already said, but that's the building pictured on the album cover for Led Zeppelin's 1975 album Physical Graffiti which came out 6 years earlier. But for the Zeppelin album they had to edit the photo and remove one of the floors of the building to make it fit properly on the album cover.
I just listened to the song a few days ago. Had not heard it in a long, long time. Now you do a reaction to it. Tuning into my brainwaves? Favorite line- "A smile relieves a heart that grieves."
Please listen and react to Bruce Springsteen “Jungleland” original studio version with tremendous storytelling lyrics and emotion. With incredible music...IMO best rock song ever. Then later on check out a live performance from the 70s.
This song has me thinking about songs from 1981. The murder of John Lennon overshadowed the year for me. I don't think Jamel has reacted to 'Freeze Frame by J. Geils Band yet? I think that song, 'Mirror in the Bathroom' by The (English) Beat was out around the same time too?
One of my favorite Rolling Stones songs, of all time! Love this song. Slow, funky, good story, believable, etc. Once again, The Rolling Stones is the best band of all time! Greetings from the Republic of Kentucky.
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How about Nathaniel Rateliff & The Night Sweats - S.O.B. (Live on BBC Two) czcams.com/video/2_pqOJt7gE8/video.html ? I am sure this song will get stuck in your brain for a while. It's catchy for sure!
They sat at the same brownstone that was on the cover of Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti (1975) album. Now why that brownstone was chosen for that album cover, idk....
@@email5023 They rented an apartment there (possibly Jagger's own place) while recording portions of Houses of the Holy. I guess they took a picture of the building, then decided to use it for something.
One of the guys hanging out on the stoop with Mick Jagger is the late Peter Tosh who played lead guitar in The Wailers along side Bob Marley. He's the guy Keith Richards shakes hands with when he shows up. The sax solo in this song is played by jazz great Sonny Rollins.
Rollins is the guy sitting behind Mick. The guy next to Rollins is former Santana percussionist Michael Carabello. All three played on the song, though Tosh went uncredited due to contractual stuff.
Correct! Sharp eye. 👍
Wow. Had no idea. Sonny Rollins is a god! Saxophone Colossus..
@@Unlitedsoul Don’t think Tosh had anything to do with this track which was cut years before in 1972 with Mick Taylor. The musicians listed on it were the Stones 1972 period plus Nicky Hopkins on piano. Sonny Rollins overdubbed the sax and they guy you mentioned added percussion. The sax and piano were added just before the 1981 release. Tosh was not in the Stones orbit in 1972. It was years later when he signed to their label.
@@flyingburritobro68 November 25, 1972, the Stones entered Dynamic Sound Studios in Kingston, Jamaica to begin work on Goats Head Soup. They would spend 3 weeks on and off recording in Jamaica before going to LA. This was where they recorded the initial work for Waiting on a Friend (and several other songs).
Marley and Tosh were also in Dynamic Sounds until early December completing the final mix of Catch a Fire so that Marley could rush it back to London and Columbia Records for distribution. Tosh, as well as Bunny Wailer, remained in Jamaica until a legal dispute around the album involving Island Records and Columbia was resolved and the band was cleared to tour in April 1973.
Keith Richards stated that quite a few Jamaican musicians were brought into the studio... including "that guy across the hall".
Mick would state at the time of signing Tosh to the Rolling Stones label in 1978 that it was working with him on those sessions that caught their eyes and made them all wish to work with both him and Bob Marley in the future.
So, maybe Tosh didn't work on the song... or the album years later, but Mick and Keith allude to his being there.
The video, shot in July 1981, directed by Michael Lindsay-Hogg (who also directed their 1968 special ), became very popular on MTV. Matching the song's lyrics, Jagger is seen waiting for Keith Richards in the doorway of an apartment block. The building, at 96-98 St. Mark's Place in Manhattan, is notable for having also appeared on the cover of Led Zeppelin's 1975 album . The two then walk down the street and enter the St. Mark's Bar & Grill where the other three band members are already drinking. Ronnie Wood appears in the video, although he was not a musician on the original recording. Jagger sings the song to Richards and the video concludes with the band setting up for a gig at the back of the bar, largely ignored by the other patrons.
the bar is the local joint where students from the Actors Studio used to hang
I saw this video a thousand times back then.
Also, Mick is sitting next to Peter Tosh on those steps
@@geoffmustbedestroyed Tosh played on several of the Tattoo You songs, though went uncredited due to contractual legal issues.
@@geoffmustbedestroyed The other two guys are Santana drummer/percussionist Michael Carabello and saxophonist Sonny Rollins.
U asked about the building they were sitting at. It's 96-98 St. Mark's Place in Manhattan which was made famous as the cover of Led Zeppelin's classic Physical Graffiti album in 1975.
Yup. Still there
" A smile relieves a heart that grieves..."
Mick never gets credit for his lyrics despite besting Bob Dylan with Sympathy for the Devil
My oldest brother passed away not too long ago. He turned me on to the Rolling Stones when I was a very young girl. This is one of the songs that reminds me of him. ❤️🌹❤️
Imagine walking down the street and randomly seeing Mick Jaggar sitting on a stoop or Keith Richards walking by you on the sidewalk in NYC. It was still possible in the 1970’s, it’s impossible now
In West Los Angeles you still see that a lot. I've seen lots of people just hanging out or walking around. Dustin Hoffman, Alanis Morissette .. to many to mention. Just walking by you on the street or sitting someplace. I used to see Glenn Frey all the time at the same Pizza Place and same Car Wash often in Santa Monica on Wilshire, small talk each time I saw him, really nice, easygoing guy (RIP).
Amazing if true Keith lived in an apt. above Tower Records. Used to have a a “flea market” in parking lot next to building, and I used to frequent. Don’t believe. Could be wrong.
@@jerseygirl7908 I've been to that flea market a few times myself a long time ago. It's true about Keith living there. It's known as the Silk Building, and he had a penthouse apartment. I knew a guy who went to private school with Keith's son Marlon and had been in the apartment many times. Britney Spears owned it more recently and sold it a few years ago.
Still possible.
@@maxpower997 Thank you for the information. You sent me to school-didn’t know about Marlon. Thanks!
A song about friendship, and just hanging out. Beautiful.
I think what he's trying to say is , that friendship , is more important than a sexual encounter with a beautiful woman. A Friend is an Amazing thing to have.
Thank you!
On that day, and on many other days, Keith Richards was the coolest man in New York.
More like the most stoned
Agreed! 👍
Still cool, love Keith.
Agreed especially since John Lennon had passed away by that point in time sadly
Amen!
He's just waiting on a friend. Nothing deep about it. Just a laid back Stones tune. Love it. Peace to you Brother. And thank you.
Exactly
Someday soon, we need to ask ourselves: what kind of world are we leaving behind for Keith Richards?
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This is a gem
Is he still alive?🤣🤣
@@glennfjenkins2702 ye of course he is! He’ll outlive us all!
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Tumbling dice from Exile on Main Street, absolute favorite tune from them.
I could not make out the words until Linda covered it
Dead, INXS, Stones....J, you are on a roll today!!
Hilarious that reggae artist Peter Tosh (dude bottom of steps) sneezes... Stones notoriously doing videos in 1 take... Mick says something (probably bless you) then covers mouth chuckling, realizing he’s supposed to only be saying the lyrics. Super reaction Jamel. Mick and Keith are like an old married couple so the song and video work perfectly as a metaphor for their relationship.
Yes
That's too funny. All the times I have seen this video I never noticed that. I love the little chuckle lol
@@icegypsy99 Watched this a million times on MTV in the 80's and never noticed it. Watched it again in March 2020 for the first time in ages and saw it right away. Wasn't sure what I saw so reviewed it on a big screen over and over. Hilarious!
Huh. Never noticed that before.
One of the most memorable days of my life was when I saw the Stones at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum in the early 80s. Opening for the Stones were the J. Geils Band, George Thorogood and the Destroyers, and Prince. I skipped school that day, and rode my bicycle to the venue. Good times.
That's awesome. 😊
Similar stories, same tour Buffalo NY 1981. Saw them many times through the years but that was the first time. Best times of my life man.
I was there ... Prince got booed off of the stage...
Sounds like an amazing show
@@classic-kool yeah, it was pretty brutal to watch all the cardboard drink trays and cups being thrown at Prince. I was watching from the very top row of the Coliseum, at the complete opposite side of the stadium. Audiences weren't very open-minded back then.
@Scott Morschhauser, was Prince on the bill in Buffalo? I think that third opening band was interchangeable at different cities.
@Antoinette Lopes, it was awesome!
@Unlitedsoul, it was an amazing show!
Three fun facts:
1.The building Mick was standing in front of appeared on Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti album cover,
2.Peter Tosh was one of those men with Mick, and
3.Mick Taylor played guitar on this song, not Ronnie Wood.
Was going to mention the same thing too about Mick Taylor. The music was recorded much earlier ‘72 or ‘73 ish. Maybe the lyrics were later, I can’t remember. It does sound more like their earlier stuff though.
@@blackbird8900 the album was needed fast to get out before the tour so old stuff was grabbed and polished...
@@wrldchamps04 always cool to learn new info, thank you! They’ve had a long and interesting history. Their eighties period was not their strongest, but I was a child/teen during those years. I saw them for the first time I think in ‘94, incredible how they have remained relevant and touring all these years. Also, I do like Ronnie Wood, I think he balances them in a way.
@@blackbird8900 My only time seeing them was that same tour. (I saw Show #2 of that tour in DC.) The second they came on stage, I jokingly said to my friend, "Let's go. I just wanted to be able to say that I have seen the Stones." My friend shot me a look like he was going to kill me.
@@gregorykrug8034 lol I became a fan in 1981 and soon became convinced that I would never see them because they were breaking up...8 years later I saw them the first time on Steel Wheels Tour (best concert I ever saw by anyone) and a couple of hours later, at home in my driveway with my buddy we were decompressing the whole night and it dawned on me that after waiting so long, I'd FINALLY seen them......but now it's over and they were surely going to retire and I'll never see them AGAIN 🤣🤣🤣...I saw them 3 more tours lol.
No idea how you deal with all this info, bands, songs thrown at you. Jamel, you have made this whole Covid thing much better & are a special soul.
One of the 2 or 3 most important saxophonists ever, Sonny Rollins. You don't get any higher in the music world than that.
Well, maybe John Coltrane. Or Pharoah Sanders. But Sonny's definitely up there. Of course Coltrane was dead by then so maybe he doesn't count in this context.
@@Russ_Keith If we're counting people who were dead when this was cut, then Charlie Parker. I saw Sonny live in 2009, he still put on a great show, I'm glad he's still with us.
@@invisibledooley For sure. Don't get me wrong, I've got loads of his albums. Let's face it, when we're talking about this level, it really just comes down to individual taste and sometimes just the mood you're in. I say why choose when you can have them all?
Nope, he's up there with Coltrane and Charlie Parker and the othergreats. To my mind a top 10 sax player and a supremely nice man.
That was one of my favorite MTV videos, I love the way Richards just slips right in next to Jagger on the steps.
Wow! nearly 40 yrs gone by, Some of those Jamaican dreads I known of in the East Village/lower east side. They would hang out at Washington Square Park in the 70s/80s, one of the Stones I think Keith had an apartment not far from St Marks Place over Tower Records at Broadway & 4th St.
I remember even in the 1990’s in NY we would go to Washington Square park to buy weed from the Jamaicans. It was good times.
Wow! guitarist Keith Richards looks so young in this video. He's the guy that comes up to Mick Jagger sitting on the porch, and then Richards gives him a friendly hug. I love this song, because it was my best friend's favorite "Stones" song. He died just this last August. This reminded me of him. Thank you.
“Can’t you hear me knockin” and “monkey man” you should try out soon
Santana 's cover of this song is a Favorite of mine 😊 Can't you hear me knocking 🔥
Agreed
This is why I Love your 'Reactions', Jamel...because you GET it...And you help others 'GET' it, as well...When You break down songs...And that goes for me, as well...There is almost always something I didn't catch when I've heard these songs so many times that YOU do...You Rock, Dude🎼
My first concert ever...Rolling Stones. headline...with ZzTop and Fabulous Thunderbirds at Houston Astrodome. Tattoo You tour....awesome
Jeez I love this one. Such a pretty song. That saxophone!
Sonny Rollins! Jazz giant!
Nope.....Ernie Watts.@@matzabean
@@paulmcilroy7508hmmm … I don’t think so. I’ll attach the Wiki link, and I’ve heard interviews with Sonny and with Mick talking about his involvement.
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song, as well as two other songs on the album. On his contribution to the track, Jagger said in 1985:
"I had a lot of trepidation about working with Sonny Rollins. This guy's a giant of the saxophone. Charlie said, 'He's never going to want to play on a Rolling Stones record!' I said, 'Yes he is going to want to.' And he did and he was wonderful. I said, 'Would you like me to stay out there in the studio?' He said, 'Yeah, you tell me where you want me to play and DANCE the part out.' So I did that. And that's very important: communication in hand, dance, whatever. You don't have to do a whole ballet, but sometimes that movement of the shoulder tells the guy to kick in on the beat."[2]
Peter Tosh on the stairs. ☮️
Tosh and Jagger had that smash hit "Walk and Don't Look Back" together. Great track.
@@MacSvensson yes I believe he played in the barbarians on a couple tunes also with Richards and Wood
The one person that thumb's down this reaction must still be waiting on their friend.
😂⬆️😂
Or a lady 🤣
@@ozman9353 Definitely a lady... though they may be waiting for a lifetime.
Back in 1981 in Hampton Va, I saw The Stones put on the Best thing I’ve ever seen. It was Keith’s birthday. When he came down to the end of the walkway when they played you can’t always get what you want and you could feel the love in the room, Man it was sweet!!! They recorded it and you should give it a watch. Love all that you do!
This was my late husband's favorite Rolling Stones songs.
The jazz legend - Sonny Rollins - on sax.
He made great music with them!
Indeed he is. There is cute story that Mick and Charlie tell about hiring Sonny. He intimidated them a bit. After all, the guys a legend. But they went a head and asked. The rest is history. For me, his sax part at the end just makes the tune..
A smile relieves a heart that grieves....favorite line from a favorite song
Great Rolling Stones song, definitely one of their best by far!!! Glad you brought this one up for us to hear!! Thanks Jamel aka Jamal for your great reactions, and the great tunes of yesteryear... keeping coming, were all here to listen. Your one of the few that do the best reactions!!! ❣️🖤❣️🖤🎶🎶🎶
The tall cool blonde that walks by while Mick is sitting on the stoop is his girlfriend, the model Jerry Hall .
Jagger waited for Richards sitting in the front door of the very same building that appears in the Led Zeppelin Physical Graffiti album cover. Meanwhile Peter Tosh is smoking a big joint sitting on Jagger’s side 😅
This would have been after Mick Jagger's duet with Peter Tosh on "Walk And Don't Look Back". Peter recorded his album 'Bush Doctor' on Rolling Stones records.
Did *not* realize it was Peter Tosh!
Wow; I had no idea. It was so cool when Peter Tosh was the musical guest on a 1979 episode of "Saturday Night Live" and Mick Jagger just showed-up right in the middle of one of his songs and sung the rest of the song with him.
Yes
Pure talent from the greatest band of all time and a song about just hanging out with the buddies.
One of the first songs to play on MTV, ya know when they actually played music!
Always loved this song! The sitting on the steps portion of this video always reminded me of Sesame Street (my mind tho😂) In the back of my mind, I'm always kind of "waiting" on Big Bird to shuffle by in the mix of people strolling down the sidewalk! Thanks for doing this song, and for being a positive soul💕 If you haven't listened to "Shattered" yet, please consider it. Have a great week!
Can you tell me how to get, how to get to Sesame Street?
Old school Sesame Street vibe ABSOLUTELY..... It's almost like it would've been normal to see Keith run in to Big Bird while Snuffy visits Mick on the step hanging with the local Rastafarians.........The old metal garbage can nearby flips open and Oscar pops out when Keith and Big Bird arrive to greet all singing the song together.... :) Hell yes....
@@jesseregenauer630 Right tho?
Watching girls passing by, it ain't the latest thing
I'm just standing in a doorway
I'm just trying to make some sense
Out of these girls passing by, the tales they tell of men
I'm not waiting on a lady
I'm just waiting on a friend
A smile relieves a heart that grieves, remember what I said
I'm not waiting on a lady
I'm just waiting on a friend
I'm just waiting on a friend
Just waiting on a friend
I'm just waiting on a friend
I'm just waiting on a friend
I'm just waiting on a friend
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah
Don't need a whore
I don't need no booze
Don't need a virgin priest
But I need some one I can cry to
I need someone to protect
Ooh, making love and breaking hearts, it is a game for youth
But I'm not waiting on a lady
I'm just waiting on a friend
I'm just waiting on a friend
Just waiting on a friend
Waiting on a friend
I'm just waiting on a friend
I'm just waiting on a friend, waiting on a friend
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah
Ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, ooh, yeah
Jagger's lyrics for this song are amazing. I love the lines "I need someone I can cry to, I need someone to protect". That is a very special friend to have.
Yes that is a friend.
Mick's Dear Friend and Lifetime Buddy Keith Richards shows up; the two of them have written Almost All of the Rolling Stones Songs. BTW "Waiting on a Friend" is a Slang Street Term for - Waiting on your Connection, Friend meeting: HEROIN. KEITH and MICK BOTH Dabbled in HEROIN during there Rock and Roll Careers. Keith Richards Expecually! ...Newk from Kentucky.
One of my all-time favorite Rolling Stones songs! This is from my era!
I’d say they all appear to be lit, for real .
Yeah, they’re all three sheets to the wind in this video!
I've always thought it was just a bromance song to a dear,dear friend. Mick waiting for Keith so they can 🎸 jam.
A light hearted tune which brings to mind that these guys have been friends their whole career, including a couple of them since grade school. 60+ years of friendship especially among rock band mates is something incredible and special.
Long Live The Rolling Stones.
One of my favorite Stones songs. A ton of great memories tied to this.
Well, that's one of the buildings that was used for Led Zepplin's "Physical Graffiti" album cover, for what it's worth.
And that was Sonny Rollins on the sax (and on the steps), with Peter Tosh and a Santana drummer.
"one of the buildings"? The ONLY building. Buttnut!
That whole album, "Tattoo You" is lit.
Amazing album cover too
Not bad for a bunch of old leftovers...some great stuff
Had it when it was new, got rid of it when vinyl wasn't cool anymore and just bought it again last week!
@@jeffpeterson1331 I see it as a kind of Goat's Head Soup pt. 2.
My favourite Stones album. Not the 'coolest' Stones album, but it is the best.
This song is one of my all time favorites! Thanks Jamel!
One of the stones most layed back sings ever! I love them!
Peter Tosh was a founding member of The Wailers.He went solo after their 3rd album for Island records.He was close friends with the Stones who owned property and frequently recorded in Jamaica.
@Christopher Ross Huh?
Oh the Mick Taylor years, the Stones at their best.
This has always been one of my favorites Stones songs and videos.
A smile relieves a heart that grieves . . . Truth.
Always appreciated how my friends enhance my life...this song emulates that for all. ❤
As someone noted thats not Ronnie Wood playing on the song, but Mick Taylor. The Stones were in their prime with Taylor. Just my opinion, but yeah, I'm right. ;)
Reminds me of those nights where you are not looking for a romance, just a good time with your buds! It's refreshing sometimes!
They been friends and a band since the 60's. Them is his folk. Real love
"The least Rolling Stones sounding song ever". It's still awesome. This song is so damn chill. Oh BTW, I'm still gonna plug Fingerprint File and Dead Flowers, until you do it. I'm a persistent SOB.
Thank you for this great reaction.
@@joeycarter8846 What?! He hasn't done Angie yet either? Next you'll say he hasn't done Tumbling Dice or Moonlight Mile. Just playin'. Damn the Stones have so many. Apparently they've gone and done a shit ton of official lyric videos. Just watched She's a Rainbow the other day. I'm like wow, some guy is really getting paid to put these all together. Nice.
Good night
Sleep tight
Fingerprint File for sure! Funky AF!
Dead Flowers for sure. And Monkey Man!
Taking me right back to my high school years 😎
That building front was used on the cover of Led Zeppelin's 1975 album "Physical Graffiti".
"...A smile relieves your heart that grieves..."
Mick and Kieth had a slight falling out in the late 70's this song was about them burying the hatchet sort of speak at least that was the story back in the day ✌️🧡
Not a Stones fan...but I LOVE this song. My favorite from them.
This is my favorite Stones song. It's perfect.
This song gets better and better with each listen. So good on the headphones. Great choice tonight! ❤️
Undercover of the Night (is a great song by them that might get overlooked) (i almost forgot) too many to mention, here's a few more;
Start Me Up
Under My Thumb
Jimmy Cliff “Many Rivers to Cross “
Soul Asylum “Runaway Train”
Definitely Soul Asylum! Growing up in Minneapolis, they played their stuff on a alt rock station all the time. “Black Gold” is one of my favorites of theirs.
The building Mick is waiting at during the first half of the video or so is an apartment block called St. Mark's Place that In the 60s-70s was commonly used as a rental for musicians recording at Electric Ladyland and other studios in the area. They filmed this video, while still working on completing the Tatoo You album, much of which they recorded at Electric Ladyland. The three guys sitting with him are backing musicians/vocalists featured on the album. The same building is featured as the cover art for Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti album. They stayed there as well while recording portions of Houses of the Holy in 1972. It has been speculated that Mick may have had an apartment in that building for as much as 15 years, and that several of his friends used it while working in New York.
Dope. I love watching you vibe with this. Great song. RIP Charlie.
If you love this you’ll also love their song “Beast of Burden”
Jamel aka Jamal, can I request that you take a listen to "Can You Hear Me Knockin'" by the Stones, next? Asking for a friend...
@@marymargaretmoore9034 Are you sure? I'm not seeing it...
@@joemaurone7923 Joe, I could be wrong; let's ask him to do it.
This has always been one of my favorite Stones songs and it's been eons since I last saw the video, so thanks for the blast from the past Jamel!!!
Man I love ❤️ this song so much. Great music and video. Stones are incredible 👏
Now that Lemmy is dead, after a nuclear war it will only be oaks, roaches and Keith left haha
Stones version of Love in Vain, a cover of a Robert Johnson tune is awesome
Ooooh I been waiting for this one - yay!
I was standing right outside that bar when the Stones arrived to record the video. It was like 5 in the morning. The long gone St Marks Bar and Grill
Greatest band ever. Still at the top of my bucket list, have missed 2 concerts, here's still hoping!!!!
Tattoo You is packed with great tracks
Isn't that the truth! Hang Fire comes to mind. Do not recall If One Hit to the Body is one of the tracks on that album but an underrated 80s gem from the Stones with an interesting video since apparently Mick and Keith really weren't getting along at that point.
Little T&A is a great track on that album too. Keith sings on that one
Back in my dart throwing days. Love it!
I think it’s a song about friendship. Great seeing Mick and Keith and Ronnie, just pals having a drink together in a bar. We all need our friends.
Thank you!! You took me back to tenth grade. I watched this video on MTV while doing homework. My Mom gave me the time before sending me to my room to do homework in silence. She was very influential in my life. Music was one of the greatest gifts she ever gave me, besides my life, of course! Great memory. I love Sonny Walker on the sax. Please understand, I am trying to catch up with your reactions. You are a cool dude. Keep up your path to enlighten others regarding humanity.
I don't get it. Jagger dances like your drunk uncle at a wedding and is still the coolest guy in the room.
Hahaha! 😂
Did his friend ever show up?
Bono still hasn't't found what he's looking for since 1987!
Always thought U2 was Overrated.
😂😂😂
I'm sure others have already said, but that's the building pictured on the album cover for Led Zeppelin's 1975 album Physical Graffiti which came out 6 years earlier. But for the Zeppelin album they had to edit the photo and remove one of the floors of the building to make it fit properly on the album cover.
This may be my favorite Stones song, musically.
Jamel, their "Jumpin' Jack Flash" "Tumblin' Dice" and "She's So Cold" are next for you!
Do "Live With Me" or "Monkey Man"!
Monkey Man has one of the coolest intros to a song EVER!!
Monkey Man!
@@bryanblack526 Ah...that piano!
So much good music, from this iconic band. Thanks for the reaction❤️❤️❤️
I just listened to the song a few days ago. Had not heard it in a long, long time. Now you do a reaction to it. Tuning into my brainwaves? Favorite line- "A smile relieves a heart that grieves."
He's not looking for a one night stand, he's looking for a real relationship, someone who he can call his friend.
The Monkees Last Train to Clarksville
I'm all ready to Free Fall down that rabbit hole of Monkee's hits!!! Hahaha!!
Stepping Stone! And Mary, Mary - a really upbeat song with really dark, stalkery lyrics.
we used to sit out on the steps all the time. listening to the stones. side note ; before this song ever came out. them's the good ol day's
YAYYYYYY one of my FAVE Stones songs!!!!!!!!!!
Please listen and react to Bruce Springsteen “Jungleland” original studio version with tremendous storytelling lyrics and emotion. With incredible music...IMO best rock song ever. Then later on check out a live performance from the 70s.
An epic song right there.
This song has me thinking about songs from 1981. The murder of John Lennon overshadowed the year for me. I don't think Jamel has reacted to 'Freeze Frame by J. Geils Band yet? I think that song, 'Mirror in the Bathroom' by The (English) Beat was out around the same time too?
This might be my favorite Stones' tune! Just a solid, mellow jam!
Thank you. This has always been one of my favorite Stones tracks, and I'm glad you got a chance to hear it.
500K suscribers, almost 2 Years and You miss all this time Judas Priest "Victim of Changes"
Beyond the realms of death
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"Beneath the remains" by Sepultura.
Dude...The Stones have soooo many great tunes.You will enjoy the trip down Stones street!!!!!
One of my favorite Rolling Stones songs, of all time! Love this song. Slow, funky, good story, believable, etc. Once again, The Rolling Stones is the best band of all time! Greetings from the Republic of Kentucky.