The recording engineer for this song was Jimmy Johnson, of "The Swampers" fame, at Muscle Shoals Studios in Alabama. I've toured that studio, as well as Fame studio in the same area. Wonderful stories from both of those places. I highly recommend the music documentary Muscle Shoals.
Can't You Hear Me Knocking has some of the best music ever put on tape. The last half of that song is a jazz/rock fusion masterpiece and the legend is that it was an improvised jam. Incredible music.
Thanks for doing this video on the Rolling Stones' song Wild Horses. It is one of my favorites along with Miss You!! Keep up the great work. I always enjoy your videos!!
Not sure this has anything to do with being musicians. It sounds like a purely relationship driven song to me. But absolutely one of the most prettiest melodies ever recorded. A real classic!
Both bands have a plethora of great songs. The Beatles predate everyone, but the Stones predate everyone else. Give them both credit for advancing the language of rock and roll and spearheading so many innovations.
What you two both say makes sense..I grew up a stones fan from ‘62,maybe when I was 11..there’s so many different vibes they present and their intricate infusion of passion,energy,lyrics,,music..keep delivering stones music…thanks a lot!
It wasn't because they weren't the original ones to write the song. The Flying Burritos were the first one to write this song and sing it in 1970, then the rolling Stones in '71
The Flying Burrito Brothers did record Wild Horses first but they didn’t write it. Jagger and Richards wrote the song but being unimpressed with their own demo, they instead farmed it out to FBB (whose lineup at the time included good friend Gram Parsons). The following year Mick and Keith came to their senses and had the Rolling Stones record the song for Sticky Fingers.
❤❤❤❤❤❤️❤️❤️❤️🐎😊 In a interview Keith Richard’s who wrote the song said it was originally a song about missing his newborn son. He also said that Mick turned it into a song about a burnt out relationship.😊
I always loved those first few chords of the song and that little lick that repeats before Mick starts singing. I love the song but I love that so much, it always disappointed me that it was never repeated at any point in the song.
They've said that the music and the chorus started with Keith Richards exploring American music from the Gram Parsons and the Flying Burrito Brothers sound and writing about his child. Then, Mick Jagger wrote the full lyrics about his relationship with Marianne Faithful with him sitting by her bedside as she was ill with the relationship ending soon after. As he would later do in Angie, Jagger expresses how he will always care for her even though the relationship is over and that they should move on with gratitude and hope for the future - Let's do some living after we (the relationship) die and We'll ride them some day. I don't really get the music business link in this one. Great stuff, guys.
Great reaction ❤ One my favorite from Rolling Stones. BEAST OF BURDEN, and PAINT IT BLACK also. WILD HORSES w/ EDDIE VEDDER. If can find it, it’s fantastic. Y’all are awesome 😎 Keep it up 👍
Rolling Stones are so awesome. I lean towards the older songs. ANGIE is a great one if you haven't heard it yet. Sam, I love that you make up jokes and laugh at them. Why wouldn't you laugh at them.😂❤Phil, you better laugh at them.❤
This was recorded along with Brown Sugar at Muscle Shoals Sound in Sheffield Alabama on a 3 day session with local producer Jimmy Johnson doing the production duties.
This song was recorded at Muscle Shoals Sound Studio in Muscle Shoals Alabama about an hour north of me. Also recorded Brown Sugar there as well. One of the Muscle Shoals musicians played the piano part of this song.
Well, there's an interpretation I haven't heard before. Don't think it's what they intended, but why not? Angie is another softer Stones song. I like them both but I love Angie.
"its all over now" (uk#1) , little red rooster (uk#1) , not fade away (uk#3) and Harlem shuffle (Billboard #5) were also cover hits by the Rolling Stones
@@alejandroalvarez9971 Lots of songs were hits in the UK that were not hits in the US. Like, anything by Gary Glitter. Or Cliff Richard, who had just the one hit in the US.
This is my favorite Stones song. This was a song that one of my closest friends and I shared. She committed suicide so it's a tough song to get through.
The story was Micks girlfriend/ muse Marianne Faithful was suffering from extreme depression after Brian Jones’ death. They were in Australia where she took 150 barbiturate pills. ( suicide attempt) Luckily, Mick found her, and after being rushed to the hospital, she spent the next six days in a coma. When she awoke Mick was in the hospital room. (He had been visiting her regularly). Supposedly when she opened her eyes Mick said “hello, you’re still here ! “ she replied “wild horses couldn’t drag me away”. Or Maybe she said “Mick you’re here! “ and he replied “wild horses couldn’t drag me away”. Either way, the line stuck in his head.
Keith Richards actually wrote this song about missing out on his children growing up because he was always on tour that was the inspiration of the song
My favorite version of this was done by "Old And In The Way". One miked (a single microphone, with the band gathered around it) an All Star Bluegrass band, with Gerry Garcia (yes him!) on banjo, and Vasser Clemens on fiddle.
I have never heard an interpretation of the song. But I love yours. The living after death is to leave a legacy when they literally die. Riding the horses someday would be the artists getting more control over the industry. I think your interpretation works perfectly.
It was actually first recorded by the Stones. They did it in 1969 at Muscle Shoals, along with “Brown Sugar” and “You Gotta Move.” Gram loved it so much that Keith gave him his blessing to record his own version and officially release it before the Stones.
Great reaction. I've been a big fan since 1964 when I was 14. I read in one of the hundreds of rock magazines and books written abt the Stones that when founding member, Brian Jones died in 1971, Mick's gf Marianne Faithful was so distraught that the song was written for her. Anyway, this is my very most favorite tock ballad. My next favorite acoustic songs are Angie, RUBY Tuesday and Lady Jane. My fav rock songs are: GIMME SHELTER, PAINT IT BLACK, CANT ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT, JJF, TIME IS ON MY SIDE, GET OFF OF MY CLOUD and UNDER MY THUMB (which is very sexist) but when I was a teenager, the music and dancing were more important than analyzing the lyric. I was fortune to have seen the Beatles at the Atlanta Stadium in 1965 but I never got to go to a Stone's concert.
This is one of those rare instances where a band does essentially their own cover of a song they wrote for another band to perform originally. The Flying Burrito Brothers version is good but the Stones are definitive with their version. There are several good covers of this song out there.
Actually, the Stones had already recorded “Wild Horses” in 1969 at Muscle Shoals during their North American Tour. They also recorded an early version of “Brown Sugar” and “You Gotta Move” at these sessions. Many people think the Burrito Bros. version was made first, but it was only officially released first.
Stones from 1970-74 with Mick Taylor is their best musically, both Mick and Keith agreed, and any song with Bobby Keys is amazing. From Beggars Banquet through It's Only Rock And Roll, a 6 album run of incredible music
Sticky Fingers, one of their last great albums. I was 11 years old when I thought the Stones were the 1st best band in the world. 1965, I bought Aftermath first after hearing their first albums. Man, when a new Stones song and album came out it was an event.
Would like you guys to try to do slow train coming by Bob Dylan and the grateful Dead I saw them live at Sullivan stadium which is now called Gillette stadium in Massachusetts and I did that song live slow train coming and it's my all-time favorite song now I guarantee you guys will love it
This song seems to me to be about a relationship and not the industry. I don't really think to much about lyrics. Even if I know them all and can sing along. I really don't care what the meaning is. I know you won't do this but I'd love to see you react to the Stones's Cocksucker Blues. 😎
Been a fan of the Stones most of my life & this reminds me of one of my first steady girlfriends, because she liked it too, I think because she had a horse! So I guess we didn’t go too deep into the meaning of the lyrics. Anyway if you like this one then you really should check out “Fool to Cry” from the album “Black & Blue,” for me it’s the most deeply intimate and emotive of their songs.
to die was for over six hundred years a reference to orgasm. the song is about being older and not attached, but in love / sexual passion with a fellow free spirit. wild horses evoke rhythmic power and physicality, but also a spirit of being untamed and able to roam freely. the voice of the song longs for intimacy but after all ultimately satisfies itself with riding the wild horses with her ‘one day’. the roaming continues. byronesque perhaps in its characterful depiction of male lust.
If you really want to hear a song with soul by the Rolling Stones, of which there are many, try "Cry to me" from their 1965 album, "Out of Our Heads." That whole album is worth taking a deep dive.
This can't be personal and introspective for them because the Flying Burritos band were the first one to do it in 1970 and then the rolling Stones a year later and 71.
You're so wrong. The Stones recorded “Wild Horses” at Muscle Shoals in 1969. Keith and Gram Parsons were like musical soulmates and influenced each other greatly. But even by Gram’s own admission, he did not write “Wild Horses.” He loved the song, and with Keith’s blessing, he was allowed to record his own version and officially release it before the Stones in 1970.
I always thought that the story behind this is clear from the lyrics. He caused her a "dull aching pain" by being unfaithful and then she decided to make him "feel the same" by having an affair of her own.
I forgot to mention you might want to do the lyric version I understood it cuz it was live and I was right there on the floor but Dylan's voice is hard to understand sometimes so do the lyric version please
You are reading too much into the words. Thats Mick pouring his heart out after breaking up with Marianne Faithful. Mick is an underrated lyricist and this is a wonderful song.
