Also, the fact that we cut it as a comedy track. Did you know that “Paint It Black” was birthed in a recording session as a comedy track? Keith Richards explained when he said, “ What’s amazing about that one for me is the sitar. Brian playing the sitar makes it a whole other thing.” Keith Richards said discussing how “Paint, It Black” was crafted in the studio.
“ We’d been doing it with funky rhythms and it hadn’t worked, and he started playing like this and everybody got behind it.
Morgan edited the kids pounding with Charlie Watts clever drum beat of “Paint It Black.” The amazing thing is I can still feel the pulsating beats in my head from Hurricane and makes me want to hear “Paint, It Black” again. The specific scene featuring “Paint It Black” starts off in Paris with a bunch of kids pounding the stage waiting for The Stones to hit the stage. Brett Morgan who superbly directed Robert Evans documentary The Kid Stays in the Picture, turned the Stones lives into a living and breathing visual canvas of hits, trips and memories all rolled into a film that’s perfectly documented in Crossfire Hurricane.īrilliantly directed by Bret Morgan, Crossfire Hurricane tells the unparalleled journey of our favorite rock band from its blues obsessed teenagers in the early sixties inception to The Stones undisputed status as bad boys of rock royalty. Learn more at Patreon.Don’t Forget the Songs-365: Mach Dos: Day 316Īlthough not my favorite vintage 1960’s Stones cut, I’ve had “Paint It Black” in my head since I watched the premiere showing of Crossfire Hurricane documentary celebrating 50 years of one of the most dangerously successful rock and roll bands in history-The Rolling Stones. There are a bunch of exclusive perks only for patrons: playlists, newsletters, downloads, discussions, polls - hell, tell us what song you would like to hear covered and we will make it happen. Cover Me is now on Patreon! If you love cover songs, we hope you will consider supporting us there with a small monthly subscription. The group Africa, on whom I can find no info, travels to guess-which-continent with tribal drumming and a whole lot of hollering.ĭownload all five below, then tell us which you like best in the comments.Ĭheck out more Rolling Stones at their website. Soft Cell’s Marc Almond submerges the listener back in the goth underbelly, but with a grand orchestral sweep. Post-punk sextet Band of Susans unleash a wall of sparring guitars. Firewater, on the other hand, explores the middle eastern side of things (and you thought the original had a lot of sitar…). First up, Inkubus Sukkubus brings the gothic overtones front and center with an eerie bats-in-the-chapel rumble. This was out there.Īs a result, it’s inspired some terrific covers. The middle eastern melody, the spooky sitar riff underpinning the verses, the humming break two-thirds of the way through. It wasn’t as big a hit as the three aforementioned singles, but it was their first real departure from the blues-band mold. “Paint It Black” gave the first whiff of that longevity. To be sure, it was the best sort of samey –ness, but it wouldn’t have forecasted the group still selling out stadiums 45 years later. Great songs all, but much like the Beatles‘ earliest work, they were all a bit… samey. Over the previous few years, classics like “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” “The Last Time,” and “Get Off of My Cloud” had hit the world like an atom bomb. In 1966 the Rolling Stones already had five chart-topping singles under their belts in Britain (two in America).
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