![]() “We worked on that for a couple of weeks at least, just the basic track,” noted Johns. Though the song’s structure was coming together, it took a long time to get the tune just right. “A lot of times when ideas come that quick, we don’t put down lyrics - we do what we call ’vowel movement.’ You just bellow over the top of it to get the right sounds for the track.” “I remember writing the riff upstairs in the very elegant front room, and we took it downstairs the same evening and cut it,” Richards recalled. ![]() The riff in “Tumbling Dice” is a perfect example. Indeed, even when inspiration struck, the process would get drawn out. “They would play for days without coming in and listen to anything,” recording engineer Andy Johns noted in the book Rocks Off: 50 Tracks That Tell the Story of the Rolling Stones. It was so humid that all the guitars were out of tune by the time we got to the end of each number.”Īlmost as exhausting as the heat: the pace at which the Stones worked. “As soon as I opened my mouth to sing, my voice was gone. “Everyone sat around sweating and playing with their pants off.” “It was 120 degrees,” Keith Richards later recalled. The famous sessions featured the band working in the property’s basement, recording in gruelingly hot and humid conditions.
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