\u00e2\u20ac\u0153Satisfaction\u00e2\u20ac\u009d is still my favorite Stones song. Dino, Desi & Billy covered it on our first album in \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc65. I chose it and sang the lead vocal – our Producer, Lee Hazlewood, was reluctant to explain what the lyric \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Baby, baby come back \/ Maybe next week \/ \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcCause you see \/ I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122m on a losing streak\u00e2\u20ac\u009d meant – I was only 14 at the time and didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t get it …<\/p>\n
Stones fan for life,<\/p>\n
Billy (DD&B)<\/p>\n
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Nice one on the Stones, Bob —<\/p>\n
Since rock concerts had been banned in my hometown of Boston, my first concert was the Beatles at Carnegie Hall (row M on the aisle for $7.50)\u00c2\u00a0\u00c2\u00a0in 1964.\u00c2\u00a0At the\u00c2\u00a0later of 2 performances we\u00c2\u00a0heard\u00c2\u00a0the band quite clearly \u00e2\u20ac\u201c they were tight as a drum.<\/p>\n
The Stones at the Academy of Music (2nd\u00c2\u00a0row balcony for $5)\u00c2\u00a0came about a year later.\u00c2\u00a0They were sloppy but fabulous, but played for only\u00c2\u00a0a half hour.\u00c2\u00a0I was so disappointed I insisted on complaining\u00c2\u00a0to the promoter.\u00c2\u00a0Turned out to be my first meeting with\u00c2\u00a0Sid Bernstein. Sid was\u00c2\u00a0very\u00c2\u00a0gracious and said\u00c2\u00a0“I\u00e2\u20ac\u2122d like to help you, lad, but if Mick Jagger wants to play for only 30 minutes there\u00e2\u20ac\u2122s not\u00c2\u00a0much\u00c2\u00a0I can do.”<\/p>\n
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4 years later I scalped 2 second row seats at Madison Square Garden for $18.50 each. My friends thought I overpaid.<\/p>\n
Mick Taylor was brilliant \u00e2\u20ac\u201c I think most of Side 2 on \u00e2\u20ac\u009dGet Yer Yayas Out\u00e2\u20ac\u009d was recorded that night,\u00c2\u00a0and\u00c2\u00a0he\u00c2\u00a0played a wonderful guitar break on \u00e2\u20ac\u0153Midnight Rambler\u00e2\u20ac\u009d,\u00c2\u00a0so\u00c2\u00a0different from any Keith Richards solo.\u00c2\u00a0The crowd rushed the stage and overwhelmed the meager security staff,\u00c2\u00a0and when my wife and I stood up,\u00c2\u00a0fans from behind displaced us by standing on our seats.\u00c2\u00a0Compared to the well-behaved Carnegie Hall crowd, in1969\u00c2\u00a0it seemed like a full blown riot.\u00c2\u00a0At times you couldn’t\u00c2\u00a0disagree with their claim that they are (were) the greatest rock and roll band in the world.<\/p>\n
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Tom Werman<\/p>\n
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I was there for there first gig at the Marquee club on July 12th 1962. This was a jazz club at the time, in London and it had started to introduce R and B. A successful group run by Cyril Davis, a fine blues harmonica player, \u00c2\u00a0gigged there frequently. On that night Cyril Davis and his band was offered a gig at the BBC, so Mick and the boys filled in. My school friend and I set in the front row, and I can still can remember, 58 years later, Mick and Brian. They were teenagers, \u00c2\u00a0but they had this attitude and it was \u00e2\u20ac\u02dcwe are playing for ourselves and we don\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t give a toss if you like us our not\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. It was a great night of Chuck Berry numbers and American Blues.<\/p>\n
Several months later, I had left school and got a job in advertising on the Kingsway in Central London. One afternoon my boss, a South African called David Diamond, came<\/p>\n
back from lunch in a bad mood. He was a jazz purist and he had spent an hour or so with a jazz drummer friend of his trying to convince him not to join \u00e2\u20ac\u02dc this ghastly rock and roll band\u00e2\u20ac\u2122. I asked who his friend was and he told me it was Charlie Watts. I gives Charlie didn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t listen.<\/p>\n
Three months later at the same agency, we all noticed that there wasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t a female to be found in all 5 or 6 floors of the agency. After a while they all suddenly appeared flushed, and red faced. Turned out the Stones were recording in the agency basement at De Lane Lea studio.<\/p>\n
One minor correction. They \u00c2\u00a0did wear mod type suits on stage for a while, but the media hounded them about their scruffy appearance off stage, so they decided to be the anti-( fill in band name-Beatles, Searchers, Dave Clark Five, Moodys etc).<\/p>\n
Great memories,<\/p>\n
Andrew Butcher<\/p>\n
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I still vividly recall playing “Satisfaction” in my early Top 40 radio days and the emotional, unfiltered feedback that came back through the ‘request lines’ was amazing !<\/p>\n
Bob Sherwood<\/p>\n
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what a sweet piece, bob.<\/p>\n
obviously, girlie action is named after one of the most misheard lyrics of all time…\u00c2\u00a0“i can’t get no girl reaction.”\u00c2\u00a0 i always thought is was\u00c2\u00a0“girlie action.”<\/p>\n
i remember when i was trying to finalize the name of my new biz in 1993…\u00c2\u00a0 i was walking down hudson st and leaning against someone’s trash can was a framed ROCK DREAMS poster of The Stones in drag circa 1973.\u00c2\u00a0https:\/\/www.pinterest.com\/pin\/377317275001024457\/.<\/p>\n
i snatched that baby up and girlie action media was born.\u00c2\u00a0 it has been hanging in my office ever since.<\/p>\n
xo felice ecker<\/p>\n
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Long time reader, 1st time emailer.\u00c2\u00a0 Your story of getting off the subway @ the World’s Fair and Satisfaction was blaring reminded me of this.\u00c2\u00a0 I was on a bus trip to Washington DC with the Builders Club.\u00c2\u00a0 One of the guys had a giant transistor radio sort of early Boom Box size and it was cranked the entire trip.\u00c2\u00a0 Satisfaction was the Hit and when we lost a station and found another, it wasn’t long before we heard Satisfaction again.\u00c2\u00a0 We were in DC, The Rolling Stones were blaring on the radio and we were lost in it.\u00c2\u00a0 Someone noticed we were entering Arlington National!\u00c2\u00a0 We killed the radio out of respect but the irony of that in the mid 60’s is still a strong memory today!<\/p>\n
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As a musical footnote to your post, the power of the intro is in the syncopated double riff. that not only comes from Keith’s fuzz guitar (started on the 5th note of the scale)…… but from the tension of Bill Wyman’s bass against it.<\/p>\n
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You could always tell when a band didn’t really know the song, if they played the riff as bass and guitar in unison….from the E up.<\/p>\n
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Hiding in plain sight.<\/p>\n
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Steve Chrismar<\/p>\n
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Then came the tsunami. \u00c2\u00a0Get Off My Cloud, As Tears Go By, 19th Nervous Breakdown, and THEN, Paint It Black! Kapow, I was forever fully hooked.<\/p>\n
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When I was in high school our music teacher told us that the beat of Satisfaction runs opposite of your heart beat. He told\u00c2\u00a0us that this discordance has a tiring effect on you when you listened to the song. I have absolutely no clue if this was\/is true but we kind of believed it and always schemed that we would somehow pipe the song into the locker rooms of our opponents for track meets or football games.<\/p>\n
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Came home from Jewish summer camp in ’64 with enough bronchitis to keep me away from the Beatles’ first concert in Toronto.\u00c2\u00a0 To make it up to me my parents saw to it that I saw the Brian Jones’ Stones three times before I turned 13.\u00c2\u00a0 Thusly, I became a rabid Stones fan and eventually a critic.\u00c2\u00a0 Yeah,\u00c2\u00a0Satisfaction\u00c2\u00a0was the game changer in the summer of ’65 and it cemented a bad boy image that they traded pretty well on for fifty years!<\/p>\n
However the desert island Stones set is\u00c2\u00a0Some Girls.\u00c2\u00a0 Guys making that kind of noise in their\u00c2\u00a030s is what I call immortality.\u00c2\u00a0 On another\u00c2\u00a0note, please check out Mick Jagger and Arcade Fire tearing up\u00c2\u00a0The Last Time\u00c2\u00a0on SNL a few years ago.\u00c2\u00a0 Speaking of immortality.<\/p>\n
Last, I took my daughter to see The Stones at Metlife last year.\u00c2\u00a0 Well worth the schlep.<\/p>\n
Thank you for bringing up the great memories.<\/p>\n
Jonathan Gross<\/p>\n
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Loved your piece on Satisfaction even the little reference to Trump. Anyone who hasn\u00e2\u20ac\u2122t listened to your Andrew Loog Oldham podcast would be well advised to if they want to know a little more about this song. And if I may be so presumptuous as to suggest if you want to see an example of what this song can do to an audience in the hands of Aretha I highly recommend checking out her 1968 concert in Amsterdam.<\/p>\n