I was beautifully amazed by how everything fell into place. But you just wonder how the thing’s gonna coalesce. Not that I had to (be), because I knew Steve could do it. He can take my seat anytime.’ And he talked me into it. “Actually, at the beginning of the tour a few months ago, I was, ‘Oh no, I cannot do this without Charlie.’ Except Charlie was saying to me (when he fell too ill to carry on with the tour), ‘Listen, Keith, you can do it with Steve. You’ve done it many times. Richard talked at length about his musical friendship with Jordan, who was a part of his band the X-Pensive Winos, which backed him on the 1992 solo album “Main Offender,” being reissued today. So of course, I mean, if we want to carry on recording, then we’re gonna need drums - and Steve Jordan.” “I mean, this is one of the things that we’re gonna be having to sort of sort out this year. Will Jordan step in to finish the album? “Yeah, I guess,” Richards said, sounding less than 100% committed to the idea that the sessions will soon pick up, with the word “if” popping up. We do have a lot of stuff with Charlie Watts still in the can, because we were halfway through making an album when he died. Charlie would work if somebody said, ‘Hey, I’ve got a couple of songs, drop by and play.’ And that’s the way it was. But Charlie Watts certainly wasn’t in the mind of, ‘I’m going to record things because I’m not going to be here.’ He isn’t that kind of guy, and he didn’t think like that. I mean, Charlie Watts was playing along… He did some stuff with Mick, and we already have quite a lot of stuff in the can with Charlie from last year. But when Hiatt asked if it was true that Watts had finished up his parts for an entire album before he died, Richards says: “No, it’s not true at all. “As far as status goes, I can’t really report anything,” Richards said in the podcast. Richards was also asked about the status of the Rolling Stones album that had gotten underway before Watts died last year, and spoke about Steve Jordan replacing Watts on tour last fall and possibly in the studio this year. Jagger jibed to the audience that McCartney was backstage and would be “joining us in a blues cover.”
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(Read Variety‘s full history of the half-century-long “frenemy” relationship between the Stones and Beatles here.)Įven though McCartney apparently cleared the air with Richards in his note, that didn’t stop Mick Jagger from joking about it when they were headlining L.A.’s SoFi Stadium a few nights after the remark made the news last October. We let little things come out in the press and kind of ignore ‘em.” I mean, Jesus Christ, look at the songs he’s written.
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If he had meant to say it, he wouldn’t have bothered replying. “That could have been the thing, but Paul isn’t that way,” Richard said. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” “rubbish.”
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Hiatt wondered if this didn’t seem credible because the Stones and Beatles did have a history of minor snipes, with Richards having once called “Sgt. And so when I first read it, I said, ‘Ahhh, there’s been a lot of deleting and editing going on here.’ And the next day I got a message from Paul saying, ‘If you’ve read this shit, it’s all out of context, believe me, boys.’” “He said (to the New Yorker), ‘That’s what I thought when I first heard them.’ Because Paul and I know each other pretty well. In the new podcast, Richards says McCartney blamed it on the New Yorker not understanding that he was talking about first impressions, not current thoughts.
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There’s a lot of differences, and I love the Stones, but I’m with you.
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When they are writing stuff, it has to do with the blues. I think our net was cast a bit wider than theirs.” It followed similar comments McCartney had made to Howard Stern to 2021, when he remarked, “They are rooted in the blues. The possible tiff came up with McCartney was profiled in a lengthy New Yorker piece and was quoted by the magazine’s famous editor as saying, “I’m not sure I should say it, but they’re a blues cover band, that’s sort of what the Stones are.