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“When The Whip Comes Down” by The Rolling Stones

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    “When The Whip Comes Down” by The Rolling Stones is a rock song.

    Song Title: When The Whip Comes Down
    Artist: the Rolling Stones
    Album: Some Girls
    Genre: rock, classic rock
    Composer: Copyright © 1977 Mick Jagger, Keith Richards
    Lead Vocals: Mick Jagger
    Backing Vocals: Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood
    Guitar: Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood, Mick Jagger
    Steel Guitar: Ronnie Wood
    Bass Guitar: Bill Wyman
    Drums: Charlie Watts
    Producer: The Glimmer Twins
    Recorded: October–December 1977, Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris, France
    Released: 9 July 1978
    Label: Rolling Stones, Virgin
    Number of listens: 5761
    Current rank: 2498 (updated weekly)
    Highest rank: 2245 (play the video all the way through to register a vote for this song)

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    Summary quotation from Wikipedia:

    “When the Whip Comes Down” is a song by rock and roll band The Rolling Stones from their 1978 album Some Girls.

    “When the Whip Comes Down” was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, although Jagger handled the song’s lyrics. Quite unusual, even for the late 1970s, the lyrics deal openly with the perspective of a gay man:

    Yeah, mama and papa told me I was crazy to stay/I was gay in New York, I was a faggot in L.A./So I saved my money and I took the plane/Wherever I go, they just treat me the same.
    In a 1978 interview with Rolling Stone magazine to mark the release of Some Girls, Jagger responded to questions regarding the song’s lyrics: “…There is one song that’s a straight gay song — “When the Whip Comes Down” — but I have no idea why I wrote it. It’s strange — the Rolling Stones have always attracted a lot of men… I don’t know why I wrote it. Maybe I came out of the closet {laughs}. It’s about an imaginary person who comes from L.A. to New York City and becomes a garbage collector… I sure hope the radio stations will play [it].” The lyrics could be taken to imply that the singer becomes a male prostitute,
    Yeah I go to 53rd Street and they spit in my face/But I’m learning the ropes, yeah, I’m learning a trade/The East River truckers is churning with trash/I’ve got so much money but I spend it so fast.
    Yeah, some call me garbage when I’m sweeping up the street/But I never roll and I never cheat/And I’m filling a need, yeah, I’m plugging a hole/My mama’s so glad I ain’t on the dole.
    “When the Whip Comes Down” was recorded at the Pathé Marconi Studios in Paris, France, between the months of October and December 1977. It was another of the famed Some Girls songs to feature just the core members of the Rolling Stones at the time. Jagger performed vocals plus guitar alongside Richards and Ronnie Wood. Wood would also contribute pedal steel guitar to the number, an instrument that also appears on the Some Girls songs “Shattered” and “Far Away Eyes”. Bill Wyman performs bass while Charlie Watts plays the song’s distinctive, driving beat. There are versions of both the base instrumental track and the fully developed backing track with additional lyrics, that run over ten minutes, widely available on bootlegs.

    “When the Whip Comes Down” is seen by some Rolling Stones fans as the closest the Stones came to outright punk music on the album that many call the Stones’ “punk album”. It is also one of a few songs on the album to carry a heavy New York City influence. A majority of the Rolling Stones were living in New York at the time.

    A recording from a live show at the Detroit Masonic Temple on 6 July 1978, was released on the 1981 compilation album Sucking in the Seventies, which covered much of their later 1970s material. It also acted as album mate “Respectable”’s b-side. A live recording from their 2002-2003 Licks Tour was captured and released on the 2004 live album Live Licks.

    When the Whip Comes Down is also the name of a 16-track Nine Inch Nails bootleg album taken from their performance at the Woodstock ’94 music festival.

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music news

    July 12, 2012, is the 50th anniversary of the first Rolling Stones concert at London’s Marque Jazz Club.
    Alexis Korner’s Blues Incorporated (fronted by Mick jagger) were the Thursday night regulars, but they had an appearance on a BBC live broadcast. Because Jagegr wasn’t participating in the live broadcast, Brian Jones convinced the club owner, Harold Pendleton, to let their new group perform.
    When Jones contacted the local listings paper Jazz News to advertise the show, he was asked the group’s name. Jones used the name of the first song on a nearby LP The Best of Muddy Waters entitled “Rollin’ Stone”.
    The orginal lineup was Mick Jagger on vocals, Brian Jones and Keith Richards on guiatr, Ian Stewart on piano, Dick taylor on bass, and Mick Avory on drums.
    The set list:

  1. “Kansas City”
  2. “Baby What’s Wrong”
  3. “Confessin’ the Blues”
  4. “Bright Lights, Big City”
  5. “Dust My Broom”
  6. “Down the Road Apiece”
  7. “I’m a Love You”
  8. “Bad Boy”
  9. “I Ain’t Got You”
  10. “Hush-Hush”
  11. “Ride ’Em on Down”
  12. “Back in the U.S.A.”
  13. “Kind of Lonesome”
  14. “Blues Before Sunrise”
  15. “Big Boss Man”
  16. “Don’t Stay Out All Night”
  17. “Tell Me You Love Me”
  18. “Happy Home”

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