| Street Fighting Man
Hello Phil
There's a ton of queations I could ask you about for many of the albums you were a part of, but I'm going to start with this one. My question is about the street fighting man session(s). Beggars Banquet is my favorite Stones album, and street fighting man is arguably my favorite tack on the record. Now, I read somewhere that the sound of the first guitar that comes in was recorded one Keith's portable recorder... I think it may have been wikipedia that I read that, and you can't always use it as a solid reference... Just would like to confirm that it was a cassette recorder, and also I would like to confirm that the sitar was recorded with the guitar, I think I also read that.
I've tried getting that exact sound before, using cheap cassette recorders (although not from the same era), and an EV 664 mic, but I can never achieve the same results... That street fighting man guitar sounds surreal, my attempts sounded as thin, but otherwise very awful and not what I was after... How much of that sound was from EQ ect in the mixing phase?
Also, that initial guitar would have to have been the first thing printed to tape... How problematic was overdubbing to it?
And is it just me, or is this particular song just a lot more 'distorted' than the rest of the tracks on beggars banquet? What is up with that? It, and Jumping Jack Flash are simmilar in that regard. Was there a deliberately different approach upon recording it? I've seen footage from the tracking sessions for Sympathy For the Devil, Charlie is in a little baffled section, and it all sounds very tight and dry and clean and beautiful. Go figure... Street Fighting Man sounds a lot different, the quality of the drums, and the entire recording is more like something off of a stones record from a few albums earlier... It's gritty and lo-fi (cassette guitar aside)... Was it even recorded in the same building?!?!
I'm kinda just blabbing, but its really one of my favorites, I get a kick out of asking you these little questions.
Thanks so much,
Rene
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