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Message started by steel driving hammer on Feb 5th, 2015 at 10:54am

Title: Why wasn't Bobby Keys invited to play Sax on the original Waiting On A Friend?
Post by steel driving hammer on Feb 5th, 2015 at 10:54am
Did Mick think someone could do it better or maybe it wasn't Bobby`s style for the song?

Title: Re: Why wasn't Bobby Keys invited to play Sax on the original Waiting On A Friend?
Post by Edith Grove on Feb 5th, 2015 at 11:12am
Weren't they on the outs right about that time?

Title: Re: Why wasn't Bobby Keys invited to play Sax on the original Waiting On A Friend?
Post by steel driving hammer on Feb 5th, 2015 at 11:33am
I don't really know if they were on the outs but I think that was Bobby on Neighbors so he was in.

Title: Re: Why wasn't Bobby Keys invited to play Sax on the original Waiting On A Friend?
Post by Joey on Feb 5th, 2015 at 12:19pm
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Title: Re: Why wasn't Bobby Keys invited to play Sax on the original Waiting On A Friend?
Post by steel driving hammer on Feb 5th, 2015 at 1:12pm
Joseph talk Stones for a change will ya?

Title: Re: Why wasn't Bobby Keys invited to play Sax on the original Waiting On A Friend?
Post by Gazza on Feb 5th, 2015 at 6:44pm

steel driving hammer wrote on Feb 5th, 2015 at 11:33am:
I don't really know if they were on the outs but I think that was Bobby on Neighbors so he was in.



Sonny Rollins plays sax on WOAF, Neighbours and Slave.

All overdubbed in NYC spring '81.

Bobby didnt play that much with the Stones between 73 and 81 after he let them down by missing a gig in the middle of the '73 Euro tour . A few live cameos in '75 and on a few songs on "Emotional Rescue" - he's not even on "Miss You", thats Mel Collins.


Title: Re: Why wasn't Bobby Keys invited to play Sax on the original Waiting On A Friend?
Post by Voodoo Chile In Wonderland on Feb 5th, 2015 at 8:35pm
...the GREAT Mel Collins; again a member of King Crimson now!

Title: Re: Why wasn't Bobby Keys invited to play Sax on the original Waiting On A Friend?
Post by Mr. Yeats on Feb 6th, 2015 at 2:48am
The Stones were damn lucky to get Rollins to record with them as a lot of older guys from the jazz world often had contempt for rock n 'roll or even blues dudes. I wonder what he charged them, or did he actually dig them and cut them a deal?

Title: Re: Why wasn't Bobby Keys invited to play Sax on the original Waiting On A Friend?
Post by Gazza on Feb 11th, 2015 at 4:09pm
Charlie on Rollins' contribution :

http://www.theguardian.com/music/2010/jan/24/sonny-rollins-charlie-watts

and Rollins himself :
http://paulsemel.com/vintage-interview-sonny-rollins-1996/

" I haven’t had a lot of experience with rock musicians. Outside of the thing I did with The Stones, I haven’t listened to a lot of rock musicians. I’ve heard some rock, some of it I liked, I’ve heard guys who sound like they have something to say. But I’m not that familiar with enough rock people to give you some names."

and from 1998 :http://paulsemel.com/vintage-interview-sonny-rollins-1998/

Back in 1981, you recorded some songs with The Rolling Stones for their Tattoo You album. Would you ever do something like that again?

"Oh, sure. If I thought it was something that I could relate to and I had some kind of confidence in the power of the message that would be conveyed, yeah. I mean I’m not looking to get, lining my pockets. In fact, I’m very against lining my pockets. I think this is what’s wrong with the world. Everybody’s trying to line their pockets, but we have to step back from this materialism. It’s a step back and try to live lighter on the planet. So, I’m not just doing something if I think it’s going to be lining my pockets. No, I’m too old for that. "

So if the Rolling Stones said, “We’re going to do this big tour, and we want you play on the tour and open for us,” you probably wouldn’t bother.

No, I don’t think I would do it. What I did with the Stones was sort of remarkable and groundbreaking and all this stuff at the time. But I don’t think the need for it today, except to line my pockets. I’m interested in saying something, trying to do something, trying to create some music and trying to stand for something. So, that’s why I wouldn’t do a lot of things now.

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