Mr. Yeats wrote on Jan 22
nd, 2015 at 11:23pm:
Keith playing it at 30, 45 (with the Winos) or 70? He almost always plays it perfectly, except when he fell out of the tree and bonked his head and continued the Bigger Bang tour.
That was really unfortunate, wasn't it? I saw them on that tour in Oakland (with Pdog!) and for his first, he did YGTS, which I was really freaked out by because I'd never ever ever thought I'd get to see that song live, but the tears of joy just started to become tears almost of terror when I realized how fucked up he was. "OMG, Keith's gonna DIE!" I thought, wincingly. I mean, I know we all know that, but right then, it seemed like it was gonna be like, in the next two weeks or something.
Now, onto this COMPLETE CRAP about Happy being better if Mick sang it.
Don't we HAVE an outtake of Mick singing this song on our collective "alternative versions" of EOMS? I could SWEAR I have a version on mine. When I get my shit out of storage, I'll find it.
Suffice it to say, AFAICR, Mick just did a bunch of Mick vocal stylings all over it making it completely unremarkable--as Gazza said, it would just be some other deep cut. Like how T&F used to be until all these assholes started sucking EOMS cock.
That being said, I fell asleep lissening to the radio the other night and there's this station here that is playing WAYYY too many Stones songs...like, every hour there's some semi-deep cut and it is really unnerving me, but anyways like at 4:30am, here comes fucking Happy. I was a bit loaded on Valerian, so I kinda just laid there and let it wash over me and I swear I felt like I was hearing for the very first time the amazing fucking DYNAMICS in that song...there's an almost imperceptible speeding up and doubling down as each verse progresses, it's like a goddamn steam train. Even more so than ADTL. I didn't move a muscle, just let it roll over me. It was pretty magical. And it's a fucking magical song. And that's why it's
PERFECT THE WAY IT IS.