Gazza wrote on Apr 17
th, 2016 at 6:12pm:
"Keith Blabs - 75% of everything he says is an exaggeration... just like right now .. another major exaggeration "
Yep....like A Bigger Bang being a pretty even creative collaboration
"however Micks actual comments are what's generally truly taking place ...."
NOW ya get it.....
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I always got that.. I never thought it was 100% totally even .. (let's not spin it into something it wasn't). I agree Mick had a bit more to do with the writing that album .... but it sure as hell was no 90 to 10% thing like so many tried to say it was.
Keith was never the one who said they worked 100% evenly at any stage ... It was their producer Don Was, engineer Kirsh Sharma and Charlie Watts .. and the content creator of the DVD on the making of the album and Rolling Stone magazine who covered it.
*In fact ... Keith said Mick had the 'lions share' of demos brought in for that album ..
I figured it was a 60/40 affair.. Nothing in song writing is ever really 50-50.
Ya-all acted like these songs were only Mick Jagger songs and Keith really had no creative input to the sessions much at all ... that was anything but true and from all the research I've done it was only reported they worked closer on creating the songs than they had in a very long time.
Look .. I investigated the sessions and what took place probably by at the VERY LEAST <twice> as much as anyone here.. (no kidding)... From everything I could find out.. Mick had a bit more demos brought in but that is as far as it went... and as well they really collaborated in the writing process better than they had in a very long time. If it was the opposite or not the case of what it the consensus I'd just say so Lol (it isn't).
On a few few of The songs Keith actually did the majority of the writing in which nobody here ever dreamed was possible ... EX: It Wont Take Long... Rough Justice... Look What The Cat Dragged in etc.
We can go back and forth over it until the cows come. However ... All the evidence.. (and interviews and articles about the making of that particular album) and research I've done on that very topic clearly mentioned is that it was a very 'collaborative effort' between Mick and Keith. That is what I must go with. Until you find something concrete that proves the opposite.. you have your opinion on what took place and I have mine.
The only people who say it was not and that Mick did most of the writing is people 'not in the know' and on a few message boards. All the people involved and who were there (as well as a few of the band members themselves) say the opposite or contrary to that.
>> Again .. just going by what the people who were there and actually involved in the making of the album and who professionally covered the situation say / said ...