day 97: Country Honk

Country Honk, by The Rolling Stones.

Sure, more Rolling Stones, because once again, I feel like weird tunings are a little investment you can let pay off for a couple days.

This is in open G DGDGBD IIRC, because Keith Richards.

Y’all heard the whole Let It Bleed story already, so I’ll leave it at th— actually, did I ever tell you about the time I saw the Rolling Stones at the Orange Bowl? Steel Wheels tour, and my 13-year-old brain was pretty scrambled by the stadium-grade showmanship, which, I believe, may have included at least one if not two giant inflatable women of some vintage for this song.

Which, ew, but also, I was 13.

I remember being truly, intensely amazed when they did Sympathy for the Devil and Mick appeared on top of some tall scaffolding tower thing, like a fricking David Copperfield trick, but make it rock and roll.

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I also took out an ancient and little used slide for this, because it is literally what it is for. Added some goofy pianee, and continued the “not drunk but sure sounds like it” theme with the bass and sloppy drums.

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OK, I went to look for some picture of that ridiculous set, and I found literally the video of that song from the show I was at, so here it is.