![]() I realized what we’d laid down there had all the ingredients of an interesting autobiography.” And I told her how strange it felt, because it suddenly occurred to me that there was infinite room there for subliminal subjection. I was coming back from a session, my old lady, Patti, had just arrived, and I drove over to see her. I wrote this very early on in the session with Mick in Barbados.” Thinking about the meaning of Jagger’s lyrics, later, Keef told Rolling Stone Magazine this, “ I thought about (the lyrics’ meaning) afterwards. You go from the really hard verse to the very melodic chorus, which I like, but you always feel like you’re not going to pull it off, like it’s speeding up.” When asked about the significance of “Mixed Emotions” Richards responded, “ People always accuse me of intending some sort of pun here, you know “Mick’s demotion”, but it isn’t true. Jagger himself is fan of Steel Wheels biggest song when he said, “ A good song this, but it’s very hard to do onstage. Now we can bring ideas to each other and sometimes it’s strange – we hadn’t seen each other for maybe 5 or 6 months and we get together and funny enough, we’d each have written a piece of music that actually fits together even though we haven’t been in communication with each other.” I mean there was a time when Mick and I used to write face-to-face all the time. Because it’s a two-way street a lot of the time. ![]() With “Mixed Emotions” I think I had the music and I went to Mick and said, bring your bit to it. They got a hurricane and then it erupted. It’s what happens when you work with The Stones. That was the last record anybody cut there. That smoldering heap of volcanic eruptions. Richards talked about the tension leading up to the writing sessions for Steel Wheels when said, “ I think we cut that in Montserrat, an island that no longer exists. ![]() While the world would have to wait till 1995 for The Beatles Anthology, Mick And Keef buried their personal feud to reintroduce a new generation to The Glimmer Twins glory of The Rolling Stones. With Paul McCartney touring for Flowers in the Dirt, and Mick Jagger and Keith Richards reuniting The Stones, there was slight hope for a living Beatles reunion. One of the highlights of my graduation year was when The Stones got back together. Today’s song is the answer to the trivia question, which was the last Rolling Stones song to be a top ten hit? Steel Wheels’ “Mixed Emotions.” I remember 1989, it was the year I graduated from high school. ![]() ![]() Don’t Forget the Songs-365: Mach Tres: Day 56 ![]()
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