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| mcclellan28 |
Anyone know what the story behind "Paint It Black" is? |
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| Joey |
" Anyone know what the story behind "Paint It Black" is? "
< ----- Mick and Keith were painting at Mick's country estate one day. Mick wanted to paint all of the doors red, but Keith insisted they should be black. Mick says "Wow. Those sound like pretty cool lyrics." Keith just happened to have a sitar on hand, and the rest is ....... well ...
Are you sure Lil' Buddy ?!?!
It sounds a little ...... well ..... SIMPLISTIC to me
Developing ..................
[Edited by Joey] |
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| star star |
i think it was a request from mick, circa 1966, for his interior decorators to "paint it (my front door) black" the original meaning of the story was suppressed by people who read into lyrics too much as a dark tale of suicide and depression. |
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| the good |
Mick and Keith were painting at Mick's country estate one day. Mick wanted to paint all of the doors red, but Keith insisted they should be black. Mick says "Wow. Those sound like pretty cool lyrics." Keith just happened to have a sitar on hand, and the rest is rock and roll history. |
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| telecaster |
Wasn't it about some groupie that followed them around
I think they name a restaurant chain after her |
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| Joey |
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telecaster wrote:
Wasn't it about some groupie that followed them around
I think they name a restaurant chain after her
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| telecaster |
Cattlemans 3:30?
Have your gal call my gal |
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| gimmekeef |
Only the gal that yells out "Paint It Black You Devils"...on Ya Ya's knows for sure.... |
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| Break The Spell |
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gimmekeef wrote:
Only the gal that yells out "Paint It Black You Devils"...on Ya Ya's knows for sure....
What about that dude that yells it out before "Let It Rock"?? |
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| Joey |
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telecaster wrote:
Cattlemans 3:30?
Have your gal call my gal
Done !
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| mcclellan28 |
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star star wrote:
The original meaning of the story was suppressed by people who read into lyrics too much as a dark tale of suicide and depression.
Yeah, I guess I’m guilty of reading too much into it as well. That song has such dark imagery though. "A line of cars, and they're all painted black" "Flowers, and my love both never to come back." Sounds like a funeral to me. I always thought it might have been inspired by the death of a close friend or family member. |
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| gimmekeef |
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Break The Spell wrote:
What about that dude that yells it out before "Let It Rock"??
The gal was 69 (hmmmm was that a Freudian slip?)...That guy is a copy cat yeller...lol |
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| Break The Spell |
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gimmekeef wrote:
The gal was 69 (hmmmm was that a Freudian slip?)...That guy is a copy cat yeller...lol
I always wondered if that was the same girl who does those demonic screams during the live Midnight Rambler on ya-ya's, like right around the part Mick says "Well you heard about the Boston..." |
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| Paranoid_Android |
I always liked to think it was about Heroine myself. |
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| Soldatti |
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mcclellan28 wrote:
Anyone know what the story behind "Paint It Black" is?
Wyman can answer you, apparently. |
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| Dick Bush |
Keef's song was initially a wonderful, slow balad called "Gimme Yellow" - and that was too much of ambiguity for Mick the texter, hence the song name.
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| IanBillen |
[quote]gimmekeef wrote:
Only the gal that yells out "Paint It Black You Devils"...on Ya Ya's knows for sure....
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That is also on Flash Point. They threw that in. I think it is......before YCAGWYW?
Anyway they remixed that in again just to you know....prick your ears once more.
Ian
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| corgi37 |
Yep, its on Flashpoint too. I heard it the 1st time i ever played it. Lovely little in joke there, but i have never heard why they put it in. Just shows you how fake these "live" albums are. The so-called "live audience" on EJ's "Benny and the Jets" is just John Reid and some one else (Bernie Taupin?) over dubbing themselves clapping and cheering over and over again. |
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| Break The Spell |
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corgi37 wrote:
Yep, its on Flashpoint too. I heard it the 1st time i ever played it. Lovely little in joke there, but i have never heard why they put it in. Just shows you how fake these "live" albums are. The so-called "live audience" on EJ's "Benny and the Jets" is just John Reid and some one else (Bernie Taupin?) over dubbing themselves clapping and cheering over and over again.
Type O Negative took this concept to a whole new level, they manufactured a live album completely in the studio. They had fake responses, including the crowd booing and shouting insults when their favorite songs were not played. The set even got delayed when a bomb threat was made. Origin of the Feces was an appropriate title. |
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| keefkid |
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Break The Spell wrote:
I always wondered if that was the same girl who does those demonic screams during the live Midnight Rambler on ya-ya's, like right around the part Mick says "Well you heard about the Boston..."
I went to high school with a guy who claimed he is the 'God Damn' on ya-ya's ...
wtf knows... |
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| Break The Spell |
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keefkid wrote:
I went to high school with a guy who claimed he is the 'God Damn' on ya-ya's ...
wtf knows...
Thats cool if he's being truthful. There's all kinds of subliminal mutterings in the crowd if you listen to that album closely from the start of Rambler to the end of Sympathy. |
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| glencar |
The Stones natch did the first faked live album. Got live If You (Sort Of) Want It! |
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| GhostofBrianJones |
I heard the song was named that because of the tour schedule. Mick was
totally exhausted from touring and supposedly used that expression because
he was sick of the schedule imposed upon them. He was disgusted from the
things that happened to them on tour in the Sixties and just wanted everything
Painted Black. Not sure will check my books. |
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| Navin |
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Break The Spell wrote:
What about that dude that yells it out before "Let It Rock"??
Is that "Paint it Black" which the dude yells out or is that "Let it Rock" itself... |
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| FotiniD |
I always thought Paint it Black was just about depression and feeling way down low.
I think everyone sooner or later goes through that phase, feeling everything should look black. Some even never come out of it 
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| gypsy |
It fits so perfectly in "Full Metal Jacket." |
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| Break The Spell |
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Navin wrote:
Is that "Paint it Black" which the dude yells out or is that "Let it Rock" itself...
Yes, I was referring to the beginning of Let It Rock, right before Keith plays the opening riffs you can hear a guy yell "Paint It Black". |
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| icydanger |
Quelqu’un m’a dit que,
Jimi Hendrix painted all his walls black in first flat in in London in 66. A link? Maybe may be not.
rainy day....
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| Joey |
quote:
icydanger wrote:
Quelqu’un m’a dit que,
Jimi Hendrix painted all his walls black in first flat in in London in 66. A link? Maybe may be not.
rainy day....
Hello Icy .....................
Welcome Back ! |
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| Break The Spell |
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icydanger wrote:
Quelqu’un m’a dit que,
Jimi Hendrix painted all his walls black in first flat in in London in 66. A link? Maybe may be not.
rainy day....
One of those rooms must have been an early rehearsal space for the Hendrix Experience, I remember Noel Redding saying it was like being in a dungeon. |
