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AOL LIVE: And welcome to AOL's live chat
with the legendary Mick Jagger
whose new C.D. "Goddess in the
Doorway" will be released
tomorrow. A new documentary will
be on ABC.
Mick, great to have you.
Mick: Thank you.
We're in London.
We've just arrived Los Angeles.
We don't really know what day it
is, what time it is.
Host: Before we get to all the
questions our members have for
you, tell us about the new
album.
How do you compare its sound,
its style with your previous
work?
Mick: Well, I think it's
different from anything I've
done previously, but there's a
lot of different styles on the
record.
It's got a bit of everything.
It's got rock songs and dance,
rock songs and it's got ballads
and a bit of reggae.
It's very different
stylistically.
It covers a lot of bases.
It's emotionally rather broad,
as broad as I could make it.
And stylistically, it's a
contemporary record without
being trendy.
Host: We have our first member
question of the night.
Are you going to be doing a tour
anytime soon?
Mick: I'm not going to be
touring on this -- I'm not going
to be touring on this record.
Just doing some TV and some
different promotions and things
like that.
And I did a show in Los Angeles
a few days ago.
As for the rest of it, touring
with the Rolling Stones, I hope
to be touring with them in the
foreseeable future, but I don't
quite know when.
Host: When did you start working
on the new album, and how long
did it take you to record it?
Mick: Well, it's difficult to
say exactly because I started
writing it, and while I was
writing it, I was doing it at
home a lot.
And I was recording it and
writing at the same time.
So they weren't two completely
distinctively different
processes, the writing and
recording.
It took about 18 months maybe.
Maybe a little bit longer than
that.
Yeah, about 18 months it took.
Host: We have a question, do you
have a secret to keeping your
youthful persona?
Mick: Lots.
No, I don't have a secret at
all.
Sorry.
I can't impart it to you.
Host: You've got a lot of great
artists working with you on this
record, guys like Lenny Kravitz,
Bono.
What was it like work with them?
Mick: Well, everyone is
different.
There are a lot of different
guests on this record.
I mean, I had two friends that I
wrote songs with.
One was Lenny Kravitz.
It's different when you're
writing with someone and
performing with them, but I
wrote one song with Lenny
Kravitz and another song can
Robb Thomas.
They were, Lenny I knew quite
well.
He -- he wrote hard-rock driving
track "God Gave Me Everything"
but it didn't have any records
It was fun doing that because
that went really well.
And the other tune "Visions of
paradise" I wrote with Rob
Thomas.
It's a really intimate moment to
be with someone.
That was good.
A lot of other friends did other
parts that were -- Pete Townsend
came in and played guitar on two
tracks and I've note Pete for a
long time.
Bono came and sang on one track.
Joe Perry played on two tracks.
So we had a lot of friends come
and do things.
Host: A member wants to know did
The Who influence you at all,
speaking of Pete Townsend?
Mick: I mean, on this record
there's one track that the intro
sounds a little bit like one of
The Who tunes.
I liked them as a rock band but
I don't think they really
influenced me directly.
They were contemporaries, but
they never really influenced me
that much.
Host: Bono likes to say that U2
are the biggest band in the
world.
Do you take any exception to
that?
Mick: Have you to say that.
Everyone says that.
Host: All right.
Mick: When you're touring --
it's always best to say that
you're touring.
Host: The song "Gun" as a very
techno beat to it.
Do you like that whole genre?
Mick: Yeah.
I mean, I'm a fan of it.
There's a lot of different
genre.
House music and techno is
different.
I mean, the beat to my mind is
different, you know?
I mean, I prefer house music to
techno, the groove of it.
If I preferred dancing, I prefer
to dance to house than techno.
But I suppose they do influence
me.
There's traces of it -- if you
like something doesn't mean you
have to do it.
I don't do VIVALDI, but I don't
do it.
But I have been somewhat
influenced by the grooves of
techno and house both.
Host: A member wants to know
what the most memorable event
you've done on stage has been.
Is there a different show you've
done over your career that
stands out?
Mick: Well, the other week it
was pretty interesting show we
did at Madison Square Garden.
I mean, that was -- that was a
fun.
You know, the show we did after
September when the firemen were
there and the police officers
were there, and it was very
different show I mean, to play
to that many men in uniform.
It was a great rock show.
It was also very sad on
occasions and very long.
And also there was a lot of very
old friends there, and a lot of
the people I've known throughout
my kind of professional life.
So that was -- it was a really
interesting show to do.
I'm glad I did it.
Host: Did you interact at all
with the cops and the
firefighters who were there?
Did you get to meet any of them?
Mick: Yeah, I got to meet loads
of them.
I mean, it was very obvious that
you were interacting with them.
When I was on stage, the people
in the front.
Host: Were they the first songs
that popped into your head when
you had to decide what songs to
choose to perform there?
Mick: Yeah.
I don't know why it just jumped
into my head because I thought
that was a song that we haven't
done very much but I thought it
was good for the moment.
And then the other one was like
a song about being in New York.
So I thought that was kind of
appropriate.
It seemed to work out.
Host: A member as a question
about a specific song on the new
album.
Wants to know if "Don't Call Me
Up" is written about someone?
Mick: It is written about
someone in particular, but I'm
not telling you who it is.
Host: I think a lot of people
have been asking that.
Mick: They have been.
It's not good to reveal because
it's embarrassing for her.
Host: That song kind of reminded
me of the song "Don't Tear Me
Up."
Is there any connection between
the two?
What was that?
Mick: It's not the same girl.
Host: Not the same girl.
Another member wants to know
what bands, what C.D.'s are you
currently listening to?
Mick: I'm playing Macy Gray.
I'm playing Brian Adams.
Alicia Keyes.
And Bob Dylan.
Host: Another member wants to
know who has been your greatest
influence?
Mick: Well, I don't -- I don't
know if there's one single
person really.
There's a whole group of people.
When I was, like, really young,
I was influenced by Elvis and
Buddy Holly and all kinds of
strange sort of more unknown
people, Little Richard perhaps.
And then later on I was more
influenced by Chuck Berry, Muddy
Waters, Robert Johnson, James
Brown.
And then a whole slew of soul
singers, Otis Redding.
And Bob Dylan as a writer.
Host: Are there any songs that
when you first heard them you
thought wow, I wish I'd written
that?
Mick: "Happy Birthday to You."
Host: Is that because of the
royalties you would have gotten?
Mick: There are so many songs, I
mean, so many hundreds of -- I
mean, I don't know.
I think the first song I ever
thought I wish I'd written was
"Heartbreak Hotel."
And then, you know, "Sitting on
the Dock of the Bay."
Or "It's A Man's World."
Or "Like A Rolling Stone."
Host: What song that you've done
as a solo artist menals the most
to you personally?
-- means the most to you
personally?
Mick: At the moment "too far
gone."
Host: And why is that?
Mick: Just because of the way it
sounds.
Host: A member wants to know
what the other members of the
Stones think about your new
album?
Mick: Charlie said he thought it
was a bit pop, didn't he?
Host: Did you take that as an
insult?
Mick: I don't take it as
anything, really.
It's a comment.
And Ronnie liked it very much.
He phoned me up the other night.
But I haven't heard from Keith
yet.
I'm still waiting, but I'm not
holding my breath.
Crae Z 8: LOL
Host: What are the differences
between recording a solo album
and recording with the Stones?
Is it more liberating to do your
own thing and not have to
compromise with the other guys?
Mick: All the -- excuse me --
anything to do with making
records or films or anything
like that, it's always a
compromise because you're always
working with other people.
And at the time a lot of people
have ideas about how things
should go.
You still have collaborators,
other musicians, producers,
friends, you know people that
say this is good, that's not so
great.
So it's still to some extent a
compromise because one always
has the last word.
But I'm a quite good listener in
some ways.
They all are a compromise, it
>> Just different kinds of
compromises being made.
So you're always working as a
musician with lots of other
people unless you're going to do
a record with just you playing a
guitar and no one else.
Even then people would make
comments about how long songs
should be.
It's all a compromise.
Host: What's your target
audience?
Did you make this for the new
generation of fans or is it just
for anybody?
Mick: All music is for anybody.
Doesn't matter how old you are,
what color you are, where you
live, if you're rich or poor,
you make music for everybody.
For me music is not really like
that.
Music is -- you put it out
there, anyone can listen to it.
It's on the radio.
It's on the internet.
Whatever, you can buy it, you
can listen to it.
It costs nothing or it costs a
lot.
It's for anyone.
Host: Tell us what we can expect
to see Thursday night in the
film "Being Mick."
Mick: You can -- what's in
there, let me think?
Well, there's stuff about me
making this record.
And you see a bit of studio
stuff, some of me at home.
You see me working on producing
a movie called "Enigma," which
is out in England at the moment.
me, my family and my children
and sort of intermingled with
all the rest of the working se
naryose.
-- scenarios.
Host: Was it intrusive to be
followed around at the camera or
at this point in your life, are
you just used to that?
Mick: I started off being
intrusive with myself with a
very small camera, putting it on
a Ttripod, which is great.
Giving it to friends and just
saying shoot that, or me just
filming things that were
happening around me.
So it's not on me the whole
time.
And then a few months later I
got someone else involved to do
it more professionally, but it
was all done with very small
cameras, not just by one person.
You know, a lot of people
encumbering you.
It was fun.
Actually you got used to it.
It was quite enjoyable after a
while.
You can always turn it off.
Host: Is there any footage in
particular that didn't make the
final cut?
Mick: Hundreds of hours.
We could have made six programs
of it.
Not all of it interesting, of
course.
Tons of it, you know?
I mean, I found it very
interesting.
The problem is really in the
editing of what you're going to
focus on.
Whether you're going to focus on
exclusively music or more
personal or what you did on
holiday or, you know, it's very
hard to make a balance.
You can make a lot of different
movies out of this.
Host: As an Englishman, Mick,
what do you think about the fact
that millions of people will be
celebrating the American holiday
of Thanksgiving by watching your
life story?
Mick: I haven't really thought
about it like that, to be
honest.
I don't know whether I'm going
to be watching it.
We have it on in England that
night as well.
Host: Oh, really?
Mick: Yeah, it's on in England.
So I will be there, and I can
watch it if I want.
And I'll also be having
Thanksgiving dinner because half
my family is sort of American.
So we're having Thanksgiving
dinner, but I'm not sure if
we're going to watch it.
Host: What are you thankful for
this year?
Mick: That's a big question.
So many things to be thankful
for.
I think that it's been a very
difficult year for everybody.
I think because there's been
quite a few traumas in the
world.
And I think that everyone's
responded to all the problems of
September 11 in a very kind of
really brave way and, you know,
in a strong way and so on.
And we've seen a lot of good
things about people come out of
all the bad things.
And so there's a lot of things
to be proud of in this year, I
think.
Host: Mick, a member wants to
know who is the craziest
musician you've ever known and
why?
Mick: What a choice?
There's a big list there.
I think one of the craziest has
got to be Keith Moon of The Who.
He's got to be in the group of
the crazy group.
We've got the craziest musicians
all in one group.
Host: How many members of The
Stones would be in that group?
Mick: A couple.
One night I was in a hotel room
in Los Angeles and Keith Moon
jumped through my window in the
middle of the nightdressed as
Superman.
Host: Any particular reason or
just Keith?
Mick: Didn't seem to be any
reason.
And I said -- he said -- I said,
who the fuck is that raising a
knife because I happened to have
a knife next to my bed.
He said, it's Keith.
He said no, it's Keith Moon.
Host: Mick, a member has two
related questions.
What would you like as a gift
and what's the strangest gift
you've ever received?
Mick: I didn't hear you.
Host: What's the strangest gift
you've ever gotten and what
would you like as a gift this
holiday season?
Mick: I remember getting drugs
in ice cream once.
That was good.
Unexpected perhaps.
What gift I would like to get?
Host: Yeah, this year.
This year.
Mick: What would I like to get
this year?
Host: Besides a platinum album.
Mick: What?
Host: Besides a platinum record.
Mick: I haven't thought about
gifts yet.
I haven't thought about what I
would like as a gift.
I'd just like this Christmas to
be as peaceful as possible.
How about that as a gift?
Host: A member wants to know
where you get all your energy
from.
How do you keep rocking for so
many years?
Mick: It's just being very
interested in what you're doing
makes you energetic.
If you're not interested, you
get slow.
Host: Another member would like
to know if you've thought at all
about any resolutions for the
new year yet?
Mick: I didn't say slow, I said
slowful.
Slothful.
Slothful.
One of the seven deadly sins, if
I remember.
Host: Any New Year's resolutions
yet?
Mick: No, it's too early for
that.
It's too early for Christmas
presents yet.
We haven't even had Thanksgiving
yet.
Host: Mick, what did you think
when you first heard Brit any
Spears' version of
"Satisfaction?"
Mick: I was with my 9-year-old
daughter.
We quite liked the beginning of
it.
It was a little bit of a
reference to a Stones" jingle
"Lady Jane."
If indeed it was meant.
It was quite good.
I didn't seem to go anywhere.
There's worse versions.
Host: A member wants to know
about your movie career.
You mentioned you produced the
movie "Enigma."
Do you know when it's coming out
in the U.S.?
Mick: Sometime next year, early
next year.
Host: It's done very well in the
U.K.
Mick: It's done pretty good
here, yeah.
Host: Another member wants to
know what it's it like to not be
able to walk out in public?
Or is it possible for you to go
out in public and maintain some
sort of privacy?
Mick: Yes, it's -- as long as
you've got a very dark night.
I've just been out actually
walking the street.
You know, yeah, you know, the
thing is if you -- if you know
the town that you're in, there's
always bits of it you can walk
around and there's other bits
you don't want to walk around.
You don't want to walk around
anyway if you were famous or not
famous.
--
.
Host: Let's see what else we
have.
Mick, what are your thoughts
about music on the internet?
Specifically, what did you think
about the whole debate over
Napster?
Mick: I think it's rather an
over issue right now.
It's not of any interest to me.
I think that -- I think it's
great getting music on the
internet.
The issue of whether you're
going to get music for free as
you do sort of on the radio is
another.
I mean, whether people believe
that musicians should be paid
for transmitting their songs or
broadcasting their songs on
different media.
If you're a musician you'd like
to get paid the same as people
get paid for doing things.
You know, the issue is very
simple really.
There's always -- there's always
lots of places where you don't
get paid.
I mean, you don't expect to get
paid from, like, countries like
China and all that sort of
thing, or you don't expect to
get paid from bootlegs.
So there's always some areas
where -- where you don't get
paid.
But that was a huge issue for
record companies because they
felt that there wasn't going to
be any more music for them to
put out on C.D.'s anymore if
that had gone on.
So I think that issue's more or
less sort of settled down
somewhat, and seems to be
settling itself in the good old
American way.
Host: Mick, a member wants to
know where did you get the name
of the album, "Goddess in the
Doorway," from?
What does that refer to?
Mick: Well, there's a song on
the album called "Goddess in the
Doorway" that's about a
metaphorical woman.
And she's the woman that you
see, she's intangible but she's
got all the qualities, all the
romantic notions of a woman but
you never can quite get her,
touch her, catch her.
And she's vanishing through your
--
Host: Mick, a member has an
interesting question for you,
can you still sing the blues now
that you've been successful --
Mick: And she's vanishing
through your portal.
Host: So, Mick, can you still
sing the blues now that you have
been so successful in life?
Mick: Well, B.B. King still
sings the blues and I think he's
a very successful blues singer.
Just because you're successful
doesn't mean to say you're
always happy and not all blues
are unhappy, though lots of them
are, of course.
I mean, everyone, whatever their
stage is in life has their ups
and downs and writes sad songs
and happy songs and so just
because you're successful
doesn't mean to say, you know,
you don't have unhappy times.
Host: Another member wants to
know if you play guitar on the
new album yourself.
Mick: Yeah, I play it on all the
tracks, I think.
I mean, it was really fun for me
because I think I've never
played so much guitar.
I learned a lot of stuff I
didn't know about the guitar
before because I just played all
the time every day.
And I played on everything, so I
mean, eventually I've got other
people to come in and sometimes
I had guitar parts and I would
say, well, you can do that
better be me, Pete.
And he would.
So that was very gratifying.
But I enjoyed very much playing
on this record because a lot of
the guitar parts are the basis
for the song.
Host: Another member wants to
know if you have any tips inform
aspiring songwriters out there.
Mick: Well, it depends if you
meant lyrics or music.
The thing is about music is that
you -- that you got to try and
write, I guess, the
old-fashioned thing suff's got
to write tunes.
You know, you've got to write,
even if you write great rock
songs, it's very good to have a
tune for it.
Not a melody that you could
necessarily whistle, but it has
to have a tune.
As far as lyrics are concerned,
I guess you should write
straight from your heart as much
as you can.
Host: Mick, tell us about your
web site, MickJagger.com.
What can the fans find on there?
stonesdoug: (505) thats my question too
Mick: Well, you can find -- you
can find photos, a lot of
photos.
You can find some very strange
video interpretations of the
tunes from the album, which are
kind of fascinatingly Artie.
-- arty.
You can find stuff about my
films.
You can find a jukebox.
You can find a forum where I
think people can -- people can,
you know, talk about what they
like and don't like and compare
Lenny Kravitz with Keith
Richards, that sort of nonsense.
A complete time line and some
videos.
That's about it, really.
Host: Mick, a member wants to
know how your voice has remained
so strong through so many years.
Is there any special vocal
workouts you have to do to
maintain that?
Mick: I do some sort of workout.
I don't drink alcohol very much.
And I don't smoke, which is I
guess pretty sensible for a
singer.
If you sing and smoke, it's kind
of not good.
I think smoking -- not smoking
is a really good move.
Host: Mick, I think we've --
Mick: Thank you very much.
Host: It was a real pleasure
having you on AOL tonight.
Let's remind our audience that
your new album "Goddess in the
Doorway" is out in stores
everywhere tomorrow.
And the TV documentary "Being
Mick" will be on Thanksgiving
night, 10:00 P.M. on ABC.
Mick, I hope we can get you back
here.
Mick: Thank you, everybody.
Host: Thank you.
Mick: A couple.
One night I was in a hotel room
in Los Angeles and Keith Moon
jumped through my window in the
middle of the nightdressed as
Superman.
Host: Any particular reason or
just Keith?
Can somebody interpurt this for me?
In other words Keith Moon was afarid that Mick may of thought it was Keith Richards and therefore might have stabbed him?
Mick: Didn't seem to be any
reason.
And I said -- he said -- I said,
who the fuck is that raising a
knife because I happened to have
a knife next to my bed.
He said, it's Keith.
He said no, it's Keith Moon. |
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