(It’s recommended that you listen to this on Spotify as their embed only has 200 songs. Hand of Fate (Munich, March 25th, 1975): Sounds like a tale of revenge by a wronged man. The Rolling Stones are a British rock band formed in London in 1962 as 'The Rollin Stones'.
That’s one hell of an audition right there, and in a weird way, it was almost too good: I don’t think Keith wanted another shit-hot lead guitar player, I think he wanted to go back to the ancient art of weaving, which of course is what happened with the next record.ĭid you miss a Certain Song? Follow me on Twitter: Certain Songs DatabaseĪ filterable, searchable & sortable somewhat up to date database with links to every “Certain Song” post I’ve ever written. You’d think that would be enough, right? Nope, at the end of “Hand of Fate,” as Mick’s growl gets so exaggerated it’s like he cannot form words, Perkins throws out another long, thrilling solo that takes the song to its end. A little bit later on, there’s a few bars of what is basically disco, lead by Charlie and Bill, and Perkins overlays his second solo, quick, sinuous and funky. Right after that, Perkins takes his first guitar solo, and it’s a barn-burner, pitched halfway between Keith’s low-key Chuck Berryisms and Mick Taylor’s flying pinwheels of light. Yeah, and I watched him die, watch out boy Also, did I mention Charlie? He’s everywhere on “Hand of Fate,” my favorite bits being when he breaks into a double-time on the bridge. So, for example, on “Hand of Fate,” its Wayne Perkins - a Muscle Shoahs session cat who overdubbed the spooky solo on Bob Marley & The Wailerdoubling Keith’s stellar riff at the opening as Mick sings a tale of being an outlaw-on-the-run.īut honestly, I don’t care about any of that: what I love about “Hand of Fate” isn’t so much the words, but rather the interplay between Charlie and Keith, and the rough vocals Mick uses to sing the song. So the irony is that he only played guitar on a couple of songs on Black and Blue. Obviously, 45 years later, Ron Wood was clearly the perfect choice - unlike Mick Taylor, he already looked like a Stone - and both Mick and Keith liked him enough that he could often smooth over things when they got pissed at each other, and his work with the Faces and on Rod Stewart’s first four solo albums had already given him a lifetime pass. tour that happened in between the sessions, making the final choice seemingly inevitable, even if some of the auditions continued to happen in Montreux, after the tour. Which must have been weird to Ron Wood, who played on the 1975 U.S. For one thing, Mick Taylor gave his notice at the end of 1974, so when the Black and Blue sessions started in Munich, they were framed as almost auditions. A lot was going on in the world of the Rolling Stones. It’s definitely one of those songs I knew backwards and forwards long before I purchased any Stones albums.īefore we get into all of that, we should probably level-set. In 2012, the band celebrated its 50th anniversary.I could have sworn that “Hand of Fate” was a single, because I absolutely remember hearing it all the time on the radio back in 1976, but while I guess it’s possible that KYNO played it, I probably heard it on Rock 96 FM, which was an important bridge for me from the AM to the FM worlds for a couple of years there. In 2008, the band ranked 10th on the Billboard Hot 100 All-Time Top Artists chart. Note the two gambling metaphors bookending the lyrics: wheel of fortune and the start. Sticky Fingers (1971) was the first of eight consecutive No. This song is about a man who commits murder for the love of a woman. Let It Bleed (1969) marked the first of five consecutive No. They have released 30 studio albums, 23 live albums and numerous compilations. Rolling Stone magazine ranked them fourth on the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" list and their estimated record sales are above 250 million. A G F C x2 F C F C The hand of fate is on me now A G F C It pick me up and knock me down F C F C Im on the run, Im prison bound A G F C The hand of fate. The Rolling Stones were inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame in 1989 and the UK Music Hall of Fame in 2004. Their musical focus shifted from covering blues songs to writing original material, a decision with which Jones did not agree. The band's primary songwriters, Jagger and Richards, assumed leadership after Andrew Loog Oldham became the group's manager. Brian Jones was the original leader of the group. Stewart was removed from the official line-up in 1963 but continued as a touring member until his death in 1985. The first stable line-up consisted of Brian Jones (guitar, harmonica), Mick Jagger (lead vocals), Keith Richards (guitar, backing vocals), Bill Wyman (bass), Charlie Watts (drums), and Ian Stewart (piano). The Rolling Stones are an English rock band formed in London, England, in 1962.
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