![]() ![]() We had been to Stones concerts together over the years, Watts had thrown a drumstick to one of my daughters at the Homebush Super Dome in Sydney in 2003 (and Keith Richards tossed a guitar plectrum to the other), and the band’s music had powered just about every party our family had thrown over the years. ![]() My daughter reminded me of my old indulgent attachment to painting it black when we learned this week that the Rolling Stones’ drummer, Charlie Watts, had died aged 80. We had no reason to doubt that good times awaited. In my generation, there would be time beyond school to travel, attend parties and indulge in all the other freedoms that came with being young. You spend a fair bit of time wanting to get out when you’re in a boarding school, and the intoxicating eruption of music cascading through the ’60s was the most reliable route, given you didn’t actually need to go anywhere to be transported. According to Wyman, Jones had graduated from drinking to using amyl nitrate and other drugs.Īftermath is considered the Stones' most ambitious album to this point, with great experimentation with arrangements and instrumentation.Given that I was locked in a boarding school at the time, I can only guess I was going through a dark patch. “Paint It, Black” was recorded as the group was beginning to have problems with Jones, whose drug use was getting out of hand. When asked what the song's title meant, lead singer Mick Jagger said, “It means, 'Paint it, black.' 'I can't get no satisfaction' means 'I can't get no satisfaction.'” Thanks, Mick. In his memoir Stone Alone, Wyman remembers: “I lay on the floor under the organ and played a second bass riff on the pedals, at double-time.”
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