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Gus
Jun 15, 2013, 9:50:42 PM6/15/13
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it is really just a shot away? What is the "shot"-- whiskey, heroin, a gun,
sex, ...?
Merry Clayton was on NPR the other day. She didn't mention about having a
miscarriage (below). Just said she went to the studio around midnight
because Jack Nitchze had called and she was in bed with her husband getting
ready to go to sleep but she respected him. Her husband had said no but
talked to Nitchze and then he told her to go. And did three takes.
"Well, it's a very rough, very violent era," said Richards. Vietnam War.
"Violence on the screens, pillage and burning. And Vietnam was not war as we
knew it in the conventional sense..." As for the song itself, he concluded,
"That's a kind of end-of-the-world song, really. It's apocalypse; the whole
record's like that."[2]
As the song builds past its first verse, a higher-pitched second vocal part
enters, sung by guest vocalist Merry Clayton. Of her inclusion, Jagger said
in the 2003 book According to the Rolling Stones: "The use of the female
voice was the producer's idea. It would be one of those moments along the
lines of 'I hear a girl on this track - get one on the phone.'"
At about 2:59 into the song, Clayton's voice cracks twice from the strain of
her powerful singing; once during the second refrain, on the word "shot"
from the last line, and then again during the first line of the third and
final refrain, on the word "murder", after which Jagger can be heard saying
"Woo!" in response to Clayton's emotional delivery. She suffered a
miscarriage upon returning home, attributed by some sources to the strain
involved in reaching the highest notes.[5]
On NPR Jagger says: "When we got to Los Angeles and we were mixing it, we
thought, 'Well, it'd be great to have a woman come and do the rape/murder
verse,' or chorus, or whatever you want to call it," Jagger says. "We
randomly phoned up this poor lady [Merry Clayton] in the middle of the
night, and she arrived in her curlers and proceeded to do that in one or two
takes, which is pretty amazing. She came in and knocked off this rather odd
lyric. It's not the sort of lyric you give everyone - 'Rape, murder / It's
just a shot away' - but she really got into it, as you can hear on the
record. She joins the chorus. It's been a great live song ever since."
there's this: "Merry Clayton's spine-chilling vocal on the Rolling Stones'
"Gimme
Shelter" is one of the most famed in '60s rock. But the 1969 classic brings
painful memories to Clayton: The physical strain of the intense duet with
Mick Jagger resulted in a miscarriage after the session."
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-03-13/entertainment/ca-19857_1_career-clayton
I've heard some people say bolderdash to it causing a miscarriage. But
wouldn't going out late at night when you are very pregnant and singing hard
be stressful?
sex, ...?
Merry Clayton was on NPR the other day. She didn't mention about having a
miscarriage (below). Just said she went to the studio around midnight
because Jack Nitchze had called and she was in bed with her husband getting
ready to go to sleep but she respected him. Her husband had said no but
talked to Nitchze and then he told her to go. And did three takes.
"Well, it's a very rough, very violent era," said Richards. Vietnam War.
"Violence on the screens, pillage and burning. And Vietnam was not war as we
knew it in the conventional sense..." As for the song itself, he concluded,
"That's a kind of end-of-the-world song, really. It's apocalypse; the whole
record's like that."[2]
As the song builds past its first verse, a higher-pitched second vocal part
enters, sung by guest vocalist Merry Clayton. Of her inclusion, Jagger said
in the 2003 book According to the Rolling Stones: "The use of the female
voice was the producer's idea. It would be one of those moments along the
lines of 'I hear a girl on this track - get one on the phone.'"
At about 2:59 into the song, Clayton's voice cracks twice from the strain of
her powerful singing; once during the second refrain, on the word "shot"
from the last line, and then again during the first line of the third and
final refrain, on the word "murder", after which Jagger can be heard saying
"Woo!" in response to Clayton's emotional delivery. She suffered a
miscarriage upon returning home, attributed by some sources to the strain
involved in reaching the highest notes.[5]
On NPR Jagger says: "When we got to Los Angeles and we were mixing it, we
thought, 'Well, it'd be great to have a woman come and do the rape/murder
verse,' or chorus, or whatever you want to call it," Jagger says. "We
randomly phoned up this poor lady [Merry Clayton] in the middle of the
night, and she arrived in her curlers and proceeded to do that in one or two
takes, which is pretty amazing. She came in and knocked off this rather odd
lyric. It's not the sort of lyric you give everyone - 'Rape, murder / It's
just a shot away' - but she really got into it, as you can hear on the
record. She joins the chorus. It's been a great live song ever since."
there's this: "Merry Clayton's spine-chilling vocal on the Rolling Stones'
"Gimme
Shelter" is one of the most famed in '60s rock. But the 1969 classic brings
painful memories to Clayton: The physical strain of the intense duet with
Mick Jagger resulted in a miscarriage after the session."
http://articles.latimes.com/1986-03-13/entertainment/ca-19857_1_career-clayton
I've heard some people say bolderdash to it causing a miscarriage. But
wouldn't going out late at night when you are very pregnant and singing hard
be stressful?
art...@yahoo.com
Jun 16, 2013, 12:55:19 PM6/16/13
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On Saturday, June 15, 2013 9:50:42 PM UTC-4, Gus wrote:
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> Merry Clayton was on NPR the other day.
Which reminds me that I really want to see the movie "20 Feet from Stardom" which is about backup singers (including Merry Clayton). I imagine that she mentioned this on NPR, I didn't hear it.
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> Merry Clayton was on NPR the other day.
Gus
Jun 16, 2013, 2:25:34 PM6/16/13
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<art...@yahoo.com> wrote in message
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yes, that's why they were on. Her and the producer were on.
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yes, that's why they were on. Her and the producer were on.
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