Two promotional videos were made in May 1968: one featuring a live performance, another showcasing the band lip-syncing, with Jones, Jagger, and Watts donning makeup. VH1 placed it at 65 on its show 100 Greatest Rock Songs. In 2004, Rolling StoneВ rated the song 124th on its list of the 500 Greatest Songs of All Time. In March 2005, QВ magazineВ placed 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' at number 2 in its list of the 100 Greatest Guitar Tracks. In the performance filmed for The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll CircusВ in December 1968, Richards used standard tuning and ever since the band's appearance at Hyde ParkВ on 5 July 1969, he has played it in open G tuningВ with a capoВ on the fourth fret.

The open E or open D tuning of the rhythm guitar on the studio recording has also not been replicated in concert (with the possible exception of the 1968 NMEВ awards show, no recording of which has ever surfaced). The intro is not usually played in concert and instead the song begins with the main riff. Jones is heard clearly, mixing with Richards' lead throughout the song. It ranks as the song the band has played in concert most frequently, В and has appeared on the concert albums Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!, Love You Live, Flashpoint, and Shine a Light, as well as, notably, The Rolling Stones Rock and Roll CircusВ (featuring the only released live performance of the song with Brian Jones). The Rolling Stones have played 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' during every tour since its release. Since then, it has appeared on numerous Stones compilations, including Hot Rocks 1964-1971В (1971), 30 Greatest HitsВ (1977), Singles Collection: The London YearsВ (1989), Forty LicksВ (2002), and GRRR!В (2012). 2), one year after the single was released. The first Rolling Stones album on which the song appeared was their 1969 compilation album, Through the Past, Darkly (Big Hits Vol. Some early London Records US pressings of the single had a technical flaw in them: about halfway through the song's instrumental bridge, the speed of the master tape slows down for a moment, then comes back to speed. Released on, 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' (backed with 'Child of the Moon') reached the top of the UK charts and peaked at number three in the United States. Bill Wyman - Bass guitar, electric organ.Keith Richards - guitars, backing vocals.Mick Jagger - lead vocals, backing vocals.Keith Richards - electric guitar, backing vocals.Keith RichardsВ - acoustic guitars, bass guitar, floor tom, backing vocals.In his autobiography, Stone Alone, Bill WymanВ has claimed that he came up with the song's distinctive main guitar riff on an organ without being credited for it. Just a metaphor for getting out of all the acid things.' It's about having a hard time and getting out. Jagger said in a 1995 interview with Rolling StoneВ that the song arose 'out of all the acid of Satanic Majesties. Humanities scholar Camille Paglia В speculated that the song's lyrics might have been partly inspired by William Blake's poem ' The Mental Traveller': 'She binds iron thorns around his head / And pierces both his hands and feet / And cuts his heart out of his side / To make it feel both cold & heat.' When Jagger asked what the noise was, Richards responded: 'Oh, that's Jack вЂ“ that's jumpin' Jack.' В The rest of the lyrics evolved from there. Richards has stated that he and Jagger wrote the lyrics while staying at Richards' country house, where they were awoken one morning by the sound of gardener Jack Dyer walking past the window. Just jam the mic right in the guitar and play it back through an extension speaker. Both acoustics were put through a Philips cassette recorder. The high-strung guitar was an acoustic, too. I learned that from somebody in George Jones' band in San Antonio in 1964. And there was another guitar over the top of that, but tuned to Then there was a capo on it, to get that really tight sound.

Open D or open E, which is the same thing вЂ“ same intervals вЂ“ but it would be slackened down some for D. I used a Gibson Hummingbird acoustic tuned to open D, six string. Regarding the song's distinctive sound, guitarist Richards has said: Written by Mick JaggerВ and Keith Richards, recording on 'Jumpin' Jack Flash' began during the Beggars BanquetВ sessions of 1968.

2.2 Live version from Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!.

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