Rolling Stones - Start Me Up (Bass cover with tabs)

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Although the Stones 16th studio album “Tattoo You” is mostly composed of studio outtakes recorded during the 1970s it contains one of the band’s most well-known songs: “Start Me Up”.
The song opens with what has since become a trademark riff for Keith Richards.
First versions of “Start Me Up” were recorded already back in March 1975 during the recording sessions for “Black & Blue” as a reggae-rock track named "Never Stop", but after dozens of takes it was abandoned. Richards commented:
“It was one of those things we cut a lot of times; one of those cuts that you can play forever and ever in the studio. Twenty minutes go by and you're still locked into those two chords ... Sometimes you become conscious of the fact that, 'Oh, it's "Brown Sugar" again,' so you begin to explore other rhythmic possibilities. It's basically trial and error. As I said, that one was pretty locked into a reggae rhythm for quite a few weeks. We were cutting it for Emotional Rescue, but it was nowhere near coming through, and we put it aside and almost forgot about it.”

In January 1978 during the recording sessions for the album “Some Girls” in Paris the band decided to play the song more as a straight-forward rock song instead of the early reggae version.
In 1981, with the band looking to tour, engineer Chris Kimsey proposed to lead singer Mick Jagger that archived songs could comprise the set. While searching through the vaults, Kimsey found the two takes of the song with a more rock vibe among some fifty reggae versions. Overdubs were completed on the track in early 1981 in New York City at the recording studios Electric Lady Studios and The Hit Factory. On the band's recording style for this track in particular, Kimsey commented in 2004:
“Including run-throughs, “Start Me Up” took about six hours to record. You see, if they all played the right chords in the right time, went to the chorus at the right time and got to the middle eight together, that was a master. It was like, 'Oh, wow!' Don't forget, they would never sit down and work out a song. They would jam it and the song would evolve out of that. That's their magic.“

And so nobody really cared that Charlie Watts snare hit one beat too early in bar 3 of the intro.

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