As if trying to be as outrageous as possible, Jagger changed the already sordid "15 years old" to "13 years old" in concerts on their 1969 tour, as captured in the slower groove of the version of "Stray Cat Blues" on Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out. This all got put under the microscope, of course, after the murder at Altamont. Perhaps after being labeled as the bad boys of the British Invasion - a sort of anti-Beatles - Jagger ingeniously realized he should go with it, forget about the group's forays into psychedelia and flower-power, and exploit the dark side of the blues, posing as the sleazeball and confirming parents' worst nightmares in the process. "Stray Cat Blues" has Jagger playing a role that he picked up somewhere around the release of "Jumping Jack Flash" and continued to embrace through"Sympathy for the Devil," "Cocksucker Blues," and "Memo From Turner" - from his film Performance - right through to 1978's "When the Whip Comes Down": the menacing man on the edge riding with the Devil through the "demon life" of "Sway," when not taking the point of view of Beelzebub himself. I bet she don't know you can bite like that.Perhaps trying to reclaim the sleaze factor from young upstarts like Iggy Pop, the Stooges, and the Velvet Underground, Mick Jagger and the Stones offer this raunchy tale of debauchery with underage groupies - "stray cats" that the narrator feels he should bring in to protect: "I can see that you're 15 years old/No I don't want your I.D./You look so restless and you're so far from home/But it's no hanging matter/It's no capital crime." A driving three-chord blues, the original 1968 Beggar's Banquet recording rides a mid-up-tempo with a pumping bass line. I bet your mama don't know that you scratch like that You look so weird and you're so far from homeĭon't look so scared I'm no mad-brained bear
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Nitzer Ebb covered this song on the "I Give To You" single in 1991. Additionally, the lyrics are more provocative as the girl's age was changed to 13. The song is told from the perspective of a man lusting for illegal sex with a 15-year-old groupie, reasoning that "it's no hanging matter, it's no capital crime." A live performance was captured during the Rolling Stones' American Tour 1969 and released on the 1970 live album Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out!. According to Mick Jagger, the song was inspired by "Heroin" by the Velvet Underground, with the intros of both songs being particularly similar.
Miller's production of the song is very representative of his style, featuring a very prominent hi hat beat, droning piano performed by Nicky Hopkins, a mellotron performed by Brian Jones, all electric guitars (including slide) performed by Richards and vocals from Jagger kept even in the mix. It was written by Mick Jagger and Keith Richards and produced by Jimmy Miller. "Stray Cat Blues" is the eighth song on the Rolling Stones' album Beggars Banquet.
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