First time hearing The Rolling Stones "Gimme Shelter" Reaction | Asia and BJ

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  • @Darth_Wafer
    @Darth_Wafer 2 года назад +1226

    I still have yet to find any sound better than Merry's voice crack followed by Mick and Keith's "whooo". It will forever be an iconic moment in music history

    • @juanuballe8372
      @juanuballe8372 2 года назад +11

      Great analogy and what it can or does reference. Love yall reactions and thoughts on this one.

    • @azizmooshoolov8922
      @azizmooshoolov8922 2 года назад +49

      The amazing Merry Clayton tells the story in the absolutely fantastic documentary "20 Feet From Stardom."

    • @catleeper
      @catleeper 2 года назад +53

      I’ve listened to this many times just to hear her voice crack…authentic and emotional.

    • @traviscook5768
      @traviscook5768 2 года назад +12

      So amazing! Simply indescribable.

    • @georgelynch6139
      @georgelynch6139 2 года назад +45

      in her bathrobe and curlers in her hair after getting a unexpected call to come to the studio in the middle of the night to add some backing vocals

  • @LMM7880
    @LMM7880 11 месяцев назад +101

    Little did Merry know that when she was awakened in the middle of the night and asked to come to a recording studio and sing on a sound track with a band she hadn't heard of that she was making history. She's incredible on this track.

    • @combivan4346
      @combivan4346 8 месяцев назад +5

      She was pregnant as well. I saw her on some documentary, 30 feet from fame, or something like that.

    • @ReallyRyan215
      @ReallyRyan215 6 месяцев назад +5

      While pregnant

  • @TheDivayenta
    @TheDivayenta 2 года назад +715

    The incredible female vocalist is Merry Clayton.

    • @aweinblatt6
      @aweinblatt6 2 года назад +19

      Merry Clayton was pregnant at the time Mick Jagger called for her to do the back-up vocals. She ended up having a miscarriage afterwards...

    • @biff9999
      @biff9999 2 года назад +27

      New Orleans girl, out of the New Zion Baptist Church choir, one of the best backup singers that ever was. BTW, she laid down those vocals while she was still in her pajamas, her hair in rollers and she was four months pregnant. Because, the producer of the record called her in the middle of the night and got her out of bed. She lost her baby to a miscarriage the next day, which she partially attributes to the strain of belting out her lyrics on the track.
      She's still alive, and is now 73 years old. Her solo album, "Beautiful Scars" was released in 2021.

    • @jenniferfoster1692
      @jenniferfoster1692 2 года назад +23

      She makes the song.

    • @bobashley7533
      @bobashley7533 2 года назад +5

      Incredible is perfect adjective

    • @michaelasay8587
      @michaelasay8587 2 года назад

      What happened to her??

  • @Hachiko814
    @Hachiko814 2 года назад +218

    Merry Clayton is one of the few female singers that can give me instant goosebumps... The power in her voice is unmatched. Such a shame she didn't get more recognition.

    • @lisareimers3943
      @lisareimers3943 Год назад

      Not a huge fan of the Stones, but to my ears, this is one of the greatest rock songs ever, due to her contribution

    • @javierpanadero2060
      @javierpanadero2060 Год назад

      I agree again. The song has so many elements and that vocal was just enough, in fact, left you wanting more.

    • @andrewbrennan7291
      @andrewbrennan7291 Год назад +4

      The opening riff gives me the goosebumps - then Merry's voice gives me the chills and mkes my hair stand on end. Never fails to move me.

    • @TooSkinnyKenny
      @TooSkinnyKenny Год назад +1

      please don't speak about Merry in the past tense she's still here.

    • @paulwayne9664
      @paulwayne9664 Год назад +1

      This was written in ‘68/‘69. The US and the entire world was going through a lot during those days. ‘68 saw the tet offensive in Viet Nam in addition to the assassinations of MLK and RFK, the riots in Chicago at the Democratic Convention while huge protests and reactions to those were threatening to tear the US apart. This song is so poignant and it was performed exquisitely. I totally agree with the comment about Merry Clayton’s cracking voice being a huge contributing factor to the perfect execution of this song.

  • @TheDivayenta
    @TheDivayenta 2 года назад +329

    This evokes images of Vietnam- especially that poor naked girl fleeing her burning village. It’s so visceral. We saw those horrific images on evening news every night. They sparked the student protests which ultimately turned the country against such a destructive war.

    • @ricknblueridge
      @ricknblueridge 2 года назад +20

      I grew up in the DC area in the 60's and 70's. My mom was always marching. Both against the war and for civil rights.

    • @oldiesguy7552
      @oldiesguy7552 2 года назад +20

      Karen I remember it well. This song still sends chills. As a child watching the images of a senseless war and seeing the young men in my neighborhood coming home in crutches and wheelchairs was truly an experience. Some never made it back home. Bless the veterans.

    • @TheDivayenta
      @TheDivayenta 2 года назад +5

      @@ricknblueridge good for her!👍

    • @TheDivayenta
      @TheDivayenta 2 года назад +3

      @@oldiesguy7552 yes indeed !

    • @ghiaman65
      @ghiaman65 2 года назад +7

      I remember exactly what you’re talking about. This song came out my senior year in high school. Everything seemed so crazy and dark with the nightly death totals on the news each night. Plus, my older brother was in Viet Nam and I worried about him. This song has always evoked the feeling of those times for me. Street Fighting Man from Beggars Banquet is another.

  • @keithdunwoody1302
    @keithdunwoody1302 Год назад +55

    Never fails to give me chills. The intro is epic. The droning bass and pulsing beat, and the lyrics so pigment and heavy. Top it off with the most intense vocal bridge ever recorded by Merry Clayton. Hell yeah!!!

  • @Zebred2001
    @Zebred2001 2 года назад +388

    Thing is that in the 1960's people started seeing some pretty ugly images in the news enter their living rooms for the first time - Vietnam, inner city riots, campus shootings and the middle East. Songs like this just reflected how real things were getting for most people who found it all harder to ignore.

    • @mattjohn4731
      @mattjohn4731 2 года назад +12

      And I love these songs. The Woodstock era, artists wrote relevant lyrics that mattered. Rock lyrics were much simpler before Bob Dylan switched from folk to rock in mid 60s. And today major label lyrics are stupid and people just like the sound. I suggest For What It's Worth (Buffalo Springfield), Trouble Every Day (Zappa), Southern Man (Young), Wooden Ships (Jefferson Airplane), Masters Of War (Dylan), Manic Depression (Hendrix), and Ohio (CSNY). Any of ya dig it? Peace y'all!

    • @stevep2430
      @stevep2430 2 года назад +6

      That is when the media did their jobs by reporting the truth, not like today, as they have just become propaganda machines for the governments of the world.

    • @mattjohn4731
      @mattjohn4731 2 года назад +3

      @@stevep2430 I agree except do you suppose they're propaganda machines more accurately for the Corporations? The bezos, the piss bottle shitbag himself 💩

    • @thorfox3562
      @thorfox3562 2 года назад +4

      Truth

    • @twatinahatsmith7428
      @twatinahatsmith7428 2 года назад +8

      Not to mention nuclear threats.

  • @wagstaff6135
    @wagstaff6135 2 года назад +114

    Goosebumps here, too. Must've heard this song near 1,000 times over the past 50 years, and still get goosebumps every time.

  • @eileendobbs8009
    @eileendobbs8009 2 года назад +204

    Easily my favorite Stones song. I can't even imagine that song without the incredible vocals of Merry Clayton.

    • @andreas3761
      @andreas3761 2 года назад +6

      lisa fischer in the late 90s

    • @fuchsiaswing8545
      @fuchsiaswing8545 2 года назад +1

      Wasn’t it Jimmy Miller’s idea to use a backup singer? He indeed produced the band’s most incredible run of albums.

    • @timtinsley9887
      @timtinsley9887 2 года назад +2

      This song is about drug addiction and this guy is trying to beat it.i know, I’ve been there. Sober 13 years. This song is hard to listen to. I can feel the pain , I’ve felt that pain

    • @raultoro7245
      @raultoro7245 2 года назад

      @@timtinsley9887 I always thought that- thx for the clarification. ! - neal a.

    • @hotdog9262
      @hotdog9262 2 года назад

      gimme shelter amsterdam

  • @kevinwharton2341
    @kevinwharton2341 11 месяцев назад +32

    Simply the best rock song ever.

  • @Gashouse69
    @Gashouse69 2 года назад +177

    Probably my favorite Stones song. The background singers on this song are on point!

    • @mookiestewart3776
      @mookiestewart3776 2 года назад +3

      It’s that black American soul music baby

    • @nanook8721
      @nanook8721 2 года назад +4

      @@mookiestewart3776 the amazing Merry Clayton. Nobody else could’ve sung that song the way she did.

    • @HasHha-hc1oq
      @HasHha-hc1oq 8 месяцев назад

      ​@mookiestewart3776 what has American got to do with black or soul. Delusion

  • @bowtangey6830
    @bowtangey6830 2 года назад +45

    The Stones at their best! The vocals, the guitar, the bass, the harmonica, the DRUMS!!! And Merry Clayton's unbelievable backing vocal. 💢💢💢💯

  • @jackkelly2620
    @jackkelly2620 2 года назад +181

    When her voice cracks.
    It gets me every time.

    • @donfette5301
      @donfette5301 2 года назад +4

      It got Mick, too. He says something to her when it cracks - but I can’t figure it out since it’s so low in the mix! I guess that’s why there’s Google I just realized, lol.

    • @scottjeune154
      @scottjeune154 2 года назад +4

      Its like a punch

    • @mi.dogman4438
      @mi.dogman4438 2 года назад +2

      Ha! What I just wrote. Scrolled down n here it is. Glad I’m not the only one!!!!

    • @5150pb
      @5150pb 2 года назад +3

      @@donfette5301 He says Whoo!

    • @matzabean
      @matzabean 2 года назад

      Here’s Merry’s isolated vocal
      ruclips.net/video/ChONufP0FEs/видео.html

  • @davidirwin8219
    @davidirwin8219 Год назад +20

    One of the greatest rock songs of all time!!

  • @kenlangston3451
    @kenlangston3451 2 года назад +288

    The look Asia gave him when he stopped in the middle of the solo. 😄

    • @CC-Wulf
      @CC-Wulf 2 года назад +17

      Exactly. Wouldn't want to ever get on her bad side! :)

    • @Muckylittleme
      @Muckylittleme 2 года назад +19

      He earned it though.

    • @charobarnes2215
      @charobarnes2215 2 года назад +9

      Ha! Loved it. 🤣

    • @jeffstevens4262
      @jeffstevens4262 2 года назад +9

      That look spoke a thousand words. Go Asia!

    • @missbelled6700
      @missbelled6700 2 года назад +8

      re-thinking the whole relationship in that second LOL "who is this man??"

  • @Lippett
    @Lippett 2 года назад +12

    The most blues influenced rock song ever.

  • @carlosserrenho8505
    @carlosserrenho8505 2 года назад +60

    In my understanding this song is a protest against the atrocities that were happening in the Vietnam war. And can be summed up to "Make love not war"

    • @tradeladder146
      @tradeladder146 2 года назад +3

      Correct, and it took a British Band to do it.

    • @grahamechambers6642
      @grahamechambers6642 2 года назад +3

      Sort of. It started out as a song literally about people running for cover in a rainstorm, according to Keith Richards. Later the Stones added references to civil unrest and war that they were seeing on the TV in England. It might refer obliquely to Vietnam among other wars, but it is not primarily about it. It is capturing the spirit of the times.

  • @decadentdevil
    @decadentdevil Год назад +16

    Merry Clayton, tragically, had a miscarriage shortly after the singing session.. Honestly her performance in this recording is one of the most substantial vocal recordings ever... And in her own words the recording was too painful emotional and powerful for her listen to.. true story

  • @John_Locke_108
    @John_Locke_108 2 года назад +92

    Watts' drumming is so amazing on this track. And the rest of the guys play along with him and it's pure perfection

    • @johnlothrop4591
      @johnlothrop4591 2 года назад +4

      Exacto.....Charlie was the Stones. On Ya Ya's he was the show. Love in vain from Robert Johnson Charlie was the concert.

    • @mikekaufmann5311
      @mikekaufmann5311 Год назад +3

      @@johnlothrop4591 "Charlie's good tonight."

    • @RobertSmith-iw2kb
      @RobertSmith-iw2kb Год назад +5

      Possibly the greatest rock and roadand. still playing at like 80. We're always tight, no matter who played in different times.

    • @wynstonsmith7194
      @wynstonsmith7194 Год назад +4

      Musically, this is Keith Richards' song. The lineup for this song was...
      Mick Jagger-vocals, harmonica
      Charlie Watts-drums
      Keith Richards-everything else.

    • @bxf99999
      @bxf99999 Год назад

      @@wynstonsmith7194 Everybody is excellent here, but yes, I did note that Keith is doing some superb work that deserves recognition..

  • @manyourground
    @manyourground Год назад +61

    The most powerful moment in this song, as if the body isn’t already on vibrate up to this point is the solo by the very talented Merry Clayton, who in her third and final solo stanza strain so hard, it’s crystal clear her voice cracks jusd breaks the glass entirely. She was called into a late night session in Los Angeles ti drop her pipes in last minute scenario, Meery was also pregnant and just hours after returning home from dropping her chops sadly miscarried and was told by her doctors it was caused by very recent exceptional strain. No one could ever really prove this but for those who choose to believe that to not, she sung her ass clean off to give that song the power pinnacle it needed. When you hear Mick Jagger yell “whoo!” right after that voice cracking verse, that was unplanned. Mick was so blown away at how powerful Merry could deliver such a brilliant solo into scream of desperation, he just blurted it out and it put the cherry on top of that piece of the song. Her solo was so forceful the studio glass shook. It’s a transformational song at a very turbulent time in the 🇺🇸 back in 1969. And it left its mark so ingrained in American culture one can’t see any war movies since that doesn’t include the track in it. Legendary work.

  • @barbarasalley
    @barbarasalley 2 года назад +59

    "This song bleeds subject matter"...what a perfect comment! Y'all nailed it.

  • @contucker9413
    @contucker9413 2 года назад +73

    First off I'm now a 67 year old man and I was very much alive and into music as a 15 year old teenager. This song was written in 1969 right at the height of the Vietnam war. Before I delve into the song a HUGE shoutout goes out to MERRY CLAYTON. The woman who did the background vocals with Mick Jagger. Merry was at the time an American Gospel singer and her manager had just gotten her this gig with The Stones. She Flew across the Atlantic and with no rest from her flight walked into the recording studio and laid the track down in her very first attempt at recording and forever put her down in the history books. This Stones song was a major hit at the time when it was released in Dec. of 1969 and her background vocals were a topic of many music enthusiasts at the time. Big time kudos out to her. Now to the song itself. The times then were rampant with many anti war songs from a variety of bands at the time. This sentiment was engrained into the culture of the time. Plus Woodstock had just occurred several months earlier adding to the fuel of the theme. And far too many assassinations which had occurred prior, the latest being Bobby Kennedy. A favorable candidate of the people by far. The air was filled with the chantings of peace and love by the younger generation while receiving nothing but stubborn resistance and outright disdain and insults by the status quo older generation. The atmosphere was electric and charged at the time. So much so was the unrest of the time that the 4 students killed by a simple protest at Kent State University was just months away. Occurring on May 4 1970. Four young college students shot outright and murdered by the National Guard for simply exercising their first amendment right to protest and redress grievances against their government. Plus the verse referring to "flames in the street" to me is significant because just the year before that very thing happened in Chicago at the Democratic National Convention. The Democrats themselves being so divided on their own platform demonstrated and rioted against their own party burning, rioting and looting in the same fashion as BLM and Antifa has recently done. Civil unrest was the soup du jour of the times. The very last lyric, "love is just a kiss away." is symbolic of the very well known chant of the times, "Make Love, Not War." Very electric and very charged times back then. Many wondered then if our country would survive such charged and divisive times. Songs like this one were meant to influence change over the powers that were in charge. That was a brief description of living in the sixties and into the early seventies.

    • @glynjones7158
      @glynjones7158 2 года назад

      It was recorded in L.A. A pregnant Merry was awoken late in the evening, came down to the studio in her hair curlers, and proceeded to lay this down. Unfortunately, she miscarried shortly afterwards. Flew across the Atlantic? Research further, my friend.

    • @dougloughner
      @dougloughner Год назад +2

      merry clayton said much differently

    • @cherokee912
      @cherokee912 Год назад +2

      Thank you! Good info.

    • @3jcb
      @3jcb Год назад +1

      Merry's part was actually recorded in LA during a mixing session. The Stones recorded this in London, however.

    • @javierpanadero2060
      @javierpanadero2060 Год назад +1

      THAT was an excellent synopsis of the times.

  • @Frostrazor
    @Frostrazor 2 года назад +81

    My favorite Stones song by far!! This was an anthem for protest vs the Vietnam War. All those horrible things are "just a shot away".
    But in the end, "love" is just a kiss away. Meaning, both are simple if that's what you're after.
    "make love not war" concept.
    A couple other amazing songs: Wild Horses, and Angie

    • @danielfeinstein1096
      @danielfeinstein1096 2 года назад +5

      Gimme Shelter meant more to us drafted Nam vets than it ever did to the war protesters that were never there. Gimme Shelter from harm as it may be just a shot away. Just a shot away. Get it?

    • @dukingtheraven
      @dukingtheraven 2 года назад +1

      @@danielfeinstein1096 just a shot away also refers to the peace that you get when you shoot up. You have no idea what we went through back here and we didn't experience Nam like you did. It was a horrible time for both of us, at least it was a horrible time for me

    • @BettyR-qd2zr
      @BettyR-qd2zr Год назад +3

      Thank all the Viet Nam vets for their service.

    • @davidmellish3295
      @davidmellish3295 Год назад +1

      You CAN'T compare what the people at home go through to the actual soldiers fighting a war,not by choice either,but through a draft. One minute they're going about their daily lives,the next they're witnessing unimaginable horrors. Watch people die in front of their eyes,knowing any minute could be their last and most of them young men barely more than boy's. Yes it must have been hard on their families as well,BUT you can't say it's the same. That's a bit of an insult to those brave young men sent off to fight a pointless war,turning them into killers or dead bodies and for what ?
      I didn't agree with Nam,it acumplished nothing, all that bullshit about keeping those at home safe 😅 how did going to the jungles of Vietnam keep America safe ? ( im not American nor was i aliveat the time)BUT i have utmost respect for all vets

    • @samuelmoulds1016
      @samuelmoulds1016 8 месяцев назад +1

      aaah... actually... I liked "I Know it's Only Rock-'n'-roll".

  • @sheilawhite7044
    @sheilawhite7044 Год назад +7

    I am 74 and I still love the Stones. I hope you see them do this in performance. The electricity of the band and the crowd will let you know what iconic is. Most bands never get there.

  • @dmCurator
    @dmCurator 2 года назад +42

    The Rolling Stones stand out from every other rock band. Iconic.

    • @LMM7880
      @LMM7880 Год назад +1

      With one exception

  • @melissastrickland4563
    @melissastrickland4563 Год назад +10

    Merry Clayton MADE this song. They tell a story about recording this song in the middle of the night at Muscle Shoals Sound in Muscle Shoals, Alabama. Woke Merry up out of her sleep. She went to the studio and made this magic all in her pink foam rollers. She's amazing.

  • @antonballard2212
    @antonballard2212 2 года назад +19

    The most awesome Merry Clayton- she sang her part while she was pregnant- one of the greatest stones songs ever made!! Great reaction as always!

  • @micheledavis3814
    @micheledavis3814 2 года назад +49

    When BJ stopped it Asia's face is PRICELESS 🤣!! She looked like she was going to throw hands 😂

    • @karenscigliano9787
      @karenscigliano9787 2 года назад +4

      That was great -- Asia was rocking out and BJ pulled the rug out from under her....she looked truly pissed☺️💕 but was quick to forgive ❤️❤️

    • @C.Church
      @C.Church Год назад +1

      Saw one where a husband interrupted at the big emotional payoff that had built up in Bridge Over Troubled Waters. The comments wanted to shake him with exasperation lol

    • @habu027
      @habu027 Год назад +2

      ...and her death stare at 5:00 after they restarted it...dang!!!

    • @samil5601
      @samil5601 2 месяца назад

      Stupid c*nt goes on to stop it again just as Merry Clayton is kicking in.

  • @matthawkins8880
    @matthawkins8880 2 года назад +19

    This might be the greatest song ever.

  • @michaelmccaffery8327
    @michaelmccaffery8327 2 года назад +8

    Great reaction guys! The Vietnam war was still raging and the Stones created this immortal song to speak to its destruction. Merry’s vocal is one of the greatest in rock history. Love how her vocal cracks twice from the power of her voice!!

  • @cuzz45
    @cuzz45 2 года назад +17

    It never ceases to amaze me at just how lucky I am to have grown up listening to and loving all of the great music by great bands in my lifetime. It makes me so happy to see you young folks enjoying the same music that was so much a part of my life growing up. Keep doing your fantastic reactions cuz you make this old guy smile!

  • @dfp9494
    @dfp9494 11 месяцев назад +5

    My favorite Stones song, I go crazy for two versions, the original one with Merry Clayton's vocal solo and the incredible ones with Mick Taylor's guitar solo in the 1972/73 live shows

  • @Cosmo-Kramer
    @Cosmo-Kramer 2 года назад +61

    Asia, I was waiting for your expression at 6:57, when guest singer Merry Clayton's voice cracked in the midst of, *"MURDERRRRR!"* and your squint followed by a head shake said it all. That crack in Merry's voice is iconic in rock history lore. It was unintentional, but Mick and the boys loved the raw emotion behind it, and wisely kept it in. Great reaction, to both of you. Next from The Stones, I suggest you try one of their gorgeous ballads called, *"Angie"* you'll both love it!! (Studio version.)

    • @andreadeamon6419
      @andreadeamon6419 2 года назад +4

      Wild horses is really nice also

    • @davidjb-750
      @davidjb-750 2 года назад +2

      Listen to the whole song just to hear that alone

    • @jimipalmer5041
      @jimipalmer5041 2 года назад +1

      Me too... Asia's eyes and expressions are becoming legendary... but B.J has some great expressions as well...

  • @timme2844
    @timme2844 2 года назад +2

    The bluesiest rock band ever! The Stones never held back from calling people out...... It's either a shot and get death and heartache or it can be a 💋 and live in love and peace..... but it's up to us! Another great reaction Asia and BJ!!

  • @deadreckoningplot
    @deadreckoningplot 2 года назад +60

    Merry Clayton sings back up and you can hear her voice crack twice and mick go “whoa” in the background. She came in the studio late at night after being called in. This is 1969, a year of total unrest!

    • @andreadeamon6419
      @andreadeamon6419 2 года назад

      She also lost her baby shortly after. Recently she has had her leg or legs amputated.

    • @andreadeamon6419
      @andreadeamon6419 2 года назад +1

      Ok - she lost the baby girl the next day and a car accident ended up taking both her legs. She never had any children 😭

    • @raultoro7245
      @raultoro7245 2 года назад

      Right on. - I heard that...I dont remember noticing that b4. !! - neal a

    • @raultoro7245
      @raultoro7245 2 года назад

      @@andreadeamon6419 oh my god....sorry. - neal a

  • @lynnmontgomery1229
    @lynnmontgomery1229 2 года назад +12

    This song brings back childhood memories. 😢 Veitnam, the Draft, Woodstock, Flower Power, Hippies, and Charles Manson/Helter Skelter... there was so much division, so many lives lost. U.S. Soldiers were spit on by other Americans and called "Baby killers" for fighting in Vietnam.😢 It was a very rough time... yet we made it thru, together.

  • @brasco96wired67
    @brasco96wired67 2 года назад +99

    What a great song. How freaking talented do you have to be to create something like that.

    • @alex35agm
      @alex35agm 2 года назад +5

      That's why the Stones are still around,their talent.

    • @stephanysuydam6019
      @stephanysuydam6019 Год назад +1

      That's all Keith Richards. He wrote the words and the music to this... I think it's his masterpiece.

  • @mikeblast7507
    @mikeblast7507 Год назад +2

    "Burns like a red coal carpet, mad bull, lost your way." One of the most iconic lines ever.

  • @fccrick
    @fccrick 2 года назад +48

    Merry Clayton makes this song her stunning vocals just brings it all home perfection for sure.

  • @yardbrother
    @yardbrother Год назад +17

    Merry Clayton brings it from great to iconic. If the apocalypse is going to have a theme song this one gets my vote. There was only one band that could have created Gimme Shelter. Great video guys thanks

    • @sylvialawrence4431
      @sylvialawrence4431 9 месяцев назад +1

      Indeed! Graduated HS in 1970. Turbulent times and yet fun times, as it seemed people at least attempted to get along better. Sadly, now seems like we're going backwards...and all over politics!!

  • @michaelv9929
    @michaelv9929 2 года назад +11

    Asia and Bj…Love the fact you are willing to listen to older music….there are so many songs from 1960’s and 1970’s that are Important to many of us!! and your thoughts are on point! Thank you 🙏🏻 ❤️🙏🏻

  • @rartlees
    @rartlees 2 года назад +7

    I love this song very much, with Mick Jagger‘s voice but Merry Clayton no words can describe what she did to this song but if I could say anything she gave it life her voice is haunting and brought to a new level .what a beautiful voice can do to a song

  • @randallforrest7683
    @randallforrest7683 2 года назад +21

    Another great song and reaction! Stones are so easy to lose oneself into a fantastic vibe zone. Thanks Asia n BJ

  • @littlebutohwow
    @littlebutohwow Год назад +4

    The story about Merry Clayton coming to be on this song is that the Stones were recording it well into the morning. The band members felt it was lacking something..one of the engineers said he knew someone who might give it what it lacked. In the wee hours of the morning, Merry comes in and lays this down. Supposedly in pajamas and rollers.

  • @blackprix
    @blackprix 2 года назад +38

    Do you know a lot of groups back in the 60s and 70s did create songs about what was going on at the time… And we listen to them and we agreed with them, and it just so happens they were great musicians vocalist in their chart busting songs were all over the place. It was important to us, kind of like today these songs resonate today but nobody is listening

    • @nessaseetah1805
      @nessaseetah1805 2 года назад

      Tom MacDonald

    • @sueprator9314
      @sueprator9314 2 года назад +1

      MOST GROUPS. IT WAS WHAT THE GENERATION WAS ABOUT. AS THINGS GOT DARKER IN THE LATE 60S and into the early 70s many many groups.. had messages IN THEIR MUSIC. Its not easy for younger generations to TRULY UNDERSTAND HOW THE VIETNAM WAR, THE CIVIL RIGHT MOVEMENT and the changes happening culturally totally had a hold on our generation. We weren't feeling lollypops. Whether it was MARVIN GAYE'S INNER CITY BLUES, or THE STONES OR BOB DYLAN....THERE WERE MESSAGES in our Music.

  • @jackbatts1074
    @jackbatts1074 Год назад +25

    Keith Richards cant be killed by conventional weapons

    • @spacecardinal
      @spacecardinal 4 месяца назад +1

      Who the hell would want to kill Keith?

  • @hollybeat6901
    @hollybeat6901 2 года назад +34

    Every single word, 100% still relevant today. The GREAT Merry Clayton's vocals 🔥🔥

  • @jeanpat8946
    @jeanpat8946 11 месяцев назад +2

    Its a master piece lyrics and melody !!!!

  • @victorsixtythree
    @victorsixtythree 2 года назад +117

    There was a great 2013 documentary called "20 Feet From Stardom" about the often unheralded role of backup singers in popular music. One of the featured singers was a woman named Merry Clayton whose incredible voice you hear on "Gimme Shelter" (and A LOT of other classic songs). Here's a clip from the movie: ruclips.net/video/ChONufP0FEs/видео.html
    Merry Clayton also appeared on the Queen Latifah Show (along with fellow legend Darlene Love) talking about recording "Gimme Shelter": ruclips.net/video/jxc-nvknPfo/видео.html

    • @jenniferfoster1692
      @jenniferfoster1692 2 года назад +6

      It's a great documentary, so fun and interesting to meet these people who contributed so much to great music. Gimme Shelter would not have been so great without Merry, period.

    • @ammaleslie509
      @ammaleslie509 2 года назад +1

      That is an AWESOME documentary! HIGHLY recommended for anyone who likes the music of that time.

  • @jimipalmer5041
    @jimipalmer5041 2 года назад +5

    Man don't stop Asia's groove ! Priceless expression on her face. Wild Horses is another great old Stones tune.💖💖💖

  • @Jamesscearce
    @Jamesscearce 2 года назад +11

    Merry Clayton delivers the best vocal cameo in a rock song I can think of... as good a Stones song as there is. The song was released in 1969, so Vietnam and the assassination of MLK are fresh in the news.

  • @cjcar63
    @cjcar63 Год назад +3

    Female vocalist Merry Clayton has a video on RUclips where she explains the circumstances behind her role in the making of this song. Great story and an even greater vocalist! She was very young and very preagnant at the time. I believe her agent called her late night early morning and asked if she would do this for a band she was unfamiliar with at the time. She arrived at the studio in a fur jacket and her pj's and met the Stones for the very first time. When she read the part she was to sing she was very shocked, but did not disappoint. She actually held back a bit, and then when laying down her main track she decided to blow the roof off the studio... and the rest is history!

  • @hognuckles
    @hognuckles 2 года назад +20

    They called Marry in the middle of the night to ask her to come in to do backup vocals. She was pregnant and her husband asked her not to go. She went in and gave the most amazing performance ever! Very soon after she miscarried the baby.

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 Год назад

      Merry Clayton. She claims she miscarried her daughter due to the physical strain of her vocal belting, but professional medical people tend to disagree that was the cause.

    • @60sbaby456
      @60sbaby456 Год назад

      @@oahuhawaii2141I think it’s true, lots of vibration stress, could’ve even gave birth there!😮hope she made a fortune for a lifetime at least, sure mick would agree❤

    • @oahuhawaii2141
      @oahuhawaii2141 Год назад

      @@60sbaby456: Well, it seems you know more than the thousands of doctors and nurses who have the experience.

  • @F3502000
    @F3502000 Год назад +5

    The guitar layering in this song is just classic rock perfection!

  • @kellifranklin4432
    @kellifranklin4432 2 года назад +6

    This is my absolute favorite Stones song. Big respect for singer Merry Clayton. This song wouldn't have been as powerful had she not performed on this song. Outstanding!

  • @chrishinman6143
    @chrishinman6143 2 года назад +1

    One of the greatest rock songs ever imo..Thank-you for playing it

  • @unclespeedy
    @unclespeedy 2 года назад +9

    6:51 on the 3rd "rape, murder", her voice cracks. the band was in listening in the booth, loved it and went nuts. you can just barely hear Mick go "yeah" in the background right after her voice cracks. pretty cool.

  • @kip-vp3pb
    @kip-vp3pb 9 месяцев назад

    MAGIC!!! What a magical musical time and the STONES put a exclamation mark on it! And no band delivered live like the STONES! Blessed to never have missed a tour since 1969 and get to see them once again in May and July of 24!

  • @genebarker3624
    @genebarker3624 2 года назад +60

    The song is timeless, just as meaningful today as the late 60's

    • @sulufest
      @sulufest 2 года назад +2

      Ain’t that the truth.

    • @ricdale7813
      @ricdale7813 Год назад

      This song is a true Time Machine. You are transported into the late 60's and fully immersed.

  • @str8off680
    @str8off680 2 года назад +2

    I was born two years before this was released, so I've heard it a couple times.. and Merry Clayton's voice still gives me chills! Her voice makes this song the classic that it is. 💕
    Thanks !

  • @jeffcampbell668
    @jeffcampbell668 2 года назад +6

    I do love your reactions. When you started talking about the happeningss of the times related to the lyrics, I couldn't let it go that Black Sabbath, Pink Floyd, CSNY, CCR, Rush, plus countless others from the sixties and seventies wrote a plethora of songs addressing political and social issues. Their lyrics are timeless and would be relevant thousands of years ago till today and especially into the future. Cheers from the canadian Queen nut.

  • @Beach5289
    @Beach5289 2 года назад +3

    A Stones concert is such an experience , a dance party really , vary cool , this is such an iconic song , Mick Jagger is a front man in touch with the audience , he helps you feel the music , some of the best shows I've seen were the Stones .

  • @JD-to5bm
    @JD-to5bm 2 года назад +7

    YES! MAKE LOVE NOT WAR!
    I love this song and your reaction to it!
    I still get chills when I listen to it!

  • @dennishealy3305
    @dennishealy3305 2 месяца назад

    That song is an enduring WOW! And absolutely timeless as a masterpiece of artistic expression in music

  • @mgrich0007
    @mgrich0007 2 года назад +6

    Love the reaction, please more of The Stones. This song brings out emotions, loved the goosebumps reference, you guys brought out a few of my own just watching. Keep the great reactions coming.

  • @tonydelapa1911
    @tonydelapa1911 Год назад +1

    I don’t know how I missed this a year ago. Over the years, from 1981 til now, I have seen them do this live 16 times. Always an extended jam and incredible vocals from Lisa Fischer (until a few years ago). Amazing.
    ‘Thank you. Hope you are both doing well.

  • @memphis1316
    @memphis1316 2 года назад +6

    The female vocals on this track were done by Merry Clayton. She was called out of bed in the middle of the night while pregnant and curlers in her hair to perform on this track by a band she knew nothing about. She killed it. There's a short video on RUclips about the events that led her to perform on this song. Definitely worth checking out. Btw I really look forward to your guys videos. You guys are the shit.

  • @northlander4370
    @northlander4370 Год назад +1

    If you listen carefully on the third chorus by Merry Clayton as she hits those very high note you can hear Jagger go "whoo" in appreciation .

  • @debbieplato5107
    @debbieplato5107 2 года назад +7

    This song was released in 1969 and was an antiwar song in regards to the Vietnam War which was going on at that time. This to me is one of their best songs. Cheers

  • @bohndorman-lj9yb
    @bohndorman-lj9yb Год назад

    The Stones were recording the song in the studio in the middle of the night. Decided they needed a female backup singer. Called Merry Clayton to come down and record the female backup. She arrived with rollers in her hair covered by a scarf and sang heart out. Got the recording done in less than an hour. Merry was paid handsomely for her efforts.

  • @tkremarkTK
    @tkremarkTK 2 года назад +14

    You have to watch the documentary, "20 Feet from Stardom" They feature Mary Clayton and the part she sings in this song. It is about the black backup singers that were used to give the needed flavor to rock and roll music. They also talk about the Queen of backup singers, Lisa Fischer. Who went to sing backup for the Rolling Stones including this song. Lisa also won a Grammy for the song on her debut album entitled "How can I feel the pain" which you should react to as well. She never made an album again. And was more comfortable as a backup singer. If you do the reaction, do the one live in Japan. Hands down one of the top female singers for vocal range and control.

  • @PitfallHarry72
    @PitfallHarry72 3 месяца назад +1

    The tension of society's growing hatred for a war and its atrocities was a tremendous influence for fantastic, deeply meaningful rock songs. Anthems, really.

  • @dks6714
    @dks6714 2 года назад +9

    I have 1 memory of the Vietnam war. I was born in 67 so I was too young to remember the whole war or to even understand that there was a war but when I was in Kindergarten this boy's father left for Vietnam. When we were in 1st grade our Kindergarten teacher came out on the playground and took Tommy to the office the next day our teacher told us his father was killed in Vietnam. Tommy was never the same again. It wasn"t till years later I learned about the war.

    • @davisworth5114
      @davisworth5114 2 года назад +1

      Thanks for that, one almost never hears about American orphans of the Vietnam War.

    • @gracecheri997
      @gracecheri997 2 года назад

      Magnificent Musicians. The Stones are on continuous 💌playlist. Ms Clayton 🌹

  • @jeannehurdel312
    @jeannehurdel312 11 месяцев назад +1

    I'm so proud to have been a part of that generation. Some of the best music came out in the 60s and 70 s. Here is just one of those examples.

  • @Mr.Thriver
    @Mr.Thriver 2 года назад +5

    Great song, Great reaction!! I was bobbing and swaying with Y'all. This was released at the end of 1969 and was timely then as it is now. Timeless! Wonderful instrumentation and vocals. Thank You!!

  • @foppo100
    @foppo100 2 года назад

    I love watching you two listening to a great band I grew up with in the sixties.That was our time the stones the beatles and so many more top bands from the UK.

  • @lindadevlin4838
    @lindadevlin4838 2 года назад +4

    The Stones are phenomenal…stories told to great rock music!

  • @samlewis7878
    @samlewis7878 2 года назад +4

    Well- I believe this song came out in the late sixties when Veitnam was going full blown crazy. The Stones were on top of the toppermost with one unfathmably great recording after the next. It's possible this is one of a handful of their greatest tunes ever and still remains pretty dang potent. Love the reaction!!!

  • @andreaknapp2394
    @andreaknapp2394 2 года назад +4

    Merry Clayton's vocals still gives me the chills on this song...one of my faves!

  • @MrRambo50
    @MrRambo50 2 года назад

    From a black guy former Marine was born 1960 joined the Marine Corps 1979 this was a big song all across this nation I was jamming on this music and high School from 1975 to 79 everybody jammed on the rolling Stones they're another great they played with Jimi Hendrix at Woodstock and also with Santana and a bunch of other great artists were there at Woodstock 1968

  • @art2736
    @art2736 2 года назад +7

    Released in 1969 at the height of the Vietnam War. A year after the Tet Offensive when the govt. knew it was a lost cause.

  • @philtarbox8256
    @philtarbox8256 2 года назад +14

    In my opinion, Merry Clayton made this song... The Rolling Stones may have written it, but she is the reason this song was so popular... when she sings "Rape, Murder... it's just a shot away", it sends chills up your spine

  • @aldobop57
    @aldobop57 2 года назад +4

    I was in high school when this song came out...a dark period. Watching your great reaction and hearing this song again makes me realize how even scarier it is today.

  • @stephencraig7130
    @stephencraig7130 Год назад

    I was 8 yrs old when this came out in 1969. I can still hear this plating on WTIX am radio, New Orleans.
    I'm now 61, and I'm
    still listening today!

  • @brianmasinelli9694
    @brianmasinelli9694 2 года назад +6

    Great band, great song!! Seen them twice...lucky me. I believe this was on the soundtrack for a great movie, Apocalypse now

  • @juliesipes8007
    @juliesipes8007 2 года назад

    Yes, Wow. BJ’s right. Choose war or choose love.
    I was a babe in the turbulent 60’s and early 70’s. I appreciate this song more as I get older. And now with the times the way they are. Heavy lyrics. The Stones are genius.
    70’s Rock. Social Statements. Vietnam War. Protest Songs.

  • @ScottT248
    @ScottT248 2 года назад +10

    One of many great Rolling Stones songs. I would suggest "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" from the Sticky Fingers album. Great album along with the album this song came from Let it Bleed. Two of the best albums in rock history IMO.

    • @bluesboy54321
      @bluesboy54321 Год назад

      With you....made fantastic by Mick Taylor's fantastic guitar.

  • @jamesjohnson5396
    @jamesjohnson5396 6 месяцев назад +1

    Heard it last night live in Denver. Still gives goosebumps.

  • @markstearns8029
    @markstearns8029 2 года назад +4

    All time favorite Stones song!!!!! The funky bluesy, rock vibe combines the political times wars rampant by n the world. The hippie love vibe wrapping it up is just a masterpiece!!!!

  • @TroyCorley-s4o
    @TroyCorley-s4o Месяц назад +1

    After all these years, that song still hits the same way as in the beginning.

  • @raenellefisher8514
    @raenellefisher8514 2 года назад +24

    If you want dark, off the same album, try Midnight Rambler by the Stones.

  • @jeffstevens4262
    @jeffstevens4262 2 года назад +2

    50 years or so later and I still can't get my head around the kind of songwriting genius that put this amazing and iconic song together, It's a work of art. It represents a time in our history which evoked such strong and scary emotions in a whole generation, globally. Mick and Keith never wrote a finer song than this (although Sympathy For The Devil does come mighty close). Once you hear this and think about the reasoning behind the lyrics, it NEVER leaves you, and perhaps it never should.

  • @joeloates1685
    @joeloates1685 2 года назад +11

    It was a reference to the Vietnam War I think. The woman who sang on this song was pregnant and allegedly had a miscarriage after recording the song. That's why she screamed when singing "murder!" and you can hear Mick Jagger in the background going "whoo!" in the background, impressed by her vocals.

    • @andreadeamon6419
      @andreadeamon6419 2 года назад +1

      I've read shortly after. Not the same night. I'll look it up again. I'm going off of reading it about 7 years ago

    • @andreadeamon6419
      @andreadeamon6419 2 года назад +2

      She lost her baby girl the next day. She lost her legs in an automobile accident also

  • @audioman8650
    @audioman8650 2 года назад +1

    The song was released right during the vietnam war, when things were really starting to heat up. Also for the first time people were seeing the flag draped coffins of the soldiers killed in action being offloaded from the planes of the television.

  • @stevepincombe3836
    @stevepincombe3836 2 года назад +4

    Love the sound of the guitar on this whole album.

  • @mikehasit
    @mikehasit Год назад +1

    This song was recorded shortly after the nightmare concert at Altamont on Dec 6 1969 and most of the songs references are about that rock festival in which the Stones performed... ASIA and BJ watch the movie Gimme Shelter and find out why they recorded this song.

  • @angelabordack
    @angelabordack 2 года назад +6

    Such an amazing song!!!

  • @vedantapdx
    @vedantapdx Год назад +1

    This was during the Vietnam War era and a lot of people were experiencing anxiety about being sent off to fight and quite often die for reasons they could not understand, political reasons. Those bad ass Rolling Stones articulated our heightened emotions through their music and by the way sold hundreds of millions of records in the process. Thank You for bringing this music back to a forum like yours. Too bad they would not let you use a video of their performance. I am assuming that is why you only had words.

  • @dalesouders4136
    @dalesouders4136 2 года назад +10

    One of my FAVS along with Sympathy for the Devil 👿

  • @KHBogWitch
    @KHBogWitch 2 года назад

    This song is about the Vietnam War and the political and social turmoil of the 1960s.
    But under the surface, it’s about the human experience-you guys summed it up soooo well! Hurt, hardship, loss, grief, heartache, turmoil, it’s just a shot away. But ultimately, the song is hopeful because love and hope are just a kiss away.