👅🎧👅 Got a story to tell today... The Stones were in Keith's basement sleeping, and it was storming and raining. They woke up
and kept seeing someone appear up in the above ground window. And then he'd
disappear in a flash, and they finally figured out it was the Gardener Jack working. And Keith exclaimed to both Micks, "It's jumpin' jack flash!". He grabbed a guitar and played a riff, and Mick wrote. Previously, in time, Keith had a house fire, and he had quite a task of cleaning up before him. Jack and his son helped Keith salvage some keepsakes. So Keith gave his son one of his salvaged awards. Mick had this in his head as he wrote, he wanted something cool to show a hard life but still turn out positive so he wrote the lyrics 'but it's alright now Jumpin' Jack Flash it's a gas gas gas'. Wyman said later in a book that he and Brian Jones and Charlie Watts had the famous riff before all this and Keith prolly had it stuck in his head that day in the basement and put it in Open G tuning. That's my piecing together of all their recollections. Who knows. Epic tune for sure. And so, like the lyrics, my life has been rough, quite a task, this past year, but I'm praying it will soon be alright now and even a gas gas gas. Right? Who's with me? The 👀 have it. We were supposed to be getting another hurricane this week, but I'm so glad it just turned out to he a day of a chance of rain today. Stormy weather is relaxing. Life's Stormy weather? Well, that's a whole nutha story. Oh, and some sat this song is 7tha double entendre like a lot of theirs. About Heroin. But not all songs are about sex drugs and rocknroll. I think they sometimes write them and they are so used to the double entendre lingo that it's just natural. Sometimes, songs are just about other things haha. Here's a clip of our cover. Signed, When Life Puts You To Task, Find The Gas Gas Gas
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