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- “Gimme Shelter” was recorded during the summer of 1969 at Olympic Studios in London, and produced by Jimmy Miller, who plays the güiro – a percussion instrument consisting of a serrated surface that is rasped with a stick – on the track. The band used battered Triumph amplifiers to get the distinctive sound they wanted.
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Sep 1, 2016 · There's no doubt of Jimmy Miller's impact on the Stones' sound during their recording pinnacle - that period between 1968-1972 - when they produced their four best albums. He helped take the Stones to the next level and usher in the modern-sounding rock and roll era.
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- Jimmy Miller’s first success came with the Spencer Davis Group, which featured a young Steve Winwood. As Miller explained to Nina Antonia from Record Collector, Chris Blackwell (who was both label chief of Island Records and manager to the Spencer Davis Group) “thought it might work for me to come over and do something with Steve and the Spencer Davis Group on ‘Gimme Some Lovin.’
- That’s Miller, not Charlie Watts, drumming on “You Can’t Always Get What You Want.” “I felt a rhythm figure that everyone liked, but Charlie didn’t feel it.”
- Miller is the man behind the famous cowbell in “Honky Tonk Women.” Musician Gary Wright, who knew Miller before he went over to the U.K., and later worked with him in the vastly underrated Spooky Tooth, recalls that Miller was a great producer and that “if you’d be doing something and it wasn’t quite happening, he’d go out and pick up a cowbell and go out into the studio and whole thing would turn around.”
- In 1968, he and Bill Wyman displayed some real-life heroism and we’re all the better for it. French New Wave director Jean-Luc Godard was at Olympics Studio filming the Stones arranging, rehearsing and recording “Sympathy for the Devil,” for his frustrating film of the same name (originally titled One Plus One).
Oct 23, 2019 · Suddenly he would appear in the studio, adding percussion to a Stones riff, singing along with them in harmony, or injecting an original sound to a track—that touch of Miller-ian genius—a ...
Apr 3, 2024 · How did Jimmy Miller influence the sound of The Rolling Stones? Jimmy Miller is credited with helping to shape the sound of The Rolling Stones, and his production work on albums like Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main St. helped to create some of the band’s most iconic songs.
Oct 17, 2019 · So did Jimmy Miller have a distinctive sound that he brought to his projects? Well since the Stones were not his first production rodeo, there is ample evidence that Flash and everything that...
Feb 15, 2018 · Super producer Jimmy Miller’s fascinating back story with The Rolling Stones, Steve Winwood, Primal Scream and more..
