From Keith Richards' vastly entertaining 2011 autobiography:
Mick and I spent months and months trying to write before we had anything we could record for the Stones. We wrote some terrible songs whose titles included "We Were Falling in Love" and "So Much in Love," not to mention "(Walking' Thru the) Sleepy City," a rip-off of "He's a Rebel." Some of them were actually medium-sized hits...
Well, actually yeah, some of them were. For example, from 1964, please enjoy The Mighty Avengers -- of whom I can find no biographical info other than they seemed to have hailed from Coventry -- and their version of the aforementioned early Jagger/Richards songwriting foray "So Much in Love."
Note the production credit, i.e. who's probably playing keyboards on it. 😎
And, bringing things full circle, from their 1980 debut album, here are punkish pub-rockers The Inmates (of "Dirty Water" cover fame) and a version that sounds -- I suspect -- a lot more like the original Jagger/Richards demo.
If truth be told, I've loved that Inmates cover, passionately, since a vinyl promo copy arrived at my old offices at the The Magazine Formerly Known as Stereo Review. And I'll bet a Stones live version back in the day would have sounded absolutely fabulous on stage, regardless of what Keith now thinks of the song.
Incidentally, when I originally posted a version of the above back in the day, I mentioned that I had stumbled across a bootleg of the actual Stones demo for the song; if that was in fact true, I have completely forgotten about it in the interim, and a search of my archives for it has turned up zilch. Bummer.
I should also add that I have since learned that Peter Frampton's old band The Herd did a cover of it in 1966, but don't worry -- I wouldn't think of inflicting THAT on you at this late date. 😎😎
6 comments:
So Much In Love -
Music Director - John Paul Jones pre Led Zep ?
rob
Indeed.
Steve - I agree with your comment about the Inmates' version of "So Much In Love". I remember it from their second album "SHOT IN THE DARK." I never realized it was Jagger-Richards tune so thanks for that info.
Re the Mighty Avengers - According to Discogs, the band did four singles for Decca, which were largely Jagger-Richards songs.
Wiki has a pretty good "biography" of the Mighty Avengers 😎
rob
Just listened to both "Dirty Water" in both versions.
The Inmates had a Stones vibe.
I preferred the Standells version - it had more of an Eric Burdon feel to it. Actually could also hear aThem/Van "the Man" call and response. A great garage song .
rob
And in an odd coincidence The Inmates covered "Stop it Baby" a tune by a US garage band called The Heard.
Bob in IL
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