![]() ![]() W e would all sit back and watch this little microphone record the cassette machine in the middle of the studio at Olympic, which was the size of Salder's Wells. When we were in the studio I would bring in that little Philips cassette recorder, get a wooden extension speaker, plug that into the back of the recorder, shove a microphone in front of the speaker in the middle of the studio and record it. ![]() Then I began to get interested in the actual sound of the machine, how close you could put the microphone to the guitar and what effect you could get out of it. I bought one of the first cassette machines - a must for a budding songwriter - and then day in, day out recorded on it. Technology was starting to increase in sophistication, but I just wanted to reduce it back to basics. Jumpin' Jack Flash and Street Fighting Man came about because I had become fascinated by the possibilities of playing an acoustic guitar through a cassette recorder, using it as a pick-up, really, so that I could still get the crispness of an acoustic - which you can never get off an electric guitar - but overloading this tiny little machine so the effect was that it sounded both acoustic and electric. Here's keith on the tune (from this site) not stying it's true, but kind of interesting: ![]()
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