Comments on: Rolling Stones :: Waiting On A Friend (Video 1981)

by: Kenny Cob

Wed, 04 Jun 2008 05:27:04 +0000

The B side makes me cry it’s so damn good. Definitley the last of the Stones greats. Historically, it reigns from the 70’s (it’s obvious), and it, along with Goat’s Head Soup are a super duo. The grand finale.

by: Kenny Kerr

Tue, 27 Nov 2007 02:02:32 +0000

Not sure if the doorway in the video is the same as in Taxi Driver, but in the flick “Sport” (Keitel), wearing white pants and a fedora as does mick, tells “Bickel” (DeNiro) that he’s “just waiting for a friend”. Check it out!

by: Marcel

Sun, 18 Nov 2007 23:40:33 +0000

What an honour for M.Taylor to be an example for S.Rollins saxsolo on waiting on a friend.I don’t believe it.

by: Andrew

Thu, 26 Jul 2007 13:55:08 +0000

This super song is a lamentable absence from the 40 Licks album!

by: Allan Smithee

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:34:45 +0000

just watched the video again for the first time in years and it’s only Wyman and Charlie Watts laughing at Mick, including his “dance moves”. You know they also think it’s hysterical the Stones are filming a rock video at their age.

by: Allan Smithee

Mon, 09 Jul 2007 20:27:02 +0000

the funny part of the video is when Jagger takes off his hat and has “hat-hair” head. Ron Wood has a laugh at that pointing it out to Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts. Mick, of course, is oblivious… just dancing and mugging for the cameras.

by: jen

Thu, 05 Jul 2007 03:38:32 +0000

didn’t know it was the same building featured on physical graffiti, but i heard the doorway is the same harvey keitel stood in for taxi driver

by: will

Tue, 03 Jul 2007 15:03:43 +0000

Sonny Rollins huh? Nice bit of information there.

by: Steve

Mon, 02 Jul 2007 03:31:15 +0000

Jagger signed Tosh to his label under which he released Bush Doctor and Mystic Man. Mick sings backing vocals on Walk and Don’t Look Back. There’s a tall guy with dreads outside the bar when they walk in - hard to say if its Tosh.

by: 100yearsoftrash

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 03:01:24 +0000

help me out…i don’t see tosh…& i thought he would never associate w/ jagger for his violent homophobia

by: ad

Sat, 30 Jun 2007 00:18:07 +0000

I agree with Rich above, side two of Tattoo You is one of the most consistent sides the Stones ever had. Even their best albums were spotty, but the last half of this one is flawless. Too, it’s the only record later in their career where they sort of act their age. Since about ‘69 or ‘70, the band seemed to figure out a formula for what made a “Rolling Stones Song” and what made a “Rolling Stones Album,” and they pretty much painted by numbers from then on.

The laid-back, unpretentious sound of Tattoo You is the one crack in the armor of all that rock god bullshit. Just a bunch of aging dudes who’ve led a charmed life, sitting back - satisfied - and making music that reflected that place they were at.

Start Me Up, of course, is typical Stones cookie-cutter garbage, that’s why you gotta stick with side two. Never flip that record over.

by: Satisfied '75

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 23:13:39 +0000

edg, i read that Taylor actually did sue the band when he heard his guitarwork on “Tops” which was recorded during the same 72 sessions

by: Edg

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:44:09 +0000

This is a great tune. I’ve heard different accounts as to when it was recorded, but the ‘72 time frame sounds as reasonable as any I’ve heard. I’d also read that the Rollins solo was pretty much a retake of the Mick Taylor guitar solo that was wiped from the multi-track. I don’t think Mick J would have been inclined to release the track with Mick T’s solo still intact 7 years after his departure from the band. Don’t know how true that is, but the song DOES lend itself to a Taylor-esque solo, at least it does when I try to play along with Rollins (none too deftly, I must concede) on guitar. If I were more of a Stones scholar I’d probably know the answer already, but I’d love to see a chronology of where each of the ‘Tattoo You’ songs hailed from ‘time/place’ wise. Side one of this album has some ’skippers’ (IMHO, of course) but Side 2 was a smooth listen all the way through. And the subject tune was as great a ’standalone’ track as anything after Sticky Fingers.

by: Philco Brothers

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 21:01:11 +0000

It is the last great Stones album!

by: David

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 18:54:11 +0000

I love Mick’s velcro shoes. Just like the ones I wore in kindergarten. Nice.

by: rich

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:54:05 +0000

The Tattoo You B-Side is one of the greatest B-sides ever!

by: Ray

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:17:12 +0000

What a great video, bringing back great memories of a really great time back in the east village of NYC. Tosh at the time was hanging with Mick and Keith a whole lot (just having finished up Pete’s Bush Doctor album, which they both collaborated on his version of the Temptation’s “Gonna Walk and Don’t Look Back”).

Would see Keith hanging in many of the local bars and clubs (especially the Ritz) around that time…he had a loft somewhere near Broadway and Great Jones a the the time

I remember when they shot this video down at the St Marks Bar and Grill, was lined up for hours hoping to get inside as an extra…but no luck.

Walked by that stoop a thousand times and never realized that it was the Physical Graffiti building…go figure!

by: Pete

Fri, 29 Jun 2007 17:16:55 +0000

I had not seen this in a long time. It’s funny because I thought I remembered Sonny Rollins being featured in the video playing as a street musician. Shows how reliable memory is. Also, for me the most interesting thing is the street scenes, having my memory of what NYC looked like back then refreshed. Everything after they get to the bar seems pretty lame.