Thirteen years earlier, in the song “Satisfaction” Keith Richards helped define the guitar riff driven song by maintaining the same guitar riff throughout most of the song. Along with Bill Wyman on bass, Watts creates a solid foundation as the guitar and vocals create tension and release within the beat. All he does for this fill is play two snare drum hits on off beats providing the perfect amount of momentum. His fills are simple like in the end of the first guitar riff after he enters. Watts is an understated player who does not bring attention to his playing.
He keeps a strong a solid tempo as the other instruments push ahead and pull back.
The rolling stones beast of burden driver#
What is unique in the song is how these instruments work together within the traditional rock set-up.Ĭharlie Watts plays the drums like a driver holding back a team of horses. Also like many other rock songs, the form of this song is built on a repeated four-chord guitar riff. The song has the traditional rock instrumentation of two guitars, bass and drums set. “Beast of Burden” the second to last song on Some Girls in some ways a typical rock song. They bounced back from inner turmoil to create one of their best albums critics called a classic return to rock form. The Rolling Stones featured “Beast Of Burden” on their fourteenth album, Some Girls, which they released in 1978. And “Beast Of Burden,” one of the Rolling Stones most interesting songs is abotu much more then a guy trying to convince a girl to make love to him. “Under My Thumb,” another famous Rolling Stones song is not about man putting down a woman he has complete control over but is about man who has been put down himself, overcompensating to his listener in an effort to regain lost masculinity. The Rolling Stones, in their most famous song “Satisfaction,” describes not a chauvinistic character that is bragging about his conquests but rather describes the feelings of regret in unsatisfying meaningless sex acts. Often, these songs have seemingly simple subjects, but many speak on a much deeper levels. Throughout their career, they have expressed the meaning of conflicts, feelings and insecurities in relationships. The Rolling Stones’ understanding of human relationships puts Dr.