TE ROLLING STONES Play with Fire (Australian TV Bandstand Special, Sydney, February1966) Play with Fire originally released as B-side to the song The Last Time. It was later included on the American release of the Rolling Stones 1965 album Out of Our Heads. Play with Fire is credited to Nanker Phelge, a pseudonym used when tracks were composed by the entire band, even though lead singer Mick Jagger and guitarist Keith Richards are the only Rolling Stones to appear on the track. The song was recorded late one night in January 1965 while the Stones were in Los Angeles recording with Phil Spector at the RCA Studios. Richards performed the songs acoustic guitar opening while Jagger handled vocals and tambourine (enhanced using an echo chamber). Spector played bass (actually a tuned-down electric guitar), and Jack Nitzsche provided the songs distinctive harpsichord arrangement and tamtams. The Stones left for a tour of Australia the following day. The songs lyrics talk of the singers relationship with a high society girl, disparaging the lifestyle much in the same way that 19th Nervous Breakdown would in a more up-tempo feel. The title refers to the idiom If you play with fire, you get burned. An unreleased version of the song, entitled Mess with Fire, was also recorded. It featured a much more upbeat, soul-oriented feel. Line-up / Musicians: (on Out of Our Heads) Mick Jagger – lead vocals, percussion Keith Richards – acoustic guitars With: Jack Nitzsche – harpsichord, percussion Phil Spector – detuned bass guitar (wiki)
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