“The boys thought the bass needed more bottom-end. So I laid on the floor and punched the organ pedals with my fists”: How Bill Wyman transformed a landmark Rolling Stones track

Throughout his 30-year tenure with the Rolling Stones, Bill Wyman teamed up with drummer Charlie Watts to form one of rock’s most solid rhythm sections, driving such Stones classics as (I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction, 19th Nervous Breakdown, Honky Tonk Woman, Brown Sugar, Start Me Up, and Miss You.

“I suppose you could say I created what was happening on Miss You,” Wyman told Bass Player back in 2010. “You know, the walking bass, that octave bass thing. After that, just about every band in the world took that idea and used it in a song. Rod Stewart used it, and a lot of funky bands did, also.”

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