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Also Known As: Had It With You 8 April - 17 June 1985:
Place: EMI Pathe Marconi Studios, Paris, France.
Producer: Steve Lillywhite, The Glimmer Twins.
Track status: Bootleg only.
Rolling Stones with Chuck Leavell.
The sessions were split after the initial get together
in January. Dave Jerden was one of the engineers at the sessions
as he had been for Jagger's album. The release of Mick Jagger's
solo album SHE'S THE BOSS in February 1985, although not a surprise
to the band since it was a negotiated settlement of the Stones'
CBS contract, did prove to be a troublesome element during the recording
of DIRTY WORK. Mick retaliated that he was in effect the last member
of the band to do a solo project but Keith Richards openly said
that he thought it was a totally inappropriate time to release a
solo project - 'it could have at least been an album of Irish folk
songs or summat!' Mick's energies were spent in promotion work for
his album in March, while Keith returned to New York to be present
at the birth of his daughter, Theodora. The band reconvened in April
to work on more tracks for DIRTY WORK. You Can't Cut The Mustard
is a Keith Richards and Ron Wood affair and is a precursor to Had
It With You. It is very much a rock and roll song with Berry guitar
riffs and gyrating piano. There are two versions - both with Keith
Richards on vocals. The first one just mentions the title track
while the second begins to refer to Had It With You. The lyrics
are totally different to the released Had It With You.
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