| TONY WILLIAMS
"It was meant as a sort of requiem," says Charlie. "We did it in one take. It was three times longer when we originally recorded it. It meanders on a bit. It's basically me muckin' about on drums and Jim doing something with the electronics and then Mick (Jagger) joins in on piano at one point. We often play around like that. Mick calls it movie music. During the recording I asked Jim to read this article from Modern Drummer magazine...it was the last interview that Tony did. So that's what he's reading through this sort of megaphone thing he brought in to the studio. It's an actual interview with Tony where he gets very ethereal and talks about the cymbal being the center of the universe. And that's what Keltner actually reads. It was a very moving tribute, really." |