The intro to "In The Back of My Mind"
 

What was going on in the back of their minds?

Some cool ****, I'd say. :D

Yeah, I love that.

I love it too :D

If you want the version without the long intro - you can find it on the CD single :)

I agree
 

Oh, I don't dislike it it.

It just seems a little out of place with the sound of the album - and the era it was recorded in.

I just wonder where they pulled it out from?

Mick's ass, obviously. :thumbsup:

Any chance of posting that, please?

The version from the bootleg had a lot of electronic noise near the end.

I agree with the era issue but like the intro anyway.

but... isn't Tusk song out of place within its album too? (maybe not the whole album but specifically within that side

I love it... Great choice to open the show on the BTM tour. With SN added vocals to the opening it gives it an eerie gold dust woman ending sound.

I think it's Mick's influence mostly--it's his idea of trance-drone-African-loopy, which we were first introduced to on his "World Turning" vesturbation solo on the 1987 tour. In fact, the Atari/Hotz Box thing was probably played on the "Back of My Mind" intro on the album. It's the same kind of drone increasing in dynamics with those same strange, mysterious voices, like the men on the crab boats in a northern storm.