For What it's Worth

[Nathan]

Originally Posted by CADreaming

Yeah, I understand that. Just never read/heard anything about Jessica being there when she wrote it.

She said she wrote it on an airplane, didn't she?

And that Jessica was there for take two, the second time she played it, and the filmed it with a Cybershot or something. Maybe that was Moonlight.

[APerfectLie]

Originally Posted by Nathan

She said she wrote it on an airplane, didn't she?

And that Jessica was there for take two, the second time she played it, and the filmed it with a Cybershot or something. Maybe that was Moonlight.

I will have to find the interview. I know Moonlight was recorded with a camera. But I swear somewhere she said she wrote FWIW in like 5 minutes and it was so great because her niece was there and got to see what the song writing process was like or something that effect.

[APerfectLie]

Originally Posted by Nathan

She said she wrote it on an airplane, didn't she?

And that Jessica was there for take two, the second time she played it, and the filmed it with a Cybershot or something. Maybe that was Moonlight.

Okay found the quote! Looks like it was shot on a camera too! Wouldn't it be awesome if the clip of her writing this made it into the documentary? I would die!

"They are, because anybody who knows me knows that’s how I write. I had a great experience when I was writing “For What It’s Worth.” I had gone to Hawaii for two weeks and my niece Jessi, who’s 19, came over, and I had some tracks from Mike and I had listened to them a couple months before didn’t hear anything, but I said, “I’m gonna revisit those tracks.” And there were, like, 10 tracks, and I hit track seven and I went, “oh my …” and I just started—I didn’t even have a formal poem—which doesn’t often happen. There’s this little train bell at the beginning and I started thinking about my granddad and how my grandfather rode the rails in the ‘40s and was a songwriter and played gigs all over the United States. And I just started singing along, and I was running around the room at the same time looking for paper and pencil and yelling at my assistant to get some kind of recording device. And all we have is a camera, so we immediately put the camera on video and we were able to record it. And then Jessi came in and I said, “Do you want to hear this?” I just sang it to her and at the end she said—and she’d lived with me, her parents [brother Chris and sister-in-law/backup singer Lori Nicks] have lived with me off-and-on for years—and she just said, “Oh, Aunt Stevie, that is so awesome.” Because it was the first time in the whole 19 years that she had known me that she actually saw the process and saw a brand new song happen; the second time I sang it, I sang it for her. And she was like, “How did you do that?” and I’m like, “I don’t know, Jess. It’s my little special gift from God.” That’s how I look at it."

[Nathan]

Thanks!

I guess I just imagined the plane part. Good story.

[Jondalar]

Does anyone have the radio edit for this? I liked it better, it as punchier.

[CADreaming]

Originally Posted by APerfectLie

Okay found the quote! Looks like it was shot on a camera too! Wouldn't it be awesome if the clip of her writing this made it into the documentary? I would die!

"They are, because anybody who knows me knows that’s how I write. I had a great experience when I was writing “For What It’s Worth.” I had gone to Hawaii for two weeks and my niece Jessi, who’s 19, came over, and I had some tracks from Mike and I had listened to them a couple months before didn’t hear anything, but I said, “I’m gonna revisit those tracks.” And there were, like, 10 tracks, and I hit track seven and I went, “oh my …” and I just started—I didn’t even have a formal poem—which doesn’t often happen. There’s this little train bell at the beginning and I started thinking about my granddad and how my grandfather rode the rails in the ‘40s and was a songwriter and played gigs all over the United States. And I just started singing along, and I was running around the room at the same time looking for paper and pencil and yelling at my assistant to get some kind of recording device. And all we have is a camera, so we immediately put the camera on video and we were able to record it. And then Jessi came in and I said, “Do you want to hear this?” I just sang it to her and at the end she said—and she’d lived with me, her parents [brother Chris and sister-in-law/backup singer Lori Nicks] have lived with me off-and-on for years—and she just said, “Oh, Aunt Stevie, that is so awesome.” Because it was the first time in the whole 19 years that she had known me that she actually saw the process and saw a brand new song happen; the second time I sang it, I sang it for her. And she was like, “How did you do that?” and I’m like, “I don’t know, Jess. It’s my little special gift from God.” That’s how I look at it."

Thanks for digging that up and sharing. I had not read that one.

[seekerj]

Originally Posted by Jondalar

Does anyone have the radio edit for this? I liked it better, it as punchier.

Yeah, how can we get this edit?