"The Chain" question

[teedeerocks]

Originally Posted by FuzzyPlum

I also have a question about The Chain...

I was listening to Stevie's original Chain demo (before it was cut up and adopted into what we know today).

I'm hearing some similarities with 'Play With Fire' by The Rolling Stones.
Is it just me or does anyone else think she could have been influenced by this?

The Chain (demo)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YNHbe0Q9UfI&safe=active

Play With Fire
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_QlBTOAqHhk

That's a great demo of The Chain.I never heard it before and never would have expected the demo to sound so drastically different from the recorded version.Now I have a "chain" when I wanna mellow OR rock out!Much thanks!

[SorcererJP]

Originally Posted by teedeerocks

That's a great demo of The Chain.I never heard it before and never would have expected the demo to sound so drastically different from the recorded version.Now I have a "chain" when I wanna mellow OR rock out!Much thanks!

Cool that you find it. I did put this on You Tube, to remotely play it for a distance friend.

This version is probably polished up a bit, since it's commercially available on the 35 Years of Rumours Box-set which was released 2012.

On topic: The fact that the F-word can be heard at the beginning of The Chain has been discussed ever since 1977 if I'm not mistaken. I believe not all pressings of the album has it.

[FuzzyPlum]

Originally Posted by SorcererJP

Cool that you find it. I did put this on You Tube, to remotely play it for a distance friend.

Cheers for putting this up.

I love both the original Chain and Keep Me There and would have been more than happy with both of them as individual songs (though I suppose they wouldn't have both been able to fit on Rumours). Like everyone I love the final version of The Chain but I do think they used up two really good songs to create a truly great one. It was a brave move to 'throw away' the Keep Me There vocals- I love the bluesy feel it had.