Record producer, mixing engineer, and multi-instrumentalist Brendan O'Brien – who famously worked with AC/DC, Pearl Jam, Rage Against the Machine, and Bob Dylan – has revealed how he ended up playing the of The Black Crowes' hit when he was still establishing himself in Atlanta. “[It was] the last day we're there. And by the way, that part and the guitar solo part, they were going to get someone else to play on it.
And the story was, at some point, Slash is going to come play. Someone else is going to come play on it,” recalls O'Brien in a new interview with . “And at some point, I just couldn't get him on the phone.
Right. You know that it's not going to happen. I think it was Chris [Robinson] [who] just said, ‘Let bud play.
He could do this in a heartbeat.’ “So I just want to say that both the guitar solo and the organ solo were played under duress of [music producer] George Drakoulias yelling at me. He's going, ‘Hurry up.
Are you done? Come on.’” Elsewhere in the interview, O'Brien clarifies the industry rumor that he played most of the instruments on the band's album . “I did not.
Those guys played everything. And Jeff Cease did a great job. He played all that guitar solo melody stuff on that record, and Rich [Robinson] played great.
And so those are his songs. So yeah, I felt like I was helpful to those guys. But they did all that.
So there's no question about that.” The Black Crowes’ cover version of the 1968 Otis Redding single was their bre.
