A nap, a gardener, and making The Rolling Stones’ 1968 classic: “It woke Mick up”

A nap, a gardener, and making The Rolling Stones’ 1968 classic: “It woke Mick up”It turns out that a humble gardener from a bucolic retreat in the English countryside lent a green-fingered hand in shaping a fired-up gem by The Rolling Stones from 1968. The fact was, The Stones’ taste for LSD was largely kept within the era’s swinging hedonism. “There was the sound of these heavy stomping rubber boots near the window, belonging to my gardener, Jack Dyer, a real countryman from Sussex,” Richards recalled in his Life autobiography. I started to work around the phrase on the guitar, which was in open tuning, singing the phrase ‘Jumping Jack.’ Mick said, ‘Flash,’ and suddenly, we had this phrase with a great rhythm and ring to it.