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Rolling Stones songs: Can’t You Hear Me Knocking (alternate version)

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Written by: Jagger/Richard
Recorded: Rolling Stones Mobile, Stargroves, Newbury and Olympic Sound Studios, London, England, March-May 1970
Guest musicians: Rocky Dijon (congas), Jimmy Miller (percussion), Nicky Hopkins (piano), Billy Preston (organ)

From the The Rolling Stones – All the Songs, The Story Behind Every Track book:
In this song the lyrics count for relatively little. You got satin shoes/You got plastic boots/Y’all got cocaine eyes/You got speed-freak jive. Their sole purpose is to match the rhythm. The important thing is the music, which testifies superbly to the urgency of rock ’n’ roll. “‘Can’t You Hear Me Knocking’ came out flying—I just found the tuning and the riff and started to swing it and Charlie picked up on it just like that, and we’re thinking, hey, this is some groove. So it was smiles all around,” recalls Keith Richards in Life. The tuning referred to by the Stones guitarist is based on five strings: “Five strings cleared out the clutter. It gave me the licks and laid on textures.” can’t you hear me knocking alternate