| Traveling Wilburys - Rattled [Album Version] | Details |
"Rattled is a rockabilly song with Jeff most in evidence..." John Van Der Kiste (Early 1989 - Face The Music fanzine #5) "Yeah, well, we all wrote [Rattled], but I hadn't got a song yet. This was about the fourth or fifth one we did and I thought, 'Oh, I gotta sing one otherwise I'll go home and get something to eat.' [Laughs] Anyway, I'll send one up when I was singing it. Anyway, so it didn't matter. The singing start is sort of the rock 'n' roll voice that I do sometimes on my other records. But, uh..." "Like some records, you know, the combination of the sound. It was just so close to the good old rock 'n' roll thing from the late fifties. But partially, I think the guitars, acoustics and the refrigerator. The fridge, I tell you, it's a great new sound, folks. It's happening." "I hadn't got a song yet. This was about the fourth or fifth one we did and I thought, 'Oh, I gotta sing one otherwise I'll go home and get something to eat.' [Laughs] Anyway, I'll send one up when I was singing it. Anyway, so it didn't matter. The singing start is sort of the rock 'n' roll voice that I do sometimes on my other records." "The fridge, I tell you, it's a great new sound, folks. Like some records, to me that track, you know, the combination of the sound. It was just so close to the good old rock 'n' roll thing from like the late fifties. But partially, I think the guitars, acoustics and the refrigerator. " "'And... the drums, on Rattled, [Dave Stewart is] playing on the refrigerator [in his home]-- with these funny little sticks. It had to be a bit rough, but that was the fun part about it.' (George 1990)" "The unspectacular rockabilly-flavored Rattled was a Jeff Lynne-penned track; its most distinctive moment is the Oh, Pretty Woman 'growwwwwllllll' that Orbison employs at a couple of points during the song." "Much of the work [on the Volume One album] was done in the kitchen, with [Jim] Keltner rapping dowel sticks on the fridge to get the rickety-tick sound on the song Rattled." "[Rattled is] a number from The Traveling Wilburys Volume 1 on which Jeff Lynne takes the lead." "There was nothing innovative or significant about music that ranged from knockabout skiffle love songs to a classic American pop theme (the cars of Dirty World), through rockabilly (Rattled), to pure Orbison microdrama (Not Alone Any More)." "I opened the fridge and I saw all this stuff in there. And I thought, 'Oh, good. I'm going to eat well this afternoon.' And I happen to have my dowel stick at the time and I started running them across the grate... you know, the spacers that hold the eggs and things. And they're made of metal, you know. And any time I see something like that, being a drummer, I guess I always have to run my fingernail across or something. But I happen to have the sticks with me at the time. And so it make a great little sound and somebody made a comment in the background. And so I started playing like a little groove on it. And I noticed that if I move the eggs back a little bit, I move the enchiladas over to the side a bit, it tuned those little things. And we got kind of silly with it and then I started playing a more serious and everything. And somebody said, 'Well, let's overdub it.' And so that's how that happened. It became part of the track. It was the song Rattled that we used that on." "The soothing rock 'n' roll of Rattled takes the listener off on a different tangent and the song benefits from a fantastic shuffle styled drum-beat." "Each member in turn gets a shot on lead vocals [including] Jeff Lynne on the foot-tapping Rattled..." Jim Keltner, Jeff Lynne and George Harrison: "Jim Keltner: I opened the fridge-- which I'm usually told not to do at other people's homes; I have a tendency to do that-- and I saw all this stuff in there, and I thought, 'Oh, good, we're going to eat well this afternoon!' And I happen to have my drum sticks so I started running them across the grate, the spacers that hold the eggs and things. Any time I see something like that, being a drummer, I always have to run my fingernail across it or something. It created a great sound so I started playing a groove on it and I noticed that if I move the eggs back a little, moved the enchiladas over to the side a bit, it tuned those little things! Somebody said, 'Well, let's overdub it!' So became a part of Rattled. Jim Keltner, Jeff Lynne and George Harrison (2009 - The Traveling Wilburys book) "[Rattle] came [to the Traveling Wilburys] like usual, you know, we're all sittin' 'round, we're all strummin' our guitars. And I remember when it came to do the vocal, we did that at George's house 'cause for some reason that vocal wasn't completely finished in L.A. where we recorded everything else at Dave Stewart's house, the first album. And I remember George putting this really cool little guitar licks, like rockabilly guitar with a slap echo on it, you know that old-fashioned guitar, that, which is really inspiring for me to go sing it. And it's just basically a very... uh... what would you call it... a rock 'n' roll, rockabilly kind of thing with Roy Orbison's growl in it, which has gotta be good. And he just did the growl just especially for the Wiburys, his growl, his own personal growl. [I got to sing Rattled when] we took straws and I had the longest one. It seemed like [I was lucky to get it] at that time. I hadn't got that many to sing. I only got like one and a half to sing anyway, really, the lead parts. So everybody said Jeff should sing it and so there was no sort of, 'I'll get it! I wanted to sing that.' There wasn't any of that." "Jeff was the main writer of the rockabilly tune Rattled, and of the magnificently soaring ballad Not Alone Any More a perfect showcase for Roy s unmistakable vocal." "...the rockabilly ease of Jeff Lynne (Rattled)..." "In fact, Keltner found himself succumbing to the revelry while the Wilburys were coming up with the music for the Lynne-led rockabilly cut Rattled, as dutifully showcased in the 24-minute documentary The True History of The Traveling Wilburys, when he began playing out a rhythm on the house refrigerator. 'I was in the fridge at a time when Jeff and George were hanging out in the kitchen,' he explains. 'I went in to get something to drink, and I was doing an overdub at the time and had my split sticks on me, which are like these wooden brushes. So I had them in my hand while I was looking for something to drink and probably screwing around with them-- I like tapping on stuff when I have sticks in my hand. And I think I was scraping the wooden brushes against the fridge, and somebody made a comment about how I should play that on the track. So I got real serious about it, and started moving eggs around and tamales and whatever they had in there to tune it a little bit and Jeff loved it and said, Put a mic on it. Jeff knows how to get a feel out of anything.'" "Lynne provides a rare vocal lead on Rattled, though Orbison s enticing growls steal the show in a song whose beat is smacked out by Jim Keltner with split sticks on Stewart s refrigerator. It fits the album s anything-goes spirit..." | |
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