On today's Brizz Record Bin, we kicked off our Friday with one of my favorite songs by the Rolling Stones, "Waiting on a Friend." As a boss rock jock, I've had many conversations with many people, in and out of the music business, but all music lovers. I have yet to meet a person who doesn't smile a bit when they hear the opening notes to this gem from Tattoo You (1981).

I played that one today in honor of my father, who passed away four years ago today. He was a great dad and grandfather. He also had excellent taste in music. It was a subject that we could discuss for a few minutes on a short drive or throughout a whole night of drinking around the campfire somewhere in the mountains (many times in places we were not supposed to be). If I remember right, we surprisingly only went to one concert together but it was perhaps the best of any I will ever attend. It was a Bob Dylan show Halloween night in 2004 in Dekalb. One of those 'you had to be there' things. Dad was my best friend too, so this is more than appropriate.

A couple of things about the video for the song. The building that sets as the backdrop was used six years earlier as the cover for Led Zeppelin's Physical Graffiti album. The rastaman sitting on the stoop near Mick Jagger is reggae legend Peter Tosh. The song was first worked on in Kingston, Jamaica in the early '70s. The blonde guy sitting in the window as Keith walks by was paid a small sum of money to feature his apartment in the video.

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