I am 73 now. I remember this and other Stones songs at first listen. I can even remember where I was when I heard some of them. It's interesting to watch this fellow hearing it fresh. When I heard this one I had just walked into a diner. The jukebox was loud. It hit me like a brick. Much later, I saw them live in Nashville, mid-70s, on their Hot Licks tour at the old Civic Center. I had seen other acts there and they had been too loud, or the sound was not quite right. The Stones were intelligent enough to make sure the sound was right. Loud but not distorted, not too loud. They made sure the room worked beforehand. This fellow didn't mention Bill Wyman's bass, or I missed it if he did. Bill Wyman gave their songs the greatest basslines possible. They hated for him to leave the band, and if you have listened to them you know why. The song is an icon, as is the band. People who don't like rock and roll, I guess, don't even get this. I have discovered all kinds of music, but I have never stopped listening to the Stones. And I have never gotten tired of their best. Thank the fates we had the Stones.

As a guy who listened to the song in my senior year in high school when it was first released, I only had a vague idea of the lyrics. There was no internet and it would take some pretty good research to find the lyrics of a new song. They probably would not be available at the library, at least not without a lot of searching through magazines. But the song had its own quality. Jagger's singing was basically another musical instrument and if you could not tell what every word was, it didn't too much matter. Even if you knew each word, it didn't too much matter.

What is so amazing about this band is how young they were. They were still in their mid twenties when they created this music. They were all musical geniuses that somehow got together and made the world a better place with their extreme talent. I never get tired of listening to them.

I was 13 in 8th grade when this song was released. Every local band that played every school dance or back alley jam HAD to play this. The riff just sticks in your brain.

Love the Stones! Please also do "Can't You Hear Me Knocking" and "Time Waits For No One."

Best song about a gardener ever recorded!!!!

Thank you for your reaction to this Stones staple. 😊 I believe the "born in a crossfire hurricane" refers to the fact that both Kieth and Mick were born in London in 1943 when the city was being bombed by the Germans. And yes it has often been the opening song to to their concerts. Great live track for sure. Secondly, if the song has a twin, that twin would be Street Fighting Man, which was written at the same time and according to Kieth, is the same riff, just backwards. True story 😊

These guys were not just a good band..they were and are iconic legends

Bill Wyman on bass doesn't get enough credit . He is driving the bass and harmony line around the bend all the way thriugh the song.

When this came out all the guys in my hood said "Great! Back to "Satisfaction" groove!!!"

I love how much better you understand the music than most other reactors on KZfaq. If you want to get a better insight into the Stones see if you can find clips or the whole video of Rock & Roll Circus. Definitely worth watching - not just for the Stones performance but other bands too like Jethro Tull, The Who and Dirty Mac. Such an insight into the era.

The Stones Are the Literal definition of Rock n Roll... street Fighting Man, Honkey Tonk woman, Give me Shelter are also Big time bangers

The story goes that Keith and Mick were hanging out at Keith's farmhouse estate one night during a thunderstorm and watching his gardener named Jack running around outside taking care of stuff and they wrote this one. Pretty funny if true.

Speaking as a Man of a certain age, this one was a Dancing floor filler back in the 70s!!!! X

Great song! I loved the photograph on the single´s sleeve.I must tell I never saw it as the tale of a villain.I always took it as the story of someone that has had to face a hard life since childhood but he´s so Jumpin´Jack Flash enough to overcome.

Two things..1) Keith’s guitar is an acoustic bled through a cheap tape recorder which produced a unique sound 2) Cross-fire hurricane is a reference to being born in the German bombing of London during WW2.

I heard Keith Richards say that his favorite Stones song to play live is this one. I'm grateful I've seen them JJF 8 times now.

One of the best of one of the best! Enjoyed your analysis and, as always, I appreciate your enthusiasm for what must go in to crafting, recording, and performing iconic songs. Guess I have seen this live 16 times now as they have never left it out of any of the concerts I attended.

On my 10 best all time list! It sounds as good the 5000th listen as the first. Blues Rock! It is unmatched, and what is so sorely missed in todays throwaway pop nonsense made with lifeless computer programs and robotic autotune.

Your discovery is very satisfying to see. It was the same for us in the 60's. I was about 8, but loved it ever since.

This is my favourite song of all time, I remember hearing the riff as a child, my dad had it on a cassette tape (yes I'm that old!). It's the first piece of music that really made me think wow I like that, what is it, who is it. So glad you like it too 😀👍. Classic song and an awesome riff, saw them play this in Hyde Park a few weeks back ❤

Brian created this group to be a blues band. Things started to shift, Brian's leadership was morphing into that of Mick and Keith... and shifting away from the blues. Brian, the man who could play just about anything, lost himself in drugs as he was searching for the feeling he once had with the group he named and founded...and then have his creation go on without him? What a feeling of loss! Sure Mick Taylor added a dynamic dimension but Brian was the heart and soul that is greatly missed.

JJF is one of the most important songs in r'n'r history. Not only is it an amazing riff, but it signaled the dawn of the Stones' golden era (and return to blues/r'n'r roots). JJF never gets old. It's a perfect song.

Brett and I turned 8yrs and big brothers turned us on to Rock n Roll. We were cub scouts into the stones and wanted to be a band.

Awesome channel, man! Love how you react emotionally/intellectually to every song. The blues on a basic level is about catharsis through artistic expression but there is also an element of braggadocio and humor similar to hip hop/rap as well as rock. Try going to the source. I suggest Robert Johnson , King of the Delta Blues and the first member of the 27 club. Try Terraplane Blues first then compare Foghat's cover. I'm sure you'll enjoy R.J. since his music is so emotive.

I really love this reaction because you hit everything I love about this song, minus the bass, which your should listen to again just to appreciate it and add it to what you love about this song. Best opening line ever.

Keith had gotten into Open Tunings and the change in sound contributes to the menacing feel of the track.

I’m 65 and so glad I was alive to witness all this. The sound track of my life.

Paint it Black is a must hear if you haven't heard it before

You talk about the English bands (and yes, as a Scot, I can say it was English bands) and say that they got (ie understood) the Blues in a way that (white) Americans didn't in the 60s, and that's because English bands acknowledged and respected, indeed celebrated, explicitly the black origins of the Blues, whereas white artists in the US couldn't or wouldn't, at least until after the "British Invasion" in the 60s. The English bands therefore sounded much more authentic than the (white) American counterparts of the times.

In 1967, while The Beatles were being wined and dined and praised as geniuses, The Rolling Stones were being harassed, raided, arrested, humiliated, and jailed. Finally, after public outcry, support from other bands, and especially a sympathetic editorial in The Times called “Who Breaks a Butterfly On a Wheel?”, the police backed off, Jagger and Richards were released from prison, and the Stones began their classic period, getting back to the blues, and beginning really with this song. The next five years were arguably the best five years and 4 classics albums (‘Beggars Banquet’, ‘Let It Bleed’, ‘Sticky Fingers’, and ‘Exile On Main St’) that any band has ever had. The live version from ‘The Rolling Stones’ Rock and Roll Circus’ is a little slow, but I love it. It was filmed in 1968, the same year “Jumping Jack Flash” and ‘Beggars Banquet’, featuring “Sympathy For The Devil” were released. kzfaq.info/get/bejne/qNuEgNNlxNndYXk.html

I love the lyrics in Jigsaw puzzle 😊from Baggers Banquet Much humor in it

One of my favorite guitar intros of all time.

I think these lyrics are less a sister-piece to "Sympathy for the Devil," and more a complete absorption and modernization of the old Delta- and Chicago blues lyrical traditions. Dylan did this earlier as he made the transition to electric instruments (Bringing it all Back Home and Highway 61 Revisited, in particular, but this included Blonde on Blonde, as well), but Dylan's lyricism was a much different evolution, to be sure, from what Jagger and Richard's developed here. That being said, I see this as more of a "Born Under a Bad Sign" analog, but with a defiant perseverance in the face of the evil of the world, than the embrace of evil as an ethos, a la "Sympathy for the Devil," as such, although "Sympathy" is a much more mature lyric, in any event, literary, if you will, as I suspect that Jagger may have been inspired by a perusal of Milton's "Paradise Lost," and its original presentation of Satan as a sympathetic character. What I like about "Sympathy," however, is more its condemnation of human societies throughout the ages, for which we blame the devil, as opposed to taking responsibility for the hells unleased ourselves; I never saw that lyric as an embrace of evil (or even devilishness, as it were), although after Altamont, the suggestion certainly stuck!

You're so right about the Brits being able to reimagine the blues and take it somewhere new is spot on. Led Zeppelin did the same.

First line refers to Keith being born during an air-raid during WWII

Sir I do appreciate your reaction videos. Pure class. All the best.

Its one of my top ten favorite songs of alltime too as someone else mentioned ..maybe even top five

This is the epitome of the stones raunch....and skill. Perfect

The leanest, meanest riff in rock. That opening line is Mick singing about his own life during WWII.

Holy shit my favorite stones song!!! You are a rock star for doing this!! I will tell you after the song how it came about! Rock on brother!

I just love how you reacted to this song. Love the Rolling Stones!!!!❤

Richard's autobiography is quite good, well worth a read. He was was quite explicit with his life, and very funny.

Keith fell asleep while creating the RIFF to SATISFACTION and woke up to it playing on his recorder.

Hard to believe that there is someone who hasn't heard this before! This was huge at the time and entered everyone's psyche. Goodbye Mick.

..."I was born in a crossfire hurricane" refers to German bombers strafing London in 1942 (Jaggers birthdate) with the air defends searchlights trying to locate those German planes ....

Fun fact…..Richards was once asked how this song came about….he said that Mick was at his house one night and right before dawn there was a clatter outside of the window where they were sitting. Mick and I were startled when I saw that it was my gardener . I told Mick that s just my gardener Jack old Jumping Jack…..that spurred us and we sat and wrote the song….great story

Sorry I missed stream yesterday, sounds it was a good one. Can't get go wrong with the Stones. I always thought this was about a difficult childhood, but he comes out ok, finds life a gas anyway; despite the vicissitudes of life. Catch ya' this evening. Maybe hear "Wild Horses"?

My 11th time to watch this - how awesome you are sir!

I've continued to watch this and your reaction- its truly a gas gas gas - bless you 🙏

“I was born in a cross-fire hurricane” was a reference to the German bombing raids of England - what the Stones were born into.

You're absolutely right about the British and the blues. In America, the blues was "race music" and the mainstream radio stations wouldn't play it. It came to England via it's port cities, where sailors returning from the USA brought home records they had heard and bought in the States. In the North, the Beatles heard it in the port city of Liverpool, in the South the Stones heard it in London, the UK's biggest port. The English had no idea, and would not have cared anyway, that the artists were black! They took the music and remade it and took it back to America, where it exploded as the waves of the "British Invasion" crashed ashore. 🇬🇧

The intro is my ringtone!

Another Stones favorite of mine. No body does it better

I appreciate your enthusiasm for the music of the Rolling Stones. Jumpin' Jack Flash is one of the greatest rock and roll songs ever and this song marked the beginning of the Stones career peak from 1968 to 1973. Keith Richards created the stellar riff and the awesome first line to the song, which was inspired by his neighbors' house being bombed by the Germans when Keith was an infant. Keith called his gardener "Jumpin Jack", Mick Jagger added "Flash", and they both wrote the rest of the lyrics. Those propulsive guitars are actually ACOUSTIC guitars, all played by Keith, who also is on bass, backing vocal and even a tom tom when the final verse starts. Bill Wyman plays organ, Brian Jones plays the electric guitar that comes in later, the great Charlie Watts on drums and Mick embodies the song with his singing - he IS Jumpin' Jack Flash. This is a joyous and defiant song about survival, delivered with the Stones trademark swagger. I highly recommend that you experience: Tumbling Dice Rocks Off Honky Tonk Women Miss You Midnight Rambler (from the LIVE album, Get Yer Ya Ya's Out!) I think you'll enjoy them all. P.S. Their album Exile on Main Street is the greatest rock and roll album ever, a bluesy masterpiece that ventures into country music, boogie woogie, gospel and soul. A deep dive will blow you away!

Believe it or not, an acoustic rhythm guitar and a super minimal close miked practice drum lit!

Superb track. My vinyl 45 is often on the turntable. The flip side "Child Of The Moon" is also worth a listen

Ditto on the Bill Wyman comments. The bass is driving that band!!

It's irresistible when it starts with an iconic Keef Richards RIFF!!!!!!!

The cross-fire hurricane was WWII and the bombing of London.

Loving your channel and Rolling Stones reactions. You should explore Exile on Main Street, SWEET VIRGINIA, lots of analysis in there. Keep up the good work Bro.

There are a few bands that no music collection is complete without, the Stones are definitely one of them.

I love the fact that you 'get' the Stones!

The Stones and the Beatles have some of the biggest hits of the 60s with ‘no direction home’. It’s crazy that labels didn’t include some of these singles on the artists’ next album.

The riff was invented by Bill Wyman, not Keith Richards. One night Bill, Charlie and Brian were jamming in the studio waiting for Mick and Keith to arrive and Bill played the early version of the riff with a piano and Mick and Keith instantly liked it when they got to the studio. According to Bill, they told them to keep playing so they wouldn't forget the tune. Mick wrote the lyrics and Keith joined in and they honed the riff to final version. But in the record the credits state Jagger/Richard instead of Jagger/Richard/Wyman. They should've showed some respect to Bill and include his name because that kickstarted the whole song.

Mick Jagger *IS* Jumping Jack Flash.

Born during war.. raised poor. Then you hear about bread, bleeding feet and spikes in the head. That's Jesus. The Stones are simply gods of sound.

If it was autobiographical, the first line should be "I was born in Dartford". We should be thankful for creative licence.

The reason I have always preferred the Stones and Who to the Beatles is summed up by this record. They were dangerous and crazy guys who sang about living life on the edge.

Search up the scene from Martin Scorsese’s 1973 film, “mean streets”, in which he uses this to the max!

That thick sound you mentioned at 5:15 has a lot of bass in it.

This song obviously talks about traumatic upbringing and growing up rebellious and different.

Imagine this one live, you say - give Flash 1998 in Buenos Aires a Chance! Great reaction, and I like your thoughts about These Songs.

In the 1950's and 1960's the Blues was not recognised as a music genre for the majority of the people in America... In fact sometimes the best place for American blues musicians to get a reasonable gig was here in the UK... So the British promoters bought them over. And then of course the the British bands who came out of the skiffle craze in the fifties picked up on the blues going around because that was where the gigs were. There were a huge amount of folk and blues clubs. They then went on to become the world conquering force and showed America what it had ignored for all this time. The great thing about The Stones is that they have always admitted their influences and name checked them whenever they are asked about it.

If you liked this one, check out Midnight Rambler -- on the album Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! -- Live at Madison Square Garden recorded during the autumn of 1969. The studio version sounds very different, it appears on the album Let It Bleed (released late November 1969). The live version is violent, raw, and nasty while the studio version is somewhat bluesy-jazzy in a treacherously haunting and sophisticated way. The sequence for the Stones was studio version first and then the live version performed during the autumn concert tour. Just amazing stuff. You would enjoy each version in the sequence following sequence: 1) Studio - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/arxhhtmK3NG6pJ8.html and 2) Live - kzfaq.info/get/bejne/h59poqinx56-cqc.html

I am good at rhythm. Everybody knows that Hendrix is a guitar god. Well, nobody notices that there is another one around, but he isn't a solo guitarist, he is a rhythm guitarist. In my mind Richards is for rhythm guitar what Hendrix is for solo guitar, with rhythm he can, literally, do whatever he wants.

That's Keith on bass too, with regular Stones bassist Bill Wyman playing organ on this one.

B. Jones the founder of the band and the best musician in the Stones , K .Richards, an under rated guitarist/musician/song writer . Still on top of the world .

Mick jagger vocal.keith Richards lead guitar.charlie watts drums.brian Jones rythum guitar.bill wyman bass.

Hell yeah. This is on my acid playlist when i tripped out back then... ..let's be realistic tho. You gotta try Pink Floyd- Astronomy Domine. The Piper at the gates at Dawn.

2nd favorite Stones song, behind ANGIE.

I need to check out the Gimme Shelter version, thanks !

Jumping Jack was the name of Keith Richards Gardner. He was stomping around outside wile Mick and Keith were inside. The lyrics came flowing out.

It's more of a companion to their "Street Fighting Man".

This is before Sympathy for the Devil. Probably a precursor on the lyrical Jagger's skills.

I find it hard to imagine how anyone hasn’t heard this before tbh

Great pick. Cool song.ull like.

Jack Flash gets a mention in the song American Pie.

I'm a new subscriber and just love your approach and delivery of these reactions. So many others are just lame for lack of a better word. The historical references in Sympathy for the Devil you got and most don't. Gimme Shelter is by many critics account, top 5 of all time greatest rock songs. Keith Richards has an ability to grab you and draw you in before a single word is spoken. Amazing band in my opinion.

Superb break down & thats from a 71 year old scoucer !

A song listened to by an entire generation born under a crossfire hurricane in the autum of 1940

There's a great story about then-Beatle Paul McCartney riding around London in a limo, hearing the BBC announce, "And now, the new single by the Rolling Stones. "Turn it up!" McCartney said. After it was over, he said, "That's a bit of alright. Hey Tony, phone up the BBC and get them to play it again." Tony Bramwell was friend of the Beatles who single-handedly invented the position of rock publicist/promoter. Pre-cell, so they had to stop the car at a pay phone. Tony had the number, and told the BBC Paul wanted to hear it again. The BBC obliged at once.

They are the offspring of The Greatest Generation, all they went thru, Never a complaint.

When I saw the Stones late last year, my only complaint was that their performance of this song was so amazing that I wished for an extended version. Put simply, this is a great song that is even better live.

Listen closely when he says “Jumping Jack Flash, It’s a gas” it sounds very close to “jumping Jack flash shits a gas” 😂 my grandfather pointed that out to me

To me it means. I made it here,now let's party

My favorite Stones song.

Okay according to Keith Richard's in his autobiography him and Mick had partied all night at Keith's Redlands estate and early in the morning Mick heard a thumping sound from Keith's front door area and Mick asked what is that and Keith replied..oh that's my lands keeper Jack..Jumping Jack- thats where Mick got the idea for the song - thank you sir for doing it..Tom Petty ( RIP) said he thought it was one of the greatest rock songs ever 👏👍 I absolutely agree !

Recorded at Muscle Shoals Recording studios in Alabama.

I'm an American and I first learned of American blues from groups like the Stones and the Yardbirds in the 60s. You're right. The Brits got it in a way the American rockers didn't.