Growing bored in a band is frustrating, but it\u2019s not exactly a rare phenomenon. And while these feelings can sometimes lead to a band fighting or, worse, breaking up altogether, this general malaise can also become a source of creative inspiration. The difference is finding a way to take that energy and use it to your advantage.<\/p>\n
That\u2019s what The Rolling Stones\u2014and, even more specifically, Brian Jones<\/a>\u2014did when they found themselves in an artistic slump in the mid-1960s. Considering the band was going up against groups like The Beatles, it wouldn\u2019t have been surprising if the sheer pressure alone was enough to make them quit. Instead, they started thinking outside of the box. And thank goodness they did.<\/p>\n The song that came out of this experimental boredom was The Stones\u2019 1966 hit, \u201cPaint It, Black\u201d<\/a>, which remains one of their more well-known cuts today, thanks to regular rotation on rock radio.<\/p>\n How \u201cPaint It, Black\u201d Helped Reinvigorate the Rolling Stones\u2019 Sound<\/p>\n When The Rolling Stones first came onto the scene, they were more focused on blues-centric rock \u2018n\u2019 roll. But just like The Beatles had to evolve from their earliest teenybopper music, The Stones were finding themselves stagnating a few years into their career, too. Brian Jones, the band\u2019s multi-instrumentalist with little songwriting influence over Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, began to grow restless during this time. Eager to find that creative spark once more, Jones began to follow the overarching trend toward Eastern instrumentation.<\/p>\n The mid-1960s saw a rise in instruments like the sitar to create trance-like, droning backdrops for increasingly psychedelic lyrics. The Beatles jumped on this bandwagon in 1965 with the release of their sitar-heavy \u201cNorwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown)\u201d. One year later, Jones helped The Rolling Stones do the same thing with his sitar feature<\/a> on \u201cPaint It, Black\u201d from Aftermath.<\/p>\n Based on chart performance alone, the track was a tremendous success. \u201cPaint It, Black\u201d topped the Billboard Hot 100 in the United States and in the band\u2019s native United Kingdom. It also hit the Top 10 throughout Europe and parts of Australasia.<\/p>\n Ultimately, that boredom turned out to be just what the band needed. The use of Eastern instrumentation helped link the band to the year\u2019s freshest, most attractive trends. Suddenly, The Stones found themselves on a more level playing field with The Beatles<\/a> as hippies and psych-rock lovers joined The Stones\u2019 rock \u2018n\u2019 roll fan base.<\/p>\n Photo by King Collection\/Avalon\/Getty Images<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Growing bored in a band is frustrating, but it\u2019s not exactly a rare phenomenon. And while these feelings…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":643871,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[53],"tags":[88,216,2156,1735],"class_list":["post-643870","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-music","tag-entertainment","tag-music","tag-rock-music","tag-the-rolling-stones"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643870","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=643870"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/643870\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/643871"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=643870"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=643870"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=643870"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}