# Rolling Stones-Smoke Stack Lightning **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [November 21, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stones-smoke-stack-lightning/473762 "2008-11-21T01:24:09Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 9\ **Page:** 1
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 1:24am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stones-smoke-stack-lightning/473762/1 "2008-11-21T01:24:09Z")
Are a fruitless web search, I ask the 'Dope-Which album is it on? Thanks, CP ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 1:30am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stones-smoke-stack-lightning/473762/2 "2008-11-21T01:30:02Z")
After a fruitless web search, dang it. :rolleyes: ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stones-smoke-stack-lightning/473762/3 "2008-11-21T01:49:48Z")
Off the top of my head, I’m 99.99% certain the Stones never released a version of “Smoke Stack Lightning.” Could you possibly be thinking of the Animals’ version? ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 2:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stones-smoke-stack-lightning/473762/4 "2008-11-21T02:27:00Z")
Or you could be thinking of [Lynyrd Skynyrd’s](http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c2nwIuPYDMM&fth=18) version off their “1991” album. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 2:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stones-smoke-stack-lightning/473762/5 "2008-11-21T02:44:25Z")
> [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](#): > > Off the top of my head, I’m 99.99% certain the Stones never released a version of “Smoke Stack Lightning.” Could you possibly be thinking of the Animals’ version? [Wikipedia](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Smokestack_Lightning) mentions that the Stones did a cover. “The song has been covered numerous times by various artists including The Rolling Stones, The Yardbirds, The Animals, The Grateful Dead,Bob Dylan, The Who, The Electric Prunes, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Soundgarden, Quicksilver Messenger Service and George Thorogood.” While I’ve got you here, when did Bob Dylan do it? ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 3:37am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stones-smoke-stack-lightning/473762/6 "2008-11-21T03:37:25Z")
The Wikipedia list must include live performances. Dylan has never released a version either AFAIK, even on the “Bootleg Series,” but he did perform it on a radio show back in 1962. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:04am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stones-smoke-stack-lightning/473762/7 "2008-11-21T04:04:07Z")
Rats. Thanks! 🙂 ---
**Author:** ![blondebear](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/blondebear/32/1022_2.png) [@blondebear](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/blondebear)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:09am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stones-smoke-stack-lightning/473762/8 "2008-11-21T04:09:28Z")
According to [The Complete Works](http://www.nzentgraf.de/books/tcw/works1.htm), the song was in their setlist in 1963. ---
**Author:** ![carnivorousplant](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/carnivorousplant/32/3563_2.png) [@carnivorousplant](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/carnivorousplant)\ **Post date:** [November 21, 2008, 4:16am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/rolling-stones-smoke-stack-lightning/473762/9 "2008-11-21T04:16:11Z")
And Johnny B. Goode. 🙂