Mike Garrigan Podcast

In this episode, we start with a familiar rock-and-roll question: are you a Beatles person or a Rolling Stones person? Inspired by a line from Pulp Fiction—where Mia Wallace suggests people fall into either the Beatles or Elvis camp—we explore a slightly different divide: the polished brilliance of The Beatles versus the raw, attitude-driven energy of The Rolling Stones.From there, the conversation traces the long shadow the Beatles once cast over the Stones—from early covers like “I Wanna Be Your Man” to the era of Sgt. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band and the Stones’ psychedelic reply, Their Satanic Majesties Request. That shadow finally lifted with the swagger and originality of Sticky Fingers—and soon after, the band’s unlikely exile to the south of France, where they created one of rock’s most mythic records: Exile on Main St..Listening closely to that album—its loose grooves, rough edges, and moments of strange transcendence—becomes the inspiration for a new song, “If You Say So.” This episode walk