“Wild Child”
From Dropout Boogie (2022)
t started with a drum loop that we made in the studio — [] Patrick Carney and I — and then we added guitar. We laid down this very simple thing — it felt so good — and I was just like, “Okay, what do we do now, to not mess this up?” That was the goal. It’s such a simple song, but it’s like that thing they always talk about: deceptively simple things. It’s such an iconic chord change; it’s in six million songs — just the most basic, fundamental change. There are so many songs that use that riff: songs by the Kinks, Jimi Hendrix, the Doors and AC/DC. It’s one of those things where it’s like, “How do we create this thing where we