Keith Richards Appreciation Thread

What a Chad

Faggot

Putting Marlon to sleep

You think there's any truth to that old story about the Nazi hideout

indeed

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youtu.be/1175axY2Vvw
fave live

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I did like his book but was it really that good idea to go to all those juke joints in America? Looking at the blues films those places were actually dangerous for an unaware englisman.

I still need to read his book

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>Looking at the blues films those places were actually dangerous for an unaware englisman.
>Places where poor blacks congregate not a good place for a poofy anglo in pirate garb

sexy rat man

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He survived. But he had staff to handle the trouble of course.

Is there discos like the old juke joints nowadays in USA? The raw blues music have probably died away already?

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Yeah I plan on reading it asap. What a fuckin life he has had.

>The raw blues music have probably died away already?
The only people that listen to that are old people and people that pay for freeform radio

It's all moved into illegal raves in warehouses
Not as easy to listen to, but apparently it's fun on drugs

The house movement started from Illinois and Michigan and that's still the thing going on?

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that filename lol

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I wouldn't say that, Mick is pretty much respected if not revered for his work with the stones, he was on some of their most iconic tracks.

As for Keith, he's not a lead player, so you have to judge him for his rythm playing - which is top notch. his interplay with Jones, Taylor, and Wood is legendary, for example,. Slash and Izzy used that as a basis for their work together - and for his songwriting - which is beyond top notch, as he wrote some of the biggest riffs in music history.

Keif is the shit. if you deny that, you're retarded. He's the OG bad boy guitar player, everyone has followed in his shoes, since. Him and Jagger are the soul of the Stones, even though they haven't gotten along longer than they did.

His book is one of the better ones out there - but like most, take it with a small grain of salt. But, it is good. I feel like he held back, just to keep the peace - it's well known he went years without talking to Jagger, except through management, and he didn't get to deep into that.
But it's way more honest than anything Jagger would ever put out.

Keef is the shit!! Hell yeah

Thanks for the insight! Love that Keith, for the most part, is an honest person.

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Keith can play. There's a live version of Midnight Rambler in which he plays the lead parts and they sound really good, better than Taylor imo. He's also a blues connoisseur.

bluesmens>keith richards, jimmy page, kimmi hendrix, eric clapton, santana...

>You think there's any truth to that old story about the Nazi hideout
You mean the Nellcote basement? Yes it's true. Apparently Andy Johns or Jimmy Miller found some bag with a bunch of old as fuck pills and drugs and threw it away before Keef got his hands on it

His book is good except all the cringe parts where he makes up stories about being le badass dangerous drug addict getting into fights with sailors or escaping from dealers shooting at him. Keith I love you but you're a 5'9" painfully thin and weak sheltered bong who's lived in a bubble surrounded by bodyguards since 1965. You're as tough as a puppy, stick to playing guitar.

Nah, like dance music went from the blues to electronic 4x4 so I guess, to an extent house yeah.

Discos aren't around though, it's mostly nightclubs spinning top40 pop these days. Sad to say, even worse to hear.

I wasn't familiar with the juke joint story, figured they would've had a bit more sense than to try and get an "authentic" experience of that culture. Blues was made for the white man, not to get the white man around.

>As for Keith, he's not a lead player, so you have to judge him for his rythm playing
I could have sworn it was Keith doing the lead on Love in Vain, as I'd heard that Mick wrote the riff for Ventilator Blues. That makes way more sense and now I feel ashamed for that comment.

>Apparently Andy Johns or Jimmy Miller found some bag with a bunch of old as fuck pills and drugs and threw it away before Keef got his hands on it
Had no idea about that. I was talking about the old myth that it was written because that was an old Nazi hideout that Keith was staying in and the vents were shaped like swastikas.

>I was talking about the old myth that it was written because that was an old Nazi hideout that Keith was staying in and the vents were shaped like swastika
What was written?

Ventilator Blues

Yeah I don't know about that. I know they gave Taylor a songwriting credit and not even Taylor himself knows why

>Yeah I don't know about that. I know they gave Taylor a songwriting credit and not even Taylor himself knows why
I'd heard it was the other way in that Mick wrote the riff but the glimmer twins didn't credit him on it

Taylor always talked about writing this and that and how he wrote many songs but listening to his solo album makes it clear he had zero talent for writing anything. Also Glyn Johns said in his book that by 1973 Taylor used to go to the studio by himself after the songs were done and wanted to overdub everything himself, including drums, and got mad when Johns told him to fuck off. Heroin's a hell of a drug

No wonder they kicked the prick out, talentless ego-driven maniac. Good riddance. Too bad the Stones died with him, but a twenty year run and some of the most respected rock n roll records of all time isn't a bad win.

black and blue is a pretty sweet album

Yes, absolute kino
youtube.com/watch?v=4Qt1sjCQK_M
Still, it was a fucking terrible career move for Ronnie Wood to join them

>It's all moved into illegal raves in warehouses
Are you a time traveler from 1989?

Still doesn't look right in promo pics, even the last one of Charlie before he died (may he rest his soul)

Nah but that's still how it is
>t. Brooklyn fag

Blues was a South thing, they never had that in NYC. It'd have been more like jazz clubs up there.

Thanks for all the nice discussion guys, I learned some new things.

I love Keith!!!

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>place for black folks to go and get rowdy at while drinking hard liquor

also warehouse raves are really more of a European thing. or, were 25 years ago.

Very wholesome thread op

You obviously have no conception of poor black culture or what I was trying to say, so I'm going to drop it here

np, gotta share the love of my favorite guitarist

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Not entirely related but KK Downing said on one of Priest's early US tours him and Glenn Tipton accidentally found themselves in a bar full of Hells Angels and they were like oh shit shit shit retreat!

Is it even possible to pull off that hair in 2022?

such a fine man

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I dunno what they listen to in the South these days. Blake Shelton or other shit brocountry? IDK.

Men have been experiencing culture-wide balding since the 70's

>Blake Shelton or other shit brocountry? IDK.
Atlanta hip hop

wait does he mean white or black people?

One more Keef and I'm off to bed

You better get some sleep tonight...

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Staying up all night was cool for a couple years, but now I'm into eating breakfast

Either way

kek at least KK Downing was honest and admitted him and Glenn shit themselves and ran from a biker bar. if that were Keef he would have claimed he went Popeye mode, downed a can of spinach, and beat up the entire bar full of bikers all by himself.

>he would have claimed he went Popeye mode, downed a can of spinach, and beat up the entire bar full of bikers all by himself.
Altamont nigga

White people listen to shit brocountry black people Atlanta hip-hop or something like that.

as I said the clubs only play top 40 pop nowadays because music is dead and there's no local scenes anymore

>Nashville country
>Cali lo-fi hippie shit
>Atlanta hip hop
>NY drill

>UK post punk

Supposedly once when Priest were touring in the US they were driving through the South, the bus stopped at a truck stop, and their tour manager was like "yeah you guys better not set foot outside dressed like that."

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really, come on, man. the people the Stones hung around with in the 60s-70s were bohemian artists and movie directors, we're talking, like Andy Warhol and Francoise Hardy, not plumbers and sailors here.

What's in my bag?

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>that guy
Surprises me given how skinny his arms are

They went to France on tax evasion
They could have picked anywhere and they went to the French countryside

This one was probably during Aftermath

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This picture makes me blush...

Blues was exhausted and kaput before the 70s were out. By the time white people discovered it blacks were moving on to other stuff like funk and guys like BB King were literally playing to nothing but audiences of white hippies by the time Nixon was president.

Kieth Richards is the sound of the Rolling Stones. I had the opportunity to jam with Kieth at a rehearsal studio where he happened to be playing the guitar... also most of his music is played on Open G tuning (DADGAD)...

i'm sure they didn't mind. they made tons more money, got all kinds of publicity, and much safer audience than playing in black dive bars

he's so good you don't realize just how good but then occasionally he makes you jizz your pants and forget again and it goes on

pretty based

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based

He's my favourite guitarist and I've seen them 5 times in the last 10 years, only the first time was when he didn't completely fuck up the SFTD solo and it actually sounded decent. All the other times it's been a shambles. At Hyde Park he somehow messed up the intro to Start Me up. It's got a bit embarrassing now I can't even watch the more recent live videos, I really think they should just do a few 60th anniversary shows in the UK this year and then call it the end of the Stones.

Wow, thanks for keeping the thread alive guys!

I love Keith!!

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>There's a live version of Midnight Rambler in which he plays the lead parts and they sound really good, better than Taylor
[Citation Needed]

I like the 1973 one where they do a call and response thing with Taylor, but Keith has never played lead on Midnight Rambler, not even with Ronnie Wood. This is the best version
youtu.be/E3TbZ6ZCtyI

Held back? He said Jagger has a small dick. Keef's way has always been
>talk shit about Jagger
>backlash from fans and the press
>"hey Mick let's not fight, this band is bigger than us"

I don't hear any Keef lead parts in there. What are you smoking dude

>I don't hear any Keef lead parts in there.
I know. That's why I said
>Keith has never played lead on Midnight Rambler
What are YOU smoking?

oh right I didn't read that

still my favorite

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It was funny when they got Mick Taylor for some shows and he was fat as fuck and looked completely out of place between Keith and Ron

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Based. His backing harmonies were iconic, he had an amazing voice
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youtu.be/RS_yyRk_dj8

>Open G tuning (DADGAD)
Those are two different tunings.