Shut up about the wall and

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_Jersey Girl
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Shut up about the wall and

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put Keith Richards in your ears.

YouTube quote: This makes me worry about climate change and what kind of world we'll leave Keith Richards when we're gone.

Beast of Burden acoustic (pretend Jagger isn't singing)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gvFTDFs2cEM

Only Found Out Yesterday acoustic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Z1ehNN7toT0

Richards and Wood acoustic Jam
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KzRYQz_ramI

Wild Horses acoustic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DTNOarAmv3Q

Honky Tonk Woman acoustic
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=N5qVe9BzgNs

Beast of Burden acoustic (Richards only)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0lBDnjdXcaQ
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Thank you for the post. Some great licks here.

A few years ago I read Life: the Autobiography of Keith Richards. I bought it thinking it was going to be an adventure story, full of incredible danger and miraculous escapes, like Indiana Jones rafting down the rivers of the Amazon. How did he survive?

You probably heard the same story: Keith Richards was so strung out on smack he would go to a clinic in Switzerland to have his entire blood supply transfused every 6 months. The stories of his addiction and consumption were the stuff of legend.

When he was a young man, Keith Richards heard the motto Live fast, die young, and leave a good looking corpse and said Why leave a good looking corpse? Over the years his on-stage persona gradually morphed into a bandana-wearing skeleton festooned with skull rings wreathed in cigarette smoke. He taught Sir Richard Branson how to roll a joint. He was the inspiration for Johnny Depp's Captain Jack, the pirate that launched a Disney franchise. His very presence on stage seemed to be an incredible act of survival against drugs that had finally met their match. He was both a cautionary tale and the ultimate anti-hero.

So I came into the book with a lot of preconceptions about Richards. Keith knew it.

Keith Richards wrote:I can’t untie the threads of how much I played up to the part that was written for me. I mean the skull ring and the broken tooth and the kohl. Is it half and half? I think in a way your persona, your image, as it used to be known, is like a ball and chain. People think I’m still a goddamn junkie. It’s 30 years since I gave up the dope! Image is like a long shadow. Even when the sun goes down, you can see it.

Image is like a long shadow. Even when the sun goes down, you can see it.

If you read Life you get to know Richards before, during and after his druggie phase of life. But the answer to the question: How did he survive? - I think the answer is that he had both strong connections with people, and that he was able to express his love of music by creating and performing in a way that gave his life joy and purpose and meaning.

Some rock guitarists confuse virtuosity with too many notes. Keith Richards is a very unselfish guitar player. His work is always in service to the song. Think of his hook in Honky Tonk Women. It slithers over and underneath Jagger's vocals. He is always driving the song forward, never calling attention to himself. And yet I defy you to think of anyone (with the possible exception of Robert White of the Funk Brothers) who played as many great guitar hooks as Keith Richards.

Anyway, read Life if you get a chance. Highly recommended.
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Not to worry, I got the book a couple of years ago! He's an interesting character and far more intelligent than people realize. Not your average stoner.

I love that first link to Beast of Burden. I'd like to hear it without Jagger's voice. Not that I have anything against Jagger (love him too) but the guitars are just so rich in that piece, I'd like to hear them as a stand alone recording. Those guys are capable of producing great beauty.

I saw them years and years ago in concert. I was recently contemplating seeing them this year on tour. Decided against it for various reasons but I'll tell you what, the pull is strong!

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Jersey Girl wrote:Not your average stoner.

I see what you did there.

But speaking of which, I'm extremely concerned about both global warming and the amount of radioactive material spilling into the Pacific from the Fukushima Dai Ichi reactor. At the rate we're going, what sort of a world will we leave behind for Keith Richards?
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Dr. Shades wrote:
Jersey Girl wrote:Not your average stoner.

I see what you did there.

But speaking of which, I'm extremely concerned about both global warming and the amount of radioactive material spilling into the Pacific from the Fukushima Dai Ichi reactor. At the rate we're going, what sort of a world will we leave behind for Keith Richards?


Read the quote at the top of the OP Mister. :cool:

In any case, it doesn't matter. When Richard's goes, he's taking me with him.
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Favorite Keith Richards video. I know I've posted this prior on some other thread.

1:14-ish he hammers some guy with his guitar, puts it back on and plays like nothing happened.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qAzqSYQ9X9U
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