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From4tilLate
I've always thought that had to be Brian too.
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Mathijs
Brian does not play guitar on Tell Me, he plays the tambourine. Keith plays the electric guitar and the acoustic 12-string.
Mathijs
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Mathijs
Brian does not play guitar on Tell Me, he plays the tambourine. Keith plays the electric guitar and the acoustic 12-string.
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Mathijs
Brian does not play guitar on Tell Me, he plays the tambourine. Keith plays the electric guitar and the acoustic 12-string.
Mathijs
What are you sources?
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6853
talking about stones' early solos....
, who played the solo on "Heart of stone" ?
it is very good considering the inexperience of the stones at the time..?
some hired hand ?
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neptune
I'm talking about the electric guitar, Mathijs. Yes, Keith plays the acoustic, but the electric (+ electric solo)? As you've just shown with all the quotes, nowhere does Keith admit to playing the electric guitar on this song. If he did, one would think he would have stated that he played ALL the guitar parts. He just states that he played the 12-string acoustic. Mick verifies that with his own recollection of the recording. So, who played the electric guitar and the solo? The electric sounds like many of Brian's Chuck Berry rhythm chops on dozens of tracks (ie. Route 66, Around and Around, Confessin the Blues, Carol,etc.). The solo, as I've noted before, sounds like nothing Keith ever did. If anything, the solo sounds more like what Brian played on If You Need Me, TIOMS, just plucked chords.
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neptune
One more thing that convinces me that Brian played the solo on Tell Me is this: the released version for radio play didn't contain the solo. It was cut out to shorten the song. ALO was behind that decision for commercial purposes obviously, but I believe it would have been different if Keith played the solo. ALO, I think, would not have cut out that solo if Keith, his boy, had played it. But since Brian, who ALO loathed, played it, the solo was taken out.
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Neptune
This has to be Brian playing that plucked chord solo, as it doesn't sound at all like Keith Richards from that time (or any other time).
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tonterapi
Keith was the stronger guitar player of the two
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tonterapi
so naturally he took the role as a lead guitarist.
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Mathijs
Brian does not play guitar on Tell Me, he plays the tambourine. Keith plays the electric guitar and the acoustic 12-string.
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Neptune
What are you sources?
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Mathijs
My ears.
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Mathijs
You have a point here, nowhere it is stated whom plays the electric. Listening back to it there aren't many markers indicating Keith nor Jones, but I agree the picking (and the dry tone) would fit Brian better than Keith.
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Neptune
One more thing that convinces me that Brian played the solo on Tell Me is this: the released version for radio play didn't contain the solo. It was cut out to shorten the song. ALO was behind that decision for commercial purposes obviously, but I believe it would have been different if Keith played the solo. ALO, I think, would not have cut out that solo if Keith, his boy, had played it. But since Brian, who ALO loathed, played it, the solo was taken out.
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From4tilLate
wasn't the first record cut live to two-track?
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His Majesty
Doesn't it say Brian played the electric in Bill's Stone Alone?
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His Majesty
I have no problem accepting Brian may have played the electric on Tell Me, it's hardly the most difficult of parts and the solo itself is merely picking out the chords.
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Mock Jogger
I don't know where the idea comes from that Brian could only play "hardly the most difficult of parts". Certainly not from reality. Leadparts like on Mona or The Last Time (the riff) are technically much harder to play than anything Keith played at the time.
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Mock Jogger
Leadparts like on Mona or The Last Time (the riff) are technically much harder to play than anything Keith played at the time.
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DandelionPowderman
His guitar playing was quite shaky, but he had a good sense of timing. It's called knowing your limitations, not musical professionalism, imo.