believe things like Midnight Rambler come through better live, because we've extended it more. Sometimes when you record something you go off half-cocked because maybe you haven't ever played it live. You've just written it and you record it. From then on you take it and keep on playing it and it gets different. I remember I was into 12-string bottlenecks then.

- Keith Richards, 1971

Is the slide he plays on MR a 12-string guitar? It alwyas sounded "double" to me.

To my ears, it does in some places and it doesn't in others...

I've been wondering if it's perhaps the Maton, but with some post production techniques like ADT to thicken the sound. If Keith say's it was one as early as 1971, then I guess it most likely is.



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what's ADT?

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> what's ADT?

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It sure isn't a 12-string, no way. It could be the Maton, it sounds a bit like it I think.

Mathijs

Yeah i never thought the slide was a twelve but Keith claimed it was in 1971. And the double string parts could be.

>> If Keith says it was one <<

is that what he's saying in that quote, though? i'm not sure :E

Yeah i know is that what he says, I wonder too. Could it be that he laid two slide parts and happened to remember the 12 string part? On the other hand that could explain that special sound he has on MR.

Speaking of 12-string guitars, I've been reading Stanley Booth's book about the '69 tour and he mentions Keith having a 12-string guitar on stage on a few different occasions. What did he play a 12-string on during the '69 tour? Or is this a mistake on Booth's part?

Has to be a mistake. I think what Booth must mean is the Dobro metal resonator guitar that KR used to play YGTM and Prodigal Son.

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> is that what he's saying in that quote, though?
> i'm not sure :E

Good point!

I don't see what his remark about 12-string bottlenecks have to do with Midnight Rambler.

Mathijs

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Theres the quote, it's on the track talk about Midnight but it doesnt mean he used it om MR. My mistake, he was probably just remembering 1969 and used MR as an example and then the 12 string as another.

The webmaster just cut it out of an interview but took along that sentence by mistake. He may as well have said: \"From then on you take it and keep on playing it and it gets different. I remember I was really into McChicken\'s back then.\"