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chelskeith
I finished the book and having spent a little bit of time with Keith on a few occasions over the past 13 years, I think it really comes across as if he was just talking to you. I've never heard any of the feelings as he expresses them in here about Mick, drugs or chicks, but his quick wit and tongue come across as if he's talking to you, which is a nice quality and a bit unusual for me when it comes to reading autobiographies.
I agree, it makes me like him more in some ways, but as a parent of teenagers and not wanting them to mess with drugs as its such a crap shoot I'd prefer they avoid, I have some mixed feelings as in a way it does glorify the use of drugs, but it also is a good reason to not do drugs, at least in excess.
All those situations with him and Mick are now a lot more understandable, and I hope it causes Mick to stop and think a bit before they work together next. Hopefully, as a result of this, they can collaborate again together, not as individual players but as team members of a group.
If mick really said the only issue is the singing coach comment, which would be a bit ironic, I think maybe he will get what Keith is saying.
We've all had friendships go south, and many of those we wish we could rekindle, but in many cases the spark is gone for good and theyre better left alone. In these guys case, they are connected like brothers, or mom and pop, and they hopefully can work through their differences in the twilight of their careers to once again create some of the special magic they have so often made together. Sounds like were gonna watch that very thing happen before our eyes again, at least one more time, and knowing Keith, probably to some degree for as long as we're blessed with his presence on earth.
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Doxa
Keith Richards - the creative heart and soul of The Rolling Stones - never survived the 70's. (Jagger didn't survive the 80's but that is another story.)
- Doxa
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Doxa
Keith Richards - the creative heart and soul of The Rolling Stones - never survived the 70's. (Jagger didn't survive the 80's but that is another story.)
- Doxa
So the difference between Mick and Keith is just 10 years. In my book they both didn't survive Taylor's quit. IORR may not be a very good album but it has at least Time Waits FNO, Dance Little Sister and Fingerprint F. Best song since ages (despite bad vocals): Plundered My Soul! Guess who's on that song.
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Doxa
Keith Richards - the creative heart and soul of The Rolling Stones - never survived the 70's. (Jagger didn't survive the 80's but that is another story.)
- Doxa
So the difference between Mick and Keith is just 10 years. In my book they both didn't survive Taylor's quit. IORR may not be a very good album but it has at least Time Waits FNO, Dance Little Sister and Fingerprint F. Best song since ages (despite bad vocals): Plundered My Soul! Guess who's on that song.
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DandelionPowderman
IMO, the teel Wheels/UJ tour was the best and most professional tour the Stones ever did. You don't like the Vegas format? Fine. However, I think it's very wrong to say that the Stones stopped rolling. That tour was a huge success both in terms of performing and ticket sales.
After that tour, things started to detoriate, imo. Except for the ticket sales, that is.
To this date I still haven't heard a really bad 1989/90 show. I've heard several bad 1969/70, 1971, 1972/73, 1975/76, 1978 and 1981/82 shows.
IMO, Keith was on top of his game in 1989/90. I first noticed a detoriation in his playing on the Winos 1992 tour.
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Doxa
Keith Richards - the creative heart and soul of The Rolling Stones - never survived the 70's. (Jagger didn't survive the 80's but that is another story.)
- Doxa
So the difference between Mick and Keith is just 10 years. In my book they both didn't survive Taylor's quit. IORR may not be a very good album but it has at least Time Waits FNO, Dance Little Sister and Fingerprint F. Best song since ages (despite bad vocals): Plundered My Soul! Guess who's on that song.
I don't think Taylor was even missed, necessarily to the wider public perception of the Stones. The Stones were already on a huge downwards spiral with 'It's Only Rock 'N' Roll'. Ok. Taylor augmented 'Time Waits For No-One' pretty well on his guitar, but that doesn't stop 'It's Only Rock 'N' Roll' being arguably the weakest Stones album of the seventies. The Stones pretty much stopped rolling after 'Tattoo You' and the the 81-82 tours in my opinion. Those events in the early eighties may have been some distance from the Stones true peak in terms of quality, but so was the Stones 'It's Only Rock 'N' Roll' album. Keith confirms pretty much the time when fundamentally he and Jagger no longer managed to see eye to eye on most things, and that very much co-incides with when the Stones musical quality began to decline on a truly consistent level, around the time of 'Emotional Rescue', and had it not been for the outtakes filled 'Tattoo You', 'Emotional Rescue' would undoubtedly have heralded the start of an unbroken run of mediocre, or even bad Stones albums. That's why for all the stick given to Keith's recollections, for me there is certainly an element of truth in what he's saying, and certainly with regard the eighties era onwards, which is clearly for all to see within the grooves of the album releases.
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Doxa
but if 1989/90 would have remained their last - a kind of professional nostalgy tour to show their competence one more time - it would have a hurray way to end the incredible story.
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chelskeith
All those situations with him and Mick are now a lot more understandable, and I hope it causes Mick to stop and think a bit before they work together next. Hopefully, as a result of this, they can collaborate again together, not as individual players but as team members of a group.
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proudmary
Great analysis, Doxa
With all his fights for control Richards destroyed the artistic integrity of the band then, and with his continious vendetta he ruins their historical legacy now
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DandelionPowderman
I think you might be speculating too much, regarding the Some Girls era. Judging from the Place Pigalle-boots, as well as other autobiographies (Mac among others), No one "babies" Keith. He has his chops, as well as his songs and vision of how they should be together.
The playing and recording of the TY-material was certainly not mediocre. A dream job for Jagger to finalize that stuff, imo.
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Bliss
It does seem crazy, doesn't it? They have just done the most successful tour EVER, and they are winding down their career. It is unconscionable that Keith has reopened the war between him and Mick at this point, thus torpedo-ing any chance of going out in a blaze of glory.
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drewmaster
Reading "Life" just makes me love Keith even more than I already did. His life and art inspire me daily, and I can't imagine a world without him.
Drew
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Doxa
I have one intersting Keith and Mick interview from the time of EMOTIONAL RESCUE being released where Mick complains that Keith spent endless hours in studio mixing album but couldn't really come up anything worthwhile. Keith says there that SOME GIRLS was not a "real Stones album" and they didn't sound like themselves but with EMOTIONAL RESCUE they had rediscovered their essence. (The interview is from Finnish rock magazine called SOUNDI from 1980 - I will translate it some day here; it is one the most interesting ones ever.)
- Doxa