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stonehearted
for You Got The Silver, he was playing lead cigarette
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stonesrule
Through the years Keith had many, many enablers and a key group of people who truly cared about him and went through hell worried sick about him, including members of The Rolling Stones.
He is one of the luckiest people in the music business and perhaps he recognizes this today in a way he never did before. Certainly, Fiji accident was a wake-up call...also lessons learned AFTER the publishing of Life."
I have only my own thoughts to go on, but I think that Keith and Ron's sobriety came about very separately; for different reasons.Quote
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Through the years Keith had many, many enablers and a key group of people who truly cared about him and went through hell worried sick about him, including members of The Rolling Stones.
He is one of the luckiest people in the music business and perhaps he recognizes this today in a way he never did before. Certainly, Fiji accident was a wake-up call...also lessons learned AFTER the publishing of Life."
Only because he was forced to quit cocaine per doctor's orders, as it wouldn't mix with the Dilantin he had to take in the months after surgery. He was also told to stop drinking, but in Keith's words, "I can't be bothered," and was compensating, perhaps, during the 2006-2007 shows with more alcohol than usual. It is acknowledged by the Stones' camp that he was quite heavily inebriated during the last part of that tour, and he seems to have had to become quite drunk just to do interviews right up to 2010, where he would keep interviewers waiting for hours on end as he "prepared" in another room for the interview.
I would say the wake-up call was Mick telling him to pull himself together, especially after the "todger" comments from his memoirs, and really make his playing the main focus if he wanted to work as a Rolling Stone again. Ronnie as well must have been handed the same message. I don't think it's a coincidence that Keith and Ronnie stopped drinking [heavily] around the same time, and that they have appeared onstage both sober together for the first time ever, even for red carpet events.
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NoCode0680
Or that one weird move he always does where he plays a chord, takes both hands off as if he's trying to pose like a chalk outline at a crime scene.
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Stoneage
One thing is puzzling me a bit is the fact that for many years Keith was held as the greatest rock gutarist ever. Even from people who were not necessarily Stones fans. He was called "the human riff".
When did that stop? When did it go from "greatest" to "can he play at all"?
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Stoneage
One thing is puzzling me a bit is the fact that for many years Keith was held as the greatest rock gutarist ever. Even from people who were not necessarily Stones fans. He was called "the human riff".
When did that stop? When did it go from "greatest" to "can he play at all"?
In my opinion it stopped when he stopped creating great riffs.
From 1968 to 1972 he was intensely focused on guitar and it's sounds.
He would play trance-like for hours trying to get it right.
He was in the true realm of an artist.
The drugs helped.
Then the drugs stopped helping.
His "riffage" declined from 1972 onwards.. sure there were moments but I think he lost the determination.
How many ways can you play open G anyway?
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scottkeef
Have to respectfully disagree..The 70s is perhaps Keith's strongest decade as a rythm guitarist and composer...
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Stoneage
One thing is puzzling me a bit is the fact that for many years Keith was held as the greatest rock gutarist ever. Even from people who were not necessarily Stones fans. He was called "the human riff".
When did that stop? When did it go from "greatest" to "can he play at all"?
In my opinion it stopped when he stopped creating great riffs.
From 1968 to 1972 he was intensely focused on guitar and it's sounds.
He would play trance-like for hours trying to get it right.
He was in the true realm of an artist.
The drugs helped.
Then the drugs stopped helping.
His "riffage" declined from 1972 onwards.. sure there were moments but I think he lost the determination.
How many ways can you play open G anyway?
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NoCode0680
Or that one weird move he always does where he plays a chord, takes both hands off as if he's trying to pose like a chalk outline at a crime scene.
Brilliant.
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Stoneage
One thing is puzzling me a bit is the fact that for many years Keith was held as the greatest rock gutarist ever. Even from people who were not necessarily Stones fans. He was called "the human riff".
When did that stop? When did it go from "greatest" to "can he play at all"?
In my opinion it stopped when he stopped creating great riffs.
From 1968 to 1972 he was intensely focused on guitar and it's sounds.
He would play trance-like for hours trying to get it right.
He was in the true realm of an artist.
The drugs helped.
Then the drugs stopped helping.
His "riffage" declined from 1972 onwards.. sure there were moments but I think he lost the determination.
How many ways can you play open G anyway?
He still was like that in 1982 on th Undercover sessions.
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steini
Regarding posing.
As weird as it may sound (because we are talking about the elegantly wasted..) i´ve always been extremely greatful to be a fan of a band were the guitarist plays as he is alive visualy (something Mick Taylor did not do until 2012! visualy)! Although Keith has had a bad gig now and then in 2007 i´m still tired of this posing talk, it is him and everyone has it´s own habits even dirty habits.