I'm really looking forward to the album now! Listening to Amnesia again - and it's great!

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I am not criticizing Keith, actually praising his singing on this record, just pointing out
that no one picked up on this widened vocal range and mature peak this summer. It will be interesting to see
how he pulls off these vocals live, standing up with a guitar in his hand.

Naturally a lot of things are easier in the studio, but even though no one called it a "mature peak",
pretty much everyone remarked on how strong his singing was this summer. Mick's too.

I didn't have any complaints about the singing this summer, Mick in particular was really ON for most songs and shows. It was delightful to see. I must have just missed similar comments about Keith but am probably a bit biased because I'm a bit weary of the 2 Keith songs he did all tour.

What is interesting is that just about everybody, including me, has noticed an improvement on this latest record. I was expecting a few rough vocals and he seems to have delivered great performances on every song. He certainly has a reason to be proud of this one.

There's more bass in his voice than before — typical of singers as they age.

Cool great song

Uh, excuse me, Zipcode '15 San Diego got Keith singing
Slipping Away! and
BTMMR

No Happy, but I was Happy I was there! Woo Hoo!

Finally spent a good amount of time with Amnesia today...what a delightful song Keith has created! There are so many lovely little parts. He seems to have had a really good time with this one, can almost see him in the studio laughing as he made his way through the lyrics.

A few things...I don't think passport is plural, I hear him just popping the "t" at the end for emphasis. The break with the drums is very cool, and I too hear echos of Steely Dan in some of the guitar work.

I had an instant image of one of my favorite children's books in these lines:

Thought I met mother - ha!
She said you don't belong to me

...and I wondered if Keith is familiar with it. Perhaps he read it to his own children or grandchildren?

Any chance someone would be kind enough to send a link! Thanks



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you can listen to Amnesia as the first unlocked song from the treasure hunt on www.crosseyedheart.com there will be one unlocked each week

Amnesia is a very interesting track. I like it. A lot. It does seem to have gone through quite a bit of post production to my ear (the piano notes over the top of the groove, for example) but hey, sounds great. The sax is a nice touch. Excited for the new album. Bring it on!



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I'm loving Amnesia as well as Trouble. Good quality Keef! Can't wait until Monday for the next song.

goddammit...I love amnesia!

stripped down rock and roll keith style with everything i like to hear out of an amplifier. bad stuff man!

Great song!

Send me the link please

db7715@hotmail.fr

thank!!!!

Love this music

Great track, and it sounds like all the guitar parts are Keiths.

[www.keithrichards.com]

This is for the computer illiterate like myself. Here is the link to Amnesia. It's the unlocked song in the upper left hand corner. My god, I figured out how to copy and paste.

Maybe it's just me, but I could hear Mick singing the verse and then write a great chorus on top, and it could have been a hell of a stones track.

Anyway, definitely enjoyed this for what it is, nothing more, nothing less :-)

Keith writes very differently than Mick. Prior to STEEL WHEELS, the Stones would jam in the studio for long stretches of time to get the right groove. I remember some Jagger interview in late 1988 in which he said something to the effect that if the Stones do another album, he wants it prepared prior to the studio, not written in the studio like all the previous albums. I think Keith needs the time to jam it out to get what he wants as were Mick maybe more concerned with a deadline and just wants it done. Yeah, i could be talking out of my arse but i think this is a valid point.

Is it the 24th yet?..…haha

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Keith writes very differently than Mick. Prior to STEEL WHEELS, the Stones would jam in the studio for long stretches of time to get the right groove. I remember some Jagger interview in late 1988 in which he said something to the effect that if the Stones do another album, he wants it prepared prior to the studio, not written in the studio like all the previous albums. I think Keith needs the time to jam it out to get what he wants as were Mick maybe more concerned with a deadline and just wants it done. Yeah, i could be talking out of my arse but i think this is a valid point.

And yet he went straight to the studio for writing songs there with Keith for SW

Earlier, they wrote songs everywhere: on the train, in cafes, you name it - so Mick's "truth" is a little sketchy here...

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Keith writes very differently than Mick. Prior to STEEL WHEELS, the Stones would jam in the studio for long stretches of time to get the right groove. I remember some Jagger interview in late 1988 in which he said something to the effect that if the Stones do another album, he wants it prepared prior to the studio, not written in the studio like all the previous albums. I think Keith needs the time to jam it out to get what he wants as were Mick maybe more concerned with a deadline and just wants it done. Yeah, i could be talking out of my arse but i think this is a valid point.

It's an *essential* point.

Mick tolerated the Keith method less and less, until A Bigger Bang, where he got his way. Keith came to the project with three songs -- and he got three songs on the record.



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Is it the 24th yet?..…haha

What about September 18.... Both Keef cd and Netflixx Docu.
Still wondering if the docu will be sold for the public on DVD later.
Jeroen

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Is it the 24th yet?..…haha

What about September 18.... Both Keef cd and Netflixx Docu.
Still wondering if the docu will be sold for the public on DVD later.
Jeroen

I'm assuming "Under The Influence" will be available in DVD like "Crossfire Hurricane" was. I hope!!

Keith is the man when it comes to song writing
The best stuff comes when he is ON
The best live performances are when he is ON
Jagger is struggling when it comes to writing
He needs Keith, but since Tattoo You he has not used Keith properly
You want evidence !! Keith's new album when it comes out

I think, too, Mick is a stickler for trad song arrangments: verse-chorus-bridge, etc.

Keith is either incapable of or uninterested in adhering to forumula. Take "Nothing on Me." It's got an A, B, and C section, but none that you could readily identify as the verse, chorus, or bridge. ... Playing that tune on guitar yesterday, I thought, There's probably two people who could turn this into a song. One is Keith and the other (when he's so inclined) is Mick.

I like Amnesia better than Trouble.
Somehow it makes me think of Stiff Upper Lip by ACDC.

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Keith is the man when it comes to song writing
The best stuff comes when he is ON
The best live performances are when he is ON
Jagger is struggling when it comes to writing
He needs Keith

Yes, yes yes!

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I think, too, Mick is a stickler for trad song arrangments: verse-chorus-bridge, etc.

Keith is either incapable of or uninterested in adhering to forumula. Take "Nothing on Me." It's got an A, B, and C section, but none that you could readily identify as the verse, chorus, or bridge. ... Playing that tune on guitar yesterday, I thought, There's probably two people who could turn this into a song. One is Keith and the other (when he's so inclined) is Mick.

Yess,yes,yes! Mick´s way of song-writing is some kind of "writing by numbers", because he is not a musician in the sense that Keith is. With Mick´s songs you always know what comes next. They are simple because he doesn´t know better. Keith´s solo-songs are often much more "complicated" than Stones-songs are. At first listening his songs often sound weird, not catchy enough, you have to get used to them. Mick writes songs using his brain, Keith writes songs using his heart and guts.
Meanwhile I´ve learned to like Trouble a bit, but Amnesia for me is still difficult to enjoy.



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I still can't wrap myself around Nothing On Me. I do hear some possible nice fills and I like the first half but the refrain takes up a good 45 to 60 seconds which tends to drag it out to the end.

The sax on Amnesia keeps making me smile -
thanks and praises, Bobby, and all kinds of blessings

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I think, too, Mick is a stickler for trad song arrangments: verse-chorus-bridge, etc.

Keith is either incapable of or uninterested in adhering to forumula. Take "Nothing on Me." It's got an A, B, and C section, but none that you could readily identify as the verse, chorus, or bridge. ... Playing that tune on guitar yesterday, I thought, There's probably two people who could turn this into a song. One is Keith and the other (when he's so inclined) is Mick.

Yess,yes,yes! Mick´s way of song-writing is some kind of "writing by numbers", because he is not a musician in the sense that Keith is. With Mick´s songs you always know what comes next. They are simple because he doesn´t know better. Keith´s solo-songs are often much more "complicated" than Stones-songs are. At first listening his songs often sound weird, not catchy enough, you have to get used to them. Mick writes songs using his brain, Keith writes songs using his heart and guts.
Meanwhile I´ve learned to like Trouble a bit, but Amnesia for me is still difficult to enjoy.

I largely agree with this, although I'd say Mick's "brain-level," versus Keith's "gut-level," writing still yields some great results. But, yeah, sometimes he paints by numbers. "Keys to Your Love" has a great hook. Then the bridge arrives, and it makes you gag.

Then again, he turned Keith's middle-eight section for "Sparks Will Fly" into something great and dramatic.

And Keith wrote Mick a great bridge for "New Faces."

So go figure.



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I think, too, Mick is a stickler for trad song arrangments: verse-chorus-bridge, etc.

Keith is either incapable of or uninterested in adhering to forumula. Take "Nothing on Me." It's got an A, B, and C section, but none that you could readily identify as the verse, chorus, or bridge. ... Playing that tune on guitar yesterday, I thought, There's probably two people who could turn this into a song. One is Keith and the other (when he's so inclined) is Mick.

Yess,yes,yes! Mick´s way of song-writing is some kind of "writing by numbers", because he is not a musician in the sense that Keith is. With Mick´s songs you always know what comes next. They are simple because he doesn´t know better. Keith´s solo-songs are often much more "complicated" than Stones-songs are. At first listening his songs often sound weird, not catchy enough, you have to get used to them. Mick writes songs using his brain, Keith writes songs using his heart and guts.
Meanwhile I´ve learned to like Trouble a bit, but Amnesia for me is still difficult to enjoy.

Yes Yes and No. Amnesia is very good even for album filler, Its hard at this stage, for Keith to be considered anything but good or better.
I am gob smacked that he has not created more music in the last ten years out of some miss guided loyalty to Mick.
I had no idea Keith could still be this good.
Mainly because he just did not make a solo or a Stones album in ten years
and also because i have heard so many negative comments about Keith over the years on IORR that i started to believe it !!