[Gimmie Shelter] was done on a full-bodied, Australian electric-acoustic, f-hole guitar.
It kind of looked like an Australian copy of the Gibson model that Chuck Berry used ...
It had all been revarnished and painted out, but it sounded great. It made a great record ...
[I got it from] some guy who stayed at my pad. He crashed out for a couple of days and
suddenly left in a hurry, leaving that guitar behind. You know:
Take care of this for me.I certainly did! But it served me well through the album. And on the very last note of Gimmie Shelter,
the whole neck fell off. You can hear it on the original take.
- Keith Richards, 2002 (quoted on timeisonourside.com)
i've always smiled at that "on the very last note, the whole neck fell off" - as if the neck falling off
would be anything
but the last note! :E has anyone heard the "original take" where that's audible?
Keith has also said he used the Maton on Midnight Rambler, but is probably misremembering that
(Rambler sounds like his black 3PU LP Custom - see [
iorr.org]).
but since he talks about using the Maton "throughout the album" ... are there other tracks on LIB where we hear it?