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Thanks for posting. What a great picture

Urbansteel, thank you.
Following your link, from the same issue of RS is an excerpt from a talk with Keith and Jack White. Keith says he's giving the band a year off.

Blues Brothers
The Rolling Stones and Jack White shine a light on the roots of their music

DAVID FRICKE

Posted Apr 17, 2008 3:26 PM


In the Rolling Stones' new concert movie, Shine a Light, there is a vintage interview with guitarist Keith Richards. A reporter asks Richards what he thinks about when he's onstage playing with the Stones. Richards coolly replies, "I don't think onstage. I feel."

Directed by Martin Scorsese, Shine a Light captures the Stones in their current feral prime, in breathtaking close-up. Scorsese shot the band in 2006, during two intimate shows at New York's Beacon Theatre, with guest appearances by Buddy Guy, Christina Aguilera and Jack White of the White Stripes, who duets with Mick Jagger in a heated country-soul version of "Loving Cup," from 1972's Exile on Main Street. But Shine a Light — named after another Exile song and the latest in a long line of Stones documentaries, including Gimme Shelter (1970), Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones (1974) and @#$%& Blues, Robert Frank's notorious, unreleased chronicle of the backstage excess on the Stones' '72 U.S. tour — is a testament to the power of feeling, the blues-band empathy and brotherly defiance that continue to drive and define Richards, Jagger, guitarist Ron Wood and drummer Charlie Watts in concert.

Shine a Light has also inspired a first: the following interview with Richards and White, in front of a roaring fire in a New York townhouse on a recent wet, cold afternoon. Born half a lifetime and a few rock revolutions apart, Richards, 64, and White, 32, had never talked at length before. In fact, White did not see the Stones live until the White Stripes opened two shows for them in 2002. But the two guitarists quickly bonded over their mutual love of the blues and the spontaneous joys of live performance. "It's like describing the Pyramids to someone who has never been there," White says, when asked what he feels in the middle of a hot guitar solo. "A man after my own heart," Richards agrees, smiling.

Richards, who, after a fall from a tree, underwent brain surgery a few months before the Beacon shows, brushes off doubts about his health. "I must be fine, because I'm not seeing any doctors," he growls cheerfully. As for a future Stones tour, "I've never heard anything about not going out again," Richards says. "I'm basically giving the guys a year off. I'm not pushing. But I might withdraw their wages," he adds with a cackle, "and see how they feel then."

Keith, what do you think of "Shine a Light"?
Richards: I'm just seeing what Marty Scorsese sees in the Stones. I was never aware of the cameras. I knew they were there. But once you go to work, your job is to give the audience what they want and, at the same time, get yourself off. I've no doubt that Mick was far more aware that he was making a movie. But once I get going, I just look at Charlie.
I've always been amazed by how much fuss goes on around us — the big screens, the technology. And it has to be coordinated. Mick loves to coordinate. But I'm selfish. I gotta feel good. I can't go up there worrying about things. I go onstage to get some @#$%& peace and quiet.

Jack, what did you learn about the Stones when you opened for them?
White: How good they were. You could see the comfort level between them, in Keith's guitar playing and Ron's slide playing. It's impressive, man, when that confidence is exuded. Someone once told me when I first started playing — you get a lot more respect if you act like you own the joint. If you fumble around, you don't gain respect.
Richards: You could have asked me that question back when we went from clubs to opening for Bo Diddley, Little Richard and the Everly Brothers on one tour [in 1963]. I learned more in those six weeks than I would have learned from listening to a million records.

What was the primary lesson?
Richards: Stagecraft — what works and how to feel comfortable onstage. The Everly Brothers were superb every night — those beautiful harmonies. We'd open, then climb the rafters and hang there, watching them. Watching Bo Diddley was university for me. Every set was twenty minutes long in those days. When he came off, if he had two strings left on the guitar, it was a @#$%& miracle. The Duchess was there [on guitar], and Jerome Green, with the maracas in each hand. It was my job to be Jerome's minder. I used to fetch him from the pub — "You're on, mate."

[Excerpt from Issue 1050 — April 17, 2008]

Here's a link to filming the RS cover with Mick, Keith and Jack White:
Highlight for me heartfelt greeting between guess who:

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>> Keith, what do you think of "Shine a Light"?
Richards: I'm just seeing what Marty Scorsese sees in the Stones. <<

smile: thank you Keith

Mick: "I'll err on the side of the physicality, and I let the singing down."
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Shame on you Mick.


IORR............but I like it!

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sweet neo con
Mick: "I'll err on the side of the physicality, and I let the singing down."
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Shame on you Mick.

maybe, but IMO the whole band is doing that, and has been since the late 80s reunion, to tremendous rewards and (less so but mainly) acclaim, so they don't feel any shame, apart from this actually remarkable, truthful admission from mick. I mean, keith still talks about how great the band supposedly sounds, "the engine room" and all that bunk. How many people will leave Shine a Light saying "can you believe mick is 65?" as their first comment? For keith, ron, & to a lesser extent charlie, the physicality consists of simply being there--"good to be anywhere"--for the crowd to applaud, and they actually perform in snatches, to the best of their ability. As the "frontman," mick's physicality takes the form of his fitness demonstration, but it's basically the same thing: watch the steel wheels roll.

that character stuff he is talking about,, i hear him soo country hickish in the orginal recorded jumping jack flash, thats a vocal award if ever there was one.....
man, its the hills of arkansas he is singin from,, listen again closely,, to bad he never came out on stage with buck and missing teeth flippin uncle sams hat aside like a real showman he did.............