I’d never heard the story about Mick playing a bum chord on ASMB. Good one.
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I’ve been braying about this for weeks. The Les Paul Jr. —> Tweed Twin setup is totally unforgiving, for *any* player. Keith was at the peak of his abilities in his late-40s. We can’t expect him to play as well as he did then. But there are things he can do to ensure a “soft landing,” if you will. He’s doing the exact opposite.
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It does appear like he’s sitting down there. But my God, players 20 years younger with bad backs sometimes need to get off their feet.
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I don’t know about Keith, but Charlie’s snare sounds crackin’ in those clips.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteMelBelli Both songs are in F. Mick likes to write in the key of F. Far Away Eyes springs to mind. Fool to Cry, Saint of Me, Visions of Paradise, Biggest Mistake...
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Both songs are in F. Mick likes to write in the key of F.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Quotematxil QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteDandelionPowderman [...] This lick. From yesterday: Wow, I'm not sure I would have recognized it, good catch! He played it about 15 times during YCAGWYW, so... The way the Keith lick blends with Ronnie’s run of Mixolydian sixths there is very sweet, almost accidentally funky. The Weave abides!
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I think I remember him playing it in that backstage scene at Hampton, with George Thorogood. He was very fond it. Wonder where he copped it from, or who showed it to him.
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QuoteMonkeyMan2000 I love that lick. I think in 81/82 he played it on almost every song. Took me quite a while to get that one He really did ... funny to hear it now, and on that song. I’ve always associated it with the live “Let Me Go,” probably because I heard it first in the Hal Ashby movie.
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Look, I hear what you're saying. But rather than infantilizing or romanticizing Keith, I think my acknowledging his obvious decline pays him the compliment of recognizing how good he really was. He was never a guitarhead's kind of soloist (eg, Robben Ford, Larry Carlton, Mike Bloomfield, Scott Henderson, Andy Timmons). But at the peak of his powers, from '88-'93, he could f
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Quotestonerolling Start Me Up Spielberg Find this interesting. About 1:45min he plays the riff instead of going in to the next section, a few moments later he's pointing at his hands, then does the same a little later. Wondering if the colder European weather is impacting the arthritis... Anyway, still looking forward to Barca! Wasn't the song supposed t
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Quotestone4ever I think there is an element of truth to this Redhotcarpet, i get the impression keith thinks this is all a bit of a game, a walk through the park. He thinks yeah Mick's given me the call, i just show up for work and coast and enjoy the ride, say high to the band and the fans one more time, job done. He has this romantic notion when it comes to his relationship with the
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QuoteDandelionPowderman Everybody wants the Stones to play great. However, messing up songs on stage is something they have always done – at least after 1966. The Keith-bashing (if there was any hold in it) should have come already in 1994, when the obvious decline started, and not now, imo. Today, he's an old man, and he's doing the best he can. I was watching this instagram
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Seems to me he's having issues with hearing and reflexes; he's not reacting in time to what he's hearing.
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It would help to be 30 years younger, of course, but I'm certain Keith would not have to "fight" this guitar as much as he does his LP Junior and a dry signal:
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QuoteStonedRambler With Keiths current guitar sound - that is really just a thing of taste. I think that this is his best live guitar sound ever, others prefer the 1989 tour which sounded to clean and sterile to me. I know what you mean about the '89-90 sound overall, but the solos Keith played on Bitch, SFTD, Sad, Sad, Sad, IORR etc. were anything but clean or sterile.
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QuoteDandelionPowderman QuoteTheBlockbuster Do you really have to ask that question? All songs are slower than they used to be in concerrt. If you play Jumping Jack Flash from Hamburg 2017 on youtube and put it on 1.25 speed it will sound like how it was played 10 years ago. JJF 2007 and 2017: Seems likely they've dialed back the BPM to accommodate Keith (or possibly Charlie).
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Quotestone4ever This is a clip with Keith playing JJF and its awesome. I agree. He generally still sounds great on the Tele stuff.
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The natural distortion he *is* getting from the Twin breaking up sounds awful to me. It would sound awful from any guitarist. That's just a personal preference. But, again, he doesn't seem to mind. ... Ronnie has a little bit of finger-speed left (although himself quite diminished compared to his mid-70s peak), so he will sound smoother than Keith, relatively speaking. But I think he to
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Keith's playing is only a click below where he was in 2005-07. The difference now, to my ears, is the dryness and brittleness of the tone he's getting out of his Twins + Gibson (the 335s and the Junior). I'd wager that even the Robben Fords and Andy Timmonses and Larry Carltons of the world would find they're "fighting" the guitar to get the sound they want. I rea
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Dancing with Mr. D in the key of Dm? Hmmmmm...
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The video screens look like gigantic smartphones. We hold up our phones to theirs.
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You're right, thanks
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Is the one second from left the one he played on Take It So Hard and How I Wish at Hollywood Palladium?
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Fascinating. That's at least three Stones albums that began with one-word titles and ended with more intriguing additions: Exile --> Exile on Main Street Tattoo --> Tattoo You Bridges --> Bridges to Babylon
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Quotechatoyancy My Stones friend told me rehearsals start next week in Los Angeles but I'm very skeptical because that's a long way from Europe. It's wishful thinking on her part. She's in Los Angeles, imagines the Stones are following her around. You're right to be skeptical! They're rehearsing in London.
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"England Lost" feels like an update of "Rain Fall Down," sonically speaking. I like the idea of cultural commentary smuggled into a soccer metaphor. Mick has something to say, but, as is his wont, chooses to wear it lightly.
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"England Lost" has a little hint of his "Too much blood" voice. Funny. I think I like it better than "Grip."
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They're both on Spotify right now. With "explicit" tags!
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It is an old clip, but the fact that Keith's people chose to release it now is, if not news, then at least "newsy."
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