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Keith Richards

Rikki27	Date: August 31, 2006 @ 5:34 AM Is this guy a good guitarist or what? Personally, i think he's pretty good, but my opinion doesnt matter apparently.
hueseph	Date: August 31, 2006 @ 10:51 AM He's definitely good at what he does. I don't think anyone could deny that. Everyones opinion counts for something. The only way I can explain it is: you know how your parents try to tell you they know what's good for you? Well generally they do. Experience counts for a lot. Once you've reached a particular level of playing you start to see how some techniques are elementary. That doesn't make them useless or bad. Segovia was not renown for his speed but his soulful playing and flawless technique. Most of the pieces he played were no more than "grade 4-6" pieces but he played them only as a master could. It's not a criticism of soulful guitarists that was being brought out at the other discussion. Rather it was the criticism of "shredders" that was the issue. I don't think anyone was criticizing the blues genre or any other genre other than "Shredders".
leedsquietman	Date: August 31, 2006 @ 11:34 AM Keith has the respect of his peers, especially drug free, many people feel he is a better player now than he was in the 60's - Jimmy Page said in a recent interview that Richards plays Chuck Berry better than Chuck Berry and is one of the greatest songwriter's that ever lived. In The Stones, Richards did have a time when he was high all the time and his role was diminished to doing menial rhythm guitar work (during 1971 - 1977 especially) and Mick Taylor took over the lead work but Richards also carried the band solo for a time in the late 60's when Brian Jones was too drugged up to do anything . Like Jimmy Page, Richards has come up with many memorable riffs, such as Jumping Jack Flash, Honky Tonk Women, Satisfaction, etc. worthy of respect. Like hueseph said, you don't have to be a shredder etc to be a good player and all guitarists seem to live within a certain comfort zone anyway, Richards' work was unique and certainly I've heard his playng praised by Page, Clapton and BB King amongst others.
HenriRoger	Date: August 31, 2006 @ 12:10 PM He is a guitar riff genius imho
Rikki27	Date: August 31, 2006 @ 12:11 PM Trues Henry, he has made some kiler riffs, and even recently too! his riff on "Rough Justice" Is cool as fuck
GreatGooglyM...	Date: August 31, 2006 @ 12:23 PM Never liked anything he did. I don't really have much respect for guitarists like him.
GeneHilbert	Date: August 31, 2006 @ 1:58 PM Olde Keith is the shit...... In the annals of rock guitar - Keith Richards is in a very small club of Rock legends. With him being one of the top 10 most influential rock guitarist and composers ever.
CarvinAbuser	Date: August 31, 2006 @ 2:33 PM Keith's rhythm playing is very unique. It's choppy and off the beat which blends well with another guitar player who is on the beat. He's just a great rock guitarist. Plus he's in the greatest rock band of all time which ain't a bad thing.
imemine	Date: August 31, 2006 @ 9:37 PM Keith was once referred to by Rolling Stones magazine as “The Human Riff”! Being the clever gents my friends and I were in High School---That was the name of the first real band that I played live with. I wasn’t old enough to drink “legally” at the time and we mostly played bars.
Woof	Date: August 31, 2006 @ 9:43 PM I thought the guitar work on "Gimme Shelter" was absolutely fucking brilliant, but other than that I can't think of anything else The Stones have done that sounded that different from what everybody else was doing at the time...
leedsquietman	Date: August 31, 2006 @ 11:57 PM Agree Gimme Shelter is probably my fave Stones track. They may not have been doing too much different but they had amazing attitude. Imagine going up to some old Lord who owned Decca Records, an old gentleman of the Oxford School Tie for a meeting and then sing him 'Cocksucker Blues' (they wanted out of their Decca deal and this little ditty clinched it for them) - Whereas The Beatles were regarded as 4 nice, clean, handsome young men (in their earlier pre Sgt. Pepper days at least), The Stones were always the kind of punks you would hate your daughter to date ... They were doing some different stuff when Brian Jones was in the band because Jones could play like a gazillion instruments, which made stuff like 'Paint It Black' possible etc. 'She's A Rainbow' was also a departure. They fused blues and country into their music with the obvious rock and roll and hard rock sounds to good effect. Their albums from 1964-1973 showed quite a bit of progression, it's only everything since that never expanded on this, partially because most of them were messed up on drugs and booze. But there are so many memorable riffs from the Stones that everybody knows is them and mostly written by Richards : Satisfaction, 19th Nervous Breakdown, Paint It Black, Brown Sugar, Gimme Shelter, Get Off My Cloud, Sympathy For The Devil, Start It Up, Beast Of Burden, Jumping Jack Flash etc, Tumbling Dice etc, etc. My old man is a huge fan and you gotta respect a band that have been around for 43 years and still going strong !
HenriRoger	Date: September 1, 2006 @ 4:41 AM Very well said leedsquitman
EvilPicnic	Date: September 2, 2006 @ 5:35 AM The human riff. I love Start Me Up. Every now and then I tune my guitar in an open tuning, throw away that low E string and just thrash that riff out for an hour or two.
Rikki27	Date: September 2, 2006 @ 6:05 AM lol BTW what is with that guy? in the original recording of Start Me Up, cant you hear him break a string at one point? and he allways uses some wierd ass tuning, which is kinda a pain when i wanna play it.
leedsquietman	Date: September 2, 2006 @ 6:45 AM You want to hear a cool version of Start Me Up - look no further than this... http://britmick.dmusic.com/ Yes, Keith Richards often uses different tunings, especially when playing live - open G tuning being his favourite and the one used in Start Me Up (with bottom E removed) http://guitar.about.com/library/bltuningdgdgbd.htm
Alecs	Date: September 12, 2006 @ 12:15 PM "My old man is a huge fan and you gotta respect a band that have been around for 43 years and still going strong!" Going strong? I dunno, I heard their latest tour was pretty awful...
GeneHilbert	Date: September 12, 2006 @ 1:31 PM The rumor mill was that Bill Wyman left because he was sick of listening to the Ron Wood butcher the guitar.
leedsquietman	Date: September 12, 2006 @ 3:33 PM ... ..for years it was Keith too stoned to play, falling asleep on stage and Ron had to carry the guitar sounds, maybe this is when their reputation deteriorated !! Whether or not their last tour was awful, they sold out the usual football arenas etc and pocketed a big stash of cash. Bill Wyman - Keith said he was always a lazy s.o.b. who just turned up to lay down his part and pocket the cash in the Stones autobiography from the 40 licks tour. Keith says he had no interest in the band from about 1969, anytime a meeting or rehearsal came up, Bill would 'pop out for a packet of smokes or a magazine' and rarely come back. Allegedly Also, Bill had a penchant for sh*gging 13 year old girls like Mandy Smith and was said to prefer a roll in the hay with an underage teen than play music
GeneHilbert	Date: September 12, 2006 @ 4:08 PM Just goes to show....... you never know