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Just got tickets to go see the Stones tomorrow at Dodger Stadium. Managed to score some tickets off the bay. Our attorney is paying for them or else we wouldn't be able to go.
We figured we better go see them this time around since they are getting up there in years.

Mike

Have fun, Mike. I caught them at the Hollywood Bowl. Sound sucked.

Yeah, they sound absolutely dreadful but hey they are the F'ing STONES!!!

This friend that's taking us has been seeing them since they first came to the states. I agree. Their live shows usually suck but they are the Stones. My wife really wants to see Keith. He is about the best rhythm guitarist there ever was.

Mike

Bad Kitty wrote:This friend that's taking us has been seeing them since they first came to the states. I agree. Their live shows usually suck but they are the Stones. My wife really wants to see Keith. He is about the best rhythm guitarist there ever was.

Mike

I would agree, Keith is awesome and is often under-rated as a guitar player (and song writer). Those albums they cut in their prime are still some of my very favorites.

Is it true that Keith plays without an E string, and the rest tuned to an open chord? I heard Joe Walsh say that once.

Never heard that about the E-string, but I have read he uses different tunings and often is seen playing with a capo.

Yeah, he said that in a GP article and I have also read somewhere that a luthier made him a few 5 stringers. He does play in a lot non A440 tunings.

+1 on best rythm player but I gotta put Townsend there with him.

That's one thing the nettles me about trying to learn Stones tunes...I never know half the time if he's using open tuning. I learned "wild horses: in standard then read somewhere that it's open tuning. Oh well, guess it's good to know how to play it both ways. On another topic, let me just say, "Can You Hear Me Knocking"...now THAT is some serious classic tone, both the main riff and the mellower, reverbed out lead tone in the jam at the end. If it's not, well then I'm just a fleabit, peanut monkey and all my friends are junkies. I wonder if that was through an ampeg.

BashCoder wrote:Is it true that Keith plays without an E string, and the rest tuned to an open chord? I heard Joe Walsh say that once.

Yep. Keith plays a lot in open G. And since open G goes DGDGBD, the bottom D is just in the way. His main Tele is set up that way.

"5 strings, 4 fingers, 3 Chords, 2 Balls, 1 Asshole.. "

Rock

He's pretty limber for an old codger!

MacGaden wrote: Yep. Keith plays a lot in open G. And since open G goes DGDGBD, the bottom D is just in the way. His main Tele is set up that way.

The low string is ALWAYS getting in the way for me!!
Of course, I suck at guitar, so that explains part of it!

Great pic, BTW!!

BashCoder wrote:Great pic, BTW!!

Yeah ! And the most impressive thing is he get up again all by himself. And then he does it again..

I have a crap Tele set up that way, as a 5 string. "Start Me Up", Honky Tonk Women", "Brown Sugar" those riffs does

OK, just HOW does that old dude continue?????

I swear he looks like he died 20 years ago. Those guys are amazing.

Ever hear the story about how the Satisfaction riff come about?

"Keef" said he also keeps a cassette recorder running when he's doodling around then listens to it later for ideas. He came upon one tape played and there was twenty minutes of snoring. He was ready to shut it off when he heard the riff, then more snoring.

And, "Can't You Hear My Knockin'" IS the BEST rythmn EVER put on tape.