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To: Libertarian444
Since Brian Jones died, he’s effectively been able to hide behind Mick Taylor and Ronnie Wood.

I am not much of a Keith Richards fan and can't imagine why he would even make the top 50 but that's The Rolling Stone for you. However I am puzzled by your statement. Jagger wrote the lyrics and a few melodies but essentially Richards wrote the riffs and almost all the music. As far as the music goes Keith Richards IS the Rolling Stones.

Mick Taylor was a good soloist (Can't you hear me knocking) but was just a sideman. Ronnie Wood is a mediocre guitar player and hasn't added anything really. Their act would be delayed sometimes for hours waiting for Keith to show up or Keith to get his son to help him find his junk. They didn't perform without him. Keith just does his thing & it doesn't impress me much but he is the musical heart of the Rolling Stones. What I did find interesting though is Richard's vast use of tunings and his claim that there are no electric guitars on Jumping Jack Flash - all acoustic.

102 posted on 11/23/2011 5:03:39 PM PST by plain talk
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To: plain talk

Hand each one of those top 10 guitarists a guitar and as them to play some of their accoustic stuff, the best on the list is Page.

No question Hendrix was awesome. He did things with a guitar that takes a guitarist 3 different peddles to achieve the same sound with.


106 posted on 11/23/2011 5:13:47 PM PST by EQAndyBuzz (To fix government, we need a rocket scientist. Oh, wait we have one!)
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To: plain talk

Re listening to it, I can almost hear it as a mic’d acoustic with some minor feedback in the power strum parts. I had never even thought of the song as acoustic before.


148 posted on 11/23/2011 7:04:18 PM PST by Raider Sam (They're on our left, right, front, and back. They aint gettin away this time!)
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