It’s one of the few times that a kick in the ass is real good!” I can fit in that bubble very comfortably, but maybe comfortable is not where it’s at. But the Winos will go: ‘Come on Keith, pick it up!’ And that’s what I needed, ’cause no-one’s gonna kick my arse in the Stones. So with the Stones, I’ll stop playing, go ‘I can’t remember the bridge’ and they stop, because with the Stones, there’s no point in going on. They’re confident and they know their stuff enough not to let me slouch around. “In the Stones, if I stop playing, everything clatters to a halt. Main Offender is miles away from the standard indulgence of a solo album. The album is bright and live, permeated by the airy snap of Jordan’s high-tuned snare drum, and on songs like Hate It When You Leave and Demon, Richards reminds us that he has a knack for classic, sensitive soul songs, as well as for vicious, simplistic guitar hooks like those of 999 or Wicked As It Seems. Richards has frequently said that he’d have been a drummer if he could have coordinated all four limbs, and his partnership with Steve Jordan defines the sound of the new album, just as much as his partnership with Charlie Watts delineates the elegant chaos of the Stones. It rebounded on me, because I ended up playing bass again, something I haven’t done since Sympathy For The Devil or Let’s Spend The Night Together.” “There’s not as many guest appearances as there are on the first one, but one of the things we figured from taking the Winos on the road is that you’ve got five guys there, but they all play three instruments, so you’ve got like 15 combinations. “The main thing that’s struck me about this album is how lucky I am that I’ve managed to get the same bunch of guys together again, because great musicians don’t tend to hang around for three or four years. His new album, Main Offender, proves that Keith loves making music whether it’s with the Stones, blues musicians like John Lee Hooker and Johnnie Johnson, or The X-Pensive Winos. Keef’s not knackered, he’s just nicely worn-in. The famous lines are etched as deeply in his face as the photographs suggest – and they match perfectly the rips in his favourite denim jacket or the dents in Micawber, his beloved Tele. Sitting after-hours in his New York headquarters, Richards displays his own distinctive brand of fitness, born out of nervous energy rather than intensive exercise. But everyone else has their own description of the Keith Richards phenomenon: from ‘the human riff’ through to ‘the world’s most elegantly wasted human being’. His own phrase is “five strings, two fingers, one asshole”. My two (now discontinued in Canuckland) 2 cents.This interview was originally published in 1997. Bring Keef in - and you're all the way there. A good, slightly overwound Tele bridge pickup combined with that will get you a lot of the way there. For me that would be Gibsons tweed attempts, the Valco or Supro stuff (so, early Grestch, National and others) maybe a 60s Ampeg that actually breaks up - can't remember which model, but there is one - and for modern, Swart pretty much nails it. I did hear he was playing AC30 clones in the studio a couple years back in NYC when the Stones were doing some recording there - perhaps the "extras" that have come out in the last year or two.īut I think if you're trying to get into the Keef thing at moderate volumes I'd look for something that breaks up in a not so polite way. There are a couple photos of him playing a 335 through a Marshall. Lately the 335 has been seen a lot on stage on the standard tuning stuff. He was also playing the Dan Armstrong plexi around that time. Brown Sugar is apparently an SG through a Twin turned up to, well, as far as you could. I think for the standard tuning stuff - anything goes. Wonder how much is the Zemaitas?Īs for Keith? The 5 string open G stuff is probably all Tele. He does have a very distinctive tone from that era.
#Keith richards guitar rig tv#
There's a vid floating around with the mighty Faces in a TV studio situation (RIP Mac) and Woody's playing what looks to be a Princeton. I think in Wood's case at least, this is probably the answer.
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