He was ranked fourth on Rolling Stone 's list of Best Guitarists. The magazine said that Richards has "rock's greatest single body of guitar riffs. Richards has also become known for his notorious partying, history of drug use, rock star swagger and near-death appearance. In and , Richards joined Depp on screen in two Pirates of the Caribbean films, playing Depp's on screen father, Captain Teague. Richards also appeared, in cartoon form, on The Simpsons in In , Richards released his highly anticipated memoir , My Life , which quickly became a New York Times best seller and received rave reviews.
As the Rolling Stones celebrated their fiftieth anniversary, their influence could be seen in everyone from fellow veteran acts such as Aerosmith and Iggy Pop to more recent bands like the White Stripes. One thing was for certain, long after the Rolling Stones play their last show, their legacy would live on through the music, books and concert films as well as in their influence on current and future rock bands.
Updated February 11, Infoplease Staff. More about the Rolling Stones. See also:. Rolling Stones by the Numbers. Trending Here are the facts and trivia that people are buzzing about. That phrase keeps coming back to haunt the Rolling Stones. Reviewers wield it like a rusty razor when the Stones are sloppy and dispirited, as they were at John F.
Kennedy Stadium in Philadelphia in That was one of their worst shows. At JFK Stadium this past September, for the first show of their current tour, the Stones were sloppy and spirited, and that made a difference. But the phrase still seemed overblown, inappropriate. Okay, what makes them the greatest? It could only happen in your neighborhood bar or at a Rolling Stones concert.
Everything Keith Richards plays, from the simplest handful of notes to the most monolithic riff, pushes the music forward. Watts brings his ear for jazz to the Stones; like a first-class jazz drummer, he provides lift without ever overplaying. Sure, there are other factors. At the Fox, the Stones rocked so hard, they jerked you up out of your seat and kept you dancing for two hours, and made you like it.
You could tell it was going to be one of those nights the minute Jagger started singing, because he was singing — finding new notes, rearranging the melody to suit the mood of the moment, hitting those notes right on the head and enunciating, in case you missed the words the first few hundred times around.
He was all over the stage, telegraphing every rhythmic nuance with expressive body English, goading Wood into one spectacular solo after another, encouraging Watts and Wyman to pour it on and, yes, giving Jagger a run for his money. His hand is evident in several new arrangements, too.
In Atlanta, Richards and Wood unveiled a lovely, chiming, two-guitar break that sounded like pure Stax-Volt soul, with Keith chopping like the Memphis Horns and Ronnie nailing down sharp, edgy lead lines like Steve Cropper. The new break somehow made the rest of the tune coalesce around it. But there's one fundamental thing I hear and that is the beginning of this album, which is quite dark.
The darkness is very much , the same year as the moon shot. It's also the same year as Woodstock. But ends up being a year that has one of what some people have called the Pearl Harbor of Woodstock, and that was The Stones concert at Altamont, in which one of the concertgoers died, stabbed by a Hell's Angel.
And the song anticipates this so amazingly with this sort of howling in the background, the minor key opening, the descending progression that continues throughout the whole song. And then the climax of the words, 'Rape, murder. It's just a shot away. And is not about really Woodstock. It's still about Vietnam. It's still about violence in the streets. It's still about protest.
And it's still about a darkness that envelops most of America. Woodstock is more a memory from later. This is the reality. On how he learned so much about The Stones and what they taught him about music. I was always interested in the music and that was first and foremost.
And when I teach my Rolling Stones class, I teach from behind a guitar. It's always about music and it's always about influences. They were the ones that guided me. I had to be led to it. So they're also the ones who led me to Robert Johnson, and they led me to country music.
And so it was through them that I began to listen to Merle Haggard. It was through them I started to think about Nashville and all these different tunings. They're the ones who led me to all these different styles.
They led me to French new wave cinema. So they led me to other groups as well and they led me to reggae. I just willingly followed and I let them just lead me onto their musical traditions.
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