Count McCash wrote:Great songwriter, great writer of riffs and effective guitar parts, great harmony singer, very, very average (to be kind) guitarist.
Wrong. Superb rhythm player with an intuitive sense of space. He had the funk too.
Count McCash wrote:Great songwriter, great writer of riffs and effective guitar parts, great harmony singer, very, very average (to be kind) guitarist.
The Dríver wrote:We even have village idiots.
Joe Moody wrote:Does Keith actually play live, these days?
neverknows wrote:Sir John Coan wrote:Joe Moody wrote:Does Keith actually play live, these days?
A mate of mine helped out on the Stones tour of Spain in 1997 and said there's someone behind the stage playing most of what Keith appears to be playing.
Well somebody should tell that person to stop fluffing "Jumping Jack Flash"'s intro!
neverknows wrote:Sir John Coan wrote:Joe Moody wrote:Does Keith actually play live, these days?
A mate of mine helped out on the Stones tour of Spain in 1997 and said there's someone behind the stage playing most of what Keith appears to be playing.
Well somebody should tell that person to stop fluffing "Jumping Jack Flash"'s intro!
the hanging monkey wrote:Count McCash wrote:Great songwriter, great writer of riffs and effective guitar parts, great harmony singer, very, very average (to be kind) guitarist.
Wrong. Superb rhythm player with an intuitive sense of space. He had the funk too.
Count McCash wrote:I'm not wrong. Being a superb rhythm guitarist is only a small fraction of being a superb guitarist.
Count McCash wrote: Space comes under, to my mind anyway, writing effective guitar parts rather than mastery of an instrument.
Count McCash wrote:Could you define funk as it applies to Keef?
The Dríver wrote:We even have village idiots.
neverknows wrote:I don't know if he is a superb guitarist. It's a bit vain a debate. But I think he is a superb arranger of guitar sounds in the recording studio. That "ghost" acoustic that fills space between electric guitar and cymbals on so many Stones tracks. Fantastic.
Count McCash wrote:I'm not wrong. Being a superb rhythm guitarist is only a small fraction of being a superb guitarist.
You are wrong. A great rhythm player is a great guitarist. Or do you prefer Yngwie Malmsteen?
Are you trying to tell me that after 40 years of gradual improvement I should have stuck to rhythm? Don't be so fucking daft.
Count McCash wrote: Space comes under, to my mind anyway, writing effective guitar parts rather than mastery of an instrument.
No, space is all about how the rhythm part is played, often slightly behind the beat in Keef's case. Sometimes well behind the beat.
Where I come from that's called feel
Count McCash wrote:Could you define funk as it applies to Keef?
Everybody knows you can't define funk.
Count McCash wrote:Are you trying to tell me that after 40 years of gradual improvement I should have stuck to rhythm? Don't be so fucking daft.
Count McCash wrote:Where I come from that's called feel
Count McCash wrote:Thought not.
The Dríver wrote:We even have village idiots.