9/21/2023 0 Comments Words of wonder keith richards![]() The Harder They Come introduced a lot of people to reggae for the first time. There was a feeling in the air, actually, that Jamaica was starting to make a mark on the map. That’s also the year the soundtrack of The Harder they Come came out. That was the year Marley and the Wailers put out Catch a Fire. ![]() I remember of course cutting in Jamaica, and that made it very memorable, especially in that year. It’s weird, when you listen to something you haven’t really heard in its entirety for a long time. I don’t care what it looks like or anything else.” Keith Richards Surprises Fans at Willie Nelson's 90th Birthday Concert, Sings 'Live Forever' With Willie This is bloody Alice in Wonderland, you know? I don’t care what it looks like or anything else. We do go drift out and stop by a sidewalk cafe. Yeah, I’m just hoping everybody can all get back together again next year, without masks! By then, I hope we won’t need ‘em. It’s not a thing you retire from, you know?Īnd the adrenaline, and love, that you feel up there must be pretty strong. Otherwise, I mean, I really can’t imagine doing anything else. And also there’s that thing between us, like, “Who’s going to be the first one to get off the bus?” You have to be kicked off or drop off, right? It’s like that. I’ve been at your concerts and heard people wonder, “Why do they still do it? They have everything in the world they could possibly want.” What do you get out of playing live? I hope, like everybody else, there’s a very good vaccine as soon as possible. What do you hope comes out of all of this? I was very disappointed in March when we said, “Uh oh, this thing’s looking bad.” And a week later, then they started to say, “Oh, we’ll cancel the first few gigs.” I said “I have a feeling, nah, this thing’s too big for us.” It’s too big for anybody, you know? I really enjoyed that last tour, it was a great trek. Otherwise, nobody’s going to play to be able to play for anybody, are they? But apart from that, I suppose, in everybody’s mind, we presume that things will look up next year. So I always have this feeling of, like, sudden redundancy, which I have no doubt millions of other people have had, as well. I think we have five, six, or seven tracks we’ve sort of slowly been putting together, and right now, as I say, if this thing’s going to go on, maybe we should think about putting them out in another way. Oh, I don’t know, it’s hard to describe music. What do the other new songs you’re working on sound like? I mean, driving around and seeing nobody on the streets, it was a pretty quick connection to make: “Hey that ‘Ghost Town,’ we should put that out!” It’s cool to see you guys still evolving. He gave a lesson on “Living in a Ghost Town,” and he was talking about how different the chords are for you guys, especially the bridge. There’s a guy who teaches your riffs on YouTube. I said, “Hey man, if there’s a time to put this one out, it’s now, you know.” Mick and I, we had it in the can, and we never thought that with what was going on …. “Ghost Town” was a perfect song for the moment. And apart from that, man, I managed to “Ghost Town.” I’m trying to figure out what to do with these tracks we cut, and if we can do anything else with them in another way, you know? I’m feeling very lucky that I have some space so I can get out. How have you been spending your time at home? “I feel we did a great job on it,” he says. But Richards came away with a different opinion after putting together the reissue, which includes 10 bonus tracks, ranging from studio jams to unheard songs like “ Scarlet,” featuring Jimmy Page. Critics didn’t like it at the time, and the Stones quickly dropped many of the songs from their live set. After touring Exile, the band got together in Kingston, Jamaica, to cut a set of dark grooves that sounded like nothing they’d ever released. ![]() He spent a lot of time recently revisiting Goats Head Soup, the band’s 1973 follow-up to Exile on Main Street, which they have just reissued with a huge box set. ![]() “We’ve just been hunkering down here, watching the garden grow,” he says. New music is one way Richards has been staying busy at home in Connecticut. Jagger agreed, and wrote new lyrics the video currently has nearly 10 million views on YouTube. “I said, ‘Hey man, if there’s a time to put this one out, it’s now, you know,'” the guitarist recalls. As the pandemic took hold in March, Keith Richards called up Mick Jagger with an idea: The Stones should rush-release “Living in a Ghost Town,” a funky song they’d recorded not long ago for their first album of new songs since 2005. ![]()
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