The Stones regularly played this in rehearsals, but could never recapture its glorious seediness live: “It’s a great track, but we never play it as well as the original,” said Charlie Watts in 2013. The spacious strut is fully exploited by the offbeat staccato rhythm, taught to Charlie Watts by Bobby Keys, Hopkins’ sinuous piano, mean horns and a classy, Bluesbreakers-esque outro solo from the on-fire Mick Taylor. Mick Taylor came up with the riff, which earned him his only songwriting co-credit with the band, but Richards played it (“We got some weird sound of something that had gone wrong – some valve or tube that had gone,” he said of its guttural sound). Named for the lack of air con in the damp basement at Villa Nellcôte, where Exile On Main St took form, the sublime, predatory open-G slide riff throughout Ventilator Blues perfectly evokes the decadence of its surroundings. But here’s our selection of the finest 12-string, six-string and, of course, five-string moments from their incredible body of work…
Yet The Stones’ late-60s-to-early-70s output isn’t called their ‘imperial phase’ for nothing, and that’s where the majority of tracks on this list inevitably originate.įans of pure blues could just as easily argue for, say, the Clapton-fuelled Everybody Knows About My Good Thing from 2016’s excellent Blue & Lonesome covers album and the ‘ancient art of weaving’ perfected by Ronnie Wood and Keith Richards over the years has produced some standout moments of guitar telepathy, too. Although now primarily a live act, in theory, there are 25 studio albums to pick through to assemble a list of their guitar highlights. Once a dangerous symbol of cultural rebellion, now a musical institution, The Rolling Stones are close to celebrating 60 years as a band.
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