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What is new about Keith always being a low key self effacing guy. For decades now I had figured he was living up to the outlaw image.rather than being a real outlaw Which BTW years ago on this Board I argued, that the rubber of being a real outlaw hit the road when they saw what real outlaws were in the He11s Angels at Altamont. After that they knew they were just playing the part and were just a RR band makin a living playing the muszak. Up till Altamont Jagger really thought he was a real bad boy Lucifer.

Further Richards knows he plays a bad guitar that others are far more virtuoso's than he is. Yet it is a sound that he carries in his head that for lack of a better term makes him a visionary of the sound he wants to create..call that the RS sound, which is unique.

Gimme Shelter was written by Keith when his GF Anita was off making the movie Performance with Jagger. He feared that she was fking Jagger and that accounts for the on the edge feeling in the song. That was bout the time he started chipping on the H.

The High water mark for the RS was the 69 Tour, as that was where they EARNED the sobriquet the Greatest RR band on earth. That was the moment where hey blazed the night away. They may have had more success and money after that but they never played the same way again.