KEITH RICHARDS

“This movie is my respect to Buddy and Muddy and all the guys who turned me on.” —KEITH RICHARDS

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Stripes album [The White Stripes, 1999]. We covered “Stop Breaking Down,” but we did it from Robert Johnson. I didn’t know it was on Exile. Aftermath and Beg¬gars Banquet were the Stones albums I listened to. Then someone told me,  “The Stones do ‘Stop Breaking Down’, too.” My roommate at the time – Exile was his favorite album. He played it for me. newest films

Richard and the Everly Brothers on one tour

Richard and the Everly Brothers on one tour [in 1963]. I learned more in those six weeks than I would have learned from listening to a million records.

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RICHARDS: Stagecraft – what works and how to feel comfortable onstage. The Everly Brothers were superb every night – those beautiful harmonies. We’d open, then climb the rafters and hang there, watching them. Watching Bo Diddley was university for me. Every set was twenty minutes long in those days. When he came off, if he had two strings left on the guitar, it was a fucking mira¬cle. The Duchess was there [on guitar], and Jerome Green, with the maracas in each hand. It was my job to be Jerome’s minder. I used to fetch him from the pub – “You’re on, mate.”

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Richards, who, after a fall from a tree, underwent brain surgery a few months before the Beacon shows, brushes off doubts about his health. “I must be fine, because I’m not seeing any doctors,” he growls cheerfully. As for a future Stones tour, “I’ve never heard anything about not going out again,” Richards says. Download Free Joomla “I’m basically giving the guys a year off. I’m not pushing. But I might withdraw their wages,” he adds with a cackle, “and see how they feel then.”

The Rolling Stones and Jack White shine a light on the roots of their music

IN THE ROLLING STONES’ NEW CON’ cert movie, Shine a Light, there is a vintage interview with guitarist Keith Richards. Cell Phones & Office A reporter asks Richards what he thinks about when he’s onstage playing with the Stones. Richards coolly replies, “I don’t think onstage. I feel.” Directed by Martin Scorsese, Shine a Light captures the Stones in their current feral prime, in breathtaking close-up. Scorsese shot the band in 2006, during two intimate shows at New York’s Bea¬con Theatre, with guest appearances by Buddy Guy, Christina Aguilera and Jack White of the White Stripes, who duets with Mick Jagger in a heated country-soul version of “Loving Cup,” from 1972′s Exile on Main Street. But Shine a Light — named after another Feedback Exile song and the latest in a long line of Stones documentaries, including Gimme Shelter (1970), Ladies and Gentlemen, The Rolling Stones (1974) and Coc\suc\er Blues, Robert Frank’s notorious, unreleased chronicle of the backstage excess on the Stones’ ’72 U.S. tour — is a testament to the power of feeling, the blues-band empathy and brotherly defiance that continue to drive and define Richards, Jagger, guitar¬ist Ron Wood and drummer Charlie Watts in concert.

The epidemic of corruption in Iraq

IF WAXMAN’S ATTEMPT TO CATCH Clemens perjuring himself rep¬resents the low-water mark of his oversight, his most impres¬sive work has come in exposing the epidemic of corruption in Iraq. In Febru¬ary of last year, Waxman called L. Legal, secure mp3 Paul Bremer before the committee to con¬front him over the Coalition Provisional Authority’s decision to airlift $12 billion in cash to Iraq in the aftermath of Shock and Awe. Under Bremer’s leadership, 363 tons of cash were loaded on pallets into C-130 cargo planes and flown to Bagh¬dad. “The numbers are so large that it doesn’t seem possible that they are true,” Waxman said in his opening statement. “Who in their right mind would send 360 tons of cash into a war zone?