Keith Richards doesn't play a normal guitar. He takes the low string off entirely and tunes the other five to open G. That tuning is the engine of "Brown Sugar," the 1971 riff that opens Sticky Fingers and became one of the most recognizable in rock.

Shame Mick Taylor was in the band so briefly. A great riff player like Keith and a killer lead guitar player like Mick was a hell of a combination.

The real reason is because Keef was born decades before the low E string was invented!

Mick Taylor stealing the scene again

My god they were so good with Taylor.

That's one of the ways he plays.....he plays reg tuning too....a lot! All the pre Mick Taylor era music was Keef playing rhythm mostly and brian jones was the lead guitarist. Straight standard tuning

I always found that fascinating. Keith was never a lead player but wrote some of the greatest riffs in R&R

Keith is great here. But Mick Taylor sets it on fire.

Ja Keff. Mick Taylor is awesome too

Love Keith. Also love Mick Taylor who is in my top 5 as a lead player.

The open chords (G-E)and heroin went well for Keith

The mick Taylor era is god tier…but even then, stones are one of the sloppiest bands live ever lol

Never flashy and very underrated.

Man, how much coke was the video editor snorting!

He looked like he had been on a 3 day heroin binge in that show. Probably stunk like a polecat too.

Funny thing is, Jagger wrote Brown Sugar

Love this performance, but that’s some atrociously synced video.

It's retard tuning. No one has ever had a deep urge to learn a Stones riff, because they're just lazy takes on blues riffs that were 40 years old by the time these limey boners stole em.

He doesn't do that for every guitar only on certain songs like brown sugar

Brown Sugar? The Stones have disavowed that song. Although, the song they should have disavowed is Some Girls- now that is a truly racist song

Yes he got that from Ry Cooder.

dang, what memories! I was 21 then.

High string.

真面目さしか伝わってこないんだけど♪＾＾

Gimme Shelter also

Yeah, because Keith has always been a crappy, lazy guitar player.

Peak Stones 👅

If you watch the Top of The Pops performance when it was no1 in UK in 1970,Mick is singing live, but i think the music was prerecorded. From this I always assumed it was Taylor playing the main riff.

This band was great when the frontman had his mouth shut.

It's Mick's song, I wonder if it's Mick's riff that Keith perfected.

With Bobby Keys and Jim Price on horns, the Stones were devastating.

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Wow. The club really changed. Used to go all the time in the 1960’s. Saw Hendrix there for the first time around 66. The Bag O’Nails was another great club.

He got that from Ry Cooder.