Keith Richards rehearsing not even a month ago...

[Westerly Wood]

His longevity is impressive:

 

[walrus]

Cool guitar and cool amps, too! One of my guitar heroes!

walrus

 

[7GuildsandanSG]

I understand the history of the telecaster and all but I think it's just an ugly guitar. I'll take an S-300 or S-200 anytime. Take away the history, it's just an ugly guitar.

 

[Guildedagain]

Hella cool Micawber Tele made from a beat up Custom, pretty fab looking Tele, if you're into the history and the guitars as if they were your bible.

 

[Midnight Toker]

At his age and what he's been through, I'm sure it takes a daily twang to keep even the easiest things going, at that point, if you don't play for long spells, it just gets harder to get back to performance levels. Thing about The Stones though, Mick can't even rely on Ronnie to do all the heavy lifting anymore. He's got 1 1/2 feet in the same boat!! (boy do I miss the Mick Taylor days!! )

 

[SFIV1967]

Hella cool Micawber Tele made from a beat up Custom, pretty fab looking Tele, if you're into the history and the guitars as if they were your bible.

No, "Micawber" is a different Tele:

Fender | "Micawber" Telecaster | The Metropolitan Museum of Art

www.metmuseum.org

The guitar he is playing in post #1 is "Sonny", his 1967 Fender Telecaster Sunburst, also only with 5 strings.

Ralf

 

[Bernie]

Good feel he's got here ; he has never sounded as much as an old genuine black bluesman as he does there I think ; somehow he is improving still, as it has been his number one goal in life probably (at least it seems to me)... I like this 1st sequence until the usual rhythm blues pattern he starts playing then...
I wish him some more years to live, and some generous gifts to deserving poor bluesman who still strive for a decent life here and there.

 

[Midnight Toker]

Good feel he's got here ; he has never sounded as much as an old genuine black bluesman as he does there I think ; somehow he is improving still, as it has been his number one goal in life probably (at least it seems to me)... I like this 1st sequence until the usual rhythm blues pattern he starts playing then...
I wish him some more years to live, and some generous gifts to deserving poor bluesman who still strive for a decent life here and there.

If there ever was a band from the 1st/2nd Brit blues based wave that gave back to the largely forgotten American blues pioneers,(both in notoriety and monetarily) it was The Stones! Keef owes no one.

 

[Bernie]

Back in late 90s or early 2000s, a person working for Fnac (major records and electronic devices French retailer) showed me a Rolling Stones CD where credits for Love in Vain said "Traditional, Arrangements Rolling Stones !!"...Not the slightest mention of Robert Johnson's part !!!!
After some decades copyrights protection end up.... Yes his good looks and charm or charisma (don't really know what word to use) does work, but still not a saint Yes the very original album version too with Mick Taylor on slide guitar and Ry Cooder on mandolin.
Maybe they didn't know

 

[Midnight Toker]

Back in late 90s or early 2000s, a person working for Fnac (major records and electronic devices French retailer) showed me a Rolling Stones CD where credits for Love in Vain said "Traditional, Arrangements Rolling Stones !!"...Not the slightest mention of Robert Johnson's part !!!!
After some decades copyrights protection end up.... Yes his good looks and charm or charisma (don't really know what word to use) does work, but still not a saint Yes the very original album version too with Mick Taylor on slide guitar and Ry Cooder on mandolin.
Maybe they didn't know

From wiki:
"Love in Vain" (originally "Love in Vain Blues") is a blues song written by American musician Robert Johnson. Johnson's performance – vocal accompanied by his finger-style acoustic guitar playing – has been described as "devastatingly bleak". He recorded the song in 1937 during his last recording session and in 1939 it was issued as the last of his original 78 rpm records.

"Love in Vain"
Single by Robert Johnson
Released	1939
Recorded	Dallas, Texas, June 20, 1937
Genre	Blues
Length	2:25
Label	Vocalion
Songwriter(s)	Robert Johnson[1][a]
Producer(s)	"Love in Vain" has elements of earlier Delta blues songs and for a while it was believed to be in the public domain. In 1969, the Rolling Stonesrecorded an updated rendition featuring an electric slide guitar solo. The popularity of their adaptation led to a lawsuit over the copyright, which was eventually resolved in favor of Johnson's estate. Various artists have recorded the song.

Like w/ most old blues songs, actual documented authorship of lyrics is often a BIG grey area as most tunes credited to a particular artist often have chunks of lyrics that can be traced to even earlier works, sometimes a mix of several earlier works. They are in fact early arrangements of several other traditional folk songs. These tunes were often passed down from one generation to the next, from one front porch to the next, from one town/juke joint to another. And many songs that honestly should be credited as “traditional” are actually credited to whomever recorded it first. Lawyers only tend to come out of the woodwork when the age old practice of borrowing traditional lyrics results in $$$$. It’s hardly ever about the credit or historical accuracy, just a payday for the estate of or surviving descendants of the original recording artist. Hence why most of these suits are settled out of court for undisclosed sums w/ no change in song credits. Sadly, lawyers typically wind up w/ most of it.

 

[Bernie]

Interesting information here : but you wrote 'Keef owes no one'. So I had to tell it wasn't right (no excuse for not quoting 'Love In Vain' as a Robert Johnson song whatever). I was referring to a remix (probably) of the Rolling Stones' album that was selling those mentioned years approximately...I never meant it had been originally released not mentioning Robert Johnson's name (hadn't had this much info on that)...

Youngsters that get to hear the song have the right to know who wrote it (or even at least where it comes from).

I think too that it's likely that Robert Johnson wrote most of the songs he recorded (if not them all), though what you mention about some blues classics' genesis is right (I know too of some musicians others laughed at, coz they played their own songs in a poor way, who then isolated for a relatively short amount of time, and then returned playing their own then standards better than fairly well)...Other story though