Keith Richards & James Cotton

[sailingshoes72]

This may have been posted before, but it is the first time that I have seen it. Keith Richards playing a custom-made Guild 10-string acoustic. In the early 70's, Keith switched to playing guitar exclusively in "G" tuning. At some point, he famously removed the low E string on his guitars to facilitate rhythm playing. He then had some guitars custom-made for this configuration. The "slide" guitar playing is a little rough around the edges, but it is a cool video.

 

[SFIV1967]

Yes, long time ago that we had it posted... James Cotton is no longer with us...
But always good to see Keith with his Guild F30-LM10.

Happy 70th to Keef!

Proving modern medicine wrong for yet another year!

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Ralf

 

[sailingshoes72]

Didn't realize that James Cotton had died. Great harp player, vocalist and band leader. I saw him and his band back in the 1980's at a Blues Club in Miami, FL called Tobacco Road.

Is it known what the LM stands for in the model name of Keith's guitar?

 

[SFIV1967]

James cotton passed away in March 2017:

James Cotton was a big part of the Blues world.. RIP Jameu

Toured for over 60 years and shared his life with so many of us...sad day.

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Another one with the same guitar:




The "LS" stood for "long-scale", only the custom shop offered the long scale F-30.
I'm not exactly sure what the M stood for, maybe simply mahogany as the standard custom shop model was the rosewood F-30R LS.
Now why it is not a F-30M LS10 I don't know...
It's a 1999 one as far as I remember.

Billy Budapest had posted a picture of the case with the hangtag:

Ralf

 

[F312]

So is that like an F112? The shape looks different and it looks bigger.

Ralph

 

[SFIV1967]

So is that like an F112? The shape looks different and it looks bigger.

No, I don't think you can compare them. The neck seems to be much different. And it looks bigger because it's a long scale based on the F-30R LS from the Nashville custom shop. Actually the Guild Gallery Jul-Dec 1999 showed: "By popular request, the mahogany body F-30 LS is now available", so that seems to be the baseline.

The regular custom shop model had a script logo on the headstock:

Ralf

 

[walrus]

I always loved the design on the pickguard and TRC in the top photo. So cool.

walrus

 

[Westerly Wood]

James cotton passed away in March 2017:

James Cotton was a big part of the Blues world.. RIP Jameu

Toured for over 60 years and shared his life with so many of us...sad day.

letstalkguild.com

Another one with the same guitar:




The "LS" stood for "long-scale", only the custom shop offered the long scale F-30.
I'm not exactly sure what the M stood for, maybe simply mahogany as the standard custom shop model was the rosewood F-30R LS.
Now why it is not a F-30M LS10 I don't know...
It's a 1999 one as far as I remember.

Billy Budapest had posted a picture of the case with the hangtag:

Ralf

mick jagger is not a great singer.
and that combo with Eddie was really tough to listen to.
but what do i know really? they are millionaires and I cant sign at all so...
rock on.

 

[walrus]

But like many singers, great or not, Jagger was a perfect fit for his band.

walrus

 

[Westerly Wood]

But like many singers, great or not, Jagger was a perfect fit for his band.

walrus

totally. Like could you imagine Roger Daltrey singing Stones songs? lol
and Jagger was more a songwriter, which is harder than being a great singer...
i recently say a Jagger and richards video, old too, they were really young, and Jagger was telling Keith, no, that is not going to work, play it this way....

oh yeah, dont get me wrong, I can appreciate Mick Jagger. I am glad he did not become an economist as that could have been an option. the dude is brilliant.

but then there is David Bowie. Now that is a great singer and writer too. And he produced albums as well. For Lou Reed particularly, Lou's first solo album, and Bowie sings harmony on several of the songs. Plays sax....the Walk On Wild Side infamous sax solo at end of song is Bowie. Unless that is just rumor...again what do I really know? I can't even pick a freakin string.

 

[walrus]

+1 on Bowie!

walrus