Keith Richards John Lee Hooker Crawlin Kingsnake 1991

[huichol53]

Best compilation ever...huichol53...

[teleevangelist]

nice tune, all john lee

[genxxxersize]

JOHN LEE HOOKER IS AWESOME, HE REMINDS ME OF A BROKENHEARTED WITCHDOCTOR! ;o)

[Emipapa1964]

Hooker und Richards........das tst schon gut!!!!!!!

[monkeytown1000]

@michelle88960

He started playing wiith five strings in open G around 1968 after Ry Cooder showed him, long before he had arthiritis in his fingers (and don't ask Ry Cooder about 'Honky Tonk Women').

This isn't a dig, I love the Stones (well up to 1973 anyways) and I'm English and so is Keef, a Dartford in Kent boy (Jagger too).

[plesy0]

great song!!

[kurtcer]

wow!that's some line-up!

[PAULLONDEN]

2:07...;]...Sock it to 'm...walking on stars....

[TheAnabraga54]

thanks... meu sangue pulsa e segue como um rio quando escuto esses maravilhosos rapazes

[jaggerfrontman]

The master and the rolling stone...

[michelle88960]

brilliant song and great pictures that i haven't seen before. especially interesting is the pic of Keith Richards hand at 1:31. has he got arthritis? or are his hands that way on the first knuckles, from years of playing guitar? amazing picture though. thank you.

[rafaultimate69]

@michelle88960 his hands are like that cause of years of playing guitar!!

[michelle88960]

@rafaultimate69

thanks for that. it would be awful to think he wouldn't be able to play for much longer due to arthritis. i have often noticed his fingers being quite distorted. and he has said in interviews that his hands are wrecked with playing the guitar.

[rafaultimate69]

@michelle88960 you're wellcome^^ yeah and i know that cause i play guitar too,and it really makes your fingers like that xD

[TheDaorson]

@michelle88960 He have arthritis. That is the reason why he play 5 string guitar in open G tuning, actually. To make it easy on his fingers. Strange how greatest innovations comes as side product of struggling to make it right of ones who become unable to work like normal persons.

[kathieropele]

@TheDaorson Actually he plays 5 string because he mastered a certain riff along the ways, that has distinguished his style. his fingers on that particular photo certainly look arthritic, however that is not why he plays 5 string. Read his book "LIFE" by Keith Richards. It is a fantastic book about his life, his journey in music and his addictions.

[TheDaorson]

@kathieropele He never claim he play in open G tuning because of arthritis, actually, he never admit he have that problem at all. But that is the reason if you stop to think a little bit. Keith was always very serious about his image ,so you can´t expect to talking in interview about his weakness :-)

However, playing wast majority of chords with only two fingers don´t make him bad guitarist. It is his advantage!

[michelle88960]

@TheDaorson

thank you for the information regarding Keith Richards arthritis. such a shame though as arthritis is painful. but it is as you say, greatest innovations come around by accident, e.g. Alexander Flemming who discovered penicillin. not a musical comparison, but shows that mistakes are just really fortunate accidents. i think Keith Richards actually answered that when asked what his biggest mistake was, he didn't believe in mistakes, just lucky accidents.

[TheDaorson]

@michelle88960 for some reason i believe you and i have something in common, and this is medical occupation :-)))

[soundshunter]

blues or boogie...amazing song!