Sway - Rolling Stones

[mikeramone003]

great songs...like most stones stuff, based around 2 or 3 chords..thanks for posting!

[bluesmobil68]

Thanks for this video. Sway is one of the best Stones songs ever! I wanna play it with our band and your video helps a lot! The open G-tuning sounds so good and cool.

[Stewdogin1]

Wow. Two for one! Sing this over it: "Worried sick, my eyes are hurtin. To rest my head, I'd take a life".

[msJmarcus1]

this sounds amazing great guitar playing !!!!!

[corgi37]

What? Nah. Keith taught Mick basic chords in the 60's. Jagger wrote the riff for Brown Sugar whilst in lovely, sexy, beautiful Australia in 69. I doubt Taylor taught him how to play guitar whilst only in the band 2-3 weeks.

[PENTADACTYLON]

...who teach Mick Jagger play guitar? (Mick Taylor of course...)

[privettricker]

@beboplun Mick (not Keith) wrote Brown Sugar in open G in 1969. Mick is seen playing acoustic in the Sympathy for the Devil film in 1968. He played most of the guitar on Fingerprint File and the acoustic part in Til the Next Time We Say Goodbye (and is even shown in the promo clip playing it) in 1974. Look at the 1975 live show in LA, which has Mick playing electric onstage. He played plenty of guitar before Some Girls.

[privettricker]

@beboplun That's not true at all, actually.

[wdysmb]

Hey PT: I assume you are happy with that Schecter? I just found one on Ebay for $333....does that seem like a good price? If so, I'm buying it now! Thanks!

[privettricker]

@wdysmb Buying a guitar is a pretty personal thing, but if you can afford it, that's a good price for a solid guitar. The stock pickups are probably higher gain than you're used to, so be prepared for that.

[wdysmb]

@privettricker

Thanks man. I've got about 25, so what's one more! I've never owned a Schecter and had no idea they made that model, but it looks and sounds great and I think I will add it to the collection. I need one to keep tuned in open G anyway. All guitar junkies can rationalize anything!

[corgi37]

Sensational playing. Well done. To me, Sway is not only a perfect song, but just about somes up all that is special about the Stones. Great riff, sure. But it's more. The out of time backing vocals. Charlie's drums sloopy and ever so slightly out of time, Jagger's vocals, screaming to be heard above the din, and truly brilliant lyrics, Bill's solid bass, and the ever so subtle strings arranged by Paul Buckmaster. I actually wish the strings were mixed higher in volume. A++++

[diplomatiks]

@corgi37 Just noticed those strings, good call

[mecormany]

@tiborzkarate MT does both solo's -- first one in slide, standard tuning and second one without slide, standard tuning. Jagger plays rhythm all the way through using open G. Everybody in the world thinks Keith has to be on this somewhere but he didn't even know it had been recorded until it was in the can.

[privettricker]

@mecormany Yes, during that period, Mick J was writing in open G. That surprises a lot of people. In fact, even though Brown Sugar sounds like the quintessential Keith riff, Mick J. actually wrote it.

[keithfabrice]

Thank's for your comment, your play is very precise right and left hand, I admire that even if my own play is anarchic and intuitive. I'm inspired by saitama 06 where Keith mix a very impressive and a strange disciplined play as a young inaccessible guitarist. Good evening, fabrice

[kammhron]

Again , awesome video. That Schecter sounds great.

[mattsym48]

Thanks mate all time classic what makes the guitar such fun

[sticky467]

I'm enjoying all of your Stones stuff!

With Keef being absent on this one, is Mick T playing this in open G on the recording?

I thought he always played in standard tuning?

[privettricker]

@sticky467 Mick Jagger is playing the open G part.

[monkface]

Hey check out a great guitar site called songsterr. Just put in the stones and see how many great tabs there are. It gives a breakdown of everypart. Many many parts! Check it out!

[keithfabrice]

excellent

[LesStrummer]

My fav Stones song. I once had a girl who "broke me up with a corner of her smile." And today's her birthday. Happy birthday, SM.

And you, privettricker, if there ever was evidence of alien occupation of Earth, you're it, bub. 583 stellar vids and counting? What planet are you from?

[nostaticatall]

Great Job, Man. Beautifully played.

[rlockwood9]

What kind of pickup is that on your tele?

[privettricker]

@rlockwood9 Stock Schecter pickups, it's a Pete Townshend model. 

[Fillerup5]

Mick Jagger played Guitar Mick Taylor played Lead

[Maxlugar]

@Fillerup5 You are correct. One of the many great Mick Jagger/ Mick Taylor only tunes. I don't blame Taylor for bolting. Dude was getting farked.

[jonanjello]

Excellent! Thanks for playing this for us!

[69nisab]

possible idiot question: how come this tuning is G when it has three Ds in it?

[privettricker]

When you strum the chord without fretting any notes, it's a G chord -- not a D chord.

Keith got around any ambiguity by removing the bass string entirely.

[meschiavo]

the best cover of Sway in youtube..

What guitar are you using in this video?

[privettricker]

It's a Shecter PT, one of the Pete Townshend reissues.

So it sounds a little like the Kenny-Jones-era Who playing Stones songs!

[brussels73]

cool song.....IMO stickey fingers is the stones best studio album...even better than exile...im sure people are gonna disagree w/ me though.....u rock !!!!!

[privettricker]

For me, it's down to Fingers or Let it Bleed. I'll give the edge to Let it Bleed, because that's almost entirely Keith's guitar work, and his slide playing on that album just kills me.

[chinacat63]

It's just that demon life has got you in its sway .....