O.K. - The old story of if you were lost on an island somewhere in the Pacific with some other people & it was up to you to select the only music for everybody to hear for however long you're stranded, and you only had two choices.

Would you choose the songs written by Jagger/Richards or Lennon/McCartney?

Elaborate on why if you feel like it.

I'd make a raft out of my trusty Ipod and try to make it to land!

I like that old time rock and roll

Lennon/McCartney and its not even close.

Better and more memorable songs that will be remembered 100 years from now. Stones have their place in history but nowhere near what the Beatles were or will be in the future.

Used to paly the what 10 albums do you want on a desert island game and my list always had some Beatles but never any Stones,

Are you talking entire discography?

If yes, Stones and it's not close for me. They had many more albums, plus they've evolved into interesting directions over the years, merging genres. There are Stones songs you would listen to and not realize it at first.

The Beetles have a better good / dog ratio for certain, but you'd tear through their entire discography in one day, plus, they sounded like the Beetles, and that is bound to get boring after some weeks.

pretty much

The more music the better. So wat? Hot Stuff! Schticky tough!

you got tee mooove



oh how he delivers the word 'tears' in tears must be cried

does this include covers , songs written by the cats, but performed by others?

Momma don't go, Daddy come home

You're a dildo, I'm a whore. I'm a barbie doll, you're at war.

Damn! I had to pause this video at 1 min. Not because it was bad but because I needed a moment to get my **** together! This is fantastic!

It's a small world after all!

I'll take The Cars' discography because I never get tired of it.

Yeah, I pretty much always like the Cars.

Of the two in the OP, I'll take the Stones. I like almost all their stuff; I like their rhythms; I like their recording process. I even like Satanic Majesties and find it interesting to listen to.

The Beatles started out OK, but retreated to the British Music Hall "Moon, Spoon, June" pop genre too quickly. There's nothing wrong with that per se, but I can only fade it in small quantities.

I grew up with the Beatles who I love, but have been a Stones fan since the late sixties. Seen them live twice. Once in 1973 and once in 2014.

Exile on main St is probably my favorite Stones album. Just love the rough and ready vibe and the groove. Keef's open G tuning masterpiece.

Read Keith's biography and liked it. I'm not well/at all versed in guitar playing, just played the coronet for a few years when I was a kid and Herb Alpert & the Tijuana Brass were big.

I do know the guitarists who were considered the best & it does come thru when u listen. Too bad Duane Allman died so young, I remember him being referred to as either the best slide guitar player or one of them.

But I vaguely remember what you're talking about with the open G thing & I think something about using only five strings instead of six sometimes for some reason when reading Keith's book. Anybody want to explain this guitar stuff?

I think I also read where some of the people who know their way around a guitar said Richards may have been the best rhythm guitar player ever? Is that possible?

I also saw the documentary movie "Chuck Berry Hail! Hail! Rock 'n' Roll" which came out in 1987 that was directed by Taylor Hackford (who has some good stuff). I think u would have to say that Keith Richards was the co-star or at least the best supporting actor in it. Here is a bit of what it has to say at the IMDb....

This documentary movie covers two concerts at the Fox Theatre in St. Louis, Missouri, to celebrate Chuck Berry's 60th birthday, and also discusses his life and career.

Director: Taylor Hackford

Stars: Chuck Berry, Keith Richards, Eric Clapton | See full cast & crew »

It seems that Keith was a big fan of Berry's growing up & he organized & played guitar in Berry's 2 concerts that the movie refers to. But he also thinks Berry can be a royal pain in the ass and one of the all time penny pinchers.

Clapton said something about the way Berry played the guitar sorta took over in a way. He played some notes in the usual style and then in Berry's style and u could see what he was talking about.

But after Berry's hits from the mid 50's to early 60's......probably his most famous was Johnny B. Good, after the British invasion & American groups took over the hit songs, Berry's last hit song was My Ding-a-Ling (released in 72), which was his only number one single.

I think fans of Richard's would like the documentary. Lastly - Berry just died in March this year at 90.

Keefs the greatest of all time so Stones for me. worth noting that John and Paul's solo stuff is a bit more.... substantive than Keith and Mick's. ( I do love the x-pensive Wino's, though).

tough question, though. my two favorite bands!

Meh, not a big fan of either tbh. I'll take the Stones if I have to because there are too many Beatles songs I simply never, ever want to listen to again.

I'll take Led Zep's music over either.

L/M. Or Dylan.

Sure!

Standard tuning on a (western) guitar is, from the bottom (which is the top string to the viewer):

E (bottom E)
A
D
G
B
E (top E)

If you play that, you basically have noise. It follows that you get noise if you do a one-finger barre chord, as shown here:



The point of playing open tuning is (in part) to be able to use that one-finger barre position and get a recognizable note.

The next thing to know is that the chords for G Major is G-B-D. In order to play in an open tuing, you tune your strings accordingly:

E -> D
A -> G
D -> D
G -> G
B -> B
E -> D

Which is all fine and dandy except that G-Major has, by definition, a G as it's root note. This means that you shouldn't be playing bottom E, so Keith played played without it. If he did, he would technically be playing the G second inversion.

You may ask "why not alter the bottom E to G?" You would either have to tune up to G, which will break the string, or you tune down, which give you a slack string that doesn't really make any noise.

Love the 'Drop D' alternate tuning. Just the lowest string, tuned to E in the traditional/ standard tuning, is altered, lowered a full-step to D, allowing the now 2 lowest strings(D and A) to be rung simultaneously for what is a 'D power chord.'



ohhh the sustain of it, starting at late 1:22, but in the context of that which comes before it Goat

No way I'd be without my Cardiacs collection.