Ask Keith Richards: Bill Wyman's Bass Playing
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- Keith discusses Bill Wyman in honor of his 80th birthday on October 24, 2016.
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Bill Wyman, the man who made a career of playing great bass lines while all the time looking as if he was waiting for a bus.
waiting for the schoolbus with his gymslip girlfriend to get off
Nickname was "The Tombstone" after all
Great bassist. Love, Bill.
@@Decimator-jh4gu Yep, I agree. He is vastly under-rated and if you ever get the chance to listen to his isolated bass lines on Stones songs, you can hear just how good he is and was. Not being alcoholic and / or drug addicted seems to have been a set back in Wyman's career!
Imagine a backline with Bill Wyman and Chris Layton, who also looks bored while laying down shuffle grooves.....
I hope I look as good when I turn 200 as Keith does.
Lolololololol 😁
Barry Grant Dude, that is funny! 😆
Excellent!!!!
🤣🤣🤣🤣🤣
It's all about the eyeliner.
I'm just pleasantly blown away that Keith talked of Bill in such glowing terms.
Very refreshing.
I agree. Keith is my fav but the nice words he had for Bill, Wow
Keith was always complimentary of Wyman’s playing.
George Rusch, Think your to stoned for this message thread. Dont think your even on the right one, lol
RedArrow73 Yeah because Bill played the sixth string on Keef’s five-string Tele.
Now let’s hear Dylan play some funk since it’s so inferior to a bunch of Brit peerage kids ripping off Delta and Chicago bluesmen.
Try this, Bob, since funk bands are so lame:
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George Rusch, bwaaaaahhh. Im gonna role with it Mate or did I mean " roll a joint" or did I mean "Rip this Joint" Anyhow, nice communicating with you. Now Im gonna "Tug my Joint" and by that I mean do stretching exercises of course...
As Bob Dylan once said: "The Stones stopped swinging when Bill left." And, I have to say I agree with him. Bill is an enormously underrated bassist. Put him and Charlie Watts together and they swing. They were made for each other.
Yeah, I'm aware of that. I'm simply referring to their sound not their longevity.
After Bill left?? zzzzzzzzzzzzzzzzz. Name me one hit. Just one.
James A Dempsey "Love Is Strong", "Like A Rolling Stone", "Anybody Seen My Baby", "Don't Stop" were all US top 20 hits. The last 10 years Wyman was with the band, they didn't have a no. 1 hit. To claim the bass player is the main factor to the band losing the ability to create big no. 1 hits, is too far out.
Wow. Can't place any of those hits.(wonder why) And if you think I am claiming that Bill was the "main" factor in anything, you are reading too much into my comment. Number 1s mean little to me. Songwriting relevance means more. The Stones had a cool song 2 years ago I remember liking alot at the time. Can't remember it now though.
I couldn't have said it better myself. Personally, I think they should have called it quits when Mick Taylor left at the end of 1974. If that had happened, the quality of the group's musical output would rank right up there with that of the Beatles. The Rolling Stones released seven great studio albums from 1966 ("Aftermath") through 1974 ("It's Only Rock and Roll"). Since then, they've done two very good studio LPs ("Some Girls" and "Tattoo You") and little else, except make a billion dollars from their concerts and re-releasing old material for the umpteenth time.
Totally underrated. I get why so much glory goes to McCartney, Lee, Entwistle, etc, but Bill Wyman has barely even been discussed. He's a totally unique player.
Probably because he doesn't play on many songs
Nick Lowe cites him as an influence...
Yes, but he has his place. I think, anyone who listens to the Stones closely and likes their stuff will notice.
Bill played on approx 85% of their studio material and created most of the bass lines.
So many great & underappreciated bass guitarists...John Paul Jones, Roger Glover, Geezer Butler...and as stated, Bill Wyman is extraordinary!
Keith Richards has about 8 minutes to live. And it's been like that for the last 30 years
Nice one...but too kind, you flatterer! Keith looks like he has been dead for 8 weeks.
Fact is I saw the Stones in 81/82. He looked and all the reviers were saying he looked dead. Even emblamed. I bet 70% are all gone now but Keiths still rocking and swing right down to the floor and up again. Long Live Rock!
He's going to outlive all of us.
The ONLY WAY TO LIVE.
Keith is the living embodiment of “Eat and drink and be merry. Tomorrow we die.”. (
He's the Hyman Roth of rock.
I always thought that Bill's bass playing was so subtle, you barely know he's there. But if he wasn't, you'd immediately know something was missing.
That sounds perfectly accurate to me. Even as a bass player, I only really think about what the bass is doing in Stones songs when there's something less than subtle going on, like his slides down the neck in 19th Nervous Breakdown. Or if it's not Bill who is playing, such as Keith's bass on Live With Me.
Bill is mostly just in the pocket locked in with Charlie.
Bill Wyman's phrasing is utterly unique. He throws things in that sound like he's bending when he really isn't. His instinct for space in a song is uncanny. The Paris recordings in particular (that resulted in Some Girls, Emotional Rescue and Tattoo You) are a master class in rock roll/blues/country and funk bass playing. Only Bill Wyman sounds like that.
Well said
Bill and Charlie, laying down the groove for so many years, truly the best in the business
Wrong good not great
They were following Keeeeefs lead, the modern day maestro
Listening to the interplay between Bill and Charlie on Gimme Shelter is rock and roll heaven.
Oh my god!! You are so right!! And the isolated tracks are just sublime!!!
i believe keith played bass on that track no?
@@curt1867 No Im pretty sure it was Bill. But you never know .
@@gratchenfleiss For real?? Its not credited to him. You wouldn t have a link would you ?
@@gratchenfleissWow. Thanks bro. Somewhat embarrassing, as a Stones nut, to say I had no idea.👍
Keith is absolutely right. Bill is an amazing player.
Make no mistake; KR is under external pressure to say this.
Bill is so underrated. Most people don't even notice the bass in Stones tunes. Listen to the isolated bass on Gimme Shelter, phenominal playing
Keith Richards is the best. He speaks from his gut with honesty and integrity. Never any bullshit from him.
Bill's bass playing on "Mother's Little Helper" from 1966 still sends shivers up and down my spine.
Yeah, it adds to the sense of eeriness and dissolution of the song. Perfect complement to that high pitched riff.
Nineteenth nervous breakdown, insane bass!
Yes, but he needed two others guys to wrote the song before.
The Bill Wyman bass gave the Stones a unique groove signature that only he can ever give them.
A wobble.
Please, Bill and Charlie NEVER grooved.
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@@IAm-qf2xb wtf is that crap?
@George Rusch that doesn't 'groove' a shit, it's always mechanical, played as stiff as It can be without being a stupid machine, and you say Charlie Watts and Bill Wyman didn't groove in comparison? please, go and buy you a couple of ears
And I didn't even talk about the crappy tone of that bass and drums...
Keith is great! So is Bill Wyman!
So was Mick Taylor & Brian Jones RIP
I wish Bill Wyman had stayed with the Stone's, he and Charlie possessed a special subtle timing connection a rhythmic anomaly which remain's totally unique unto themselves. There was this infinitesimal space between the Bass and Drums with Bill just slightly ahead of Charlie's beat that created a certain tension and foundation for the rest of the band to build on top of this delicate and exciting freak tempo enigma. Not only that Bill was the flat out master of old school cool, his understated and aloof stage presence looked and fit the part of the perfect Rolling Stones Bass Player.
BGS57 nailed it Bill had presence
Bill left the band in '89 because he knew they were done.
nyg1954 What a ridiculous statement!
"Understated and aloof" ok let's go with that. I just always thought that he and Charlie were simply amused watching Jagger and Richards run around.
@@Barneyrubble241 Ye, they both look as if they're thinking "what a pair of arseholes".
Listen to early Stones and Wyman was the glue that held it all together...GREAT!
Bill understands that bass is bass and you don't try to flaunt it. Bill is the JUST RIGHT bass. He is not trying to be LOUD.
Bill IS an incredible bass player. Terribly under-rated. He does a lot within a song and he never goes where you expect him to.
(I can't get no) Satisfaction grabbed me by my ears 50+ years ago and it still hasn't let go!
Thanks for the music Mr. Richards.
Brilliant line. Most technical more "accomplished" players would not think of that. Simple but powerful. Compliments the guitar riff like a glove
And what was Brian Jones doing while Keef was sussing out Rock'n'Roll's greatest riff ever?
. . Beating up his girl for the night.
(Source: Stone Alone, memoir by Bill Wyman)
I was going to bring that line up. The bass part works perfectly with the famous head riff of the song.
that this guy has lived as long he has is a testament to the absolute resilience of the human body and our utter failure to understand the variables that contribute to a long life.
Bill's playing was a huge part of their collective sound...he was inventive, creative and smooth. Bill understood perfectly the role of the bass as a rhythm instrument.....he didn't just play the main riffs of songs in a lower register, he wrote parts that could stand alone but blended perfectly and made the music swing powerfully....Jumpin' Jack Flash and Beast of Burden are 2 of my favorite examples....Satisfaction is another.,..those bass lines are crucial to those tunes and without them alot of the power of those tunes is reduced....sensitive, intuitive, the list goes on...Happy Birthday Mr. Perks....live long and prosper
chilledmonkeebrains Haha swing??
Nah.
Here:
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Keith plays the bass on the studio version of Jumpin' Jack Flash. Bill plays the Hammond organ.
@@RobinSchoutenRS Keiths playing on that song sounds like a guitar player playing bass
@@IAm-qf2xb thats cool...not the stones tho...different flow
@@chilledmonkeebrains Keith basically played a solid one string guitar part on bass, this is what Wyman expanded on. I will agree that Wyman’s lack of sheer chops drove him to play clever, sort of cheeky parts, really as I said providing the missing low E on Keith’s five string Telecaster. I think Bill’s approach was to pander to what Keith responded to, so good business moves by Bill, who was a multi millionaire when he left by choice, and Keith is still wistful about Wyman and probably a little chafed about Taylor’s departure as well.
I think they can shoehorn them both back in at the drop of a hat.
Darryl Jones’ father, a drummer, taught Darryl drums and xylophone.
If nobody wants the two bass setup like Stanley Clarke’s band then let Darryl play marimba and vibes and congas and it will all be real good.
Why not?
Most creative bass player for the simplest of the 3 to 4 chord progressions. A natural, one of a kind. Bill Wyman!
Thanks for the kind words about Bill Wyman, Keith! I cannot agree more! Bill's bass playing is economical, sublime and spot-on!
Good to hear him saying so. Normally its not so good. Bill Wyman, Brian Jones - You can't replace these blokes, they are The Stones
It's been said Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts will always be the greatest rhythm section in Rock N Roll. Truer words never spoken.
@French Fry yes, Phil Rudd, Cliff Williams and Malcolm Young
Let's not forget Tommy Shannon and Chris Layton. I enjoy them as much as Mr Watts and Wyman.
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Agreed ..and forever after
It's been said by who? Certainly not by anyone who's listened to a broad spectrum of Rock music.
Bill is a one of a kind bass player. He’s the reason I started playing. I wanted to sound like him stand like him and dress like him. One of the best in the world
I gotta agree. He's at the top of the heap in my book.
You wanted to stand like him?
Dale Wetzel have you noticed how he always stands next to the drummer and laughs and he’s being real cool watching the other bandmembers do there thing
Started playing bass 55 years ago when i herd the bass line on i wana be your man, check it out.
@@salortiz3528 Also holds his bass upright like it's a stand-up, not like a guitar.
Bill Wyman was an incredible but underrated bassist he’s really the most underrated member of the stones his musicianship will always leave a mark in the stones history
Couldn't agree more. At 58 years old, I've been playing bass most of my adult life in bands but never paid attention to the Stones, they just weren't my thing. The last year I started to listen and man, was blown away by Bill's playing. It's sad he doesn't get the recognition he deserves everytime I see those "top bass players" lists.
@ TBP: Wyman's an absolute monster of a bassist, and was from the very start. Those very early Stones rock-and-roll and blues covers have some fine playing on them, and Wyman's accomplishments only got greater from then on. When he left the group, he took something with him that they've been missing since.
Bill Wyman, can't praise him enough. He was so vital to the Stones sound.
With Bill Wyman's bass lines the Stones sound so very different.. Darryl Jones is a wonderful player but Bill Wyman's playing is so unique and distinctive, especially to us hardcore fans. Just thinkin' of "Stray cat blues" studio version, or "Just my imagination" live, the bass phrasing in the middle "orchestral" section is majestic
Still gotta hand it to Darryl when he does that "Miss You" bass solo. Dude can make those strings pop.
No doubt. Providing that we acknowledge that Bill Wyman wrote that bass groove back in 1978...
You're exactly right. I love Stones Aficionados. I'm 29, but i've done over 20 years of reading and watching and no one compares. Sure there are other great bands, but as far as kick ass rock, the Stones helped make the 70's what it became for Rock N' Roll.
Hell yeah! There are still some of us out there that appreciate great music!
Yep, I've seen both Wyman and Darryl Jones live and they're both unique Bassists in their own way. I believe its true though that Keith Richards played a lot of Bass on some of the Stones early albums.
Listen to miss you,I wanna be your man,satisfaction,tumbling dice,..great job bass player bill...miss ya
Bill Wyman is a great bass player because his understanding and knowledge of music is encyclopaedic and plays for the right reason for the love of music nothing to do with fame which what is corrupting music in the present world
For years, I have thought exactly what Keith said about Bill in this interview. Unfortunately, Bill's bass was typically kept low in the mix until the SOME GIRLS album and afterward. Probably the main reason he's so underrated: it's hard to hear his playing. The Beatles didn't make that mistake with Paul McCartney's bass parts. But then, Paul was one of the leaders, and main songwriters, of that band.
In my opinion Xander, it wasn't a mistake at all . I think the Stones knew the bass wasn't supposed to be up front and loud . It was used for the subtle syncopated , chunky rhythm that made the Stones roll . It was also very tasteful . It gave the Stones a perfect balance .
Of course we don't know what it would sound like if he did play louder . I'm mainly referring to the early rhythm and blues Stones . Their first 5 or 6 albums released in the
U. S. .
Beast of Burden's another great one Bill played.
El Bruz Sway is really good too
Bills great but check on Ronnies playing on bass with The Jeff Beck Group. Keith is also a solid bass player - he played bass on a lot of Stones tracks including Sympathy, Live With Me, Some Girls, Before They Make Me Run, Happy etc. Ronnie was on Emotional Rescue, Shattered and many others too
I'm a 68 year old bassist and stole a bunch of Bill's lines. He is an excellent blues and rock and roll player. I was 10 when I first started listening to them and some of his feel is ingrained in my brain. They never should have let him go.
There’s none better than Wyman...
All the players whom’ve tried to fill his shoes are good, competent players. But they’re just that, good bass players.
Bill Wyman WAS bass 🌹
Bob I'm 62 and have been playing his basslines since I was 10. I copied and stole so many of his lines I can't count them all.
However as I started to progress in my teens I realized that he got those riffs from players before him, just as I lifted them from him.
It's great the way music is passed on from generation to generation. There is nothing new. There is just our interpretation of what came before us, with a touch of ourselves added in.
@@albrechthenschel2878 Cool! Excuse my ignorance, but who is Ox?
They didn’t let him go, he quit
@@BarrySmithviolin John Entwistle
Bill is THE Stone Bassman forever! He was the secret weapon of their sound, it became absolutely clear after he left the band. He and Charlie are the Heartbeat & Pulse of the Stones, and Keith knew it from the very start, whatever crap is written in Life!
That Life book sucks. Nearly every page was an adolescent swipe at Mick Jagger. It turned me off Keith. I don't know how anyone could say that stuff in a book about their worst enemy. Keith told the world that he thought Mick had a small cock. Really Keith? I think Keith gave Mick a positive comment, which was the fact that he could work a crowd with little space. Other than that...LIFE was an anti-Jagger book.
dannyd1572 you must have read a different edition of "Life" then me. 😂😂
Mick had to carry a heroin zombie for a decade, got tired of it and wanted a solo career, and Keith bashes him for that! Living in the Keef bubble shrinks one's perspective alright.
steve conn oversimplifacation, but thats what makes yt so mm mm good,or hey mick didn't carry anyone,keith continued to write great. where as with mick sometime in the 80s he list the ability to write great lyrics anymore became to uptight,not keef or charlie,they still have the passion
The stones lost the golden touch when Mick Taylor left in 75.
Bill Wyman is one of the best bass player he don’t show off just stands there holding his bass doing what he is suppose to do (play)
I listen to Some Girls album and I am always knocked out by Bill Wyman's playing. He's fantastic . One of my favorites
Aw man. You can tell Keef misses playing with Bill. Even though it’s been decades since Bill left, Keith still holds his original bassist in a tier above the rest. ❤️
Bill has been one of the top players for me since the early years when I started to play bass.. His basslines are rock solid, melodic, dynamic and super funky. He should be seen amongst the legends
I started playing bass when I was 13. I was a Rolling Stone fanatic. I was pretty much tone deaf, but would listen intently to every note on albums that Bill played, wishing he would teach me, note for note.
Listening to the remastered 24 bit of some girls gives me a whole new appreciation for Wymans bass playing throughout the whole album.. Great lines in there!
Listen to Bills playing on Route 66 from there first LP Wow
Under My Thumb and Paint It Black are my favorite Bill Wyman bass parts.
Toss in Bill's bass playing on Satisfaction. The bass was incredible.
Actually a little dull on Satisfaction. If you listen to the isolated bass track for Gimme Shelter on youtube it's as creative as anything McCartney, Entwhistle, etc. ever did.
The tone on Let's Spend The Night Together is ferocious. It growls.
Lolz it was Keith who played bass in that song (Let's Spend the Night Together) at least in studio version
Keith played bass on the studio version of Sympathy.
And Bill did it with small hands. Not a joke. He's even mentioned it.
He also played short scale basses
BW is a great bass player with a great sound too! When he left a part of the Stones magic were lost.
Dear Mr Richards, Thank you for so many good songs, and when we hear you praise a fellow musician in your band for making your songs even better, you make everybody's day.
"19th Nervous Breakdown" is easily one of the Top 10 Bill Wyman's performances with The Stones. His bass runs at the end of the song are certainly spectacular.
And of course the walking bass, that octave bass thing that Bill created on "Miss You" is simply amazing and very imitated.
In fact, after that, just about every band in the world took that idea at the time and used it in a song.
Actually, the Miss You bass line was originally Billy Preston's. idea. Bill fleshed it out, and it is great. But it was a pretty standard disco-type line. Miss You came out in 1978. Car Wash with the octave bass line came out in 1976.
That "octave bass thing" was a ubiquitous cliche in disco music at the time. I know because I was a working rock bass player at the time and I loathed hearing it everywhere.
👅STONE..S!=FOR EVER!💋🎶💖
Bill's bass playing on Mother's Little Helper still sends a tingle up and down my spine.
Keith is so amazing...he is not only a great artist, he is a great human person....nothing ruined him, not drugs not money not fame...he have a sweet good heart !
Keith comes off as a very humble and generous guy. Gotta respect that.
Part of Bills magic was his playing just behind the beat. This approach combined with Watts precision gave the Stones a rhythmic feel that was distinct from the rest.
Keith can always be relied on to tell the truth about anything you ask him. Just one of the reasons I admire the man. He's a geezer.
Well deserved praise for an outstanding bass player.
You cannot replace a musician like Bill Wyman; no more than you could ever replace Keith
David Walsh apart from keiths teeth.
The thing about bass players is that most of them are not underrated, they’re NOT RATED. Musicians know, but the average listener doesn’t appreciate what a good bassist can do for a song. I’m in a band with an incredible bassist - he knows exactly what to play (and what NOT to play) to enhance the song. I’m a guitar player/drummer, and when I record my own stuff, I always put off the bass til the very last cos I suck at it. I think like a guitar player, not a bassist. There’s a difference.
As a drummer myself I can tell you that the rhythm section is 9/10 of the time not even thought of. Even with the Stones themselves most people go on and on about Jagger and Richards because they're at the front line infantry. But the musicians, they know that without a good rhythm section, you are screwed from the get go.
Bass guitar is a unique thing. Most guitarists don't do it well because they're trying to play guitar on 4 strings. Great bass players amaze me.
That’s my problem. It’s a different mindset or something. Less busy, more supportive.
@@Ghoopty Bill is often surprisingly "busy", but it's always perfect. (Thinking of the isolated bass from Gimme Shelter.) czcams.com/video/nNYRTPSRekg/video.html
Bass is a unique instrument in that it functions as both a foundation to the rhythm section and as a low register foil to lead guitar. Knowing when to use it as either or both is what separates good bassists from not so good ones.
You can't praise Bill Wyman's contributions enough. Glad to hear Keith holds him in such high regard.
I remember hearing a comment from Charlie that you wouldn’t even know Bill was playing until he stopped and then the bottom just fell out. Subtle yet brilliant player.
Wyman’s unbelievably unheralded as an iconic bass player.
Easily in the top 3 of all rock/pop players since 1950.
EASILY 🌹
Couldn’t agree with Keith more.Bill is the man!👏👏👏👏👏👏👏👏
Nice props from Keith. That period from '69-'82 when they were still really the Rolling Stones on stage Wyman was incredibly consistent and beautiful. To me it was not the Stones anymore when wasn't there.
Till '89. Steel Wheels
I have always said, for the Stone's sound you cannot replace Bill or Charlie. They all have their uniqueness but those two , wow. They had the same vibe going on.
Wow thats the first time I ever heard Keith say anything nice about Bill. I dont see any reason why he cant still record with them. use daryll live but Bill should still be on the records for us old time fans.
he wanted to marry a 16 year old girl with her mothers permission when he was 55. The guy's. probably advised by management said if you do that you have to step aside.
Well he is a nasty man but his bass playing fits better in the Stones sound.
Mike Perkins She looked a lot older though. At least 25.
Muhammed married a 9 year old.. but muslims say she was a mature 9 year old, lol
Wyman was 52 when he married 18-year-old Mandy Smith, whom he had been dating since she was 13 and he was 47 years old. According to Smith, their relationship was sexually consummated when she was 14 years old.
His playing on Worried About You is phenomenal! Every time I listen to it, I’m blown away.
Wyman's bass lines can be difficult to isolate by ear but whatever it is that he is doing, you know that it is amazing! Just one of many examples would be Rocks Off.
Leave the stereo on and go to the bathroom. You'll hear what you need to thru the walls.
That'd how I sussed out which songs on Rubber Soul were Paul's Hofner or his Rick.
I always loved his work on "Dead Flowers." To me, Bill's work on that song exemplifies what made him great, serving the song in a very tasteful way that adds so much. Many people focus on a musician's technical prowess rather than the abilty to serve the song. Bill Wyman was great at that and comparing his playing to that of others, which is fine, if that is your focus, really misses the mark for me. Kudos to you, William George Wyman ( Perks).
I love his clean playing. Always a thrill playing along into new reaches.
Bill Wyman is a brilliant bass player. Listen closely, you'll hear things you never expected
Bill truly was incredible. Truly.
Bill helped make them a band. Like many others I am sorry he retired. Wyman was like Ronnie Wood, a great artist who did what Keith wanted. That's not so easy.
Got to agree with Keith..Bill is a fantastic bass player.Bill and Charlie locked well together.
Bill -brilliant and still playing great music. The Oldest Stone? Happy Birthday Keith.
Superb bass player. One of the absolute top best in the history of Rock'n'Roll...!
Next, Keith gives his opinion on Napoleon. "I met the cat a few times, he seemed ok"
Bill Wyman added flow to a song like a gentle, yet powerful, waterfall gushing under the band as it moved along. he made it feel alive and invigorating.
Bill Wyman is great!Great man and great bass player!
Bill Wyman was and is so innovative. He did that dive bomb thing on "19th Nervous Breakdown" and had an indelible performance on "Not Fade Away." He always pointed out new directions to be found in songs.
Do you practice a lot?
Bill: "Come on man, I play bass for the Rolling Stones. I don't need to practice. But I play a little in the afternoon, just to keep the fingers moving."
I loved Bill's Bass on "Jigsaw Puzzle"! Very underrated song, that had a strong showing from everybody. But to me, Bill's playing REALLY made that song!
I have been saying that since 1976 when I first heard Miss you. I'm amazed it took so long for Keith to admit it
1978 * also, not the first time he said it. cheers
Heart warming synergy for comrades. Hard to imagine a better team in our generation. Truly inspirational!
Very nice to hear this. I'm always pulled right in when I hear the live version of "Carol" from Ya-Ya's. During the guitar solo the band really holds that groove and Bill makes this perfect counterpoint to Keith's solo. It's like the notes Bill plays are rolling out of the baritone saxes and trombones of Benny Goodmans band.
Listened to that solo right now, well said! Really interesting what he's doing but since everything is working together so well you take it for granted.
Look, Keith has a noble heart, a respectful man no matter how famous he is...
Well said, Keith. With no disrespect to the astoundingly talented Darryl Jones, it's not been the Rolling Stones for me since Bill left.
Hate it when bands replace members with sidemen.
Will Law what do you expect them to do?
@@davidfox2832 Simple- bring the band back to a 5 piece. Find a player that works with them musically and socially. Mick Taylor had the musical but not the social and Ron Wood had the social but not the musical.
Will Law I don't understand. Aren't they a 5 piece now? My point is that however much the fans want the original lineup if a member wants to leave they have to be replaced by a 'sideman '. Darryl was generally liked by the fans but other replacements are not, e.g. Tommy Bolin in Deep Purple. Or are you saying that Darryl is not a band member?
@@davidfox2832 Yep. Every picture of the Rolling Stones shows four people.
Fortunate enough to have witnessed Bill in the lineup at Soldier Field in '78. Some Girls Tour. That was a day to remember.
I wish they could live forever! Such a great band.
We all have to think about the world we're leaving behind for Keith.
This made my day!
It is interesting to hear Keith Richards description of Bill Wyman's bass playing. Sensitive, discerning. Cool.🥴
The song in the background is exactly perfect bass line that most bassists would never think of.
I agree, Bill Wyman is absolutely incredible.
Much underrated. No thanks to Mick who once suggested he might play the bass after Bill left, he said something like , " it's just the bass, hell I might play it" or something to that effect if I remember correctly.
However, playing the bass line someone else created is much simpler than creating it isn't it?
Bass players in general do NOT get the respect they deserve. And Bill came up with very tasty baselines like this, which proves it
Keith is absolutely spot on, Bill Wyman is one of the all time greatest bass players on rock. The Rolling Stones are not quite the same without him.
Wyman's playing is very underrated/perfect fit for Watts...
On get your ya yas out Bill and Charlie were on fire especially on Carol and sympathy for the devil
Beautiful words Keith! I hope Bill gets to see/hear this!
Bill is an amazing bass player. Just hear Miss You.
Bill's bassplaying is part of the magic that got me from the first listening on, when I was 6 or 7 years old.
I'm surprised they never came out with a Keith Richards Halloween mask.
I BET IT WOULD SELL OUT BUT THE ONLY PPL BUYING IT WOULD BE PPL 40 AND ABOVE LOL.
Think of the children!
@@garrysmith1722 haha. And us old f#kers with heart conditions.
They have a mask..... it's the crypt keeper !!!!!
The Ronald Reagan one is pretty much interchangeable.
Yep the first time Iv ever heard him saying anything nice about Bill. Its very rare you actually see footage of Keith talking to him
Bill Wyman's discography since leaving the Stones is so much more interesting than the Stones themselves
That was very nice of Keith to say about Bill....'discerning'...'sensitive'...wow, Keith cares to choose his words thoughtfully. Nice all the way 'round.