Thought I'd bring this thread back from the dead.... :lol:
Mostly because I've just finished a book which is actually guitar-related:
Life by Keith Richards
I'm not a big Rolling Stones fan, nor am I a fan of biographies generally, but this turned out to be really interesting. Mr Richards comes across as a surprisingly down-to-earth and modest sort of chap, none of the arrogance I was expecting.
There are a lot of drug stories, but he tells them in a very matter-of-fact way. There's no sense of "look how rock'n'roll I was", but no "just say no" preaching either.
I was a bit taken aback by how little he has to say about some of his fellow Stones - he seems to have regarded Bill Wyman as barely a member of the band, creatively speaking, and Mick Taylor is hardly mentioned at all (he gets praise for his guitar-playing ability, but on a personal level it seems they were almost strangers). Odd.
There are a few stories where you wonder if the other people involved would have a very different version of events. And a couple of times where you have to sit back and think "hold on, he's making this sound reasonable but it's completely $%&#ed up".
Good book, well worth a read.
