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You will never know how excited I was to see this project listed on the 'net...I'll try to be as brief as possible. And I would love to be interviewed for your book.
I'm 25, and have been a Rolling Stones fan for about 10 years -- first hooked by Keef's opening riff from Brown Sugar. I love music and reading and writing and baseball -- but the Rolling Stones are my one true passion. And it's mostly because of Keith.
I have a skull ring, and a poster of Keith from 1975 where he's wearing his "Who the fuck is Mick Jagger?" t-shirt.When I drink too much (occasionally Jack Daniels), I begin to mumble like Keith. Even when I don't want to.
As you may have already noticed, my e-mail address is "micawber" in honor of his 5-string, open-G Telecaster. I only have a so-so acoustic myself, usually tuned to standard tuning. And I'm not that good. But I wear the skull ring when I play, because Keef is the reason I bought my guitar.
He is the reason I listen to Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, RObert Johnson, Chuck Berry (duh), BB King, Albert King, Brownie McGhee, Johnny Cash, Bonnie Raitt, Patsy Cline, Buddy Holly, Slim Harpo, Jimmy Reed, Stevie Ray Vaughan...........etc.
His love of the blues infected me, and introduced me to that style of music. I admire his commitment to music, the Stones, and to himself.And his line, "gonna find my way to heaven, cause I did my time in hell...wasn't looking too good, but I was feelin' real well," helped me through many difficult times.
Basically, he's a rebel. I'm not. He's done things his way, more or less. I'd like to. (Gonna walk before they make me run.) I can't call him "God," because I am a good Catholic boy. (An American Catholic, which means I don't listen to the Pope, who apparently said Keith was God a few years back.)
But I think he's about the coolest person on earth, and his music always inspires me to smile / scream / cry / or whatever is called for at the time.
Five Stones albums I couldn't live without:
An ideal Stones set list (not counting, of course, material they have yet to release, which I'm hoping to hear sometime in 1997): (in no particular order, and off the top of my head)