drakemonta21
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Hello. I ran across this on Facebook and was wondering if anyone has seen Keith play this guitar? Wow! What a great looking axe.
Keith Richards PRS?
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YOWZAH!
Shawn@PRS
yogi
This guitar made a brief and stealth-like appearance in the PS Friday thread a few weeks back
Shawn@PRS
yogi
I had to play "Angie" on it, since it's the only Stones song I know. 
I thought I heard the name Keith being thrown around in the vault last month - but I pretended I didnt hear anything!
drakemonta21
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Wow! you got to play it? What king of pickups does it have?
Spikedog007
Life is good, it really is.
The OP's pic looks just like one from Rumbleseat music. Wonder if they helped him get it...
Cool guitar BTW.
Cool guitar BTW.
Rango
New Member
Details man DETAILS!! :laugh:
Which Pickups, what's setup - volume volume - master tone/volume - push pull pot to split - which neck carve????? :biggrin:
dmatthews
Dave's not here
What wut???
Coolio.
Coolio.
Shawn@PRS
yogi
It's a waning moon
markie
Zombie 27 - DFZ
Why so many strings?
yankeebulldog
I don't like to get that specific
Why wouldn't it? Assuming you use string gauges that are within the general tolerance for those bridges (and you remove the low E
) , only the high E and A strings are different from standard tuning, and only by a whole step in each case. That's not enough to significantly throw off the intonation. Oh, and the B string, to sound *right* in open G, should be detuned by about 14 cents so you get a more in tune third in the "home base" root chord. Also not enough to impact the intonation of that string overall, although unless you make some accomodations with your left hand some notes might be a little flatter than you want them to be on account of the string being tunes a bit flat compared to 12-tone equal-division octave tuning. One of the secret tricks when doing the "Keith move" (hitting the partial IV chord with two notes -- up 2 frets on the D string and up 1 fret on the B string -- i.e., the second chord on "Start Me Up" or the fourth-of-the fourth that works off the C (IV) which is the signature lick in "Honky Tonk Women") is to push the B string a little sharp to compensate for the slightly flat tuning that sweetens the third in the root chord.
BTW, Keith Richards doesn't ALWAYS play 5-string guitars in open G tuning.
yankeebulldog
I don't like to get that specific
Why wouldn't it? Assuming you use string gauges that are within the general tolerance for those bridges (and you remove the low E
Oh, and the B string, to sound *right* in open G, should be detuned by about 14 cents so you get a more in tune third in the "home base" root chord. Also not enough to impact the intonation of that string overall, although unless you make some accomodations with your left hand some notes might be a little flatter than you want them to be on account of the string being tunes a bit flat compared to 12-tone equal-division octave tuning. One of the secret tricks when doing the "Keith move" (hitting the partial IV chord with two notes -- up 2 frets on the D string and up 1 fret on the B string -- i.e., the second chord on "Start Me Up" or the fourth-of-the fourth that works off the C (IV) which is the signature lick in "Honky Tonk Women") is to push the B string a little sharp to compensate for the slightly flat tuning that sweetens the third in the root chord.
BTW, Keith Richards doesn't ALWAYS play 5-string guitars in open G tuning.
Thanks for the tips. I'd never tried it with a PRS but what you're saying about the B string makes sense as to why it never sounds quite right on any other guitar I've tried like my acoustic.
hippietim
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Keith still plays a lot in standard tuning. If you see him with a Tele, it's almost definitely open-G though.
hippietim
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BTW, I play in a Stones tribute band and I do play most of the open G stuff on a Tele but I do use one of my piezo equipped PRSs at every gig in open G for Wild Horses and You Can't Always Get What You want (and whatever is right before/after them to avoid switching guitars).
Yeah, I meant to say, Keith doesn't always play 5-string guitars in open G tuning, i.e., sometimes he plays 6-string guitars in standard tuning!
Anyway, at least one of his Telecasters is usually in open E, as some of the songs are in that tuning.
