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24
Jul
2012
The best 8 bars blues guitar solo from an Englishman…
Written by Jimmy
Reading Stanley Booth’s fantastic book, The True Adventures of the Rolling Stones, which was re-released for their 50th (or not, depending on if you wait for Charlie to join). He describes the Stones cover of I Wanna Be Your Man as unforgettable if “only because Brian Jones plays on it an eight-bar break like nothing every before played on a record by an Englishman.” He continues: ‘”I quite dig that steel solo” Keith said, years’
Here you go and Brian comes in at 41 seconds. You be the judge: