Happy New Year! pic.twitter.com/Vy8F68IlEI

— Keith Richards (@officialKeef) January 7, 2018

Somehow, this three-chord affront to biochemistry will be sending out New Year's greetings when children now abed are gumming their food in assisted living. https://t.co/kWRSLc9tMj

— David Simon (@AoDespair) January 7, 2018

Just stop. Every time I find a guitar in my hands, I'm stealing something he put in my brain.

— David Simon (@AoDespair) January 7, 2018

He stole all them riffs from "Bleed" to "Exile" from exactly nobody.

— David Simon (@AoDespair) January 7, 2018

 

Of course he's acknowledged the debt to Berry. More than any other living musician has acknowledged it. But a lot of the later stuff owes much more to Slim Harpo and Howlin' Wolf and others. It's more than linear.

— David Simon (@AoDespair) January 7, 2018

And a good chunk of it, while blues influenced, is him finding his own groove and grinding.

— David Simon (@AoDespair) January 7, 2018

If you think Richards hasn't cut his own musical swath with original contributions, you're wrong.

— David Simon (@AoDespair) January 7, 2018

Sorry this is shit I know and love.

— David Simon (@AoDespair) January 7, 2018