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stu was a stone.....period. there are those who i feel contributed more to the stones' music technially - nicky hopkins etc.... but stu was a brother.
this is funny anecdote about stu from session player jim dickenson...:
Your most famous session is the one you did with the Rolling Stones on “Wild Horses.” Ian Stewart was the Stones’ regular piano player at that time. Why didn't he play on that song?
I didn’t know the reason, for 10 years afterwards. As soon as they started doing the song, Stu got up from the piano and started packing the gear, as if they were leaving. I was standing with Jerry Wexler, and Jagger came over to me and said, [affecting Jagger’s accent], “So, I assume now we need a keyboardist.” Wexler said, “We could call Barry Beckett.” And I said, “Jerry, I don’t think that’s what he means.” So I just sat and started playing. Ten years later I was in New York, in a bar at the Plaza Hotel, and Stu was there having a drink. I said to him, “Man, I’m not complaining, because it literally gave me a career, but why didn’t you play on that song?” And he said, “Mate, I don’t play minor chords. I’m a ‘boozie woozie’ piano player. When I’m playing with the lads on-stage, and a minor chord comes by, I lifts me hands in protest.” So that was it. The song begins in B-minor, and Stu wasn’t having any part of that.
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