Ronnie Wood: How to Play Like The Rolling Stones Legend
Ted Drozdowski

06.06.2012
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Like many other members of British blues royalty, Ron Wood started playing guitar attempting to emulate his American idols. In Wood’s case, he has specifically cited the music of country bluesmen Blind Willie McTell and Big Bill Broonzy, as well as Chuck Berry. Later, his reference points also included the Beatles, which whom he sought to compete as a member of the Faces.

The early focus on McTell and Broonzy, musicians from two generations of country blues, is telling. Wood, who turns 65 on Friday, June 1, has an electric guitar style that is rooted in acoustic playing, evidenced by the prevalent cleanliness of his tone and his rhythm chording. And in addition to Berry and R&B, he was clearly influenced by other styles of American music. Classic country played a role in his stylistic development, too. That’s audible in the way he bends multiple strings to emulate lap and pedal steel tones on round-neck guitar in addition to his steel playing. Nonetheless, that ever-waggling pinkie finger on his barre chords indicates that Berry remains Woody’s main man.

Open tunings are also part of Wood’s game. Want to play the Faces’ “Stay With Me” with the quintessential early Woody sound? After all, that’s one of the greatest guitar tones in the annals of classic rock.

First tune to open E (E-B-E-G#-B-E), then rip down through E at the 12th fret, D at the 10th fret and A at the fifth fret to create the song’s famed descending intro. In open tuning it just takes an index finger to cover all six strings and make each chord, but there’s another, more Woody-esque was to tackle those chords on electric guitar.

Here’s something worth noting that harks back to Wood’s early acoustic orientation. When he’s playing an acoustic flattop, like a Gibson J-200, in open tuning, he tends to bar all six strings with his index finger. When he’s playing electric, he typically bars only the top four strings in open tuning, and mutes the top two strings with his thumb. This lets the electric guitar use its resonating qualities for more harmonic juice.

Then the Berry finger wag comes in. When playing the “Stay With Me” intro’s E chord at the 12th fret using the top four strings, Wood “wags’ his ring finger to depress and release the fourth string at the 14th fret as he strums, and his middle finger to depress and release the third string on the 13th fret. Listen to the original recording to suss out the patterns of up and down strokes and finger accents to get the right feel.

Wood was in the Jeff Beck Group when he became interested in slide, but, surprisingly, it wasn’t Beck who captured his attention as a slider. It was Duane Allman, who he first heard wielding a slide on Aretha Franklin’s 1969 recording of the Band’s “The Weight.” Wood gets his singing slide sound from a copper pipe and playing in standard and open tunings on round neck guitar, and open tunings, of course, for lap and pedal steel. Check out the slide instrumental “Around the Plynth” — which is collected on 2004’s definitive Faces retrospective set Five Guys Walk Into A Bar… — and the songs “That’s All You Need” and “Borstal Boy” for sterling examples of Wood’s playing in open E.

For pedal steel Wood prefers so-called Nashville and Hawaiian tunings, typically C6 (C-F-A-C-E-G-A-C-E-G) and E9 (B-D-E-F♯-G♯-B-E-G♯-D♯-F♯). The latter was historically popular with Western swing bands of the 1930s and ’40s.

Wood also credits his pre-Beck, Faces and Stones musical education with his fundamental approach to composition. Throughout his childhood and teen years he sang in church choirs — yes, Ron Wood was a choirboy! – and played Dave Brubeck and other cool jazz in a school band. His musical turning point came with the discovery of the early British blues patriarchs Cyril Davies and Alexis Corner, in whose bands his older brother Art played. From there came the discovery of the early acoustic bluesmen and Berry, whose lap steel piece “Deep Feeling” had a profound effect on his ear. He also played some skiffle with his brothers, initially on washboard.

While the clean tones Wood employs today with the Rolling Stones leave little guesswork about his amp and guitar combinations, that spanky sound he got in the Faces days — right up front in “Stay With Me” and more of their other nastiest hits — is considered by many of his fans to be the quintessential Woody tone. And there is a little mystery involved. At that point, Wood was favoring several types of humbucker equipped guitars including Gibson SGs, and his amp of choice was an Ampeg bass rig, usually the SVT, V-2 or V-4. (Note: Keith Richards also used Ampeg bass rigs while recording Exile On Main Street.)

Wood dug the Ampegs for their high output and crunching overdrive, goosed up with a distortion pedal. To get a sound similar to Wood’s “Stay With Me” tone, try rolling the tone pots on your pickups back to roughly eight (or seven or lower for single coils), plugging into a guitar amp of 35-watts or more with gain, and rolling the gain up to seven, then adding an overdrive with treble boost characteristics. A little tinkering and you’ll be on your way to one of classic rock’s greatest guitar sounds.
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Oldie but "Woody", well not too old, it's April this year but wearing Justin Bieber





Thanks Brian Hineline

Oh no!  

Didn't she get enough money from Ronnie for the divorce?

philgood wrote on Jul 3^rd, 2012 at 2:36am:



The way Ronnie haemorrhages cash? Probably not!

FPM wrote on Jul 2^nd, 2012 at 1:44pm:

Kiss and tell.....

By Fehintola Betiku
PUBLISHED: 07:27 GMT, 5 July 2012 | UPDATED: 12:56 GMT, 5 July 2012
http://www.dailymail.co.uk

As a veteran on the music scene Ronnie Wood should be used to receiving awards by now.

But last night at the Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards 2012 the Rolling Stones' guitarist looked taken back when he picked up two gongs.

The 65-year-old appeared to be in good spirits as he took to the red carpet at the event arm in arm with his latest girlfriend Sally Humphreys.


Ecstatic: Ronnie Wood and his latest girlfriend Sally Humphreys were in high spirits as they attended the 2012 Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards last night in London

Ronnie and Sally put on an affectionate display the Westminster Bridge Park Plaza Hotel as they posed for pictures at the event where he left with awards for feature of the year and specialist programme.
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Sally, 34, looked absolutely besotted with Ronnie as she took on the role of the doting girlfriend while he delicately placed his hand on her waist.

Dressing up for the occasion which celebrates commercial radio, Ronnie was dapper in a black suit which had silk lapels teamed with a white shirt.


 Red carpet ready: Ronnie delicately placed his hand on Sally waist as they embraced each other


Complimentary couple: Wood and Humphreys made for a handsome duo as they posed for photographers

Sally who was pictured smiling throughout the night looked regal in a pink mini dress which showed off her slim frame.

She wore the dress with a pair patent of nude heels which elongated her toned legs.

Completing her simple look she loosely curled her and accessorised with a gold clutch bag.


Guitarist turned broadcaster: The 65-year-old showed off his awards as he left the ceremony


Home time: As Ronnie and Sally headed home the rock star looked ready for bed as she smiled at the cameras

The ceremony was hosted by Absolute Radio’s Christian O’Connell and featured live performances from Noisettes, Stooshe and X Factor's Misha B.
Other winners on the night included Adele, who recently announced she's expecting her first child, she was awarded a prize for being the most played artist on commercial radio.

Do It Like A Dude singer, Jessie J won best breakthrough artist whereas Classic FM received the Gold Award for being on the airwaves for 20 years.

Katherine Jenkins and Lisa Snowdon were also in attendance last night and they both stole the show in their glamorous dresses.


 Beautiful: Katherine Jenkins looked amazing in a floor length blue gown which she teamed with nude heels


'Thank you': The 32-year-old singer posted several pictures to her Twitter account last night

Jenkins looked amazing in a pleated blue floor length gown paired with open toe nude heels as she wore her blonde hair back in loose bun.

Excited to be attending the ceremony, the award winning singer took to Twitter to firstly show off her gown by posting pictures of herself and secondly to thank the organisers at the show for inducting her into the hall of fame.

Her tweet read: 'Very humbled to have just been inauguarated into the Commercial Radio Hall of Fame... 1st Classical Artist! Thank you!'


 Stunning: Lisa Snowdon slipped into a white body con dress which she paired with nude heels as she posed with her Capital Breakfast show co-host Dave Berry

Wearing a white long sleeve body con dress Lisa Snowdon showed off her enviable curves as posed on the red carpet alongside her co-host Dave Berry.
Upset that Lisa, 40, was getting all the limelight Dave was keen to show off his frustration when he was shooed away from the carpet so photograhers could get solo shots of the the stunning brunette.
Berry stood with his arms crossed as he watched on while Snowdon worked the room.

Happy to that his cheeky sabotage worked he tweeted: 'I'm fully aware it's all about @Lisa_Snowdon for the paps so I wait patiently,and at last my pain has been documented'.


Cheeky: Dave was pictured with his arms crossed pretended to be annoyed as Lisa took some solo shots

Arqiva Commercial Radio Awards 2012Presenter of the Year  - Trevor Marshall (106 JACKfm Oxfordshire)
Presenter of the Year  - Danny Wallace (XFM)
Newcomer of the Year - Emma Barnett (LBC 97.3)
Journalist/News Team of the Year - Radio Aire News
Station of the Year - 106 JACKfm Oxfordshire
Station of the Year  - Absolute Radio
Breakfast show of the Year - The Bay Breakfast with Danny Matthews (The Bay)
Breakfast show of the Year - Real Radio Breakfast with Ewen & Cat (Real Radio Scotland)
Feature of the Year - Ronnie Wood - The Guests (Absolute Radio)
Specialist Programme of the Year - The Ronnie Wood Show (Absolute Radio)
PPL Most Played UK Artist on Commercial Radio- Adele
PPL Breakthrough UK Artist of the Year - Jessie J
Gold Award - Classic FM

Ronnie's Ex Kat in the papers.

http://www.zimbio.com/Jo+Wood/articles/Qbb-rR2o9ar/No+quiero+ser+la+ex+Ronnie+Wo...

ooops something happened to my original link.
Voodoo?

philgood wrote on Jul 17^th, 2012 at 1:59am:


I just changed it to the ORIGINAL link











BTW... The original source is "The Sun"

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Jul 17^th, 2012 at 10:17am:



oh my

I think Ronnie will be able to contribute some really good music to the new Stones album.

More "semi explicit" material, warning tits alert

http://www.minutouno.com/notas/255435-la-ex-un-stone-pide-pista-nuevas-fotos-al-...

(Thanks Lucianito at our message board in Spanish)

Will buy Jo's book. Always respected her for putting up with and looking after RONNIE for so many years. I'm sure there is much embarassing material to be told!

and

RONNIE'S BOOK IS COMING OUT AFTER THE TOUR! THAT MEANS THERE WILL BE ONE!