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Thanks for that link! Great interview. Keith was naughty at the end where he tells Terry Gross, "Good try, honey."

Yeah, that was really funny because Terry Gross is one of those legendary interviewer. Her voice is great -- very weird to see a picture of her because you always get the idea of what she looks like from her voice. Anyway, I don't know how many interviews he will be giving to promote the book (a few, or hundreds,) but still very interesting that he chose to do this one.

Same old questions he always gets, so I don't think he sounded bored or frustrated, or whatever, he's been answering these exact same questions forever.

How do you plug in an acoustic guitar? Don't jump on me -- just a question.

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Exactly. Juan Williams, liberal talking head, is fired by NPR for comments condsidered not politically correct...I get that left-wing propaganda organization's programming shoved down my throat on AFN 24 hours a day and I am often disappointed at how biased, intellectually dishonest, and Liberal-skewered their coverage, perspective, and opinions are. There is so little balance. NPR should have been taken off the public troth 30 years ago. Let them compete in the market place and see if they can find an audience, but to take U.S. taxpayer's money to indoctrinate generation after generation to their doctrinaire point of view and continue to pose as a 'neutral' and 'objective' news organization funded by the US taxpayer is outrageous.

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Exactly. Juan Williams, liberal talking head, is fired by NPR for comments condsidered not politically correct...I get that left-wing propaganda organization's programming shoved down my throat on AFN 24 hours a day and I am often disappointed at how biased, intellectually dishonest, and Liberal-skewered their coverage, perspective, and opinions are. There is so little balance. NPR should have been taken off the public troth 30 years ago. Let them compete in the market place and see if they can find an audience, but to take U.S. taxpayer's money to indoctrinate generation after generation to their doctrinaire point of view and continue to pose as a 'neutral' and 'objective' news organization funded by the US taxpayer is outrageous.

God, I'm actually frightened by your point of view. (Also, how does anyone get a radio station shoved down their throat?) And for the record, NPR hasn't gotten money from the taxpayers since the early 80's. That's almost 30 years ago, so I guess you got your "should have been taken off the public troth 30 years ago" wish.

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*** Like an earlier poster, I wondered how one could hook up an acoustic guitar to a cassette player. I had heard old reel to reels (specifically tube (aka valve) reel to reels) could be rigged as (electric) guitar amps but not cassette recorders. Anyone have any ideas?

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My favorite part was where Keith said his biggest regret was replacing Mick T with Ronnie.

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God, I'm actually shocked at your ignorance of the facts.

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i wouldn't take that "hooked up" so literally (nor the misstatement that there are no electric guitars on JJF)
he doesn't mean he plugged an acoustic guitar in - here's how he's described the technique before:

"Just jam the mic right in the guitar and play it back through an extension speaker."
- Keith Richards, 2002, quoted on [www.timeisonourside.com]

describing the same technique used on Street Fighting Man, which really *does* only have acoustic guitars:

"(Even the high-end lead part was through) a cassette player with no limiter.
Just distortion. Just two acoustics, played right into the mic, and hit very hard."
- Keith Richards, 1977, quoted on [www.timeisonourside.com]

"That little microphone in there had something. If you overloaded it, it basically became a pick-up."
- Keith Richards, 2003, quoted on [www.timeisonourside.com]

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God, I'm actually shocked at your ignorance of the facts.

Really? You do understand that "local stations" aren't NPR, right? The only point I was trying to make is that NPR doesn't run on taxpayer money. They aren't on the public trough, as you put it.

As for the parent company, CPB, sure, they got $422 million in 2010. And almost 70% of that money, $281.85 million, went to public television. It's just not fair to try and use big numbers to make it seem like NPR is taking taxpayer money and shoving liberal-biased stories down your throat.

And you can't get a radio station shoved down your throat if you turn on the radio in your own car and tune it to NPR. Your actually shoving it down your own throat.

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Anyone got this recorded/saved down ?

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Facts: Though NPR doesn't receive direct federal funding for operations, NPR does end up with federal funding in an indirect sense - from program fees and station dues from "member stations". Nearly 25% of the almost 1/2 Billion US$ that the CPB gets from the US taxpayer goes to NPR "member stations". They, in turn, funnel this money back to NPR as program fees and station dues. Forty percent of NPR's budget comes from these station fees. In addition, NPR gets nearly 3% of that CPB budget as "grants". In other words, if you include the money NPR gets from member stations and the CPB grants allocation you are talking hundreds of millions of CPB/taypayer funds funnled directly to NPR. Do the math and keep trying to tell yourself that NPR "doesn't run on taxpayer money". If you are intellectually honest you cannot.