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Bliss
>>>We all understand what lies at the "core" of all he says about Mick - all his anger and bitterness caused by the fact that Jagger has long gone from him.
And of course the envy of the fact that Jagger enjoyes greater fame than he does, and always gets more attention

That's really the heart of it...where he says, "Where has my friend gone?" Mick moved on from this friendship years ago. But he stays connected for business purposes, which must be rather an ordeal for Keith, since Mick's indifference would not be well-concealed. Imagine enduring that for 35+ years.

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Bliss

Just so you know, - I - reported it because I thought the way Northernale1 attacked you was way out of line.

Thanks,Bliss. I understand you reported Northernale1's post not mine

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Doxa

Anyway, at the time I remeber hearing fisrt time (years ago) Keith's complaint abot Jagger's guitar playing, I think it was just funny, nothing really substantive or serious. But now it starts to sound there is a pattern in his criticism, or a campaign going on, and it not so well intented at all. That damn book gave it all an official, serious nature. The fact that Keith repeated many of his old quotes in the book took it all to different level; it wasn't just passing thoughts going on...

- Doxa

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Keith certainly praises Mick's abilities as a frontman and showman, but Mick is a musician too - something often overlooked even here on this site. Keith was more than once criticized or demeaned Mick's electric guitar playing, for example. What could possibly be the motivation for that? It would be like Mick disparaging Keith's singing.

Mick has joked with Keith's singing in several interviews, of course not in a mean way.

Keith is close to Mick, the guitar player - we're not. On Sticky and Exile, it's obvious that Mick learned from Keith. In the 70s and 80s he learned from someone else and played very differently, especially with his right hand (too much on the beat). I reckon that's what Keith is talking about. Mick's rhythm playing after Exile is in a way what the Stones are trying not to become.

Just a guess from my part.

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Isn't it just as simple as that Mick had improved his guitarplaying and that Keith, therefore, wanted to put him down because he felt intimidated by it?

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That's right His Majesty, the lion's share of "Life" is a copy and paste job. I don't think that the ghostwriter was granted that many hours of Keith's participation. Keith, himself, hasn't, of course, written a single line in that book. The ghostwriter had to cook up a book from, probably, a couple of hours interviews with keith, hence the copy and paste work.

For me the profit from that book was the description of Keith's childhood and Schooldays. That, I hadn't heard before (well, most of it).