In 1988 Keith launched a solo album and toured for a short period with his own band "The X-Pensive Winos", before returning to Mick Jagger and the other Rolling Stones. I produced this interview for Denmarks most popular friday night TV-show Eleva2ren. Keith Richard signs off sending his regards to the studio audience of Eleva2ren.
When I met Keith, he had been out the night before - but playing chess with his father... Walking back in the streets of he was spotted by a police patrol, who thought he looked like a hobo, but realized he was Keith from the Stones and offered him a lift home.
This video is part of our YouTube Travel video channel @freeporttraveler-Directed by: Karsten Kjær in Eleva2ren.dk.
During the late 1980s, when The Rolling Stones were mostly inactive due to Richards and frontman Mick Jagger’s relations being at an all-time low, the guitarist set his sites on other projects. One was his 1988 debut album, Talk Is Cheap, but before that, Richards formed the ‘X-Pensive Winos’ supergroup with Steve Jordan for the two 1986 concerts that celebrated Chuck Berry’s life and 60th birthday. They were made into the documentary Hail! Hail! Rock ‘n’ Roll, the following year.
In 1988, speaking to Denmark’s Friday night TV show Eleva2ren, Richards clarified that Berry was the most difficult musician he had ever worked with. He explained: “I didn’t expect it to be easy. Just because something’s difficult to do, doesn’t mean that you can’t enjoy it, as long as you know it’s gonna be difficult, and I’m used to working with difficult people; I work with Mick Jagger. Chucky Berry… yeah, I have more experience working with difficult people than most. And also, I thought, well, if I can handle that, then, only the idea of making God’s first album would be, maybe, more difficult. It was a test for myself, as well as something that I really wanted to do, and in a way, had to do.”
(Source/Farout)
