Keith Richards: Under the Influence Page #2

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You know, the stuff

you couldn't avoid, you know.

I'm a pink toothbrush

You're a blue toothbrush

[man singing]

You're a pink toothbrush

And I think, toothbrush,

that we met by the bathroom door

[Richards] All of that crap, you know?

I mean, the '50s,

which is, all right,

great rubbish, in retrospect.

Growing up in England,

just after the war,

there was rubble everywhere.

I was not aware that there was any

other world apart from bombed out ruins.

["Baby Let's Play House" playing]

And then, suddenly, Elvis.

He hit like a bombshell.

"Baby Let's Play House" was around then,

and it really cooked me.

The world went from black-and-white

to Technicolor.

Well, you may go to college

You may go to school

You may have a pink Cadillac

But don't you be nobody's fool

Now baby, come back, baby, come

Come back, baby,

I wanna play house with you

[Richards] America looked very attractive.

[laughs]

All the movies.

We got what you guys saw,

like, a year before.

Especially if you're into music.

That was basically our lifeline

in those days,

that sense of,

there's something happening,

and you just wanna

be part of it, you know,

and you jumped in with both feet.

At least, I did.

Come back, baby,

I wanna play house with you

[playing gentle melody]

[Richards] Jim Hall.

[Jordan] We love Jim Hall.

-Jim, motherf***er.

-[laughs]

[Richards] My grandfather, Gus,

he kinda teased me, man,

over years, into becoming a guitarist.

He was one of those guys

that always thought

everybody was a musician

if they got the chance to be and...

So I think he just left

the instruments lying about

just to see if it caught the eye.

And then he probably watched me

for a couple of years, you know,

talking to him

and looking at the guitar and...

'Cause I remember him saying,

"It's a pretty one, isn't it?

It's nice, that.

Yeah, when you can reach it...

I'll let you play it," you know.

Once he did give me the guitar,

he said the best exercise

is the Spanish malaguena,

because it's got a lot of moves in it

that make it great for the fingers.

[playing malaguena]

You're expanding yourself

without even knowing.

And he was quite right,

because, you know, from learning that...

'Cause I had to learn that

in order to get the guitar, you know.

I mean...

That meant I could walk into the house,

pick up the guitar and play with it.

Until then, it would have to be

at invitation only.

-[man] The story with the guitar...

-Oh, it's a...

It's a late '50s Gibson ES-355.

So, kind of a hot rod.

He's always been known

for playing a black Gibson.

For me, it looks like Keith.

And as I just showed you,

when I opened the case,

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