Keith Richards: Under the Influence Page #4

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and I hadn't seen him in years.

And then I noticed,

tucked under his arm, like this, was...

"Oh, yeah. Get out of here.

Chuck Berry...

What you got there, man?"

And then I said, "Come here!"

You know, I thought

I was the only other guy in...

you know, in the southeast of England

that even knew anything

about this stuff, you know, and...

So, I mean, by the time

we got off the train, you know,

we've made a deal, you know.

I'm gonna... [chuckles]

And that's how The Stones hooked,

because of these very two records.

And that's it.

Muddy, I had only heard, you know,

very few tracks of at the time.

So this was a mind blower

to me, you know.

[Muddy Waters singing]

I don't want you to be no slave

I don't want you to work all day

I don't want you to be true

I just want to make love to you

[Richards] When I first heard

The Best of Muddy Waters,

it was the most powerful music

I'd ever heard.

The most expressive.

And I had listened to Mozart and,

you know, I had listened to Beethoven.

This is on a par

with the best music in the world.

The Stones, in their early days,

all we wanted to do

was to turn other people on to this.

[Mick Jagger singing]

I don't want you to be no slave

I don't want you to work all day

I don't want you to be true

I just wanna make love to you, baby

[Richards] We knew we're never gonna

be able to play it like Muddy.

So let's just, like, juke it up.

We sped it up, we did it real fast.

And everybody got into it.

I can see by the way that,

baby, you talk

And I know by the way

that you treat your man

I could love you, baby,

it's a cryin' shame

I don't want you to cook my bread

[Richards] We've never wanted

to make pop music.

Our puritanical mission

was to turn other people on to the blues.

At the same time, we realized

that we turned America

back on to its own music,

which was, like, far beyond the agenda.

[laughs]

I wanna make love to you

[audience clapping and cheering]

The Rolling Stones.

Aren't they great?

[audience laughing]

Unbelievable.

-[Richards] Hey, guys.

-What's up, boss?

How are you guys?

How're we doing?

-Alright?

-Thank you, Keith.

Awesome.

-How you doing?

-Great show the other...

-I'm doing fabulous.

-Yes, sir. Great show.

-Alright. Yeah, yeah.

-Great book, brother.

Cool, brother.

How you doing, Keith?

-We're doing alright, man.

-Good.

-Right on. Thank you.

-We're all alright, you know.

[Richards] On the road, I feel at home.

Being backstage or being onstage,

you know, it's... familiar.

[man] Thank you.

[Richards] There you go, pal.

-Okay.

-[woman] Can I get a high five?

Hi, baby. [laughs]

I left home at 17

in a cloud of disgrace,

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