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Originally Posted by DamianJ
Aside from the fact that open guitar tunings have been around long before Richards. Dobros and banjos use them and lutes were all open tuned, even to the extent of having movable frets. Open tuning was used in India 1000s of years ago. Then Mexico, Hawaii etc.
So, although wildly great, Richards certainly didn't make musical history using slack tuning as it is popularly known.
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He made musical history by the songs he wrote using the technique. Not the technique itself. Just like lots of guitarist used "tapping" (most notably Harvey Mandel) long before Eddie Van Halen...but it was Van Halen who took the technique and made "musical history" with it.
That's what I was trying to show.
"Keef" took open tuning to a whole different place than it had been before and the results were songs that have endured: "Honky Tonk Women", "Jumping Jack Flash", "Brown Sugar", "Tumbling Dice"....basically the entire "Beggars Banquet", "Sticky Fingers" and "Exile On Mainstreet" albums where he completely retooled the old "1960's" Stones and took them to rock legend status.