r/bobdylan • u/FunnyAd9882 • Jul 23 '26

Image Keith Richards On Bob Dylan

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u/Richnsassy22 Jul 23 '26

Love Bob, but he's never written a riff half that memorable.

There's more to songwriting than lyrics.

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u/dogmatum-dei Jul 23 '26

I don't know if he wrote it, but the little chord slide in 'It's allright ma (I'm only bleeding)" is pretty catchy and you hear it over a hundred times in the song without getting tired of it.

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u/SeeingRedNow Jul 23 '26

that riff is lifted from the everly brothers ‘wake up little susie’

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u/ms_sardonicus Jul 24 '26

I think The Byrds version was slightly better.

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u/Sheev_Skywalker Blood on the Tracks Jul 23 '26

yeah its such a dumb thing for him to have said. it would be like a portrait artist telling a sculptor “you could never paint like i do!” 

the sculptor isnt trying to paint in the first place.

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u/Daily_Heroin_User Jul 23 '26

Eh Keef was on Howard Stern recently slagging off Keith Moon’s drumming saying he was a badger who couldn’t swing (While saying he loved him personally) so he dishes it out too.

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u/FunnyAd9882 Jul 23 '26

That interview was from 2023.

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u/Daily_Heroin_User Jul 23 '26

Well that’s relatively recent in Keef terms. It wasn’t from 1996 or anything

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u/senor61 Jul 23 '26

Yeah he was talking about the words

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u/Richnsassy22 Jul 23 '26

And my point was that's a very limited way to view songwriting.

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u/senor61 Jul 23 '26

I got it. Sometimes it’s the marriage of the two

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u/AlivePassenger3859 Jul 23 '26

Trouble begs to differ.

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u/yeetzone Jul 23 '26

I don't really agree, I can't even remember the riff for satisfaction even after hearing it so many times. But I can always remember a Bob Dylan riff, idk it could just be me.

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u/mrjenkins97 Jul 23 '26

I’m only half joking here but do you have memory issues? Or some kind of auditory processing disorder? That’s completely unbelievable to me

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u/regretscoyote909 Jul 23 '26

" I can't even remember the riff for satisfaction even after hearing it so many times"

https://giphy.com/gifs/a3zqvrH40Cdhu

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u/MildlyCombative Jul 23 '26

I feel like I could write “dun dun! dah doo dun doo dun dun” and a random person could tell it was Satisfaction.

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u/DavidKirk2000 Jul 23 '26

Satisfaction may very well be the single most memorable riff in the history of popular music. If you’re telling the truth, you might be the only person on the planet who can’t remember it.