Keith Richards is not impressed with today's music at all.He said, “…it’s pointless” in a recent interview.
Richards tells Rolling Stone, "There is no new rock & roll [laughs]. It’s pointless. There’s great musicians and some great singers and stuff. Unfortunately, to me, in music, it’s been synthesized to death. Once you start synthesizing things, you’re not getting the real thing. But I don’t want to go into a long discourse on what’s wrong with synthesizers and music these days, except to say they’re cheap and corny [laughs]."
He was in the studio last month in New York working on the next Rolling Stones album.
“[Mick and I are] communicating from across the Atlantic and then waiting for a vaccine. I have thousands of songs. I got enough to keep me busy.”
Regarding the toughest part of life during the current pandemic, Keith said, "There are no crowds, it’s a damn hassle for a band. But hey, it’s young bands that are cut off from doing their gigs, the bam, bam, bam. It’s a hard pull, this one. Somehow, we got to get around it, because what we do is play music to people. And so in that case you need people. There’s rather a lack of them at the moment. So we’re trying to deal with it like anybody else, man, you know?...
"This is a funny year, man. They haven’t made one like it before. So this is all improvisation and just figuring out."
[courtesy of Classic Hits Today]