# Who's the Rolling Stones' lead guitarrist? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [February 20, 2017, 8:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-rolling-stones-lead-guitarrist/780346 "2017-02-20T20:34:26Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 6\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 4:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-rolling-stones-lead-guitarrist/780346/41 "2018-03-18T16:43:34Z")
> [@drad\_dog](#): > > The stones need to make an album without using open tunings. … Yah, and get Brian Jones back. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 7:57pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-rolling-stones-lead-guitarrist/780346/42 "2018-03-18T19:57:58Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > Yah, and get Brian Jones back. I don’t quite get the love for Jones in certain circles _other_ than they key fact that he founded the band, gathered its core members and played with them during a fertile period( which is more than enough to get him in the history books ). Taylor and Wood are better guitarists and Jones contributed no or almost no writing. Though I do admit he had a certain charisma. But I might be partly biased because my favorite Stones period by far is the three album run of _Beggars Banquet_( marginal Jones input ), _Let it Bleed_( marginal Taylor input ) and _Sticky Fingers_( peak Stones, IMHO ). ---
**Author:** ![jaycat](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/jaycat/32/3015_2.png) [@jaycat](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/jaycat)\ **Post date:** [March 18, 2018, 11:23pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-rolling-stones-lead-guitarrist/780346/43 "2018-03-18T23:23:23Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > I don’t quite get the love for Jones . . . It probably helps if Between The Buttons is your favorite Stones album. He may not have written any songs, but he contributed sitar, tamboura, dulcimer, keyboards, recorder, harmonica, xylophone, marimba … they never found that richness of texture after he was gone. ---
**Author:** ![Tamerlane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/tamerlane/32/7602_2.png) [@Tamerlane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Tamerlane)\ **Post date:** [March 19, 2018, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-rolling-stones-lead-guitarrist/780346/44 "2018-03-19T00:07:38Z")
> [@jaycat](#): > > It probably helps if Between The Buttons is your favorite Stones album. He may not have written any songs, but he contributed sitar, tamboura, dulcimer, keyboards, recorder, harmonica, xylophone, marimba … they never found that richness of texture after he was gone. A very reasonable answer :). ---
**Author:** ![Fiddle\_Peghead](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fiddle_peghead/32/3506_2.png) [@Fiddle\_Peghead](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fiddle_Peghead)\ **Post date:** [March 23, 2018, 11:16pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-rolling-stones-lead-guitarrist/780346/45 "2018-03-23T23:16:39Z")
When Keith is playing lead, he is the lead guitarist. When Ronnie is playing lead, he is the lead guitarist. ---
**Author:** ![Guest-starring\_Id](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/guest-starring_id/32/21736_2.png) [@Guest-starring\_Id](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Guest-starring_Id)\ **Post date:** [March 25, 2018, 1:49am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-rolling-stones-lead-guitarrist/780346/46 "2018-03-25T01:49:54Z")
> [@Tamerlane](#): > > But I might be partly biased because my favorite Stones period by far is the three album run of _Beggars Banquet_( marginal Jones input ), _Let it Bleed_( marginal Taylor input ) and _Sticky Fingers_( peak Stones, IMHO ). This. Tremendously. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/whos-the-rolling-stones-lead-guitarrist/780346.md?page=2)