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Lockdown Lick 318

Lockdown Lick

Lockdown Licks no.318. “Before They Make Me Run” by The Rolling Stones.

Keith Richards open G chord riffs/single note riff. Played on a Telecaster into a NUX M8 amp set to ‘superlead’ with gain down to 1, a little reverb.

“Before They Make Me Run” is a song by English rock band the Rolling Stones, featured on their 1978 album Some Girls.

Written by guitarist Keith Richards, the song is a response to his arrest for heroin possession in Toronto in February 1977. The criminal charges and prospect of a prison sentence loomed over the Some Girls recording sessions and endangered the future of the Rolling Stones.

In the lyrics, Richards reflects unapologetically on his lifestyle up to that point.