Rolling Stone Keith Richards makes graphic X-rated confession about his guitars

The 82-year-old says he has a special relationship with his instruments – all 3,000 of them

Keith Richards has made an X-rated confession(Image: Getty Images)

Rolling Stone Keith Richards says he loves his guitars so much he’d bonk them. The 82-year-old axeman says he has a special relationship with his guitars – all 3,000 of them.

Speaking this week, however, he said that some guitars held a very special place in his heart, saying he only plays 15 of them regularly. His favourite is a Gibson acoustic guitar made in 1933, he told Guitar World in the latest edition.

Asked if he played fewer notes these days, Keith said he did as he suffered from arthritis and needed a wider fingerboard. He also said that he never stopped learning new tricks with his axe, saying he loved guitars so much he’d love to ‘f***’ them.

Rolling Stone Keith Richards said he likes his 3,000 guitars – a lot(Image: Getty Images for LOVE ROCKS NYC/God’s Love We Deliver)

He told Guitar World: “I’m not as fast as I used to be.

“I tell you what, at my age, what I find most interesting about the guitar is you can compensate for certain disabilities and nimbleness and find other ways of getting around the problem.

“It still teaches you another thing. – you never stop learning with the damn thing…I love it, and it’s my friend forever.

“If I had to, I’d f*** it.”

He added: “I just look at my hands and my hands look at me and we say ‘Well, let’s see what we can do today’ – and that’s the way I play guitar.

“I look at it and I say ‘We’ve got nothing else to do, come here, I love you.”

Asked to reveal the one guitar he could play for the rest of his life, he said: “I have a little black Gibson looking at me right now, a 1936 acoustic, broken, battered – I’d keep that one with me.”