I’ve seen the Stones a couple of times, including at “the home of our Utes” in (I think) the fall of '94.
I’ve been a Stones fan since my youth. I remember walking around the avenues in the 60’s listening to Stones tunes like Paint It Black, Satisfaction, etc. on my 6 transistor radio and loving every minute.
In the early 70’s, in my early high school years I took up guitar and played eventually in a very successful band in the south part of the valley, (Brighton, Hillcrest and Jordan High School areas) that did a lot of Stones tunes.
He is rarely recognized as such, but in my opinion, Keith Richards is one of the most influential guitar players that came out of the 60’s 70’s Rock and Roll era. Not for his single line solos, (ala Hendrix or Clapton, et.al) but more for his very full sounding rhythm guitar playing and for the chord riffs that are the most familiar part of what we all think of when we hear their tunes. For example, the simple basic guitar riff that defines the tune Satisfaction. Or the chord voicings, often with fourths (ala Brown Sugar), that have the Keith Richard’s sound and which became common once he introduced them. Not known by many people was the fact that a great deal of his unique sounds were played on a guitar in an open G tuning which he always credits Ry Cooder for showing him.
The Stones are not know as the greatest rock and roll band in the world for nothing. In their original era, the Beatles were certainly the greatest, but the Stones were the ever so close second, and they certainly out lasted the Beatles by generations.
As for Richards, how on God’s Green Earth, is someone who took that volume of drugs, drank that much alcohol, smoked that many cigarettes, lived on the road for decades, and otherwise abused his body to extreme, still walking around, let alone touring?!? Have you seen the arthritis in his fingers? How he plays a guitar is beyond me.
I have an old friend from my high school band days, that swears that Keif is actually a zombie. He does look the part . 
