Keith Richards Hates Your Music

By Michael Cerio

PHILADELPHIA (CBS) -- Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards will be releasing his first solo album in 23 years this month, but first a moment for him to shout "get off my lawn!" to the music industry.

In an interview, Richards analyzed rock and hip hop with the grace of an old man complaining about the temperature of his soup.

On Hip Hop:

"Rap — so many words, so little said,"

"What rap did that was impressive was to show there are so many tone-deaf people out there,"

"All they need is a drum beat and somebody yelling over it and they're happy. There's an enormous market for people who can't tell one note from another."

On Rock music:

"For most bands, getting the syncopation is beyond them. It's endless thudding away, with no bounce, no lift, no syncopation."

On Metallica and Black Sabbath:

"I just thought they were great jokes."

Nobody is safe from the wrinkled shaky fist of Keith Richards. Last month he also told Esquire that The Beatles' St. Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band a "mishmash of rubbish".

Richards' album, Crosseyed Heart, comes out September 18th. In the meantime look for him complaining about the neighbor's trash cans in a driveway near you.