BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: Big Mick
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 09:08 PM

tolerance, I think I will back out of this thread. I understand your position, and the handle you are using on this thread, as opposed to your member name, indicates the position you are taking. Your position is admirable, but I just don't think we can agree. The interviewer indicated that Keith was very thoughtful and took time to answer this question.

Keep on keepin' on,

Mick

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: GUEST,tolerance
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 09:09 PM

No. I'm just a guest with a name.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: GUEST,tolerance
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 09:10 PM

Will do Mick. Again, just posting my opinion as you are.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: Peace
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 09:11 PM

Lost the cannibis thread again.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: GUEST,patty o'dawes
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 09:39 PM

peace i posted the message that tolerance has cut and pasted at 9.01. i forgot to put my name, tolerance said it would be deleted, it was, so i reposted immediately putting my name and it got deleted again.

hey hey welcome to mick's sterilised forum.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: John O'L
Date: 04 Apr 07 - 09:41 PM

His coat is torn and frayed. It's seen much better days, but as long as the guitars still play, he'll steal your heart away.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: alanabit
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 02:42 AM

I think you will find Keef is still on his first marriage. To my knowledge, he married Patti Hansen in the eighites. He never married his one previous longstanding girlfriend, Anita Pallenberg.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: dianavan
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 03:09 AM

I'm not surprised. The Rolling Stones have always relied on formula. They've always been pop. They had a couple of good tunes but they were more business than music. I didn't buy it when I was young and I don't buy it now. Keith Richards with soul? I thought he sold it long ago.

Apparently, they still know how to get all the attention they need. They certainly know how to work the crowd. I guess their target audience are bottom feeders who like anything gross. They've made lots of money being that way.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: Rasener
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 03:22 AM

One of my favourite groups is the Rolling Stones, and still one of my favourites is Little Red Rooster written by Willie Dixon. Cracking Blues standard.

Little Red Rooster

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: dianavan
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 03:37 AM

Lets just say I've never been a big fan of British Blues. I like my Blues a little more authentic. In fact, it took me a long time to understand the British invasion at all. It seemed like a market version of the real thing. Maybe it was, maybe it wasn't. Thats just the way I saw it.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: Rasener
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 03:59 AM

Thats fine Dianavan

However your comments like bottom feeders is not appreciated.

Just becuase you do not like them, doesn't mean that you should slag them or their fans off.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: alanabit
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 04:13 AM

I guess you like it or you don't. Certainly young white American kids were not playing blues in any great numbers before that happened. Jeff Beck recalls being very mystified that US audiences took the Brits seriously in the early days. However, time has passed and British blues has a pedigree which is only a few decades shorter than the US has. Certainly the Brits were taken very seriously by some of the US giants - BB King and Muddy Waters in particular. British urban blues is as authentic as any other type. It now has firm musical and historical roots and has definitely contributed to the development of the genre. Whether you like it or not is another question. I would say the Stones have not been a serious blues band since Mick Taylor left in 1974. In fact their heyday as a blues band had already come and gone before that.
I guess they are a bit gross at times, but there have been occasional bursts of lyrical and musical intelligence. Notably songs like "Wild Horses" and "Waiting on a Friend" prove that they really can write grown up songs about women if they want to. "High Wire" and "Undercover" tell pithy political truths, even if they are not actually musical masterpieces. I think they could have done better both musically and lyrically had they really tried.
At the end of the day, I like them. I grew up with them and they feel like an old gang of friends. I know they are pretty imperfect, like lots of my other friends. They have never really done any serious harm that I can see, however, and I can see the joke when they are taking the piss. I don't expect too much of them, so I guess I don't get too disappointed!

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: Paco Rabanne
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 04:40 AM

Is this just an April fool joke?

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 04:45 AM

No - wrong timing. Two days after the inerview a spokeswoman for KR claimed it had been meant as a joke; but the original interviewer refutes that. I think (but cannot prove of course) that it was a case of "high jinks" and a thoughtless moment on the part of Keith, and a damage limitation exercise followed. In any case, even if it had been meant as a joke I would still find it in poor taste.

But each to his own. Perhaps literally in this case.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: Rasener
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 04:54 AM

Still looking forward to having you at Faldingworth George, even if you don't like Cliff Richard :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: Rasener
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 04:55 AM

Oops sorry Keith Richards.

From one extreme to another :-)

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: John O'L
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 05:12 AM

Did Cliff snort his dad too?

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: Rasener
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 05:14 AM

LOL

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: GUEST,tolerance
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 08:00 AM

Besides the songs I mentioned above, I'm not a Stones fan. But I do respect what they have contributed to the music world, regardless if they are showmen and work the audience. Hell what performer doesn't work his audience in one way or another. If it wasn't for the likes of the British Blues Bands with the Stones at the forefront, many of these American true blues originators would have gone unregongnized by their own countrymen.

Yes, alanabit my mistake "Love in Vain" is a Robert Johhnson composition, but I think the Stones did one hell of a version of it. Thanks to Keef.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: alanabit
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 10:03 AM

Mustn't forget Mick Taylor...

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: GUEST,alex d'cruz
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 10:28 AM

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green green grass of home
i'll never fall in love again
happy easter foever
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Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: George Papavgeris
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 10:36 AM

I want some of that!

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: Metchosin
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 11:50 AM

Up his nose, eh?

Oh gee.....and I thought we have a problem because my recently deceased old Mum wants hers scattered where she used to live, which is now a baseball diamond and she was never a fan. She's currently sitting on my kitchen table in a brown plastic can, next to the ground coffee....Keef, you've just given me an idea!.....naaah.

Now her dentures, that's another problem....can't bring myself to just chuck 'em in the trash. Perhaps I could drop them off fisherman's wharf where she was born. I can picture a harbour seal popping up and flashing a new pearly white grin to entertain the tourists. LOL She'd like that.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: Metchosin
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 12:03 PM

My mother never made good coffee......

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: dianavan
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 01:44 PM

Sorry Villain, I didn't think you would take it so seriously.

Let me try again. I think that the Stones are pop. I think their music has been designed to appeal to the masses. They have commercial appeal and they milk it for all its worth. Now that they are getting older, Keith has come up with a wild story that will surely make the tabloid press and thereby keeping the Stones in the spotlight. They are masters of manipulating their image and this latest gossip was obviously intended to shock and 'gross people out'. Hasn't that been their 'schtick' all along?

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: Peace
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 01:46 PM

I don't see what's gross about sniffing ashes. Hell, anyone who ever smoked a butt or a roach has inhaled ashes. Like, they don't burn twice, ya know?

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: GUEST,tolerance
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 02:13 PM

Gotta think some more on that post Peace.

OH KAY

Ahem, well with that I leave this thread with the last two memorable lines of Sweet Virginia.

"Come on come on down you got it in you
Got to scrape that shit right off your shoes"

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: Rasener
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 04:16 PM

Why shouldn't I defend the Stones Dianavan. They were and still are one of my favourite groups.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: dianavan
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 10:36 PM

Go ahead. Defend the Stones.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: John O'L
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 11:22 PM

Keef! Quick! Get behind Villain. He'll defend you.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 05 Apr 07 - 11:31 PM

Keith Richard has a talent for getting attention, doesn't he? This particular story doesn't really deserve much...

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 01:55 AM

Was it Waylon Jennings who wrote, If you don't like Bob Wills, you can kiss my ass....?

It was very well put, whoever wrote it. Some people just feel that about their favourite musicians. Criticism of Keef has obviously pulled a few tail feathers.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: AWG
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 10:55 PM

I wasn't going to say this, but hey, I feel free on this forum to speak my mind openly and without criticism... so here goes...       THE STONES SUCK !!

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: John O'L
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 11:02 PM

If you don't like Keef, you can kiss my ashes.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: AWG
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 11:05 PM

How old are you, 80 ?!!? Shouldn't you be listening to Justin Timberlake or something a little more 'current' ??

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: Little Hawk
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 11:13 PM

Who?

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: John O'L
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 11:17 PM

Stick with CW, AWG.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: GUEST,John Huggen
Date: 06 Apr 07 - 11:52 PM

Many of you may not know this but those are the words Mr. Fletcher used in the general direction of Captain Bligh. "kiss my arse", after Bligh accused Fletcher of stealing from his hord of coconuts.

That was a very stressfull moment for all the crew indeed. Very stressfull.

But it's all water under the bridge now (Haw, Haw, Haw).

I say, let's all have a drink. Here. Pass the bottle to me will you.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: Wordsmith
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 03:48 AM

Personally, I want to be cremated and sprinkled on my compost heap like one of the Weavers was. Perhaps, on the garden directly. We are, as someone obliquely mentioned, Merely dust in the wind.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: AWG
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 10:05 AM

Hey John O'L, Celtic Woman could out-rock the Stones any day of the week !! All this without snorting some relatives' ashes (sicko). Sheesh! How has that wierdo stayed 'functional' all this time ?!?!

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: GUEST,patty o'dawes
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 03:25 PM

Another of the Stones enduring qualities is not to take themselves too seriously. This is lost on people who do.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: AWG
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 08:00 PM

Very true. But your father's ashes... ?

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: GUEST,patty o'dawes
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 08:53 PM

Don't knock it 'til you've - snnnnnnnnnnnifffffffffffff- tried it.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: AWG
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 09:00 PM

Fair enough LOL, but Im just gonna take your word for it.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: GUEST,patty o'dawes
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 09:22 PM

As you wish, but he was a big guy - plenty to go around.

Subject: RE: BS: Keith Richards snorted his Dad's ashes!
From: AWG
Date: 07 Apr 07 - 09:31 PM

LOL