Why Would Anybody Believe Keith Richards?
Okay, let's try to use a little logic and reason here. Oh, and a little history would help, too.
Way back in 1973, the baddest of the Rolling Stones' bad boys, Keith Richards was already notorious for his drug and alcohol abuse. So, when he told a reporter that he had secretly traveled to Switzerland and had all of his blood replaced with a clean batch, the story was printed without being questioned, and got widespread distribution.
After cooler heads pointed out that there was no such procedure available in Switzerland or anywhere else, our boy Keef owned up to having made up the story because he was tired of answering questions about a medical procedure that he had undergone.
So why in the world would anybody take it seriously when the man is quoted as saying to a reporter this week that he had once mixed some of his cremated father's ashes with some cocaine and snorted them? Please. Fool me once, shame on you ... ah, you know the rest.
So now our favorite rehabilitated former bad boy has once again come forth with a retraction. (Just kidding, mates, or maybe the reporter just twisted what I said. Yeah, that's it! Blame the reporter. No, it's like that blood change. Never happened. Just a misunderstanding.)
Much more astounding than Richards' denial is the reaction the story generated in the first place. Are people really that gullible? Or is it just that it takes a tumble from a coconut tree or a sensational headline to keep an aging rock star in the public eye?
Well, I have to be going now. I have an appointment to have my brain replaced with an eggplant.
Comments
I thought I left a message but it didn’t go through! I cracked up at your eggplant statement! People truly are gullible.
Barb, you’ll be pleased to know that the operation was a success, but I smoked the doctor.
Just imagine being Keith Richards & imagine being asked millions of questions over the span of the Stones popularity…and being caught off-guard occasionally, or being in different moods when asked whatever whenever by whoever… it would be difficult at best to always be under scrutiny by everybody you meet. I think this is a truely talented fella who has developed a sense of humour over the years and lets it leak out once in a while. So what?
Agreed, KyDave. As I said, I don’t have as much of a problem with what he said as with the overreaction to it by media and public.
I guess I have to wonder what someone has to snort to take anything Keith Richards says seriously.
Dave, did you go with the smaller Japanese eggplant or the larger aubergine?
Megan, it had to be small in order to fit into the space previously occupied by the brain {;>)
Sorry, gang….
But ya gotta believe that Keith would smoke or injest anything, anybody, anywhere, anytime…dead or even, perhaps, somewhat alive.
One would think that dead is better…easier grind, truer/smoother burn….
The live stuff just gets messy…and we know how fastidious Keith can be….
I gotta chalk this one up to “moving to Montana soon”.
Is it absurd? Duh-Huh
It’s nutzo anyway you slice it.
It’s the beauty of Keith.
As any Rolling Stones fan knows, Keith has
a quirky, wild sense of humor. He is always saying outrageous stuff to shock
people or to get your attention. He would
never smoke his father’s ashes, that was
just Keith being crazy as usual. He is a
good person, and a wonderful animal lover, and a good husband and father.
He is as usual a wild and crazy Rolling
Stone but that is what his fans love
about him and me too.