Keef Is 75 Today

[Wally Pryor 5410]

and will outlive all of us fuckers.   

• “I don’t think John (Lennon) ever left my house except horizontally.”
• “You realize, some guys you can spend a day with them and basically you’ve learned all you’re ever going to know about them. Like Mick Jagger in exact reverse.”
• “There’s somebody in a suburb in Melbourne who doesn’t even know I wiped his -ss.”
• “Mick’s album was called ‘She’s the Boss,’ which said it all. I’ve never listened to the entire thing all the way through. Who has? It’s like ‘Mein Kampf.’ Everybody had a copy, but nobody listened to it.”
• “By law you have to be conscious to be arrested.”
• “I can improvise when I’m unconscious.”
• “And then Eric [Clapton] left the Yardbirds and went away on a sabbatical for six months and came back as God, which he’s still trying to live down.”
• “I think I’ll stand on my head, try and recycle the drugs.”
• “But I also have an incredible immune system. I cured myself of hepatitis C without even bothering to do anything about it.”
• “[NME’s rock star ‘death list’] was the only chart on which I was number one for ten years in a row… I was really disappointed when I went down the charts. Finally dropping down to number nine. Oh my G-d, it’s over.”

 

https://thefederalist.com/2018/12/18/celebrate-keith-richardss-75th-birthday-stories-memoir/

[Steel Shank 9552]

I've had a positive reaction to the Stones since I was a toddler. Rock on, Keef.

[Deej 77812]

75, going on 115.

[Deej 77812]

I love his story about having Mick over and playing "Talk is Cheap" for him, before it released. Mick is sitting there, not really reacting to it, and Keith feigns going to the bathroom. He peeks around the corner, and Mick is dancing away, so Keith starts walking heavily back into the room, and when he enters, Mick is back sitting motionless.

[Deej 77812]

Almost needs subtitles.

[GhostOfTomJoad 9508]

Keef is the fucking man.

[52-80 19377]

 

[Grandioso 2592]

[Chad Fuck 18134]

obligatory:

[Wally Pryor 5410]

Happy 76th to the baddest of the bad.  And he will outlive all of us fuckers. 

 

 

[Onboard 2.0 9083]

Keef will one day face Connor McCloud.

There can be only one.

[Gil Bang 26231]

Yesterday would have also been Bobby Keys' birthday.  He and Keith were born on the same day. 

[Topper13 3620]

Keith with a LPJ, almost too much rock and roll to handle.

 

[GhostOfTomJoad 9508]

I listened to Sticky Fingers on repeat all day while driving around doing shit. Keef...you punched a hole in the universe, babe. Keep on.

[tbone_ 14438]

Y’all should read his autobiography if you haven’t. Wild fucking life. Great dude.

[Gil Bang 26231]

On 12/21/2019 at 5:24 PM, tbone_ said:

Y’all should read his autobiography if you haven’t. Wild fucking life. Great dude.

"My Life".  It's really a terrific read

[Scooter Monzingo 821]

On 12/19/2019 at 9:41 PM, GhostOfTomJoad said:

I listened to Sticky Fingers on repeat all day while driving around doing shit. Keef...you punched a hole in the universe, babe. Keep on.

I always felt the guitar work on this album was the perfect Rolling Stones sound. Keith was in his prime, and Taylor was an absolutely gifted soloist. And the intro to “can’t you hear me knocking” is fucking timeless. 

[Deej 77812]

That moment when heroin was fueling Keith's creativity, before it became his burden.

[noharleyyet 2864]

On 12/25/2019 at 10:19 PM, Gil Bang said:

"My Life".  It's really a terrific read

About 4 hours into "Life" on Audible......hoping it gets better. 

[brakeman 28749]

[dcbc 14644]

Watched Gimme Shelter for the first time in a while.  Was really taken aback to watch the band listening to the rough cuts of Wild Horses and Brown Sugar (pretty sure this footage is in Muscle Shoals as well).  Keef was 26.