The Detrimental Effects Of A Lifetime of Rock Music
 

Keith Richards: 'I snorted my father'

LONDON - Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all. In comments published Tuesday, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine.

"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME.

"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," he said. "... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."

Richards' father, Bert, died in 2002, at 84.

Richards, one of rock's legendary wild men, told the magazine that his survival was the result of luck, and advised young musicians against trying to emulate him.

"I did it because that was the way I did it. Now people think it's a way of life," he was quoted as saying.

"I've no pretensions about immortality," he added. "I'm the same as everyone ... just kind of lucky.

"I was No. 1 on the `who's likely to die' list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list," Richards said.

See what having symphaty for the devil gets you.

I don't think you can blame that on the 'rock music' fordie...

Try blaming it on the drugs....

Right. It was PUNK Rock. :rockband

Someone that hangs with Mick will do anything.
One day they' ll cry gimme shelter and like a jumping jack flash they be in torment.
Ruby Tuesday won't matter as tears go by.

Nah... just 'punk'... as in, that's what he was most of his life.

Yes Keith Richards has always been a puke.

uh...GROSS. And also...DISTURBING. :nah

I used to own Rolling stones vinyl records ,they were on The London Label.
I had that junk like Get yer Ya Yas out Baggars Banquet and such.

Bump for Rrford

I already read it. :toofunny

:happydance

Oh brother. Keith Richards always was the wacky one (ugly one as well if you ask me) Sorry Lord.

Have to agree there....

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People forget about Ted Nugent who claims he hasn't touched a drug in his life... I believe that includes cigarettes as well. Nugent rocks...

Gene Simmons claims this too.

The Rock Star, that I most like is Jesus Christ.

The bright and morning STAR.

The cornerSTONE of our faith.


These other guy's ....... who cares.

Is there D.N.A. in ashes??

If so, it is only "well done" DNA.

I think the title should be "The Detrimental Effects of DRUGS" instead of rock music.

Probably.


But in this case it really doesn't matter as the thread was NEVER intended to have any intrinsic merit whatsoever. It was merely proving a point, which it continues to do. :tiphat

The strongest thing I ever snorted was powdered sugar. And that was by accident.

LOL!

At Colorado camp one year, Jeff Arnold was in a groove and was getting all excited about cocaine users "snorting lines." He said, "HERE!!! I AM GOING TO SNORT A LINE!!!" And he opened his bible and drug it across his nostrils as he was "snorting" and pulled it back and read...I forgot what scripture...

I think some of the old timers just about lost their false teeth while the others picked themselves up off the floor. :slaphappy

There was a thread going not too long ago about "originals" when it came to apostolic preachers.

Jeff Arnold would definitely have to be included in that hall of fame no doubt about it. :)

Try blaming it on the man's choices!

As in "He chose drugs and rock music." :tiphat

Drug abuse was around long before rock n' roll... Samuel Colderidge and Edgar Allan Poe never heard a Jimi Hendrix tune yet were addicted to the popular drug of their day....

Yes, he CHOSE. The responsibility rests with him and not with the drugs and the rock music. Just like it's people who kill people with guns, not that the guns themselves kill. (Unlike on a recent episode of Law and Order where some leftist, feminist defense attorney said that violence is a disease and that guns are the virus).

But we make choice. And then choice makes us.

Agree!

wow.. yeah.. okay... that's like saying that gospel music causes obesity in pentecostal women who wear blue denim...

Southern Gospel music.

I like your signature. Especially since WP has returned to the vomit he so vehemitly despises.

Which is exactly the point: we make choices. Those choices have positive or negative impacts upon us. Yet, the blame still rests with us for making the choices and NOT with the things that we chose.

yes and poetry was the rock and roll of their day.