Keith Richards: `I snorted my father'

[obeygiant]

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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.

whoa.

 

[zap2]

Wow....that is crazy!



I thought it mean he smelled his father, or when up to his father and made a shorting noise...that was before I read the headline.

 

[Max Payne]

Wow....that is crazy!



I thought it mean he smelled his father, or when up to his father and made a shorting noise...that was before I read the headline.

Ditto...

Can you think of what House would say, if he was told this story?

I'm a crazy fan of House M.D.

 

[PlaceofDis]

for some reason this doesn't surprise me.

 

[Abstract]

I thought it mean he smelled his father, or when up to his father and made a shorting noise...that was before I read the headline.

No, I thought this would be cocaine related.......something weird and cocaine related.

 

[Electro Funk]

have to agree with PlaceofDis...

but still deserves a WOW! what a freak!

 

[PlaceofDis]

have to agree with PlaceofDis...

but still deserves a WOW! what a freak!

this reminds me of the Robin Williams broadway show where he rants about Keith being the only other thing alive besides cockroaches in a nuclear war.

 

[obeygiant]

Also funny is that the interviewer asked, "What's the strangest thing you've tried to snort?"

 

[erickkoch]

Wouldn't that technically make him a cannibal?

 

[SMM]

I remember Keith's recount of how the song "Satisfaction" came to be. "I woke in the middle of the night with this rift running through my head. I thought up a few words, got out of bed, picked up the guitar and played. There were about 45 minutes of me snoring afterwards".

Annie Lebowitz has a great picture of Keith laying passed-out on the floor. His zipper is half-way down. When I saw it, I wondered, "Did he make it to the bathroom or not?"

Nothing surprises me about Keith. He is the original British Rock 'bad-boy'. I must admit, I love him!

 

[xsedrinam]

Ditto...

Can you think of what House would say, if he was told this story?

I'm a crazy fan of House M.D.

My guess: "Get your nose out of your father's ash", or something to that effect.

 

[topicolo]

I hope he realizes that cremated human remains are pretty carcinogenic.

 

[chriscorbin]

AThe day they cremate him the entire world will be high for a month

 

[murfle]

I thought it mean he smelled his father, or when up to his father and made a shorting noise...that was before I read the headline.

You did see Keith Richards in the title, didn't you? I knew exactly what it meant when I saw it... :/

I hope he realizes that cremated human remains are pretty carcinogenic.

Um... Again... This is Keith Richards we're talking about.

 

[redAPPLE]

Wouldn't that technically make him a cannibal?

the coolest living cannibal, i'd say.

 

[iBlue]

this reminds me of an episode of Six Feet Under (where some mourners do the same thing)

Not exactly my idea of keeping a person with you but to each their own, eh?

 

[thedude110]

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.

Snort as I say, not snort as I do?

Or Richards is ironcially protective of himself -- "snort that, but don't snort me" etc.

 

[Swarmlord]

for some reason this doesn't surprise me.

I thought the same thing.

 

[princealfie]

So why is he still famous eh?

 

[obeygiant]

looks like he's recanting the statement:

LONDON — Keith Richards was joking when he claimed to have snorted his father's ashes along with cocaine, a spokesman said Wednesday.

"It was an off-the-cuff remark, a joke, and it is not true. File under April Fool's joke," said Bernard Doherty of LD Communications, which represents the Rolling Stones.

fox

 

[iGav]

Keef still one of the coolest cats around.

Somehow I can't quite imagine McCartney saying the same.

 

[AndyR]

Strange!

But saw an episode of Miami Ink the other day where a surfer who lost his mate to cancer, had some of his mates ashes put in the ink before Garver tattooed him. Thought that was pretty cool!

 

[WinterMute]

Dennis Leary used to do a sequence about Keef telling people not to do drugs, (Keef did anti-drugs commercials a while back), the upshot was that Leary said we can't do drugs now because Keef's done all of them and we'll have to wait for him to die and snort his ashes....

Life and art, art and life.

Keef's a god, a wrinkly god sure, but a god nontheless.

 

[Electro Funk]

his people are now trying to say that Keith was only kidding... that he really never snorted his fathers ashes with the chunky white lady...

 

[ReanimationLP]

Idiot.

Of course, I've never been a fan of the Rolling Stones.