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Title: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 2:29pm

Doncha’ bother me with Halloween
I’ll be too busy to take candy from strangers.
What with reading between the lines of “Life”
I’ll have to break it down into paragraphs and that’s
a long way to go for a short rock n’ roll moment
in a rock n’ roll life.

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 2:56pm

I was arguing with my co-worker about the book
I said “What don’t we know about keef?
What can he possibly tell us?”
She said with a steely-eyed look
“ EVERYTHING BABY… EVERYTHING”

For a best seller to be on top of the heap the threshold is

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 3:02pm

With the Stones’ built-in audience ranging anywhere
from a million to possibly
a million and a half world wide and the
NY Times best seller list threshold with initial print
run of 100-150K, the odds are good
this book will be passed down to future
generation Stones’ fans this Christmas; from
Father to son, and Mother’s little helper too

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 3:08pm

No need to pimp the book but the book signing
will be fun.
I am sure you lucky people can’t wait for that.
You probably have a list of questions to ask
the man yet you’ll probably stutter and stammer
in front of greatness as he signs
your very copy of “Life”

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 3:34pm

You will be so nervous you will spoil it all
by throwing-up all over him
and you’ll wipe the floor with it like the
lyric goes ‘Infamy. ” Someone will say,
“Hey, pleased to meet you hope you guess my name.”
Waiting in line with Mr. Jimmy offering up a sweaty
handshake and your nervous twitch exposed,
but don’t take it so hard.

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 3:52pm

You’ll make a fool of yourself not knowing what to say.
You will be only a kissa- away from Keith Richards.
I’m sure you’ll be blinded by sugar plum pixies
laced rainbows but Keef will be blinded with flashbulbs
from your cell phone. Fortunately for Keef
I wont be there thus one of you will have to ask
him the lyrics for “did you see her arse,
have you seen her arse?
Something about her arse” blah-blah-blah”

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 4:06pm

Some critiques with an advance copy will complain and
submit the review with reference to the Stones’
concert set list, “a few nuggets
A bevy of classics and onslaught of war horse tunes.”
The pundits will intro with “ Aging Rock Star…”

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 4:38pm

Keith Richards Week October 25th On the Little Steven's
"Underground Garage" Sirius 6025...

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 4:57pm

We could see
Keef hit the telly talk shows with maybe
a few interviews late night
Conan, Fallen, etc. Keef could talk of anecdotes
not in the book and we’ll be
Riffing through the book before the commercial
monster finishes
Spewing how white your shirts should be.
And that’s cool, always good to see Keith.
He does have a sense a humor anyways.
I’m sure he’ll do just fine.

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 5:15pm

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Edith Grove on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 5:21pm

Eye-popping thread !

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 6:14pm

The media will be hounding Mick for his opinion
of course the obvious one to give
Is “ I haven’t read the bloody book leave me alone!”
or “bugger-off!” Well maybe he’s telling the truth
not everyone who has an advanced
copy will take the time to read it.

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 6:27pm

Hi Edith Grove. I've never seen that photo yoou posted...cool
as always anyone and everyone is welcome ...

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 7:32pm

Some one will ask "Keith could you sign my
guitar pick?
Of course you know that would be impossible
due to keef’s large flamboyant signature.
Still I bet you keef would give it a try
just for fun.
you will be so close you can almost hug him.
But you wouldn’t wanna be the one
To invade his space would you?

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 8:02pm

Yeah that will be another Rolling stones Highlight this year.
Like the re-re-release of EOMS the movie last month… good times
.. no doubt.
Ya, how about it ? … yes sir…good times .
"ALRIGHT LET’S CUT OUT THE CRAP"
WHAT ABOUT IT? YOU KNOW WHAT I’M TALKING ABOUT…
don’t come off coy GIMME! hint maybe a glimmer
throw me a bone Keef
say-it!!!!

T O U R

Will he say it? Has he Mick’s approval ?
Charlie & Woody hit the road
The Eldest and the youngest leaving plenty of room
for the youthful glimmer twins
To fit the slot in between. What you wanna
see a Hybrid of the Stones?
yes you do, me too.

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 8:38pm

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 8:59pm

Yes it's funny...funny.

Here is my favorite Keef story.

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 15^th, 2010 at 9:02pm

Rolling Stone Mag,
April 15th 1971 Prodigal Sons Tour Mother Country

excerpt

“Boogie, Bobby, boogie” Marshall Chess
is saying over and over to Bobby Keys
in the seat nest to him . Slamming
out the phrases and laughing as they
talk about old times .
Boo-gey, Boo-gey” Anita Richards ,
is sing-songing in the back of the
plane , making the words sound line
an errant German nickname for
a Humphrey Bogart Boogie,
a small brown and white puppy dog,
is about to fall asleep
in the arms of Anita’s Husband, Keith.

The doors of the midnight flight from Glasgow
to London are about to close. Conversations buzz and hum.
Only the tops of heads and the oustside elbows are visiable.
What could be nicer? Flying home from Glasgow
in the midnight hour after
Two good shows before packed houses
of people from out of 1957 (brass blondes
ladies screaming and clutching at their heads
whenever Mick showed his ass to the audience

Contentment positively flows from seat to seat.
The engines are about to rev, It’s five, four,
three, two, minutes to take off .When down the
aisle comes a blue –jacket airline official,
all the way to the back seat where Keith and
his dog recline. And the official says:
“That dog Flies by prior arrangement only sir,
you’ll have to get off the plane .”

Keith “what?”
“I’m sorry sit I warned you in the airport.
How you manage to slip by me on the plane
I don’t know but you’ll have to get off Now!”
“Look I’ve flown BEA, TWA Pan-Am” Keith Richards,
singer, composer, lead guitar player, Rolling Stones'
is reciting a list of every airline her ever been on.
“To San Francisco, to places you or this airline
have never been…” “You have to supply a box, sir”
“I happen to know that section of the Geneva Convention
very well: you have to supply the box .
This is ridiculous. It’s an emergency."

My wife and family are here, we have to get home
to take my child to the doctor tomorrow.”
“I’m sorry sir”
“We just want to get home .
Is it that important? Just let us leave”
“The rules, sir.”
“ I know the rules. Get this plane going ,
we’re not moving.”
Exit the official Re-enters the
offical with two large blue Scotish policmen..
“ Ere wot’s the law doin’ ere? Come to arrest us all.
Have you?”
"Oy, you you, oy” A big Scottish cop is doing
his best to ignore Mick, who is lying flat on his backbone
in a seat, naked to waist save for
a blue nylon windbreaker someone has thrown over him
after he gave away his sweaty T-shirt on stage.
“Oy. Oy” Mick says Loudly , a saucey shoolboy trying to ge
the police to notice.
He reaches out to jangle at the cop’s sleeve. “Now,
now chummy,” the cop says. Leaning over.
“ No ones’s done nothing’ yet, why should
we arrest anyone?”
“He’s come to arrest the dog” Keith says.

Robert Greenfield

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 16^th, 2010 at 2:25pm

Another keithstory ( i remember reading this back in the day)

"Rolling Stones guitarist Keith Richards has
confessed that he is “not a huge fan” of David Bowie.
Speaking in this month’s Uncut magazine,
Richards said that ‘Changes’, which appears
on Bowie’s fourth album ‘Hunky Dory’, was
the only song by the artist that he could “remember”.
"It's all pose. It's all @#$%& posing.
It's nothing to do with music He knows it too,”
Richards said.
“I can't think of anything else he's
done that would make my hair stand up."

Keith Richards set fire to Playboy mansion Keith Richards
has told how he once set fire to the Playboy mansion.
The Rolling Stones rocker said he was high
on drugs when he and saxophonist Bobby Keys
almost burned the Chicago building down...

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 16^th, 2010 at 5:04pm

excerpt from the book

Some of my most outrageous nights I can only
believe actually happened because of corroborating
evidence. No wonder I’m famous for partying!
The ultimate party, if it’s any good, you can’t
remember it. You get these brief vignettes of
what you did. “Oh, you don’t remember shooting
the gun? Pull up the carpet, look at those holes, man.”
I feel a bit of shame and embarrassment.
“You can’t remember that? When you got your dick out,
swinging from the chandelier, anybody up for grabs,
wrap it in a five-pound note?”
Nope, don’t remember a thing about it.

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 17^th, 2010 at 4:34pm

Wanna remind you "Keith Richards Week" Little Stevens Underground Garage. Starting
Oct 25th. Each night 7 pm est. Little Steven
one hour interview with Keith Sirius 6025

Another keithstory

Rolling Stones guitarist and co-writer of songs
with Mick Jagger, believes that he lives on a UFO landing site.

I don't see a bloody thing.

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 17^th, 2010 at 5:10pm

From the Alan Messer interview.

Alan Messer
{Tour staffer asks Keith about his motivation
when he writes songs...}

KR: I look for ambiguity when I'm writing because
life is ambiguous. I have no idea what the audience
makes of me. Sometimes I don't know whether
I'm going under their heads or over their heads.
Writing songs is a peculiar practice anyway.
I never feel I write them, I'm just an antenna
and the songs ae already zooming through the room,
and I hope to pick up something.
I sit with a guitar or at the piano and
play my favorite Buddy Holly or
Otis Redding songs and, with a bit of luck,
something suddenly happens and you're off
on your own track.
Maybe it's because I never deliberately
sit down to write songs that it still happens.
I've written more lately than ever before.
I recieve and transmit-it's that simple.
If I actually believe I created
something, I'd be in big @#$%& trouble.
There's no godhead ego, I don't believe
in the grand bold type "WRITTEN BY KEITH RICHARDS."
I just pick up the songs and pass them on.
They aren't mine, they're everybody's. To me,
the best songs are the ones that come to you in dreams.
I wake up, put it down on a cassette next
to the bed, turn over and go back to sleep.
I wrote "Satisfaction" that way.

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 17^th, 2010 at 5:12pm

Anita: Long time ago. I went to their concert.
But the band had to stop playing because the crowd went wild.
Mick was afraid he could be raped, because
the girls were out of control.
I went back-stage - I wanted to meet
them - and I offered them a joint to relax..
The poor little Stones were afraid.
You could see them exchanging looks like,
Who IS this weird bird? Mick, especially,
was very hostile.
But he could never make me feel uncomfortable.
Even today, I can squash him with just one word.
But he was the one most against my seeing
Brian and being around the Stones.
Mick resents being told anything by a woman.
But if anybody could tell him something
it was me .
Stew said once “She'd make suggestions in
the studio that would be half serious and half
funny but they were good suggestions.
You could see the hairs on the back
of Mick's neck just Rrise.”

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 23^rd, 2010 at 6:33pm

Good evening hope you're feeling well.

Sherman: How does it work Mr. Peabody?
Mr. Peabody: This is the amplifier, which amplifies the sound.
And this is the preamplifier, which, of course, amplifies the pree.
Sherman: You’re a genius!
Mr. Peabody : "just and average genius.
Sherman. Please set the way back machine for Dec 1969
Sherman: The Moon walk?!
Mr. Peabody : No dear boy that was July of ‘69
Sherman: Woodstock?!
Mr Peabody: not quite I smell foul play, Sherman
According to Sam Cutler’s book “ Every single
person who had originally told the RS to come
to San Francisco and play a free concert had deserted them.
Where were the people? Who only four days before
the event had been so keen to talk to the television
camera and the reporters?
Where were the people who had confidently
said that a free concert by the Stones was possible
and who had actively encourages thousands of
fans to descent on a totally inappropriate site?
Some of the same people who had organized
the era defining Woodstock festival had taken
a lead role in organizing Altamont.
Where were they when the going got tough?

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 23^rd, 2010 at 10:46pm

You'd think the Stones where comming to town
what with all the media attention about the book

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 23^rd, 2010 at 11:11pm

Melvin: Now Mick do you know the
surrounding area? because if you agree
to this the Sheriff wants to know who’s
gonna go to the toilet and who’s flushing it,

Plus that got a nice Mall and a few bowling alleys
maybe this town can’t handle the influx
of rs.com members taking over their
little bubonic community.

They know practically who jerks off at what time
and who they vote for.

We want to bring everyone together sort of
a mirco cosmic totellatrian society which
will set an example to all the
other bloggers invovleved
as to how one can behave in a nice
polite gathering.

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 23^rd, 2010 at 11:28pm

Diary of an angel.

I went down to get my fair share of abuse
The waiting drove me mad .
I was standing around minding my
own business .
I heard like this whooping sound
‘Whop WHOOP WHOOP! This guy
with one shoe with frizzy long
gray hair down to his pelvis wearing
a tri horn hat looking like Napoleon
wearin a bird mask with a long spike nose
and pink grucho marx glasses
came over to me starts screaming Whoop! Whoop!
With every two or three steps his starts
Whooping louder and louder.

He began Flinging his long hair across
his shoulder screaming whoooop! WhooOOOp!
Whooop ! Now he’s in my face.
I thought it was all over for me there
coming to get me now !
I started praying " lord what ever I’ve done
if I get out of this or what ever happens
please let him pass through me quietly
don’t let me get in trouble ." He bent
over looks up at me lifting his hair
behind his shoulder as the other side fall,
lifting the other side he began
Screaming in my face " Give Me Immortality
Or Give Me Death!!"
He walked away and heckled the people
behind me .
When I last saw this guy he was eating
a glow-stick you know those green things
that are hard plastic the guy took
one from some girl passing by , and
started biting it and started swallowing
the pieces of radio active liquiod and
hard jagged chunks. The People told me
he Was a cockk teaser at Roosterama! "

When rehearsals began, there was initial fear in the
entourage as they heard how badly the Stones played,
stopping and starting, ragging each other,
rehearsals scheduled for 7 pm only got going
when Keith arrived at one in the morning,
a pattern that continued through out the tour.
The Stones’ adapted an arrogant “ make ‘em wait”
attitude that infuriated promoters and arena
personnel all over the country as the band often
went on three hours late.

Keith Richards is Weird: There's a famous scene
in "Gimme Shelter" where the Stones are listening
to "Wild Horses" at Muscle Shoals, and the camera
captures Richards sitting on a couch, head back,
eyes closed, singing along more intensely than any
fan every could, tapping his feet along to the
rhythm in garish snakeskin boots. But that one
moment overshadows a cornucopia of Richards's
antics; earlier in the same scene, he produces
some kind of food label from his product and
announces "Cousin Minnie says,

'How delicious!'

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 24^th, 2010 at 12:05am

Sam Cutler " Back at the caravan,
Keith was in full swing, with a lady
seated on either side of him to keep him warm

and at least twenty people stuffed into the small
space, hanging on his every word.
I decided to get boddy and announced that
we would have to take a break.
I wanted Keith to see what was happening out side
Keith refused, " I ain't going anywhere, man.
This is where I'm staying."

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 24^th, 2010 at 12:21am

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 24^th, 2010 at 1:35am

And now a trip down memory lane.

S.C. "Amzingly, the concert was more or less ready to go"

S.C. " Keith had run out of cigarettes and was
wide awake and needed a drink.

What to do?

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 24^th, 2010 at 1:45am

Robert Greenfield RG: “ I shouted out who killed the Kennedy’s
Does that thing hold for Mick too, or is it more
a show business thing?

K: Mick and I basically have been through
the same things .
A lot of it comes anyway from association
and press and media people laying it on people.
Before , when we were just innocent kids out for
a good time.
They’re saying, “ They’re evil, they’re evil.”
Oh I’m evil rally? So that makers you
start thinking about eevil. What is evil?
Half of it, I don’t know how much people
think of Mick as the devil or as just a good rock performer
or what! There are black magicians who
think we are acting as unknown agents
of Lucifer and others who think we are
Lucifer . Everybody’s Lucifer.

RG: Does that produce things like Altamont?

K: As I said, I particularly didn’t like
the atmosphere there by the time we whent on.
After a say of letting some uniforms loose,
what can you expect?
Who do you wont to lay it on?
Do you want to just blame some one,
or do you want to learn from it?
I didn’t really think any one is to blame ,
in laying it on the Angels.
If you put that kind of people in that kind of position…
But I don’t know what kind of people they were.
I’d heard about the Angles
but I haven’t lived in Ca.
and San Jose. I have no contract with those people.
I don’t know uncontrolled
they are how basic their drives are.
But when the Grateful Dead told us, It’s cool.
We’ve used them for the last two or three years,
Kesey cooled them out.”
I was skeptical about it but I said ,
“ I’ll take your word for it. I’ve taken
everybody’s word for it up till now
that they know what they’re doing when they
put on a show.” You have to accept that for a start,
that it’s gonna be together when you get there
or else you never get to any gigs.

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 24^th, 2010 at 1:56am

Lather was thirty years old today,
They took away all of his toys.
His mother sent newspaper clippings to him,
About his old friends who'd stopped being boys.
There was Harwitz E. Green, just turned thirty-three,
His leather chair waits at the bank.
And Sergeant Dow Jones, twenty-seven years old,
Commanding his very own tank.
But Lather still finds it a nice thing to do,
To lie about nude in the sand,
Drawing pictures of mountains that look like bumps,
And thrashing the air with his hands.

But wait, oh Lather's productive you know,
He produces the finest of sound,
Putting drumsticks on either side of his nose,
Snorting the best licks in town,
But that's all over...

Lather was thirty years old today,
And Lather came foam from his tongue.
He looked at me eyes wide and plainly said,
Is it true that I'm no longer young?
And the children call him famous,
what the old men call insane,
And sometimes he's so nameless,
That he hardly knows which game to play...
Which words to say...
And I should have told him, "No, you're not old."
And I should have let him go on...smiling...baby-wide

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by SendIt2Me on Oct 25^th, 2010 at 6:44pm

Thanks for posting. :wtf1

You got a link to any of the other threads you started? I remember reading some awhile back. Always, an interesting read.

:weed :booze

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Copsnrobbers on Oct 26^th, 2010 at 3:28pm

StonesRoll wrote on Oct 25^th, 2010 at 6:44pm:

Thanks for posting. :wtf1

You got a link to any of the other threads you started? I remember reading some awhile back. Always, an interesting read.

:weed :booze

Hi SendIt2Me thanks . I don't have any kind of link
to copsnrobbers' threads
I'll be posting on this site
as well as IORR, Shidoobee , Facebook/Stones clubs
during the holidays your contribution to the threads is always welcome.

Title: Re: Keithstory
Post by Edith Grove on Oct 26^th, 2010 at 4:52pm

StonesRoll wrote on Oct 25^th, 2010 at 6:44pm:

You got a link to any of the other threads you started?

You can use the search feature and pull up any poster's threads.