Heart Of Stone wrote on Feb 1
st, 2010 at 2:45pm:
Well, I remember in those days (60's) a lot of us didn't know Keith used Heroin, even up to the early 70's, we didn't have the mass media information we have today, we only heard it in rock magazines, Rollin' Stone, Ramparts, Crawdaddy, Circus, etc. when the movie "Gimme Shelter" came out, it was the first time a lot of us actually saw a film of what the Stones were like & acted outside of the stage, I, for one copied Keith's hair style, his walk, smoking cigarettes, etc & I know a few other guys who did the same thing, we all thought he was & is so cool, I liked his personality.
As far as drugs goes, yes, hippie drugs-Cannabis & Hallucinogens, Heroin & Cocaine was rich man's drugs in the early 70's, I was always afraid of being a Heroin addict, so I stayed away from that, & Cocaine was very expensive.
Keith certainly influenced me when I was a teenager.
darn tooting blow was expensive back in the seventies. i grew up in toronto and i remember it being 100 dollars a gram.