"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow," he told NME. Richards' father, Bert, died at the age of 84 in 2002.
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He said in the interview that his father's ashes "went down pretty well."
Of course now Richards' publicist (and party-pooper), Jane Rose, is claiming that the admission was just a joke. I imagine that she's more alarmed that Richards basically admitted that he's still doing coke rather than the fact he had a final father-and-son bonding moment. Richards' relationship with his father was strained for a good part of his life (Keef even dropped the "s" on his last name for a period) so it's nice to see that that they finally progressed to the point where all paternal relationships should end: ground up with some cocaine and snorted through a rolled-up dollar bill.
In between father snorting stories, Richards also managed to get in some digs at the current at the current music scene in Britain when he called the Arctic Monkeys, the Libertines and others "a load of crap." He also, presumably with a straight face, urged Kate Moss to stay away from "bad boys" like Pete Doherty.
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st_even
Milwaukee, WI
September 2006
APR 04, 2007 03:07 PM
Talk about love for a family member. This has to be the most badass thing any rock star has ever done. Within three weeks, Axl Rose will have snorted his entire family.
Off the cuff or up the nose? That was the question Wednesday as Keith Richards said he was joking when he described snorting his father's ashes along with a hit of cocaine.
"It was an off-the-cuff remark, a joke, and it is not true. File under April Fools' joke," said Bernard Doherty, a Rolling Stones spokesman, about Richards' quote in NME magazine.
In a statement posted on the Rolling Stones Web site, Richards said:
"The complete story is lost in the usual slanting! The truth of the matter is that I planted a sturdy English Oak. I took the lid off the box of ashes and he is now growing oak trees and would love me for it!!! I was trying to say how tight Bert and I were. That tight!!! I wouldn't take cocaine at this point in my life unless I wished to commit suicide."
I want to produce a "Survival of the Fittest" Pay-Per-View... we lock Keith Richards and our own beloved Manko Suicide in a live London club for a weekend, with nothing but $500,000 worth of cocaine and alcohol and see who's still standing at dawn on Monday.
keith is a english living legend a crazy mofo snort your dad thats awesome!!!!!.
falls out of trees pissed up the original party animal.wonder why he hasn,t been knighted
I knew when he said it it was probably bullshit. I still think its a fucked up thing to say and is a social commentary on how much some standards have eroded. Its just plain stupid, What a dickhead
geo35 said:
I want to produce a "Survival of the Fittest" Pay-Per-View... we lock Keith Richards and our own beloved Manko Suicide in a live London club for a weekend, with nothing but $500,000 worth of cocaine and alcohol and see who's still standing at dawn on Monday.
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PointBlank
New York, NY
November 2004
APR 04, 2007 10:41 AM