Keith Richards: "I Snorted My Dad"

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Keith Richards, guitarist for the most successful touring band in North America (!?) recently told NME that one of the craziest things he's ever ingested was his father's ashes.

"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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