Mick Jagger's response to Keef's Autobiography...

[ShredAstaire]

http://www.slate.com/id/2273611/pagenum/all/

 

I'm not so much a Rolling Stones fan so I dont know alot aboot them....but it seems those two don't get along so well.

 

Interesting read!

[Rocky4]

I sometimes think the less we know about our idols real personalities, the better off we are.

[Bowdiddley]

I sometimes think the less we know about our idols real personalities, the better off we are.

 

Very true! I've heard they had a big split on a personal level if I remember correctly in the 80's, but have maintained their professional partnership. Smart lads, not many can do that and succeed.

[LarryUK]

Mick Jagger has been to the doctors. He said he could hear noises from his trousers.

The doctor said it was ok 'they're just talking b****ks!

[BigKahune]

I was expecting a paragraph, maybe two, on a long-shot maybe three.

 

But there's a novella there.

 

A typical love-hate relationship.

 

And some really dark stuff.

 

Yikes!

[Witmer]

I read some of the comments afterwards - I'm not familiar with "Slate" but apparently, they have a section devoted to weird-idea articles... and Jagger didn't write this. We're spossed to be able to tell that it's a fake, although an insightful one.

[Mr. Natural]

CAT FIGHT!

[ShredAstaire]

I read some of the comments afterwards - I'm not familiar with "Slate" but apparently, they have a section devoted to weird-idea articles... and Jagger didn't write this. We're spossed to be able to tell that it's a fake, although an insightful one.

 

*doh!*

[BigKahune]

I read some of the comments afterwards - I'm not familiar with "Slate" but apparently, they have a section devoted to weird-idea articles... and Jagger didn't write this. We're spossed to be able to tell that it's a fake, although an insightful one.

 

Well . . . I'll be . . .

 

Thanks for pointing that out Highway.

 

Damn thing had me reeling on some of that dark stuff.

 

There ought to be a more clear disclaimer on the damn article.

[chase1410]

All I can say is wow...I havent had a read like that in a while...So much emotions were running through me throughout that short story...Bravo..Very Intense and really makes you think..

[Rocky4]

I never realized Brian Jones was such an azzhole

[Kiwi]

It seems to be fiction, most of it, although there are some valid points in there I guess. But seriously, what difference does it make? Keith Richards, one of the most awesome guitarists there is by the way, is going to outlive all our grandchildren and probably a nuclear war, if there ever were to be one.

[Big Bill]

I never realized Brian Jones was such an azzhole

 

You should check out the movie "Stoned". It's a story about Brain from the point of view of his handyman. Evidently the handyman made a deathbed confession that he drowned Brian. It's an odd yet interesting flick.

[EVOL!]

Mick Jagger is the ultimate hanger on. Terrible singer that made it through the sixties and early seventies on the back of Keith Richards and Brian Jones. Stones would be over if it weren't for Keith's work ethic.

[NeoConMan]

I agree.

Never could stand Jagger, and it hindered my ability to appreciate the Stones for many years.

I understand he's a savvy businessman, and that might have something to do with their longevity.

Making cubic millions when their contemporaries are playing the odd casino or state fair . . .

 

Another album, another tour, hundreds of millions of dollars?

Yeah, I could see why they do that every few years.

 

 

 

Keith Richards . . . is going to outlive all our grandchildren and probably a nuclear war

Keef will still be here when the cockroaches are extinct.

 

[badbluesplayer]

Hellooooooo..... It says "Imagine if Mick responded....."

[duane v]

The bandmate Keith personally vouched for is freebasing again. This last was of some interest to me, because it meant that I got to sing at a stadium backed by not one but two guitarists falling over onstage. Keith likes to talk a lot about his getting clean from heroin. It is not correspondingly apprehended that he replaced the heroin comprehensively with liquor. Given a choice I select the slurring alcoholic over the comatose junkie as a lifelong professional partner, and I say this with some knowledge of the two alternatives. But neither is strictly desirable.

 

[charlie brown]

Oh....to me, there'd be no "Rolling Stones" without either Keef or Mick,

and for sure, without Brian Jones, starting them. If one worries about

their "habits," or lifestyles, one's going to be disappointed, more often

than not, with a LOT of "celebrities," not just The Stones! I just enjoy

the music, and leave their relationships, to them. I'm sure, though, that

his book is an "interesting" read. LOL

 

CB

[Zonkers]

It always amazes me that Keef has made it this long. So many others have passed on while he keeps rolling on. There wouldn't be the Stones without Keith & Mick. Remove one of the Glimmer Twins and you have the end of the Rolling Stones. Exile and Sticky Fingers set the pace for gritty, nasty, wonderful R&R in the early 70's. Beggar's Banquet is another favorite.

I read that article and really thought Mick wrote it, guess that makes me more gullible than I thought I was. Keith is/was a pretty damn good rhythm guitarist with some quirky fills and some of the most memorable riffs ever.