According to NME the moment Keith Richards almost died is up for grabs.

A Super 8 film showing the Rolling Stones' guitarist getting electrocuted on stage in 1965 is being auctioned through memorabilia site Itsonlyrocknroll.com.

Capturing the moment during the Sacramento gig in colourful detail, the film shows Richards hitting the stage floor after his guitar strings accidentally came into contact with an underground microphone.

Attendants then rush ove to help revive the guitarist while his bandmates Mick Jagger, Bill Wyman and Brian Jones move towards Richards in shock, the New York Post reports.

"I woke up in the hospital an hour later," Richards later recalled. "The doctor said (electrcution victims) come around or they don't."

Medics later said they believed the rubber souls of guitarist's Hush Puppies shoes saved his live from the electric shock which bassist Wyman recalled left Richards' guitar strings "curled up, melted like fuse wire".

The film is expected to fetch around $10,000.

It will be cool when this ends up on IORR for trade!

Greg

"thank you Jesus, thank you LORD!"

Funny isn't it? What if Keith had died? The whole course of rock music would have turned a different direction. Just imagine how different all IORR'ers life would be.

Instead, Keith was bitten by a radioactive guitar, I mean electrified by an electric guitar, giving him powers far beyond those of ordinary mortals, making him Indestructible Riff Man!

Out of this came JJF, SMFTD (the riff) dance little sister, Gimmie Shelter, Midnight Rambler and many more.

that cat still has 8 lives left

++++that cat still has 8 lives left++++

Well, maybe had that many left in '65 after that accident, Leonard. He's probably used more up in the last 40 years, so much that he may be down to 1 or 2 left.

#......Go ahead....Bite the Big Apple....Don't mind the Maggots.....Uh Huh...#

gut Wrote:
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> ++++that cat still has 8 lives left++++
>
> Well, maybe had that many left in '65 after that
> accident, Leonard. He's probably used more up in
> the last 40 years, so much that he may be down to
> 1 or 2 left.
>
> #......Go ahead....Bite the Big Apple....Don't
> mind the Maggots.....Uh Huh...#


you're right gut....he's used up more than i realized.....down to 3.5

I shudder to think how life would have been had it not been for those Hush Puppies shoes. Then we would never know rock could be this great.



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2005-12-21 03:03 by Ringo.