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thanks for the link - that makes things abuuundantly clear
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Doxa
By the way, I'd like to know what is the story behind Keith's reaction to this guy's article. Keith sounds certain that "it wasn't the first time" and that he "hates him", etc. As fas as I knowm Keith doesn't speak much Swedish - so I don't think he has a direct access to Swedish papers or a discussion culture. Someone has translated the article to him, or a given a sketch of it, and maybe talked a bit more, etc. Something wrong with Keith's informants? It is an odd incident over-all. Keith's reaction (demand for a public apology).
- Doxa
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Doxa
Now listened to the evidence I need to say that I give Keith all my respects in regards to this incident.
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Addicted
Some asked who did the translation for Keith in Gothenburg. It was Thomas Johanssons staff at EMA Telstar (Now Live NAtion), the local promotor.
The journalist claimed that Keith was drunk and delivered a lousy performance. Neither was true. He was sober as a born again Christian pastor.
And his and the band's performance that night was well above average on the ABB tour. That's the background for Keith's anger. He takes criticizm when there's something to it. Here one jerk of a tabloid reporter told lies.
And now the reporter's even lied about Keith hitting him in the head...
Isn't slander quite an expensive hobbby, particularly if you have US attorneys?
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Addicted
Some asked who did the translation for Keith in Gothenburg. It was Thomas Johanssons staff at EMA Telstar (Now Live NAtion), the local promotor.
The journalist claimed that Keith was drunk and delivered a lousy performance. Neither was true. He was sober as a born again Christian pastor.
And his and the band's performance that night was well above average on the ABB tour. That's the background for Keith's anger. He takes criticizm when there's something to it. Here one jerk of a tabloid reporter told lies.
And now the reporter's even lied about Keith hitting him in the head...
Isn't slander quite an expensive hobbby, particularly if you have US attorneys?
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If all the suckers of the world could fly, it will be dark everywhere you go!
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Doxa
Now listened to the evidence I need to say that I give Keith all my respects in regards to this incident.
Thanks for this post Doxa.
It shows you are a great man to change your previous judgement.
I admire that.
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Doxa
It just fitted to the ugly picture I had just got of this guy (who I once though was the coolest guy in the world). And I saw people here just hurraying this behavior - Doxa
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Some asked who did the translation for Keith in Gothenburg. It was Thomas Johanssons staff at EMA Telstar (Now Live NAtion), the local promotor.
The journalist claimed that Keith was drunk and delivered a lousy performance. Neither was true. He was sober as a born again Christian pastor.
And his and the band's performance that night was well above average on the ABB tour. That's the background for Keith's anger. He takes criticizm when there's something to it. Here one jerk of a tabloid reporter told lies.
And now the reporter's even lied about Keith hitting him in the head...
Isn't slander quite an expensive hobbby, particularly if you have US attorneys?
Thanks for the translator info. But still it is a bit odd. If the basic claim of the article was that Keith was drunk when he actually were not and that upsetted Keith, well...Odd... Namely, let us remember the gig that took few days prior to Gothenburg, Helsinki that is. I didn't attend but that was the gig Keith felt down etc. I remember reading in every Finnish tabloid about Keith being drunk. (I guess this Swedish journalist heard about it, too). But what I have now heard from "insiders" that this wasn't the case. Keith was just sick. Why not to react then? No Finnish translators? Or was it better for PR reasons to let Keith to behave like according to his image (being drunk) than admitting having real problems with his health????
Could it be that the Helsinki happenings and Gothenburg gig and this particular review had something together? Is this a way to explain Keith's really surprising reaction? Could it be that this Swedish journalist dick got all the anger due the Helsinki happenings?
I just don't know.
I mean, it is just odd. A guy who has been in business for 45 years, and knows by heart that 'any publicity is a good publicty', and is, for god sake, Keith Richards, suddenly feels like needing a public apology from a random review writer being accused for being drunk, written in a language that about 10 million people in the world can understand... no matter how justified his demand is, I just don't get it. It's almost absurd.
- Doxa
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Doxa
written in a language that about 10 million people in the world can understand...
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"Vilse i pannkakan" is a Swedish expression that means being lost. So the translation of the first part of that particular sentence would be - "Keith Richards might not be as lost as he was in Helsinki.....
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Doxa
written in a language that about 10 million people in the world can understand...
Even danes and norwegians understand swedish, which makes the correct sum 21 million people.
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Bärs
If you read the whole interview, also the comments on the individual songs, you'll find that the journalist basically enjoys thrashing the entire performance to pieces. That's not a review, and a band, also the Rolling Stones, has the right to be fairly and objectively valued and treated with som kind of respect. Since this paper is potentially read all over Scandinavia, and in Finland, I can understand that this kind of hostile slaughter can become an "issue", specially because it might spoil the positive experience many thousends of listeners might have had.
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Bärs
If you try to write an objective critical review in the tabloids then go ahead and write a serious one. I read critical concert reviews almost every day and I NEVER read things like "a confused mascot playing a shit song with his desperate amateur band. And I hate it, hate it, yes I do." Clearly his aim was neither to write a serious review nor to "join the party", but to attack the band. And that's not acceptable.
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Doxa
...That Larsson guy and AFTONBLADET got what they were looking for.
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