Surely there must be a lot of things we learned reading LIFE. For example, Bobby Keys whith Natalie Delon or Billy Preston being gay (never had think of it), etc.
I think it could be an interestin thread...

we didn't know it would be so inaccurate!

the part about all the Stones routinely throwing up during shows was new to me -
no wonder the Mick isn't crazy about doing a whole show "in the round" <-- helpfully illustrating smiley :E

We didn't know 2,000 media and fans converged on Fordyce, Arkansas, in 1975, to cover and demonstrate for Keith and Ronnie's release but absolutely no one took film or pictures.

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the part about all the Stones routinely throwing up during shows was new to me

Oh geez, I gotta get this book now!

I hadn't known that mick insisted on bringing keith to the Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys practices. Actually, I wasn't even sure keith was on that tape. But the larger point that mick was somewhat responsible for keith, the rock and roller who secretly listened to country and folk, being accepted by the blues circle was new to me, even though keith doesn't quite put it that way... and even though he seems to forget about this later when he goes on, at different points, about the art of putting a band together, which he seems not really to have done until the Winos (which is debatable as a "band" ).

related to this: he gives one of the clearest accounts of the trad jazz vs. blues vs. rock and roll divisions in the early scene. I think I get it now... though how "trad jazz" could captivate a whole scene is still mysterious to me. This part was quite good, I thought.



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"Skipper" Martin and Spam turned Marlon into a vegetarian .....



ROCKMAN

... and then there was that safari

Him going on holidays with Patti´s brothers and family...
unbelievable!!

Keith drunk making a fool of himself when he first met Patty's family. Then him and Patty crying about it. That was very surprising to me and the fact that he tells it in his book without blaming anybody but himself. That's fvcked vp but honorable 5hit right there.
Rock and Roll,
Mops

Yeah, you´re right rollmops. That is an incredible story too. And the fact that he attended that meeting with Stash...

Mick has a small dinkie.

How important Bill Carter was.....

Never had seen a photo of Keith sitting behind a drum kit before. He is in a photo with Theodora

Stash
Slash
crash
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trash
cash
Sarah Dash
that stupid moustache
hash
bash
sour mash

see a pattern?

The recording of "Rocks Off" story was cool and all Keith...

The whole Toronto incident into Anita's boyfriend offing himself was gruesomely interesting and I didn't know it~

I didn't know how pampered he was, always getting pharmaceutical heroin and coke.

I never knew that if it hadn't been for Bobby "Honey" Goldsboro, Keith would never have learned those Jimmy Reed tricks that would allow him to write things like "Gimmie Shelter".

Two words: The Blade

How he met Freddy, and how Johnny Depp got his access, which certainly wasn't something Marlon would have enjoyed reading about.

How he figured out he needed his first "minder" when he was in school and was getting beat up -

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I didn't know how pampered he was, always getting pharmaceutical heroin and coke.

J.Thunders died at 38 and Keith's fine so that's a clue we had since 91.

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Surely there must be a lot of things we learned reading LIFE. For example, Bobby Keys whith Natalie Delon or Billy Preston being gay (never had think of it), etc.
I think it could be an interestin thread...

I read about Bobby Keys and Nathalie Delon's affair in June Shelley's autobiography.
Seriously, you didn't know Billy Preston was gay?

...that he still has a 'scorched earth' policy and will sacrifice the viability of the Stones so that he can take cheap, pathetic, mean-spirited shots at Mick.

Hi gypsy18, i never knew Billy Preston was gay. Never knew too much about him apart from his wonderful music.
What did he finally died of?

here you go, diego: [en.wikipedia.org]

I had read long ago about Keef getting clean laundry parcels from his mom,never read that it was due to her job demonstrating washing machines....never realized the entire Fordyce incident....or Bobby Goldsboro(of all people..)helped him in ANY way on guitar...

Re: Things we didn´t know before reading LIFE

What a pathetic and bitter old man Keith has become..

"No dope smoking no beer sold after 12 o'clock"

that Keith leads such a boring life! (it was just beyond my imagination)

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I had read long ago about Keef getting clean laundry parcels from his mom,never read that it was due to her job demonstrating washing machines....never realized the entire Fordyce incident....or Bobby Goldsboro(of all people..)helped him in ANY way on guitar...

Bobby "Me Japanese Boy I Love You" Goldsboro is THE MAN. (And yes, he really DID have a (minor) hit with a song with that title.)



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That Keith is obviously still smitten with Anita, and mentions several times that he would be married to her if she had quit heroin when he (supposedly) did.
I did not find the Keith and Patti "love story" that addicted told us was a real tearjerker before the book came out. I got the feeling Keith just settled because Patti offered the stability that Keith craved at the time. She was/is good for him, but anyone can see he longs for that intellectual spark he got/gets from Anita.

Also, I wonder what Stash did to earn Keith's constant jabs at him throughout the book. I can see one or two playful jabs, but Keith went overboard, so Stash had to have done something to piss Keith off.