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Silver Dagger
Should have showed him the blade instead. ><

He did! The big one ><

His words [youtu.be]

(Always took candy from strangers)

he got exactly what he deserved . no one has any business pulling some crap like that

Do you know if this guy is always a Stones fan and if he saw the Stones in concert after 1981?

I liked the kid on B.Bang DVD who run on stage during the final bow (Argentina?) and first nobody on stage noticed it.Then Ronnies face . .

Btw. I never heard that kids had to pay for rushing the stage.And I've seen a lot of them. At least not in ol'Europe

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swimtothemoon
Really...an excited fan who was probably still in high school runs on stage and you Hit him in the head with a guitar? Keith would Certainly be embarrassed about this event today. The poor kid probably just smoked his first joint or had his
First beer. He was about as threatening as a bunny rabbit.

Seems a little push or a nasty look would have been better. There were plenty of
stagehands poised to ESCORT excited fans off the stage.

Think about all those videos of fans running on the stage after Mick from the
sixties. What if Mick beat one of the 12 year olds with a microphone?

He didn't hit him in the head, obviously, if you look at the clip. If there was contact, it was more like in the shoulder.

Remember, this was a year after the Lennon murder.

I actually think he didn't hit him at all or like you said just taped his shoulder.

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swimtothemoon
The fan was just an excited kid. No excuse for hitting him in the head with a guitar! Keith seems to have or had some weird macho problem. My opinion anyway.

You. Must. Be. ...joking??

... Wasn't there just a survey about this? I could've sworn I saw a survey about this just recently ...
Oh yeah here it is: [www.iorr.org]

Yep, he didn't even come close to clocking him with the guitar. It was more of a tug of war.

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swimtothemoon
Really...an excited fan who was probably still in high school runs on stage and you Hit him in the head with a guitar? Keith would Certainly be embarrassed about this event today. The poor kid probably just smoked his first joint or had his
First beer. He was about as threatening as a bunny rabbit.

Seems a little push or a nasty look would have been better. There were plenty of
stagehands poised to ESCORT excited fans off the stage.

Think about all those videos of fans running on the stage after Mick from the
sixties. What if Mick beat one of the 12 year olds with a microphone?

I guarantee Keith was more f*&%^$ up than the kid was.

plain and simple-you're an idiot for jumping on the stage and you deserve to have the shit beat out of you.

at the very least-
you're making the show about you,not one person paid to see you up there.they spent their time and money to see a performance that is,in most cases,very important to them.nobody wants the show disrupted because you need attention.

and at worst-
this isn't 1965-we live in a very dangerous time.even though they wont admit it,its traumatic for the performers to be attacked onstage,even if the attack is not a dangerous one.it could be just a kid who wants to show off to his friends-it could also be someone who wants to kill a famous person in a very public way to promote a political cause.

its just amazing to me that functioning adults would not understand this..

How was Keith supposed to know that he was an excited fan and not a crazy guy with a knife or a gun? And given that it all happened in a fraction of a second, how long was he supposed to take to decide? It's not like he inflicted serious harm on the guy, either way.

One of Keith's finest hours, IMO.

Damn good thing Keith didn't fully connect. A Telecaster is sturdy piece of wood and would packed a potentially lethal wallop. Still, Keith had no idea what the kid's intentions were and given what had happened to John Lennon he was well within his rights. Now, as to the original question which no one seems to have answered, just was who was that kid Keith almost decked with his guitar?

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Damn good thing Keith didn't fully connect. A Telecaster is sturdy piece of wood and would packed a potentially lethal wallop. Still, Keith had no idea what the kid's intentions were and given what had happened to John Lennon he was well within his rights. Now, as to the original question which no one seems to have answered, just was who was that kid Keith almost decked with his guitar?

the answer is -some anonymous a-hole who's mommy and daddy didnt pay enough attention to him so he ends up jumping onstage at a rock concert so everyone will look at him thus interrupting the show,forcing keith richards to stop doing what people paid good money to see him do and use the tool of his trade to knock some sense into said a-holes thick skull.in other words -who gives a shit about the name of some jackoff stage diver?

Some musicians are even more to the point than Keith, though...

It's not staged but Keith never hit up as you can see the trespasser wrestling with his guitar. No, he shouldn't have been on stage but the security people were not doing their job. Who was he?

I would love to hear about him knowadays

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plain and simple-you're an idiot for jumping on the stage and you deserve to have the shit beat out of you.

at the very least-
you're making the show about you,not one person paid to see you up there.they spent their time and money to see a performance that is,in most cases,very important to them.nobody wants the show disrupted because you need attention.

and at worst-
this isn't 1965-we live in a very dangerous time.even though they wont admit it,its traumatic for the performers to be attacked onstage,even if the attack is not a dangerous one.it could be just a kid who wants to show off to his friends-it could also be someone who wants to kill a famous person in a very public way to promote a political cause.

its just amazing to me that functioning adults would not understand this..

Are you kidding? Take Morrissey's shows for example, it would be considered strange if no one invaded the stage (or at least tried to) throughout the entire show.

(Watch from 6:45)

1981 was a year for fans jumping up on stage. It was also a year when artists from the sixties would be applauded when they informed the audience that "I'd like to sing a new song" and how flattered the audience would seem when they said "I've never performed it before, so this is the first time". Notice Paul Simon's reaction when the interruption happens, how initially alarmed and worried he appears--and how ironic as it occurs right after Simon sings the lyrics "....On a cold December evening/I was walkin' through the Christmas tide/when a stranger came up and asked me/if I'd heard John Lennon had died...."

It was unnerving enough for him to recall the moment later during a David Letterman appearance.

Not staged. It's not their style. They don't use real people as stage props, just inflatables.



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Bastion
Are you kidding? Take Morrissey's shows for example, it would be considered strange if no one invaded the stage (or at least tried to) throughout the entire show.

no i'm not kidding and when some mentally disturbed person drives a blade into "morrisey" ala the monica seles case or he gets the dimebag darrel incident replayed on his too-dumb-to-have- proper-security ass you and all his other fans wil be crying 'how could this happen,we thought only cool people liked morrisey"

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Bastion
Are you kidding? Take Morrissey's shows for example, it would be considered strange if no one invaded the stage (or at least tried to) throughout the entire show.

no i'm not kidding and when some mentally disturbed person drives a blade into "morrisey" ala the monica seles case or he gets the dimebag darrel incident replayed on his too-dumb-to-have- proper-security ass you and all his other fans wil be crying 'how could this happen,we thought only cool people liked morrisey"

Well that was rather unnecessary. It's becoming increasingly apparent that a lot of people use this site to vent their anger from whatever they may be unhappy about.



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I heard the kid had a shank and a shooter on him.

ONLY THING I FIND STRANGE = that keith had seen him coming between the balloons, and the chaos while performing, that crazy fan was running fast .. !!

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Interesting that the main riff continues to play...

Yeah, great observation! What's up with that? I guess Ronnie was holding it down? The weave didn't unravel? lol peace

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I always wondered, why there was no distortion-noise heared around that scene. The guy grabbed the guitar by the neck. It must be a sound like some noisy Sonic Youth garage stuff.