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"Rabmea desin the suy banth edistst hahaaaHAHAHAHAA"

Love that Keef laugh, even if I have no idea what he says sometimes


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trust a pro

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"At first, you know, I was gonna kill him."


KR on BW's departure.

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jlowe
Keith can certainly dish it out....but can he take it?
He was a bit miffed when Elton John called him an 'arthritic monkey'.

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jlowe
Keith can certainly dish it out....but can he take it?
He was a bit miffed when Elton John called him an 'arthritic monkey'.

I don't think he had a reaction to that...here's the back story from 1997:

Keith on Elton: “An old bitch… his writing is limited to songs about dead blondes.”

Elton’s response: “I’m glad I’ve given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He’s pathetic.
It’s like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go on stage and look young. I have great respect for the Stones but they would have been better if they had thrown Keith out 15 years ago.”


They later were seen together at the 2015 GQ awards all smiles.

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jlowe
Keith can certainly dish it out....but can he take it?
He was a bit miffed when Elton John called him an 'arthritic monkey'.

I don't think he had a reaction to that...here's the back story from 1997:

Keith on Elton: “An old bitch… his writing is limited to songs about dead blondes.”

Elton’s response: “I’m glad I’ve given up drugs and alcohol. It would be awful to be like Keith Richards. He’s pathetic.
It’s like a monkey with arthritis, trying to go on stage and look young. I have great respect for the Stones but they would have been better if they had thrown Keith out 15 years ago.”


They later were seen together at the 2015 GQ awards all smiles.

I think Keith just says shit, usually in the service of generating some ink and moving some product. He famously slagged off David Bowie, for example ("too much posing"), and then, when David died, Keith issued a seemingly heartfelt statement about what a 'good friend' he'd been. Who knows what these guys really think of each other. They could all be laughing together behind the scenes, seeing who can get the biggest bump in album sales by the latest catty remark.

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I've mentioned the same regarding what Keith says about Mick ...calling his album "dogshit in the doorway"...saying he has a "tiny todger"...and the latest "being prolific don't mean shit", etc., etc., etc. - they might actually be in cahoots with each other laughing as they come up with these barbs. And it could be that Mick comes up with some of them all alone (lol) for Keith to say as Mick seems to be the smarter and most business oriented! Whatever the case, it does provide some controversy and fuel the flames - especially on message boards such as this! Surprised Keith hasn't commented on Gotta Getta Grip - he might have called it "Gotta Take a Sh*t"...and Mick's single might have done better in the charts!

Keith has also bashed John Bonham (and Zeppelin), Prince, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Sgt. Peppers, Rap to name just a few. He can come across as a bitter old fart sometimes, but it's almost comedic ala Don Rickels.
When I read some of that stuff from Keith, I hear the voice and picture Sam Kinison...screaming, face turning red, and veins popping out of his forehead - makes it sound even crazier!

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I've mentioned the same regarding what Keith says about Mick ...calling his album "dogshit in the doorway"...saying he has a "tiny todger"...and the latest "being prolific don't mean shit", etc., etc., etc. - they might actually be in cahoots with each other laughing as they come up with these barbs. And it could be that Mick comes up with some of them all alone (lol) for Keith to say as Mick seems to be the smarter and most business oriented! Whatever the case, it does provide some controversy and fuel the flames - especially on message boards such as this! Surprised Keith hasn't commented on Gotta Getta Grip - he might have called it "Gotta Take a Sh*t"...and Mick's single might have done better in the charts!

Keith has also bashed John Bonham (and Zeppelin), Prince, Black Sabbath, Metallica, Sgt. Peppers, Rap to name just a few. He can come across as a bitter old fart sometimes, but it's almost comedic ala Don Rickels.
When I read some of that stuff from Keith, I hear the voice and picture Sam Kinison...screaming, face turning red, and veins popping out of his forehead - makes it sound even crazier!

I make a distinction between his criticisms of everybody else and the stuff he says about Mick. I don't know why, exactly. But to me that stuff sounds very personal, as if it comes from a place of anger, hurt, resentment, whatever. I think if the banter was more bi-directional, then the theory that they're just having one off at the expense of the public in order to drum up interest would hold more weight. But the catty comments seem one-sided to me; that doesn't seem like a method two old friends would work out for publicity.

Keith seems like a pretty sedentary, book-loving, Connecticut-estate-lemon-tree-gardening proper gentlemen. Sure, there's a bit of the old mannish 'get offa my lawn ya damn kids' when he carps about other types of music and other bands, etc., but it also seems like he could be having a pretty good laugh up his sleeve at most of those remarks.

But his childhood buddy? The guy he wrote songs with, travelled the world and became famous with? The partner who helped make him rich beyond his wildest imaginings? That guy--I think--brings out some real nastiness in Keef. Obviously I don't know these dudes and it's totally unfair for me to sit in judgement about someone else's doings. Maybe Mick is cruel and nasty to Keith behind the scenes but then puts on a more diplomatic front to the public. If that's the case, then if I were Keith I'd get pissed off, too.