Re: !!!Excerpt of Keith's autobio leaked!!!
Date: May 18, 2007 12:23
Read some of the Keith bits of According To The Rolling Stones to "hear" what he sounds like channelled via interview/ghostwriter:
"We were forced onto our back foot by the whole tax thing. In England we were stymied and we suddenly felt the whole weight of this dead empire coming down on us. So the only thing to do was to go away and reconstruct everything, and say "We're all going to do this boys, we're going to move out - let's be a family." In a way it was energising, which is, I guess, why Exile On Main Street ended up as a double album.
Nellcote was a great house, and it wasn't too showy. It was in the bay at Villefranche, and had been built by an English Admiral called Byrd. There was a cave and steps down to his own private boating dock, so I bought a speedboat. I thought I'd splash out, I might be in jail the next year, so let's have some fun while I'm free! I think we'd sucked the South of France dry...
We hadn't intended to record in my house. We did look around for studios around there once we'd all decided that was what we were going to do - but although there are plenty of very good French recording engineers now, at that time in the South of France in the early 1970s there weren't too many. There were no studios with good rooms to work in, the equipment was shabby and nobody felt comfortable in any of the places we looked at. I had this basement, which was really very ugly, but it was the biggest one of all the houses we had down there, and we also had our own mobile recording truck. So we said, "Why don't we just forget about looking for a studio. Let's bring in the truck and work around the problems; at least this way we don't have to ask interpreters every time we want to turn it off or on."
There is no way that this is the same author as the other piece of pompous unreadable garbage.