Posted on 10/28/2010 1:15:04 PM PDT by pissant
Keith Richards on drugs and relationship with Mick Jagger
The Rolling Stone's autobiography reveals a lifetime of substance abuse. Why on earth hasn't it killed him?
His name is synonymous with rock 'n' roll excess, his memoirs detail a lifetime spent ingesting a Herculean quantity of illegal drugs and he only gave up cocaine, aged 62, after he split his head open falling from a tree while foraging for coconuts.
At 66, Keith Richards' continued survival is a source of widespread bafflement. Continue reading the main story In today's Magazine
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According to addiction expert Dr Robert Lefever, director of the Promis recovery centre in Richards' native Kent, there is only one possible explanation for his longevity: "He must have the constitution of an ox."
But Richards' own memoirs suggest he may have been more careful with his intake than his bacchanalian public persona implies.
The autobiography, Life, is candid about the scope of his notorious drug-taking during his lengthy career as the Rolling Stones' lead guitarist and co-songwriter.
"I used to walk down Oxford Street with a slab of hash as big as a skateboard," drawls a typical passage.
(Excerpt) Read more at bbc.co.uk ...
My brother in law was good friends with the stones, had a motel in Tahiti and a few other businesses, they have heart and do a lot of folks good in their charities...
and as far as hash the size of skateboards, well the old cedar tree stamps and temple balls were something else.....
legalize it eh? If a man wants to wrinkle up, he has that right...I don’t beleieve God is so petty in His judgements..
Some folks are virtually immune to narcotics.
Back when I had a ruptured disc in my back, I could take enough oxycodone AND morphine AND demerol (at the same time) to kill the average person, and not only did it not kill me, I didn’t even get much pain relief. When I finally went in for surgery, the nurse at the prep station literally turned white when I told her what I’d taken that morning before coming to the hospital.
And I had absolutely no trouble stopping after surgery. I hate that stuff; makes me itchy and nauseous. I have a hard time imagining how anybody could become addicted.
Some folks are virtually immune to narcotics.
Back when I had a ruptured disc in my back, I could take enough oxycodone AND morphine AND demerol (at the same time) to kill the average person, and not only did it not kill me, I didn’t even get much pain relief. When I finally went in for surgery, the nurse at the prep station literally turned white when I told her what I’d taken that morning before coming to the hospital.
And I had absolutely no trouble stopping after surgery. I hate that stuff; makes me itchy and nauseous. I have a hard time imagining how anybody could become addicted.
The damage comes from repeated episodes of withdrawal, infections from dirty needles, impure product, etc.
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How is Obama still in office?
Hell, every Jazz great who died of old age... HERR-ON.
How is Obama still in office?
How is Obama still in office?
#5. 90% of what we saw was all show for street cred.
Keef put a book out this week. It’s all hype.
OMG! How horrible. How do you know he isn’t dead? He looks like a zombie.
“You forgot one:
5. He’s been dead for years, but the Grim Reaper is afraid to get near him.”
He’s suddenly in the news because his new book came out October 26.
Pretty much. When he fell off of a bookcase ladder at his home in Connecticut, people quickly forgot about it.
But falling out of a cocoanut tree on cocaine, people remember.
Why would you think eyeliner is necessary at that point? I don’t even think botox injections could help that. Not even the most radical, cutting edge plastic surgery could put a dent in that.
LOL!!
“And what kind of hash. Lebanese? Turkish?
Corned beef?”
Mmmmmmmm. Corned beef hash.
He just published his autobiography.
“Also . . . what’s it with Richards being suddenly in the news?”
I think he’s making the rounds promoting his book.
I guess that explains why he bit the head off a chicken. Coffee. The Demon Bean.
Next movie, “Java Madness.”
Joe Strummer and Elvis Costello were also in our row, but they came in when the house lights went down and didn't really interact with anybody.
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