Posted on 04/03/2007 12:19:16 PM PDT by RDTF
LONDON (AP) - Keith Richards has acknowledged consuming a raft of illegal substances in his time, but this may top them all. In comments published Tuesday, the 63-year-old Rolling Stones guitarist said he had snorted his father's ashes mixed with cocaine.
"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME.
"He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," he said. "... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."
Richards' father, Bert, died in 2002, at 84.
Richards, one of rock's legendary wild men, told the magazine that his survival was the result of luck, and advised young musicians against trying to emulate him.
"I did it because that was the way I did it. Now people think it's a way of life," he was quoted as saying.
"I've no pretensions about immortality," he added. "I'm the same as everyone ... just kind of lucky.
"I was No. 1 on the `who's likely to die' list for 10 years. I mean, I was really disappointed when I fell off the list," Richards said.
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I used to make ants "pop" with a magnifying glass.
Thanks for the laugh!
Punsters should be drawn and quoted. . .
Pretty classless.
Yep. Nothing is sacred to some people.
Hunter S. Thompson beat you to that idea ... (well not over the ocean)...
It was in my will long before I heard of him doing it, but yeah, he definitely beat me to the finale.
Who’s that guy in the middle?
Keith Richards...just another piece of flotsam in the cultural sewer.
Whoa, that was just wrong. I didn’t realize I was that sadistic.
Well, isn’t that special.
Meeeee!! Look at meeeeeee!!
I’ll do and say anything outrageous if you’ll just look at MEEEEEEEEEE!!
“But I don’t want to be a pirate!”
He never did urn his father’s respect...
He won’t need much makeup. He looks like he was dug up from Davey Jones’ locker.
That’s enough for me. Never want to look at him again.
Father Nose Best.
That's not fair!
LOL, you are right. Look at post #42.
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