"Keith, we can't do any drugs, because you already did them all, there's none left...we have to wait until you die and smoke your ashes." - Dennis Leary
I’ve told this story here before; I saw Keef in about ‘80 when he, Ron Wood, Stanley Clarke, and some others did a few shows as the New Barbarians in between Stones gigs.
We got right up on the wall in the days of “festival seating”, and Keith was maybe 10’-15’ from me for basically the whole show.
Let me tell you right now, the guy looked like Death. Warmed. Over. back then.
So “science will study the body in depth. Certainly a wonder of longevity” makes a lot of sense to me. If you’d have asked me that night if Keith would make 2012, I’d have laughed in your face.