Get back in the saddle soon, Keith.
Posted on 05/09/2006 5:51:28 PM PDT by Paleo Conservative
Reminds me of an old New Yorker cartoon (which I can't find on the Web either.)
Two guys introducing themselves:
Perhaps we will be able to understand him now when he speaks.
LOL! True!
Seems to me the first reports were it was aminor accident and he was just under observation...but it sounds to me like this was a serious head injury.
I had a relative in her sixties that fell onto a concrete floor from a raised position a couple of years back. She was conscious when they got her to the hospital, but an hour or so later a clot formed and they had to operate, saying survival rate of these things is 20%. She was in a coma for a month, and when she came out of it she was damaged to the point where she does not know who anyone is, plus does not have any use of he legs and barely any hand usage.
I suspect Mr Richards has played his last set, regardless of whether he lives through this experience. Most unfortunate.
i went to see them this past fall in Charlottesville (best show ever, out of all the various rock shows i've been to)
prayers for his recovery
"Ah, but was he sober when he climbed up the tree? ;)"
LOL He didn't climb up there.... he just came down and landed there!
We went to that concert, too, and also the one in Charlotte.
Did not read the post, and will not go further on the thread than to reply. Just too much material here...way too much.
Yeah, prayer bump
You're right. Doesn't look a decade older than 80.
I was thinking the same thing. I'm a few years behind Keith, and my pointer finger on my right hand isn't as gnarly as his, but it does have sort of a funky bump in it in the first joint behind the nail. The left one is getting that way, too.
It's a pain getting old, but it sure beats hell out of the alternative
How could the difference be determined?
Ya can't make this stuff up.
Get back in the saddle soon, Keith.
Stealing a headline from The Daily Progress online...It was Sweet, Virginia.
I picked up a copy of that Friday's Daily Progress (we had to go to their offices to get one, apparently there was a production problem) to add to my "very important newspapers" collection.
They're the best, period. Still.
05.10.06 Keith Richards Continues To ImproveContrary to stories in newspapers in New Zealand and the UK, Keith Richards did not undergo a second operation. The first and only operation was done on Monday, May 8 and was 100% successful. There was no brain damage. He continues to improve as expected.The Rolling Stones "A Bigger Bang European tour" will begin in June with details to follow shortly.
That's all right, that's all right, that's all right.
Sometimes you feel like trouble, sometimes you feel down.
Let this music relax you mind, let this music relax you mind.
Stand up and be counted, can I get a witness.
Sometimes you need somebody, if you have somebody to love.
Sometimes you ain't got nobody and you want somebody to love.
Then you don't want to walk and talk about Jesus,
You just want to see his face.
You don't want to walk and talk about Jesus,
You just want to see his face.
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I'm listening to the Yankees' postgame. It strikes me that the people who rag on the Stones are alot like the people who rag on the Yankees. I guess it must be a warped manifestation of the jealousy of the woefully outclassed.
Keith's guitar is a voice of pure joy.
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