Categories 
Oct
3
2007
High on Life
Oddest quote I came across while researching an essay for a fatherhood anthology:
“‘The strangest thing I’ve tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father,’ Keith 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.’”
Wonder how his mother felt about that?
Of course, I would not want a drug addict to have access to my remains. Ewww…
Isn’t that the weirdest thing? He did come back later and say it was a joke, but I’m betting it was only because of his publicist’s insistence.
Not hard to imagine the dude doing, though, eh?
That is some nasty right there.
Shouldn’t it be odd that we believe him?
a nice alternative to the life gem–mad bling made from your loved one’s ashes.
I had heard that before. Yuck.
Keith later came out and said that he was having a laugh during that interview and had no idea it would be picked up and published world-wide. He denies that he actually every snorted dear old dad. But, with Mr. Richards, how does one really ever know?
Anything less would just not be rock-n-roll
Lol, he said he didn’t know that an INTERVIEW would be published? Nice try. I’m betting he was serious and claimed he was just joking after his publicist told him he’d better be just joking. Much the same as Faith Hill was just joking in her infamous “WHAT?@!@” exclamation when Carrie Underwood won that Grammy Award.
High on DEATH.
I read that quote a while back and nearly choked on nothing. Gives me the heevies.
Morbid, but hilarious.
Actually, he came back after the retraction and said he really DID snort his dad’s ashes: http://music.guardian.co.uk/news/inthenews/0,,2143358,00.html
I don’t really see anything wrong with that. I mean, it might be weird if a normal person did it, but this is Keith Richards we’re talking about. And, someone sent a card into Post Secret about a month ago saying that they ate a bit of of their dead baby’s ashes. People grieve in their own ways.
Bree, I thought the same thing when I read this, about the postsecret card! Also, I once knew a woman who said when she died, she wanted her ashes to be sprinkled on a tomato plant. And after the tomatoes ripen, her relatives and friends should get together and have a happy celebration and enjoy the tomatoes. (I guess on a salad or something?)
i remember hearing about that and being torn over whether i thought it was a perfect tribute or really disturbing. i still haven’t quite decided…
You hadn’t heard that? I thought that was the quote that rang ’round the world. If it was anyone other than Keith Richards I would yack till my insides were on the outside. But, since it was him, I was like “effin a dude!”
I find that blow is just the perfect mixer for so many things, isn’t it? Blow is the new club soda.
I was just thinking that this morning. You know what would go good with this smoothie? Blow.
You did research for yours? Uh oh.
Seems different from your previous posts. Did YOU write this post, or someone else did? Anyway, I think your readers really enjoyed reading it.
Of course, it’s always true…!!! there are no need in comments.