Keith Richards: `I Snorted My Father'
Apr 3, 3:20 PM EST


The Associated Press

LONDON -- 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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yeah i know there's a music forum, but the hosts and crew of the show are largely stones fans, so it goes here.


and link;

http://music.msn.com/music/article.aspx ... 2&GT1=7702

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LOL, Richards is the Eric Cartman of rock'n roll:

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Well, just when you think you have heard it all, along come Keth Richards...lol

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This forum used to be a place where listeners could comment about the show. Now it seems it's the other way around . . . which I applaud.

I can't imagine how much it will cost to snort Keith Richards when he dies.

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I think of the Dennis Leary bit about Keith saying that kids shouldn't do drugs:
That's because there are no more drugs to do, Keith did them all. When he dies, we will have to grind him up and smoke his ashes to get high.

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Ooops I didn't realize this one was here. I posted this in Tunes today along with a link from his long time manager that says he said it as a joke, which I'm not sure I believe.