Keith Richards Snorted Father's Ashes

[Ian]

Why am I not surprised...

http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,263721,00.html

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."

[roadrunner]

[Wesociety]

The thought of that is pretty disgusting, but he is denying it now anyway. From your own link Ian.

In a statement posted on the Rolling Stones Web site, Richards said:

"The complete story is lost in the usual slanting! The truth of the matter is that I planted a sturdy English Oak. I took the lid off the box of ashes and he is now growing oak trees and would love me for it!!! I was trying to say how tight Bert and I were. That tight!!! I wouldn't take cocaine at this point in my life unless I wished to commit suicide."

[Spazmogen]

It probably seemed to make sense to him at the time.


Which scares me on many levels!

[Ian]

Yeah, he says he was joking now.

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/17947251/

“It was an off-the-cuff remark, a joke, and it is not true. File under April Fools' joke,” said Bernard Doherty, a Rolling Stones spokesman, about Richards’ quote in NME magazine.

But the magazine said on its Web site that the remark was “no quip, but came about after much thinking” by the 63-year-old guitarist.

I think he really did it.

[roadrunner]

I think he really did it.

+1

What a whack job...