Keefs Life

[mansize rooster]

Not only the greatest musical bio... but just the plain best book ever written really.

i smashed out that bad boy in just over a week. could not put it down. came everywhere with me. almost got run over! it was in the bath, the shops.. even had a read in a tree for the man.

how good is it!

 

[DrVanNostrand]

Should have been titled Smack and 'the Blade'.

 

[smauge]

My sister has loaned her copy to me but I've kind of been ignoring it. When I found out Altamont is brushed over in about half a paragraph, I wondered if many other events that might be considered important have also bee skimmed over. Your comment on here is making me think twice.

 

[bunsen burner]

It's a good read. One of the best rock biographies.

 

[Hue_Jars]

I was the same - couldnt put it down! Until I got to the last chapter or so. Became a little big self indulgent and boring when he talked about the recent modern times of massive fame and money.

Im not sure Keef picked the right time to write it. A lot of it is ranting on about how much he cant stand Mick Jagger. I read a recent article in Rolling Stone with both Keef and Mick and Keef said he has put the past and moved on, and regrets what he wrote saying it wasnt a true representation of their relationship.

I reckon if youve hung around the same person for 50 years anyone would have grates...maybe he should of let the dust settle before first.

Flipping great read overall.

 

[bunsen burner]

If anyone likes this there's a book by Stanley Booth called The Life and Adventures of the Rolling Stones. This guy went on their 1970 US tour and biographed them. Great read.

 

[thurmanmunson]

Between Beggars Banquet and Exile... The Stones were untouchable.
Have always been a Stones man as opposed to a Beatles man.

Pity the Stones ran out of gas in the early 80s

 

[blackshadow]

Sensational read - it was given to me for Christmas and I'd read it by new year.

 

[mansize rooster]

some of my fav parts:

when keef remembers he has a firearm in his luggage. he freaks out and shouts out NOOOOO towards customs.. everyone including customs looks over at him... and the bag travels through the screening point Haha.

Or When Keef gets pissed of at Ronny one night when he was having a massive party at the hotel. He just knocks at the door and king hits him.. they both fall back and almost out the Window!

and Marlon's passages are also some of my fav work (Keefs Son)
He was the only one allowed to wake him up before shows, Brilliant.

 

[mansize rooster]

some of my fav parts:

when keef remembers he has a firearm in his luggage. he freaks out and shouts out NOOOOO towards customs.. everyone including customs looks over at him... and the bag travels through the screening point Haha.

Or When Keef gets pissed of at Ronny one night when he was having a massive party at the hotel. He just knocks at the door and king hits him.. they both fall back and almost out the Window!

and Marlon's passages are also some of my fav work (Keefs Son)
He was the only one allowed to wake him up before shows, Brilliant.

 

[hawk for 37]

If anyone likes this there's a book by Stanley Booth called The Life and Adventures of the Rolling Stones. This guy went on their 1970 US tour and biographed them. Great read.

Is that the one where the writer (Stanley Booth) was commissioned to write the book but the lifestyle on the road turned him into a bit of a drug dropout and it took him 20 years to get it together to write the book?

 

[bunsen burner]

Is that the one where the writer (Stanley Booth) was commissioned to write the book but the lifestyle on the road turned him into a bit of a drug dropout and it took him 20 years to get it together to write the book?

Yep, that's it.

http://www.iorr.org/talk/read.php?1,200583,200977

It came out in about 1984. I still have the new copy i bought from a bookstore but that must have been 86/87 ish. Maybe it was delayed release here because i vaguely remember it being new release when i bought it.

I'll have to read it again because it is the best rock book I have ever read.

 

[Cthublhu]

The Keef book has been sitting on my 'to read' shelf since it was Christmas present the year before last. I'll get round to it eventually.

Anyone read Ronny Wood's autobio? Pretty rambling but full of great anecdotes. My favourite was when Ronnie's young son got up one morning to find a coked out Christopher Reeve asleep on the couch. He ran into his parents bedroom screaming "You've killed Superman!"

Also pretty funny is that he keeps crapping on about what a wonderful woman Jo is, light of his life, luckiest guy ever, etc etc. He dumped her for a 20yo Russian model about 5 minutes after the book was published.