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Posted by eddie g on 10 May 2011 - 8:30pm.
...we've had enough bloody Keef by now??
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Nope
I found it to be a great article. Well worth my subscription.
Couldn't
take it seriously after Ellen referred to 'Life' as "a masterpiece".
I guess he's not a big reader.
He meant
mantlepiece
Heh
I believe it's the first time The Word has ever talked to Keith Richards, but it's still too much. C'est la vie.
Trouble is Fraser
you got there too late. He spoke to everyone else a year ago when his book came out. We heard all the stories then and this piece told us nothing new.
He is like the pub bore who everyone politely puts up with because he was captain of the darts team twenty years ago and won a cup.
Reality
If we chose not to talk to people who've appeared in other magazines, for fear of repeating what might have been said before and assuming that all our readers will have read those articles, then our pages would be almost entirely empty.
I would humbly suggest
that a fear of repetition is a darn good spur for sparkling journalism and brave choices.
It's a nice thought
But back in the real world, a magazine filled entirely with "brave choices" doesn't get past issue one. It's always a mixture of the new and the familiar. The latter attracts readers, whether you like it or not, and the former - if you get it right - keeps them interested.
Oh dear
I don't tend to read other magazines and I've haven't read Keith's book. In other words, I haven't heard the stories and the piece told me lots of new things. Am I still allowed be part of the club, or should I hand in my membership?
Write
some old!
I am reliably informed that...
any of you "cats" who are dissin' Keef should avoid his "turf" because he'll "chop you muthas down".
Music magazine talks
to rock star, what were they thinking? And don't call me Shirley
Crap,
you beat me too one of the greatest gags ever. Damn your eyes sir !
You can never have too much of Keef
You'll all miss him when he's gone (if that ever happens)
As the Road Mangler said
'Keith can eat nails - and piss rust'. So awhile yet before he goes methinks. Especially with all that lavish private healthcare he must have.
Time
to put the boring old 'cat' out.
Now Mick, that really would have been interesting.
No it wouldn't
it would have been as boring as every other interview with Sir Mick. Never lets his guard down or anything interesting past his lips. Least Keef sniffs his dad's ashes now and again
quite right.
Charlie, on the other hand, I suspect would be worth listening to...
Charlie was dull
as shit on Desert Island Discs mind.
( By the way Ivan- have you sent me your details for that Hal CD? )
i've not heard the desert island discs episode...
but I seem to remember an interview with him in Q around Voodoo Lounge and it was most enjoyable. Now that I think of it, perhaps it was the writing 'around' it that made it that wee bit special.
Details on the way to you, old chap, many thanks!
I sometimes wonder
if Mick's reticence is more revealing than Keef's slurry stream of semi-consciousness.
Hmm...
The Word gets Keef, M*J* gets Kate Bush. Is there any justice in the world?
*whispers*
Kate didn't have anything interesting to say on Front Row.
Does any big name say anything actually new or interesting now? And I'm as guilty of buying stuff they are in as anyone else.
Life
Has anyone managed to read it all the way through? I struggled through to somewhere around page 50 before the combination of turgid prose and childhood stories that were either utterly dull or unbelievable made me stop. Does it get any better?
It may be me as every now and then I will buy some jobbing bass player's 'hilarious' memoirs based on ecstatic reviews in the music press and I'm invariably hugely disappointed.
Haven't read "Life"
but I'm hoping that Mark Ellen's piece will save me the bother and probably be a darned sight better written anyway (and with more laughs).
Public service journalism - that's what The Word's all about.