This might be the craziest thing I've heard any free man do....link: http://news.yahoo.com/s/ap/20070403/ap_en_...eith_richards_1

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Keith Richards: `I snorted my father'

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.

Edited April 3, 200719 yr by alwaysAMC

Sure he's crazy but I can't help loving the guy

Oh MAN! I'm just in this 'awe' right now..Keith Richards has always been out there, but WOW.

I'm really not sure what to say. I just ... this blows me away.

Here I thought the whole story about Mick Jaggar, Marianne Faithful and a Mars candy bar blew me away....this, though, right here, is a whole other thing

As Marianne Faithful wrote in her autobiography:

The Mars Bar was a very effective piece of demonizing. Way out there. It was so overdone, with such malicious twisting of the facts. Mick retrieving a Mars Bar from my vagina, indeed! It was far too jaded for any of us even to have conceived of. It's a dirty old man's fantasy -- some old fart who goes to a dominatrix every Thursday afternon to get spanked. A cop's idea of what people do on acid!

He's so nasty.

Keith said snorting his dead father was a joke.