I think he looks great. More importantly, the spirit is still there.

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Odd. he wore a hat the whole time that I could see.

All that clean living is paying dividends Keef!

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Odd. he wore a hat the whole time that I could see.

Hi. I got it from here-

[www.examiner.com]

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fright night, my goodness keith!!!!!!!! OUCH

The one on Rocks Off, courtesy of moy and left shoe shuffle, is similar but way cooler (nice smile and sunglasses)...

[www.rocksoff.org]



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looks old but looks as cool way.

I think Keith may wear the headband under the hat these days.

(edited to add): Apparently not at the library though, I see
from another pic.



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it's impossible not to love the man thanks!

I ain't never seen no whiskey, the blues made me sloppy drunk
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-- but you don't really care for music, do ya?

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He looks very old, doesn't he?

Thanks for the pic. I think he looks wonderful. We are all subject to time - 'time waits for no one'.

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Odd. he wore a hat the whole time that I could see.

yeah, but this is the reading room, not the event area (can't remember the name of that room). So maybe this was while he was taking a tour, before or after the interview.

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Odd. he wore a hat the whole time that I could see.

yeah, but this is the reading room, not the event area (can't remember the name of that room). So maybe this was while he was taking a tour, before or after the interview.

Ah... yes, of course!

I think it was probably BEFORE the interview, because he looks slightly younger in the photo than he did at the interview.

omg.. i had my high school yearbook out looking,,

then i walked by a mirror,, and wholy shit i dont like like i did in high school

im getting old also,,,shit who would have thought

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He looks very old, doesn't he?

He *is* old...

He looks old. What do you do with that? Is somebody expecting him to look younger? He's what, a 66-year-old life long smoker and has had long time affairs with bourbon, cocaine and heroin. Was someone expecting him to have plastic surgery? For god's sake, Bill looks like a little gnome now. Yes, we are in the final stages of the Rolling Stones. Because they're old and getting older. Just like the rest of us.

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Odd. he wore a hat the whole time that I could see.

yeah, but this is the reading room, not the event area (can't remember the name of that room). So maybe this was while he was taking a tour, before or after the interview.

Makes sense, cc, before the event.

Brilliant observation and comment about Keith looking old. He is nearly 67 y.o. Were you expecting a wrinkle free fellow resembling one of the pinhead Jonas Brother? Geeeeeeez..........

more pictures here (credited to Ann Lawlor)

[www.showbiz411.com]

Interesting. Hat but no headband in these pics - so they are not from the same occasion?



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A perfect picture for Halloween.

very nice picture... one of the best of the last few years.
He looks very very great.

>> Hat but no headband in these pics - so they are not from the same occasion? <<

see above, Green Lady - the bandanna was before the public interview, and the hat was during

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Ah... yes, of course!

I think it was probably BEFORE the interview, because he looks slightly younger in the photo than he did at the interview.

lol... time waits for no one.

WOW! Doesnt keith looks very young here? I thought it was his son!

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very nice picture... one of the best of the last few years.
He looks very very great.

I hope you are kidding, this is a very sad picture.

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very nice picture... one of the best of the last few years.
He looks very very great.

I hope you are kidding, this is a very sad picture.

And I hope you are kidding ... yours is a very sad comment. The man is nearly 67 years old for heavens sake. What do you expect, the appearance and complexion of a 21 year old ?

[ I want to shout, but I can't hardly speak ]

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Post from jbirenz over at Shidobee

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Shoil and I are just back from seeing Keef at the New York Public Library. Really enjoyed it.

Celebrity news first: We walked in with Steve Van Zandt, who had a brown shmata on his head and a long coat that looked like a Persian rug. Yes, he looked very cool. We sat 3 rows behind SVZ. Sitting next to SVZ was Lorne Michaels and Jimmy Fallon. Across the aisle from them was Patti Hansen, Theodora and Alexandra Richards, and their boyfriends. Front row center was Rusty Paul (Les Paul’s son). I was told Ronnie Spector was sitting in the front row, but we didn’t see her. James Fox (co-author of Life) was in the 3rd row. Various Stones people were there – Shelley Lazar had about 75 seats reserved, Michael Cohl sat immediately in front of Shirley, afterwards we saw the guy who ran security at the B-stage at the Stones’ shows.

Paul Holdengraber, the Library’s Director of Public Programs, made an excellent, substantive introduction – funny, and a great lead-in to the talk. Among other things, he talked about Keith’s love of libraries as “of the people”.

When we walked in, we were each given a copy of Life signed by Keith. The book flap has a printed Keith signature; our books also had original signatures with the notation “’10” on the blank page before the title page. After the talk we got James Fox to autograph our copies of the book too. Fox was very gracious and seemed very pleased by the attention and respect, and spent time talking with people.

The talk was an hour long. Anthony DeCurtis is an excellent interviewer – he asked well formed, interesting questions, all asking Keith to take off on things he said in the book. He knew exactly when to stop talking/asking as Keith started to talk (he never talked over Keith), and knew how to jump in with a follow up or new question without stumbling if Keith stopped talking. He interviewed Keith without notes.

Keith was pretty articulate. A little hard to understand at times, but far better than I expected. Keith came across as very down-to-earth, friendly, thoughtful, even serious. Shirley thinks he’s making a conscious effort to revise his legacy to one who is thoughtful and caring, and not as a drunken, slobbering fool. He was interesting to listen to, and of course the audience was full of adoring fans (including us).

However, most of Keith’s answers were pretty short, and he wasn’t as expository as I’ve heard in some of the recent interviews he’s been giving in support of his book. He didn’t tell any stories, and never really went into depth on anything. That was disappointing. For example, DeCurtis asked Keith to talk about the process of writing a song, with Mick, others, and by himself, and while Keith gave an interesting response that what he enjoyed most was the collaboration with another person (he said the same thing about playing guitar in performance – he most enjoys playing off the other guitarist and other musicians and seeing where the music goes, which he described as “weaving”, and he never gets bored on stage), he never actually talked about the process of writing music – something I would be fascinated to hear about.

Still, lots of interesting stuff, and I enjoyed listening to Keith talk. I don’t know how much of these things he said in other interviews, or whether DeCurtis drew them out of him. Some examples:

Keith worshipped American blues musicians (we know that). He and the Stones thought that they were evangelizing for the music, and indeed found it strange (but fulfilling) that they served the role of bringing American music back to Americans. They realized this when, after getting the opportunity to meet and talk with American blues musicians, the musicians told them that they were basically unknown in America, and yet the songs of the Stones based on their music was popular.

Keith loved American blues because the songs were about real life, and the songs had feeling – as opposed to European music, which Keith said was exemplified by the Polka and a song about liking a blue toothbrush (I don’t know if he was referring to a real song or making up a silly song for emphasis).

The Stones and the Beatles were not in competition. Rather, they cooperated with each other, even sometimes coordinating the release of singles so as not to interfere with each other (I think I heard that right).

Keith learned to use drugs from other musicians. He would ask them how they coped with the pressure, the touring, the constant need to be on, and they told him drugs were the way, and he just fell into it. It’s been 30 years since he was a junkie, and all of his drug knowledge is “out of date”.

Keith said he didn’t want to talk about drugs much, and at one point one of his daughters yelled out “I love you Daddy”. In the middle of the drugs discussion, I think a few moments after Keith mentioned that a lot of drug action took place backstage, Keith suddenly said that he needs to get off the stage for a moment, and he got up and walked off. He returned (to much applause) I think barely a minute later – hardly enough time to get to a bathroom and pee. I don’t know whether that was a joke or not.

Keith also said that he didn’t want to talk about women either. He did remark that he thinks it best not to say anything bad about women – there’s nothing to be gained by it.

Keith talked about growing up in the wake of WWII, when much of England was in ruins, and thinking that was normal, and his pleasure at learning that it was not the normal things are. He also talked about how important libraries are (or were), including in helping him realize that there was more to life and the world than what he saw in post-war England.. Keith thought it was a blast that he has a book that is now in libraries.

Keith did not badmouth Mick at all. He called him the best frontman ever, and mentioned that some of the songs he wrote were written specifically for Mick to sing (citing Midnight Rambler and Gimme Shelter – that’s what he said).

DeCurtis suggested that 1968-72 was an “innocent” time for the Stones. I expected Keith to disagree with that based on the Stones debauchery of that time, but instead Keith said you cannot talk about that period without mentioning “one word – Vietnam”, and he talked about the effect of Vietnam on society and on individual people.

On family, Keith talked about how having children forces you to be responsible, because before one has children no one else is dependent on you (not really true, of course), but little children are totally dependent on you. He said he is very thankful that his family has stuck “together”.

2 of the 3 greatest moments in his musical life: the first time they recorded in a studio (and got paid for it), and their first concert in America, at the Academy of Music in New York. The 3rd thing has not happened yet.

DeCurtis’ last question to Keith was about his “other family”. Keith said that he is continually pushing the Stones to do things, and that we can expect to see something next year (the way he said it, it implied studio work and live performances). (Afterwards Shirley mentioned to Michael Cohl that he’s going to be very busy.)

There was no opportunity for Q&A from the audience.

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Thank you, jbirenz!

i would very much like to hear what Keith had to say about Vietnam please?

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Queenie, very sorry to hear you didn't get in. Honestly, it was cool, but you didn't really miss anything.

thanks fifty...we ate for the 2nd night at the grill in bryant park next door. i couldn't believe we were sitting there at the table while keith was so close and at such an event...

i should be grateful i got into the fallon show the night of his interview last may...

could you estimate how many empty seats there were inside?

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i should be grateful i got into the fallon show the night of his interview last may...
could you estimate how many empty seats there were inside?

Hard to tell how many empty seats. Some people chose to stand on the side for a better view. The room was certainly big enough to acomendate another 20-30 standing.

i was told by someone at the library that our favorite promoter michael cole was at the library for keith,cole comes in five minutes late dressed in a long coat looking like a homeless derelict jakee bum.what a turd.this guy the glorified toronto strip club owner.

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i was told by someone at the library that our favorite promoter michael cole was at the library for keith,cole comes in five minutes late dressed in a long coat looking like a homeless derelict jakee bum.what a turd.this guy the glorified toronto strip club owner.

yes, he walked through our small group on the steps hoping to get in last minute...i asked him for extras and he was a dick, of course