read years ago that keith richards fell asleep on stage, think it was during a live performance of fool to cry in the 70,s.

can anyone confirm this or tell me more about this incident.

I once heard the same thing. Looking forward to the answer on this one.

Keith confirms it in the 1999 Chris Evans interview - it was indeed Fool to Cry,
in 76, but he doesn't specify which show.
Evans asks if the audience noticed and Keith says: "i don't know - i didn't ask them."

Better than that. In the middle of some lengthy sleepless binge he fell asleep in MID-STEP!,fell,bashed his nose on the TV and thought "F*ck this sleeping lark!".
That is the stuff of legend.

"I'll be in my basement room with a needle and a spoon."

>> bashed his nose on the TV <<

it was a speaker.
unless you mean the TV that he chunked off the balcony following his fourteenth blood change

He probably slept through a few complete tours when he was on Smack. :>)

ronnie slept through most of No Security!

Im sure I remember him saying it was when he pressed his foot on the sound effect pedal. he just passed out. Who knows whether its true. It sounds like an urban myth. But then again Keith did say recently "I remember when showtime was when I woke up"

Keith probably rolls over and falls asleep immediately after sex.

Oh and he's always said he HATES that song

sigh: what Keith has said is that it was his foot on the wah-wah pedal that woke him back up.

the potshots - y'all know more roughage in your diets can really work wonders, right?
have some popcorn.

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> sigh: what Keith has said is that it was his foot
> on the wah-wah pedal that woke him back up.
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> the potshots - y'all know more roughage in your
> diets can really work wonders, right?
> have some popcorn.


thats it. I did say I wasnt sure. But I remember now - and you are right. I was sort of close tho!!

It was in Frankfurt 1976

yep..opening night of the tour on 28th April, during Fool to Cry..he said the feedback from his amp woke him up.

so he claims anyway. After all, hes probably the only one who knows. Could well be another tall tale like the 'Muddy Waters painting the goddamn ceiling at Chess' story...

He also said that the speaker he
fell on and bashed his nose was a JBL ....



ROCKMAN

how do we know the muddy waters story is false

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> how do we know the muddy waters story is false


we just do. accept it.

I heard that Keith Fell asleep during BOB on the 82 tour.

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> I heard that Keith Fell asleep during BOB on the
> 82 tour.

I think the story is that he was so drunk he couldn't stand up, and finished the song lying on his back. Don't know if its true...

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> I think the story is that he was so drunk he
> couldn't stand up, and finished the song lying on
> his back. Don't know if its true...


thats Rock N Roll!!

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> It was in Frankfurt 1976


Yes and he said he slipped on a Frankfurter sausage and hit his nose on a speaker (to explain why his nose is so out of synch now...)

And Keith also said once: "If you believe that you'll believe anything..."

Didnt he also get his blood changed in Switzerland!!!

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> > I heard that Keith Fell asleep during BOB on
> the
> > 82 tour.
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> I think the story is that he was so drunk he
> couldn't stand up, and finished the song lying on
> his back. Don't know if its true...


He did´nt fall asleep, but he was on his back, due to being drunk. This was during one of the two gigs in Göteborg 1982. Can´t remeber wich one, but I was there.

sounds like fun, Vilhelm

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> how do we know the muddy waters story is false


Bill Wyman doesnt seem to recall it happening. I think he did mention that Muddy was there when they arrived and helped them bring their gear in. Guess Keith just chose to embellish the story.

Marshall Chess - who would know these things - said that contrary to Keith's assertion there is no way that Chess would have asked or told Muddy Waters to do menial tasks like painting the studio because he wasnt selling records, nor would a proud man like Muddy even lower himself to agreeing to it.



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> Yes and he said he slipped on a Frankfurter
> sausage and hit his nose on a speaker (to explain
> why his nose is so out of synch now...)
>
> And Keith also said once: "If you believe that
> you'll believe anything..."



He fell but he didnt break his nose until later didnt he? And he did actually have his blood cleaned in Swizerland, not changed perhaps, but cleaned.

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> Yes and he said he slipped on a Frankfurter
> sausage and hit his nose on a speaker (to explain
> why his nose is so out of synch now...)
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Think we're getting our Keith stories interwoven here. Remember reading a review of the Frankfurt show and it seems he slipped and fell on his arse, not his face into a speaker.

I'd imagine that whack Chuck Berry gave him a few years later cant have done his nose much good either!

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He was very close to passing out several times at Knebworth 76.