Keith Richards: Life. (2010; paperback 2011)
Review by Rae West 9 March 2022
Looking Back from 2010:–
I'll call Keith Richards KR.This book (I found a recycled copy) looks like an autobiography published in 2010, assisted by James Fox, a journalist whose books 'include the international best-seller, White Mischief.' Fox was with the Sunday Times, which arranged the fake story of Vanunu. The two men's working method isn't described, but the whole thing sounds like recorded speech, recent, and therefore digital, not analog tape.
Each chapter starts with a short note on its contents, like a Victorian factual book, so it seems likely some shuffling of contents went on, on Fox's computer. The final chapters include material from people liked by KR. Life doesn't claim anywhere to be a autobiography, I think; getting other people to write parts of one's autobiography would stretch the meaning a bit. Anyway, no doubt it was licked into shape by Fox. I wonder if KR was given proofs to correct. I can't help but wonder if the book would have been more interesting just by KR.
It's interesting to look at the publisher, Phoenix or Orion, which seem related to Penguin, an important part of the victory of Jews in World War 2, and in fact a loathesome collection of people including the once-famous Victor Gollancz. There's a small-print para thanking copyright owners for permission to quote some of his own songs. Anyway, enough of this miserable stuff.
The opening chapters are quite impressive. KR situates his estuary, including a dumped asylum, sewage works, and fireworks factory. And highway robbery in times past. The whole south coast had smuggling episodes, untouched by KR. Compare this with the complacent Alfred North Whitehead and his long-gone vicarage in the Isle of Thanet (the pimple on the map at the extreme east of Kent) and the long line of preceding vicars.
KR is good on east end of London politics: he had a 'Labour' uncle Ernie and a woman relative councillor in housing. And 'Gus' who had seven daughters and was a swaggering 'looker', visiting houses and disappearing into the back rooms. I'd guess this was a late 19th-century and early 20th century Jewish invasion by-product. The education system is looked at rather scathingly by KR; it seems to have left him with aversions to anything technical, but with some affection for girls learning to be teachers.
KR talks of housing, including Mick Jagger living at one time nearby. He is accurate on 'national service' and its abolition. Influenced by Miles Mathis, I'll look forward to Jagger later.
His family never went to church. This is consistent with Jewish attitudes, and perhaps to lower-order Londoners as reported in Mayhew's London Life. It's consistent with my recent opinion, that the Church provided a reliable income in symbiosis with Jews, so who cared if it was all nonsense. KR doesn't say what happened at that time to bodies; who buried them?—Not a topic likely to interest young people.
This is where the modern revisionist awareness registers KR as absent-minded. The Labour Party was of course a Jewish foundation, aimed in effect to keep the red-flag Rothschilds flying, deliberately confusing things like 'the dialectic', and introducing secret funding of likely collaborators people who sound very like Gus. (Here's an example; Darke).
Music comes in here, including Music Halls and their songs and performers and composers. KR doesn't mention WW1, about forty years before his birth. A triumph for Jews and propaganda, which included songs, and disaster for the Jew-unaware establishments.
Most of KR's recollections seem to be modelled on views appropriate to the Jewish victory. (For those who haven't found out, Jews won the Second World War. And the First, the 'Great War'). KR is perhaps unconsciously harsh on the previous generation: sad wrecks, victims of the Jewish war, imagining it was all for King and Country, just goyim who had killed and died for Jews, of no real significance. 'Faithful to thee we fell and rest content.' And passive-aggressive and baffled by the new generation, oblivious of everything they'd been told by the BBC radio and Jewish junk press, told they should be obeyed, but finding hollowness.
KR comments on Europe then having borders, and not being borderless; he favours blacks in the USA, not mentioning black violence, as of course is obvious now. Given the painful absence of black achievements, music was one possible avenue (remember 'negro spirituals'?) but KR says nothing on 'rap'. There are many movies and videos of the Stones including blacks; there always seems to me a sadness in them. The finest Jewish promoters tell them they are vibrant and have natural rhythm, and yet here are whites with much more of all that. What's going on?
He comments on his love for a girl with a Muslim name, but of course only platonic, paralleled later by a Ronette. KR has quite a nice semi-ascetic side. About midway he calls Hugh Hefner a pimp, and says things about Truman Capote, Freddie of hair extensions, Johnny Carson.
His views on drugs seem to reflect Jewish changes; in the 1970s concerned to push fear of drugs and drug use by GIs. Later he seems to have gone with opium-war-style promotion of drugs to the masses. He praises his own physical constitution and bodily sensitivity; I'd guess this is mostly bullshit, an act, which would explain how he supposedly consumed vast amounts, and yet lived. KR doesn't present a world-wide view, from the opium wars to the pushing of oxycontin. The dangerous absurdities like needle exchanges, the fantastic dangers of injecting, and the moronic 'President' Biden's offers of free crack pipes ... all a bit depressing. KR doesn't really attempt to describe the unnatural effects on breathing, sight, balance, mental stuff going wrong—and last breaths, distress. The nearest thing in KR is cold turkey 'turning the skin inside out.'
I found a comment (on page 281) on a flyer KR found in Oakland in the late 1960s or early 1970s, something like a decade after the Vietnam War peaks: The Bastards hear us playing you on our little transistor radios and know that they will not escape the blood and fire of the Anarchist revolution. We will play you... as we tear down the jails and free the prisoners and arm the poor. Tattoo Burn, Baby, Burn on the asses of the wardens and generals. This must have been part of the Jewish anti-hippie policy, including the Manson myth (see later; not in KR). 'Anarchism' and emptying jails was part of the Jewish movement since 1900, for non-Jews. KR seems to have supported some of th absurdities of Jewish feminism, including the anti-family themes. He says Bill Wyman in France befriended Marc Chagall, a Jewish painter, no doubt funded in the usual way, suggesting Jewish 'paedophilia'. But more on all this later.
The pop music world has generated its group mythologies, difficult to retrospectively sort out. One is the damaged finger: Tom Iommi (I think; of Black Sabbath) did something, but so did KR with a finger. The 'Rolling Stones' name was (says KR) made up on the spur of the moment over the phone; Pink Floyd (wrote Nick Mason) has the same story—in fact, with a few changes, their names might have been interchanged; I wonder with what effect. The Art College story unites the Stones and Queen. The post-1945 DIY/electrical gadgetry thing separated Queen from traditional instruments; I don't think the Stones did much with electric sounds, substituting experiments with muffled mikes pointing in odd directions. Difficult to imagine Charlie Watts experimenting with (say) drums in an anechoic chamber to see what happened, unlike John Lennon running tapes backwards and Pink Floyd raiding cupboards at Abbey Road. 'Gigs' were a part of all these groups I think, including the Beatles in Germany, old vocabulary probably from antique vehicle lamps. Queen didn't want to go on Top of the Pops and invented pop videos as a substitute—but so did the Stones, and for that matter the Beatles. Knickers thrown on stage was said Tom Jones; who knows with how much truth, as knickers were not very aerodynamic. Anyway, KR has the same story. Even the stripy protruding tongue logo (I think) was first used by Queen. Endless fallings-out made stories, in the case of Jagger and Richards 1982-1989, more than a decade after Lennon and McCartney. The 'biggest ever outdoor crowd' meme was a Rolling Stones thing in Hyde Park, and I think also by Pink Floyd and The Wall. KR wrote nothing I could find on the 'Band Aid' 'Feed the World' thing, attributed to Bob Geldof; maybe he didn't like Geldof. KR wrote nothing on 9/11 either.
Thinking of music technology, I tried to work out if guitars have a logarithmic scale of notes, which might explain why the guitar fretboard is a lot more portable than a piano keyboard. I think it must be to do with the precision of the notes; guitar music being less precisely tuned. I suppose this affects the whole sound, so that Dancing With Mr D has a grumbly undertone with both bass and drums not very noticeably tuned. The bass and drums being the "engine room" and preferably loving each other, in the words of Ronnie Wood and KR.
One has to wonder about guitars in pop music: Frankie Goes to Hollywood, in the mid-1980s, already were entirely computer-generated.
Another unification is on songwriting: KR wrote Angie for Jagger in his fractal voice mode, though I don't know about the piano. A bit like Zimmerman on writing Sad Eyed Lady of the Lowlands.
Listening a bit, on
Youtube, I was amazed to hear Charlie Watts say he never listened to their recordings; they were still in their wrappers. After all, he must have known what's on them, having played the tracks himself. I wondered if J K Rowling reads her books; probably not. I couldn't help wondering, following Miles Mathis, if he'd faked his own death, so he could take time off and listen to his remastered collection of the works of Buddy Rich.
Many of KR's favourite musicians seem to have died: Ian Stewart, Gram Parsons, John Lennon. KR seems ungrateful to Brian Jones, whose instrument playing (recorder in Ruby Tuesday, fuzzy guitar in Satisfaction, and many more), provided musical added value.
The ones still alive seem to have been something like session musicians, paid by the hour or day, generally unknown, like extras: some names he gives include Steve Jordan, Charlie Drayton, 'Waddy' Wachtel. Musical acquaintances presumably sort themselves by familiarity: e.g. the Dave Clark Five reportedly had royalties bigger then the Beatles, but seem not to get mentioned. Reg Dwight ('Elton Hercules John'), Fleetwood Mac, Pink Floyd, Knopfler, Queen, seem unmentioned. Stevie Nicks is mentioned, but not indexed. Elvis Presley—sensation of the decade—doesn't get much of a look-in, apart from Heartbreak Hotel.
KR doesn't go into overview material on performers and recordings and audiences. But I don't think anyone does. Performers after all are more-or-less ordinary people, liable to stage fright. But the gulf between them and the audience is vast, at least usually. Thus KR seems to have felt there are millions of guitarists out there, so it's nothing special. I noticed he was listed as 'rhythm guitars' on Stealing My Heart. And they were a two-guitar band. It might be interesting to see a diagram of the flows of money in the music industry, with its surprises both plus and minus; a bit like the hydrological cycle, including audience sizes and thousands of bands who didn't come to much and rehearsals and formal music. But on these topics KR's hand is something like a Yarborough.
KR says he loved his guitar, went round with it, hugged it. Fascinating to see the early roots of interests of people, and how they sprout in later life, or fail to sprout. Some like the theatre, some like gardens, some like books, some like accounts... Many people must have felt emotions as a pianist or guitarist or organist or singer did his or her stuff, just sharing a room. I'm afraid I have a sceptical tendency, and tend to think of H M Bateman's cartoon The Guest Who Brought a Banjo. And the Young Tradition's Beans in My Passway which, now I check, was Stones in My Passway (not my copyright; I hope nobody minds, after all this time), which seemed satirical but perhaps accurate.
Chapter 4 is good on getting going: 1962. With Mick Jagger on the harp, presumably an abbreviation for harmonica / mouth organ. Anything needing mental work and interpretation is intrinsically a bit puzzling: strength, speed, toughness seem obvious enough; but intelligence, oratorical skill, elegance, musicality are more difficult to identify. And there's the question of 'image'. I saw a Rolling Stones 'tribute' band, Rollin Stoned, with Keef Retched, Mick Jaguar, Byron Jones, Bill Wymandy and their drummer, capturing their 'image' quite well. But of course imitation is the sincerest form of flattery.
Such is their longevity that they span several eras, starting with Dansette record players with a spindle to hold many vinyl disks, after the earlier shellac, and before digital CDs—I remember the shock of their sharp high frequencies. Small 1 7/8" tape cassettes came in, liked by KR because of their muffly bass and unclear voices and the ability to add an echo to voices. And this was well after electric microphones allowed crooners to croon. Then there were drum machines; Mick Jagger seems to have decided to go solo partly after experimenting with multi-tracking with himself.
We have anecdotes and comments passim. The alleged dead murderer of Brian Jones is not taken seriously; no evidence was left, and anyway Jones was depressed and druggy. The naked under a rug and mars bar story are more or less dismissed. The choirboy trio must mean he can (or could) sing precise harmonies. I couldn't find the alleged comment on Mick's tackle; it's not indexed. Perhaps the indexer couldn't find a synonym. There's an account of LVS, Lead Vocalist Syndrome. I can faintly recall a Dail Mail joke campaign, Mick Aid, offering a coupon for anyone buying a solo record (or something). There is no list of their recordings; maybe it was just too long. KR wishes he could write another song as good as Beast of Burden. There are touching accounts of Pattie Hansen, and Marlon.I was impressed that 'fine-tooth comb' was spelt correctly. I looked at photos of KR's library in his house; trying to see what the titles were, but these were too small. KR mentioned Prague and a politician there and a concert; no doubt a Jew-funded pseudo-event. Perhaps Soros at play.
Allen Klein (Jewish lawyer) has about 7 pages, on contracts and legalities and general Jewish fraud or near-fraud involving pop people, with accounts of the lawyers being friendly with each other, and no wonder. I hope legal people have sorted out what happened, though I doubt it. KR didn't seem to mind; but maybe he was being discreet.
I've recently read up on the lymphatic system; it has no analogy to a beating hard, and has to be shoved around by movement. No chance of some pseudo-cancer, then. Jagger said (interview with Charlotte Roche; related to the Rockefellers?) he couldn't believe people think he's wise or charismatic etc—just like anyone else he's just a bloke. He appears to support an 'AIDS' trust. It seems a pity he never made an exercise video, that I know of.
KR writes about two types of groupies: the caring and mothering types vs the clocking up sex types. I once spoke to a womn who said she' been a groupie; I didn't like to ask, but she confirmed she was type 1. I wonder if any of them went for a full house, with all five.
'Albie' Sachs. 'Communist' Jew. Did KR use doubles?
Looking Forward from 2010:–
All the following links are dated after 2010
Genuine wrinkles?A serious breakthrough is the claim that nuclear weapons and power are bullshit. See nuke-lies.org (my download of a forum of about ten main people, which disappeared in March 2012). It has had no replies, of course. There are very few science revisionists.
Another tech issue is the moon landing fraud. Here's me on Stanley Kubrick. I now think the fraud had an inbuilt expiry date, needed to show why rockets etc couldn't ever be satisfactory.
Frank Zappa was shown to be the son of an admiral, who was a chemical warfare expert, and part of the Gulf of Tonkin false flag, providing the US military with years of money and disgrace.
The Stones had a 2021 tour. Partly in Paradise, near Las Vegas, not very aptly named. They did Satisfaction but still couldn't manage the buzzy guitar effect. I think someone said the receipts were a few hundred billion. I don't think the did Mother's Little Helper perhaps because they didn't like "what a drag it is gettin old".
Proof that John Lennon Faked his Death was published online by Miles Mathis, in 2014. Most clues come from a little indie film from Toronto, called Let Him Be. I wonder what KR, a close friend, thought.
The Folk Scene was Totally Manufactured, another piece by Miles Mathis.
‘'Ewan MacColl' as jew name-changing phoney. ... the Newport Folk Festival opened. Like Woodstock, it was founded by Jewish promoters. George Wein was the head honcho, and they admit he was Jewish. Under him was the board composed of Albert Grossman, Oscar Brand, Pete Seeger, and Theodore Bikel. Grossman, Brand and Bikel are also admitted to be Jewish. That just leaves us with the “Calvinist” Seeger. We will unwind him below. Bikel's middle name was Meir, and yes, we may assume he was related to Golda Meir, Prime Minister of Israel. His father was an “active Zionist”, and the family lived in Israel.
Bikel went to Mikveh Israel school, which was funded by the Rothschilds. Bikel studied at the Royal Academy of Dramatic Arts (RADA) in London, where Ewan MacColl's first wife Joan Littlewood also studied. We will see her below. Like the rest of these people, Bikel was an actor.’ And much more. Both Woodie Guthrie ('this machine kills fascists' and Lead Belly (song about Hitler) were compromised by Jewish money, and no doubt this helps explain the durability of 'blues' imagery.
The general suggestion started to infiltrate (mainly by Internet) that Jews of the Fed print paper money and hand it out if they want to, and withhold it, if they want that. this activity was traced to central banks, law, politicians, trade unions, ownership of newspapers & radio & TV & Hollywood, advertising agencies, police chiefs, universities & colleges & schools, drugs, food, immigration support and censorship, and so on. Including religions.
And theories of mass distraction, irrelevancies, and psyops started to grow and to arouse trolls paid to counter them.
I remember in 1968 hearing Jumping Jack Flash in the USA, uneasily aware of its vacancy. I wondered about Sympathy for the Devil, on Jesus Christ his moment of doubt and St Petersberg, the Tsar, and Anastasia.
Another piece by Miles Mathis (who felt betrayed by the manipulation of music) is dylan.pdf dated 2015.
It includes ‘the Rolling Stones, as a name thought up by 'intelligence'. Which brings us to The Rolling Stones. If you will recall, one of the Stones early albums was titled “Their Satanic Majesties Request.” That was 1967, and the band members were supposedly facing drug busts and jail time and so on. They were being sold as the worst of the bad boys, attacking the old world order and every other form of order and decency. So how is it that Mick Jagger got knighted by Prince Charles in 2002 for service to the Empire and Crown? Exactly what service did he ever do them? Given the mainstream interpretation of the Stones, it makes no sense. But given my interpretation, it makes all the sense in the world. Jagger and the Stones manufactured and promoted accelerated change of all kinds, which financially benefited the Empire and Crown enormously.
There are also Jaggers in the peerage, including Lt. Col. Hugh Jagger, OBE, b. 1872. Many of the Jaggers in the peerage were born in the 20th century, which means Mick probably has cousins in the peerage. These findings indicate to me that it is possible Mick was in the peerage before being knighted, which would mean the knighting was actually a step down. This would indicate some agents are scrubbed from the posted peerage, but that isn't difficult to believe.’
KR presents as very opposed to the Establishment. I can imagine Sir Michael being addressed something like this: "I say, Michael, you're not still performing, with that ghastly little oik, are you?" Or maybe not–
Miles Williams Mathis wrote: jimi.pdf including something on KR: In 1966 Hendrix was discovered by Keith Richards' girlfriend Linda Keith. She doesn't look very English, does she? Her father was actor Alan Keith OBE, and although he is not listed in the the peerage, the Keiths have been baronets, barons, and lords of Scotland back to the 1400s. We saw them in my paper on Ben Franklin, related to the Hamiltons, Erskines, Douglases, Stuarts, and so on. You will tell me Alan's name was really Alexander Kossoff, so he wasn't really a Keith. He was a Jew from Russia, which is why Linda looks like that.
Finally, let me note tate.pdf. This 2014 piece is on Sharon Tate and the so-called Manson murders as a false flag. Only about 40 years late.
hexzane527 has written on on wars and Jews. Maybe the Stones could polish up their 'bad boy' image with real revisionist work.
PS: Just noticed on 'Platinum Jubilee' (2022 June 2nd & 3rd; '70 years of service' presumably for herself) that Johnny Depp, in hairy mode, was in Sheffield apparently playing his guitar with or at Jeff Beck's event. On 9 June, in Liverpool, the Stones are due to play the start of their 'Sixty' tour—that's sixty years since they entered the pop world. I wonder if Sean Penn will turn up? Why not?
PPS: Just noticed a TV thing on Mick Jagger as a long-term pop chap: including Chrissie Hinde, an AC/DC man, and others if it helps pin the 'documentary' down. Included Vietnam War material; I don't believe Jagger was at Grosvenor Square or paid any attention. His LSE/Jewish influence remains closed to me. The hemp drug bust is another puzzle. A Times headline on breaking a butterfly on a wheel was introduced as part of 'the newspaper of record', which in fact it wasn't, having been sold in the 1930s I think, and again t Rupert Murdoch. How much was a warning against demonstrators has never been revealed.
An interesting set of chapters, on recording techniques and changes, and copyright, and vinyl packaging and selling, and digital techniques, is perhaps too difficult for featherweight presenters. And the thought that the great majority of the fans and shriekers were just ordinary people muffled by drugs, perhaps trying to reach out for glamour or youth before it vanished, is perhaps even more difficult. For years they could never even get their buzzy riff for Satisfaction to work; they rested on the instrumentation of Brrian Jones.
Rae West Review, HTML, some work 9 March 2022. And note 4 June 2022. And July 4 2022.