RIP Bobby Keys

RIP. didn't he get thrown off multiple stones tours for being too wasted? an amazing accomplishment.

He got thrown out of the band essentially for a decade iirc until Keith snuck him back in. Mick hated him.

Almost sounds like a Paul Westerberg/Bob Stinson thing: "I can be wasted, but you can't!"

xp

He and Keith together were a bad scene.

also played on a ton of excellent non-Stones stuff

yeah he's on all the great Nilsson albums + All Things Must Pass

Right. See also Joe Cocker's Mad Dogs and Englishmen.

toured w/ buddy holly when he was 15! played sax on "the wanderer"! crazy.

damn!

haha waht ok I didn't know that

Well, a couple years ago, I did a gig up in Iowa with one of those Stones tribute bands, and they were so bad that I fired the band. And it wasn't even my band! The lead singer was such an idiot that I told him to get off the stage before I ripped his head off, then I told the rest of them they might as well go, too. I played a song by myself and said, "Well, folks, that's going to be it for tonight."

The Stones met him in '64, when they played a fair in San Antonio and Keys was touring with Bobby Vee.

some good 70's cop movie chase scene music on his solo album:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YfxMs-QjNwI

RIP.

keith's guitar guy was just in here. coincidentally enough. he seemed bummed out. i didn't say anything. he's a cool dude. he just got back from australia and new zealand. i don't talk to him about work. i just know who he is.

RIP, man he really seemed to live the life!

But his wild ways became even too wild for the Stones. On their 1973 European tour, he missed a commitment and Richards found him in his bathtub full of Dom Perignon. "He’s got a cigar, bathtub full of champagne and this French chick with him," Richards recalled in Life. "And he said, 'Fuck off'."

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Whoa

Does Karl D go full time now?

RIP, a sad way to go (but he loved his life)

http://www.rollingstone.com/music/features/keith-richards-rolling-stones-bobby-keys-20141204

There’s a documentary about his life that came out last year. Every Night’s a Saturday Night - the Bobby Keys Story. Well worth watching. Free with Amazon Prime.

i have been meaning to check it out, thx for the reminder