Keith Richards on the Old Grey Whistle Test (Oct 74)

[@kevh9497]

Happy Birthday Keef - 80 years young today! This man will still be alive after we've all popped our clogs..

[@Malama_Ki]

The fact that this man is still alive in 2023 is amazing. He’s been through about 400 guardian angels already and they’re in rehab!

[@zeppelinboys]

a living testament that Heroin itself wont actually kill you. as in it's not gonna rot your organs like booze does over time. worst side effect besides crippling dependency on the drug is constipation which can be dealt with. and if you have Rolling Stones money you can afford H by the bricks lol.

[@k.b.elliott7137]

No doubt about that one

[@williambeckham7703]

KEITH RICHARDS is my favorite guitarist and it was the smack they kept him alive.

[@k.b.elliott7137]

@@williambeckham7703 I wouldn't agree. Smack doesn't keep anyone alive. I've watched 100s perish to it. Keith is a unique and strong man. I've used longer than Keith. The dope out here isn't dope no more and it's cut with xylazine. I used to do raw heroin. Ive been a addict to opiates over 24 years off n on started 12 I'm 36 and opiates are def not keeping me alive. Eventually if someone doesn't stop introducing poisons and toxins to there system there system will fail. Keith didn't do opiates more than 10 years even. He was clean by the mid 70s only started around 69. I don't know where u get your info but don't spread that dope kept one of the greatest guitar players alive. That's ridiculous.

[@hermesalonso2310]

😂😂good 1👏👏👏

[@FTStratLP]

Happy Birthday Keef!🎂🍾🥂🎁🎊🎉

[@igorb2908]

now we need to start think about what kind of a world we are going to leave for Keith Richards :))))

[@brandonkew9122]

What kind of world will your grandchildren leave for Keith Richards?

[@stephenstone8480]

@@brandonkew9122 More like great grandchildren...

[@RaimundoNonato-eq6bj]

I read your addictive biography "Life". I always go back to reading marked passages. But this interview is impressive. More radical rocker never existed. What's more important than guitars and lyrics and riffs? Not even your own teeth. It's a way of being, Surreal. Keff slaps society in the face...He's a legend. The soul of the stones.

[@fireman746]

Only this man can still look cool high along with missing teeth! He is a legend.

[@cherylfugate7517]

Yes, strangely he can pull it off!

[@TimLondonGuitarist]

What happened to the keef teef ? did Mick knock em out ?

[@stephenelkington4971]

@@TimLondonGuitarist Heroin rots everything - including teef !

[@TimLondonGuitarist]

@@stephenelkington4971 how does banging up smack = keef teef ?

[@hiramwilliams7560]

He's so strung out and still manages to pull thru

[@bustermot]

He IS a rock star- in every fiber of his being

[@01chickenpickin]

Pre trans with all the eye shadow and blue color on his eyes is so hotttttt

[@stephenwalsh1332triumph]

And teeth 😅

[@krisscanlon4051]

These chaps are quite relaxed. If you are currently experiencing some form of anxiety listen to these two and suddenly you will be drifting on a marshmallow cloud of bliss...shush Keef is almost asleep😂 love ya Bob and Keef!

[@damiansmall144]

whispering qualities

[@alistersutherland3688]

Keef was in full-blown heroin addiction at this point. His teeth were rotting. He was smoking 3 packs a day and drinking Jack Daniels at an alarming rate. The man has a legendary constitution. I personally have never seen anything like it, and I've been around.

[@michaelportaloo1981]

The Jack Daniels phase was after he packed up herion.

[@williamsannuto8239]

Yea what a low life drug addict

[@markmadonna4099]

Keith's knowledge is so deep, and he's so humble, while talking about all his activities, he never fails to give credit to the side men, the session players, the writers, and producers.

[@BryanFrye-ek3dr]

It's the blood infusions ❤️🩸🎸

[@stephenstone8480]

He's one cool cat...

[@Malama_Ki]

Keef: single-handedly keeping the English stereotype of bad teeth alive and well in ‘74

[@TheWorld_2099]

It actually looks like he had a tooth knocked out here.

[@soypablo64]

Single-handedly? The host's teeth aren't much of an advertisement for British Dentistry either.

[@Rollingstonesfangirl]

@@TheWorld_2099 it's heroin and him being traumatised by the dentist in his youth because the dentist served in ww2 and was brutal

[@TheWorld_2099]

@@Rollingstonesfangirl makes sense

[@TheWorld_2099]

@@Rollingstonesfangirl and what rockstar wants to spend any time in a dentist’s office, when you could be out having way more fun…

[@maggiekrampl8504]

I do not even know,how many times I have seen the Stones.When they did that tour with Billy Preston Keith gave me one of the 2 autographs I have of him.He's such a nice guy......

[@ricardojosearruda8052]

Tomorrow will be complete 50 years old this interview 01/10/1974 01/10/2024

[@ScaryGreyGhost]

The man is Immortal 👍🤟🎸🎶

[@cclewes7373]

Keith is a global treasure

[@TimLondonGuitarist]

@@cclewes7373 only global ? he'd find that insulting, surely universal or even cosmic

[@giorgiocurcetti4001]

He was living at the time with Anita Pallemberg and their son Marlon at the notorious 3 Cheyne Walk, right by the Thames in Chelsea, in a besutiful 6-floors Georgian mansion (yours for £3:million). Around the corner from Kings Road, then the hub of the world's fashion and music. He used to walk to the shop Granny Takes a Trip to get his heroin, and there he would meet Spanish Tony and Nick Kent and hang out. Various Rock luminaries would pass by (Ron Wood, Rod Stewart, Marc Bolan, etc) and shareca joint and shoot the breeze. Few doors down the road, at 430, a certain Malcolm McLaren was gathering a motley crew of misfits in his shop Too Fast To Live, which became Sex and was instrumental in starting Punk, while the old guard was busy being decadent. Unrepeatable period. You"d walk all the length of the Kings Road any given Saturday and you spotted many of the biggest rock stars in the world, just walking, having a coffee, checking clothes out...today the Kings Road is a shell of its former self, haunted by the ghosts of the glorious past...

[@albertarguelles3262]

Awesome I used to watch this show whenever they would play it on TV I think it was on PBS? It would play really late at night on weekends mostly, I think. Thanks for this.

[@lizetteolsen3218]

This was when he was deep into substances. What I have always admired about this whole generation of musicians is that they are the post WWII generation. There was no such thing as rock stars--or even having a career as a pop musician. This was the generation that decided to forge their own fates, damn the order of the day. Take away the stardust, what you hear is a man who just loves all aspects of music. No wonder he is at the age he is--his love of music.

[@cherylfugate7517]

Thank you for such insightful comments. I really despise the jokes about age and drugs, they are often very undereducated about The Stones; Keith; drugs and other substances like whiskey and cigarettes, et al. James Taylor had a more intense heroin habit and his habit went on a full decade longer than Keith and began before a handful of years prior to Keith's. James was just more perfectly airbrushed than Keith.

[@matejkrajnc1797]

There were no rock stars, but there were careers in pop music long before the post WWII generation.

[@lizetteolsen3218]

@@matejkrajnc1797 I am speaking to the youth culture that started percolating during WWII (Bobby soxers) and then we had mostly pop and niche music in the 50s. The original rock star model was unknown until the 1960s. Those musicians came up struggling during the 50s/early 60s. None of them ever expected to have a lifetime of active, income-producing career.

[@TimLondonGuitarist]

@@matejkrajnc1797 Like Vera Lynn, but she was protected by MOD and they kept her away from smack ?

[@vordman]

Remarkably, 50 years later, both Keef and Bob still going strong! (it defies belief)

[@radiomindchatter7994]

Keith really looks like a vampire here!

[@k.b.elliott7137]

Doesn't come out in the sun while not on tour. Licks own blood after 💉 injections. Has a lifeline longer than Betty White. Makes earth shattering music. He might just be the devil himself.

[@lagreyeyes]

A pretty hot one.

[@Rollingstonesfangirl]

I say

[@Rollingstonesfangirl]

He can bite me

[@hisfavworstnightmare]

@@lagreyeyesseriously

[@Bez1-eb3du]

Remarkably coherent and full of purpose for a man full of junk. Keef may well have been constantly off his face back then but great records still got made and great gigs were still played. The work still got done. Young bands blinded by image take note.

[@johnphillips7886]

Mick Taylor did a lot of the work for him, keef was absent on smack breaks for recording and definition of a clutch of songs but Mick T was denied the credits Jagger promised him

[@Bez1-eb3du]

You’re right about MT. I was just making a general observation about Keith in that whole early-mid ‘70s period 👍

[@johnphillips7886]

@@bingsinatra5283 MT gave a lot of different reasons why he left but in interviews with Dutch and US radio stations he said it was because the Stomes weren’t going anywhere musically any more, partly because of the drugs, but also because jagger did not come through with promised song credits for Tjme waits for no one, Moonlight Mile, Winter and songs on Exile he co-wrote. Richards was a bully who was jealous of MT being a superior musician by far as Charlie Watts acknowledged.

[@johnphillips7886]

@@bingsinatra5283 with all due respect that is nonsense, MT after Stones produced what was often much better music playing with Jack Bruce, Dylan, Snowy White and his own band among others, his hard drug crisis came after he quit Stones though one reason he got out was to escape evil dealers in decadent Stones orbit but he was bored with their output

[@kingkillah101]

"It's Only Rock 'n Roll" is a very under-rated album in the canon. To my ears, it sounds like the first album of the 'definitive' Mick Jagger voice, where all of the 60s swagger, the snow blinded sweetness of early 70s and the road worn live band sound combines into what became a definitive version of Mick. Though there's some weak spots on the album (a song or two could have been omitted), Luxury, Dance Little Sister, Fingerprint File, Time Waits for No One? All classics -- and this album may have featured Mick Taylor's sadly final most expressed influence.

[@televinv8062]

I agree it's an underrated album. Personally, I think it's a masterpiece and better than Black and Blue (although I still love BandB) 👍🙏👍🙏

[@simonsays-me7eq]

thanks for the review

[@williamr3840]

Whispering Bob and Whispering Keith! :0)

[@Flipper-r8m]

😂😅

[@markvandergriend3359]

When I was a young lad they said he wouldn't last long. That was 50 years ago ...

[@beefheart67]

They didn't even think it would last

[@mindcontrol67]

The pinned eyes and the raspy voice are a dead giveaway for him being high on smack,But he is not a complete mess here being somewhat alert and answering questions, but he's teetering on the edge.

[@bradleyzubrod472]

Coke

[@mariodemarco9749]

Nah, he's smacked off his head, but knowing his history he might have had a quick line to ​liven himself up@@bradleyzubrod472

[@TheTempleOfBoom]

Keith , just gacked to the nines , on the horse .

[@tam_ryan1036]

What an amazing life! Don’t do drugs, kids! ….unless you’re Keef. What an absolute hero.

[@matthewhandley7972]

I love how they are both smoking

[@johnharpdalton4092]

The Keith thing, the teeth thing... check out Velasquez's Triumph of Bacchus!

[@rainertrebbin-vf7nt]

Keith Richards 🎵🎸

[@Decapitorr]

interviewer didnt want to wake keith up

[@senatorjimdracula1603]

"Whispering Bob" Harris. All the rock stars seemed to really like him.

[@KOERTVANDRIEL]

@@senatorjimdracula1603 Can't stand this interviewer - sorry

[@RuthGreen-c2j]

Ain't to proud to listen ❤❤❤❤❤❤

[@kristiry7964]

Notice they interview Keith...if your confused about who really is the Stones😉

[@SevenOf9-Seven]

Mick was interviewed as well.

[@defshrimp]

Keith is a cool dude.

[@javiersubiran7137]

31 years old... he was the god of Rock.

[@hannible1002]

I'm glad Keef had is teef done! Got to love Keef!!

[@RuthGreen-c2j]

I'm a Jamaican would have loved to be in Jamaica in this period missed by age

[@keefriftaird8580]

Mick T. on backing vocal. First I've seen that.

[@RichardG0linsky]

Holy fuck what is he on great

[@jeffscott7266]

Heroin

[@joseplaza9442]

Pure China white

[@joseplaza9442]

Chinese rocks

[@samkitty5894]

Keef was able to buy new teeth since then. Life is good.

[@KimTebrok]

Keith. Jesus Christ😱 Bad state in those days.

[@billyshane3804]

Whispering Bob !!! Big Heef, big Hehwan, big time!!

[@alfredpetrie7920]

Thank goodness that 70s hey man thing is history,I lived through it and deep down even at the time I thought whole thing was naff

[@johnscott9334]

Everytime you light a cigarette it takes 5 mins from your life and adds it to Keef’s.

[@alessandrosilva6795]

Stones forever !

[@rijndertdoting8667]

The old grey dope test..😂

[@_Singularity_]

do you have access to the rest of the episode, with little feat and the ronetttes? It used to be on youtube but I can't find it anywhere

[@markusrose9667]

Hilarious the way this whispering bob interviewer asks question. So serious.asking about how long it took to mix the album.

[@Peter-sk5vg]

Bob is an holy man

[@christianandersson9449]

When I see Keith fifty years ago films, can see a very shy boy. He needed the pure stuff. Thats obvious

[@clovergrass9439]

Pickled Keefer will outlast us all.

[@dondamon4669]

He's not pickled at all and it's mainly all an act, you obviously don't understand addiction if you think he is real

[@danielrogers3121]

They must have been singing Ain't too proud to Beg to Mick Taylor.

[@01chickenpickin]

Pretty long hair boys with makeup yummmmy

[@masonkanterbury3007]

People ask why Keith is thriving and why so many straight lace "moralists" half his age are dead and gone. Well as a lifelong pothead and beer drinker all my life, I can tell you that what kills people is not drugs. It's worrying about what other people think that kills people. Which is basically saying stress is the number one killer.

[@facu8746]

Keith richards for president argentina 🇦🇷

[@jezmez68]

Mick Taylor looking suave AF here.

[@TR-wg4kl]

Ahhhhh the second greatest band!!!! Or maybe 3rd or 4th... (Zep and Floyd) Ladies and gentlemen.... The Beatles!!!!!

[@coolmacatrain9434]

Where did that 50 years go?

[@frank-ski]

How many dentists are watching this video in 2024? Is "The Old Gret Whistle Test" the sound coming the mouths of the host and Keith Richards?

[@thespiritofhegel3487]

Ah those were the days when you could smoke while interviewed. Curse these modern times.

[@alfredpetrie7920]

The Stones looked cool I'll give them that

[@johnsmith-xr1uh]

Stoned to the bone

[@RICHARDUMFREVILLE]

Most of the dentists in the UK were killed in the war . Then the rest emigrated toAustralia

[@tomwaite3898]

"Some film by Dennis Eaton-Hogg"

[@MD-lf3gt]

I prefer the Temps original, but Keef is my hero!

[@benwright6330]

Keif gots Corn nuts for Teef tho 🎃🍿

[@BryanFrye-ek3dr]

Keith Richards... John Lennon... Jerry Garcia...all amazing....& And all junkies 😋🩸❤️🐒🧠

[@djsteve6687]

Teeth Richards

[@PrettySure-jq5jn]

😂

[@thejdgoodwin]

Tooth Richards.

[@jamesjcaseyjr8535]

By the end of this month Mick Taylor was no longer a Stone.

[@Phillip-y6d]

cool alien head❤

[@daviddigital6887]

That's when he had his Hey Ron teeth

[@michaelphillips1966]

I think it’s safe to say jagger ain’t no David Ruffin

[@johndowling656]

He probably wrecked himself for 10 years …and then slowed down…otherwise he’d be dead years ago

[@MinkSnopesJJZ109]

I guess Keef got his toof fixed.

[@KimTebrok]

Sad to see a vulnerable drug addict interviewed in such a way. Back in the day. In the summery old month of May. Whilst the world moved on & on.

[@mushroomleg]

Did the raggae thing happen? I’m a dumb causal fan sorry.

[@chrisfurniss3073]

Spaceman keeef❤

[@safranpollen]

Keef boy is totally on smack :-)

[@titovanzappa4629]

Heroin teets... not Pop pretty star

[@chloeew4627]

Bucky da commentator 😂😂😂😂

[@serenhafwilliams-davies5915]

His teeth makes me giggle 🤣

[@Ruber22fi]

Rock horse

[@michaelmadrigale7716]

Vampire, mildly putting it

[@lordburlap4514]

Keith looked like he was heading toward the grave in six months……FOOLED YA!!!!!!

[@SiL-uj2zl]

The Stones were like a cabaret band in 74 just a joke

[@johnharpdalton4092]

Thr questions are so empty, formulaic and tell us something meaningless about the diary dates of things and absolutely nothing about the songwriting, the songs, the themes, the dymamics and personalities, methods of recording, funny anecdotes... Bob was like a trainspotter wanting numbers... 27 days recording, 22 days nixing, etc. a great shame.

[@hanssvoboda]

Totally agree, what a wasted opportunity.

[@johnharpdalton4092]

@@hanssvoboda like asking Jimi, whose new album is about to be released, how many days did it take to record, what time did you arrive at the studio, did you work late, did you do the mixing, will there be a tour? Crazy!!

[@TimLondonGuitarist]

Bob knew if he whispered a difficult question keef would wack him with a fender

[@johnharpdalton4092]

@@TimLondonGuitarist actually Bob asked the most difficult questions, like 'What time did you clock in and how many days did you work?' Keef had no idea, but as to the actual playing, writing, frolics, arguments, he would have been golden.. .

[@TimLondonGuitarist]

@@johnharpdalton4092 well, imagine Jeremy paxman interviewing him : fender smash within 2 minutes

[@lorddevonshire6382]

It's always amusing to see how obsessed Americans are with people's teeth. Very odd.

[@lordburlap4514]

Especially when they are rotting…..those Americans!

[@KimTebrok]

True Stones fans appreciate the music over the years. But, don’t take kindly to a drop in standards & speak out when necessary.

[@alansmith1840]

Good buzz Keith ?😮

[@RuthGreen-c2j]

Again rocking makeup these days women don't even wear !!! Time gone

[@lexremillard2549]

High af

[@pedroalbertobauret1731]

EL JACK DANIEL'S TE PERMITE TOCAR EL VIEJO SILBARO POR MUCHOS AÑOS MÁS❗😱

[@SPINNINGMYWHEELS777]

@1:45 - where's the piano player? - funny circus like act 😂

[@utenkbeing2845]

Keef interviewed by rabbit... 😅

[@thejdgoodwin]

Tough and ruthless OR Rough and toothless?

[@yourimaginaryfriend2718]

Good grief, Keef's teef are fukt beyond belief.

[@keithb1424]

Charle lost a bet and got stuck wearing that jacket.

[@reelbass500]

Keith's rotten teeth are so cool !

[@xiaogeju2011]

Mein Gott Keith... was für Zähne...

[@jtf2dan]

Keith and his crack pipe teeth!