![]() ![]() He was carried out with oxygen tubes and rushed to the hospital. We all were." It turns out Richards had been shocked by the electrical surge from the mic. Said attendee Mick Martin, "I literally saw Keith fly into the air backward. Promoter Jeff Hughson thought Richards had been shot. Richards has almost died many times, but there's one close call he says is his "most spectacular": On December 3rd, 1965, while playing "The Last Time" in front of 5,000 fans at the Memorial Auditorium in Sacramento, California, his guitar touched his microphone stand, a flame shot out, and Richards dropped to the ground, unconscious. ![]() "How the Mars bar got into the story, I don't know," Richards recalled. In fact, Richards had politely answered the door and the police had found what Faithfull later called "a scene of pure domesticity." Richards and Jagger were brought up on drug charges and received brief prison sentences that were eventually overturned. A rumor immediately spread that the police had interrupted an orgy in which Jagger had been licking a Mars candy bar pushed into Faithfull's vagina. "I'd never been busted before, and I'm still on acid." It was later revealed that the police had been tipped off by a tabloid paper that had been tipped off by Richards' driver ("He never walked the same again," Richards recalled). "There's a knock on the door, I look out the window, and there's this whole lot of dwarves outside," wrote Richards. Richards, Jagger and Marianne Faithfull, who were all coming down from a daylong acid trip, were ensnared in the raid. A few months later, it became the site of one of the Sixties' most infamous drug busts, when 20 cops descended on the home in search of illegal substances. Richards purchased Redlands - a picturesque estate in Sussex, England - for £20,000 in 1966. "The love and devotion of like Rita is something that still amazes me." The chick was absolutely fearless," Richards wrote in his 2010 memoir, Life. (While out on bail, he even partied with Canadian Prime Minister Pierre Trudeau's frisky young wife, Margaret, who was hanging out with the band.) His community-service sentence: to play a benefit concert for the blind - a nod to Rita, the devoted, sightless Stones fan who buttonholed the judge and pleaded on Keith's behalf. Between this avid fandom, a halfhearted prosecution and a muscular defense, Keith was found guilty but walked anyway. ![]() By the time his case came up, in October '78, "there were five to six hundred people outside every time I turned up in court, chanting, 'Free Keith, free Keith,'" the guitarist recalled. Charged with possession for the purpose of trafficking, and looking at a potentially lengthy prison term, Richards posted bond and wangled a special visa permitting him to undergo an experimental addiction cure in the U.S. In February 1977, Canadian cops found roughly an ounce of heroin in Richards' hotel room. This is one fantastic debut CD by Livintrust and I see a bright future for these boys from Connecticut.By the mid-Seventies, Keith Richards was a drug-bust veteran, but this one topped them all and threatened to derail the Rolling Stones at their peak. But everything on this release is not about aggression check out the last track “Too Long” I think I see the women in the front throwing their numbers up to the band on this ballad. The worst thing I can say about Livintrust is that some of the songs sound alike, which is really not a bad thing if you like that particular song. Keith Caro’s pummeling guitar is employed on every song, most notably on “Sorry” as he busts out and leaves a dust trail of smoke behind. The tunes on “ Blind Drive” are written well and the music is performed with precision. The first two tracks “Weapons” and “We Are In” are killer with the arrangements, which makes them legit hits. ![]() What pipes on that boy Art Loomer reminding me of Three Days Grace with more aggression in the vein of Coby Dick of Papa Roach. Their songs are raw yet at the same time being able to reach AOR top rotation. Livintrust pumps out the most aggressive melodic alternative music I have heard in some time. These guys could be playing the main stage on Ozzyfest instead of playing clubs, lounges and colleges. not taking anything away from One6One records with their debut artist Livintrust. I wanted to know what the fuck is up with these major record companies?. I just went to the Livintrust official site and their Myspace site. ![]()
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