Latest / Booked On Rock with Eric Senich / [HIGHLIGHT] When Mick Jagger Mistook Talcum Powder for Cocaine - From EP 391
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- 0:00Speaker 1: Here's just a part of a recent episode of book
- 0:02Speaker 1: Don Rock Richard Lefkowitz. He is the author of Welcome
- 0:06Speaker 1: to Fabulous Angelus, The Rock and Roll Adventures of a
- 0:09Speaker 1: Wayward West Side teen. I partied with the Rolling Stones
- 0:13Speaker 1: until seven this morning. You said, Mom, smirked, you need
- 0:17Speaker 1: to start rolling yourself into bed, not stoned at a
- 0:20Speaker 1: decent hour. I shook my seat, did you hear me?
- 0:22Speaker 1: I partied with Ronnie and Keith mob slid her leftover
- 0:26Speaker 1: salad onto my plate. That's nice, dear, but you need
- 0:29Speaker 1: your sleep. What was the funniest thing that happened during
- 0:34Speaker 1: that night with Keith and Ronnie that made you think,
- 0:36Speaker 1: you know what, only in Los Angeles can this happen?
- 0:38Speaker 2: Well, it's just amazing how and there was security and
- 0:41Speaker 2: I mentioned names and we did know them slightly from
- 0:45Speaker 2: the year before when we party with Mick at the
- 0:47Speaker 2: West Marquis. And by the way, when we're in that
- 0:50Speaker 2: hotel room with Mick and seventy eight, I wasn't putting
- 0:53Speaker 2: on a ship. I was quiet. I was intimidated. I mean,
- 0:56Speaker 2: my god, we were just up there hanging out and
- 0:58Speaker 2: Mick comes in with Jerry Paul and It's funny because
- 1:02Speaker 2: I read an interview with Mick A FEUs later saying
- 1:05Speaker 2: most of the men I meet on the tours are
- 1:07Speaker 2: task turned. I had to look that word up and
- 1:09Speaker 2: taska turned exactly was what I was withdrawn, completely intimidated.
- 1:14Speaker 2: Plus there's blow going around the room. It was nineteen
- 1:18Speaker 2: seventy eight. You know that doesn't exactly calm you down.
- 1:21Speaker 2: I hope you never know. It's a dreadful, devilish drug.
- 1:24Speaker 2: Stay away, I say, but this is the girls tour
- 1:29Speaker 2: right exactly. And also they were with a lot of
- 1:33Speaker 2: being uptight because Keith was still on bail. They didn't
- 1:36Speaker 2: know if he was going to jail for life for
- 1:38Speaker 2: hero he e been caught introl. He woke up in
- 1:41Speaker 2: Toronto with the Montreal what are you Canadian police whatever
- 1:46Speaker 2: you call people. Well he was in Toronto though not Montreal,
- 1:49Speaker 2: and he uh, he got arrested for trafficking and they
- 1:53Speaker 2: didn't know that. So, as it turned out, the barbarians
- 1:56Speaker 2: had to do a benefit for the blind he had
- 1:59Speaker 2: was sentenced to. He went to rehab and he made
- 2:02Speaker 2: a good showing. And the truth is they had some
- 2:04Speaker 2: damn good lawyers and he got he did not have
- 2:06Speaker 2: to go to jail. But the next year he toured
- 2:09Speaker 2: with Ronnie as the New Barbarians. And to satisfy that sentence,
- 2:13Speaker 2: he was did it benefit for the blind? The album's out,
- 2:18Speaker 2: you could stream it and uh, they did the rehearsals
- 2:21Speaker 2: in la And then he asked me, what the funniest
- 2:25Speaker 2: thing is? The whole thing is, it's amazing what you're
- 2:29Speaker 2: the security guys. May Or may not remembered Moxie, but
- 2:31Speaker 2: he was just so full of charisma and you just
- 2:35Speaker 2: couldn't say no that it's amazing. How much just a
- 2:38Speaker 2: little bit of that get you right in the door.
- 2:41Speaker 2: You know, that's the funniest thing. The funny you know,
- 2:43Speaker 2: the funny the stories in the book is Keith. The
- 2:46Speaker 2: really funny story about Mick that he Keith said he
- 2:50Speaker 2: used Falcolm powder for his hands and he puts him
- 2:53Speaker 2: on the amp during a show and you know he
- 2:57Speaker 2: went back to play. Mick came over and snorted it.
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