{"id":2534,"date":"2010-01-28T11:28:08","date_gmt":"2010-01-28T16:28:08","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2010-01-28T11:28:08","modified_gmt":"2010-01-28T11:28:08","slug":"imagine-a-sober-keith-richards","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/imagine-a-sober-keith-richards\/","title":{"rendered":"Imagine a Sober Keith Richards"},"content":{"rendered":"<div class=\"image_block\" style=\"text-align: center;\"><img loading=\"lazy\" src=\"http:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/media\/blogs\/rth\/townhallkeef.jpg\" alt=\"\" title=\"\" width=\"308\" height=\"400\" \/><\/div>\n<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard <a href=\"http:\/\/www.guardian.co.uk\/music\/musicblog\/2010\/jan\/26\/sober-keith-richards\" target=_blank>this story<\/a> by now: Keef has been sober for the last 4 months. Can you handle this, Stones fans and general fans of vicariously living through any &#8220;Bad Boy?&#8221; <\/p>\n<p>I say, from all accounts the guy has partied enough for a few lifetimes. If he decides to stick with this, he&#8217;s got nothing to lose. Imagine how much work it takes for him to get a buzz after all these years of saturation?<\/p>\n<p>What really should be at issue is what this means for Keef&#8217;s creativity. Can there be a Rolling Stones led by a sober Keith Richards? Do The X-Pensive Winos become <em>Ex<\/em>-Pensive? Will passing around a bottle of root beer suffice while gathered around a mic, doing backing vocals with Mick and a couple of backing singers? Will Keef remember that it takes two hands to play guitar?<\/p>\n<p>Free your mind, Townspeople, and share with us your thoughts on a world with a sober Keef. Thanks.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;m sure you&#8217;ve heard this story by now: Keef has been sober for the last 4 months. Can you handle this, Stones fans and general fans of vicariously living through any &#8220;Bad Boy?&#8221; I say, from all accounts the guy has partied enough for a few lifetimes. If he decides to stick with this, he&#8217;s <a href='https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/imagine-a-sober-keith-richards\/' class='excerpt-more'>[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":5,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[342],"tags":[45],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/5"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2534"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2534\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2534"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2534"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rocktownhall.com\/blogs\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2534"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}