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Long Beach’s Magic Lantern have finally gone and released a new sonic document after what seemed like an eternity of waiting. Eagerly anticipated by those who have been biding their time waiting for the band to get on with their uber limited cassette only and CD-R releases (their Self-Titled CD-R was limited to 30), “High Beams”, the band’s latest opus [...]
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With the WTF? headline from NME today that Keith Richards snorted his father’s ashes, I thought I would share this other little nugget of rock n’ roll ash snortting history.
Brought to my attention by my friend Kurt, a veritable wealth of rock n’ roll trivia, was that when Stiv Bators (of The Dead Boys fame) died, his ashes were snorted by his girlfriend, which was documented in the book, Please Kill Me: The Uncensored Oral History of Punk.
Upon his death, Stiv wanted to be cremated and then he wanted all of his close friends to do a line of his ashes. And a few people did.
And check out this weird Keith-Stiv coincidence in a Phoenix New Times article from last year in which Rat Scabies (former drummer of The Damned) claims that director, Jim Jarmusch, partook in snorting a line of Stiv’s ashes.
On the subject of the Dead Boys and their late singer, Stiv Bators, Rat shares a fascinating story.
“He did so many drugs, and he always said that when he died, he wanted to be cremated and have all his friends snort a line of his ashes,” Rat says. “And he did.”
But did people really snort Stiv Bators?
“I know Jim Jarmusch did,” Rat says, referring to the film director responsible for avant-garde indie flicks like Dead Man.
Keith Richards’ ashes would make for a decent high, I offer.
“Yeah, but he’s not dead,” Rat says.
How’s that for a coincidence?