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Originally Posted by El Diablo
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I was so excited to get to see the steel wheels tour in 89 because I did not want to miss my last chance at seeing The Rolling Stones live!
Seemingly the last US date of that tour was at the Trump casino in Atlantic City and Keef, who is a gent, disliked Trump quite a bit even at that time, so the band put a clause in their contract with the casino that the publicity could not claim any kind of connection between Trump and the Stones. Trump insisted on visiting the band backstage and Keef wasn't pleased and took out a knife and banged it down on the table. (On previous tours, when gun shops didn't demand ID, Keef was apt to acquire Colt .45s, so Trump was getting off lightly.)
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In regard to Keef being a gent, look at the picture of his library at Redlands, Sussex, in that article. (It's a beautiful, thatched, moated Elizabethan manor house and Keef has lived there, pretty quietly, for over 50 years, buying up local woodlands and meadows to preserve the landscape.) And he's got a bigger library at his place in Connecticut. He also loves public libraries, and if he hadn't become a musician like his grandad, he'd have been a librarian. Mick would have been an accountant, the career he was training for till he was certain that music would pay, but Mick is also a bit of a gent, which is why, in the infamous 1967 drug bust at Redlands, he took the rap for Marianne Faithfull's stash. ('I'm an evil Stone, it won't hurt my career, but you're this pure demure chick, it would finish you.')
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