My New Year's Resolution

[Monte Davis]

Rich Romeo sez:

> I was very disappointed with Keith's autobiography...

Mixed reactions here. In some ways he's more substantial than I expected, in
others self-blind (unlike all present, company, of course). E.g., his
growing irritation at Jagger's mingling with the glitterati, as if it were
betraying the days when they huddled in a cold London squat listening to
R&B...

I mean hey, Keef, you're pondering this on a Gulfstream flying you from
Parrot Bay to the Riviera or to upscale Connecticut squiredom. And along the
way you maintained for decades a phalanx of million-dollar lawyers ready to
defend your million-dollar habits. Would the staunch Red Laborite forebears
you extol have recognized this as a working-class hero?  Keepin it real,
right?

Over the holidays I also finally got to Levon Helm's much more interesting
1993 _This Wheel's On Fire_. And speaking of wretched pharmaceutical excess,
his description of the White Room backstage at Winterland for "The Last
Waltz" is purest Pynchon.

-Monte