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Keith Richards is still more Rock than You

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There are hundreds of bands who make their way to Los Angeles to try to make it big, but sometimes it seems like they refuse to learn the lessons being laid down by their forefathers.

And one of the greatest rock legends is still doling out the lessons on how to be a rock star, even though he says he's not.

In an article published today in NME, 63-year-old Rolling Stone guitarist Keith Richards said that he sucked something up his nose that no one else in the world has ever snorted, his old man.

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"The strangest thing I've tried to snort? My father. I snorted my father," Richards was quoted as saying by British music magazine NME. "He was cremated and I couldn't resist grinding him up with a little bit of blow. My dad wouldn't have cared," he said. "... It went down pretty well, and I'm still alive."

Richards' father, Bert, died in 2002, at 84. - AP

Totally fake ending: When asked how it made him feel to get high off death, Richards said, "happy."
AP photo by Stuart Ramson

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