Keith Richards
Madison Square Garden
November 27, 1969
 
By Michael Friedman
 
Rock & Roll’s quintessential bad boy.  Friedman lived in a small town in Connecticut for the past 15 years and so has Keith, just around the corner.  His kids went to school in town, and he and Patti were involved in the same activities as Friedman's friends and family.  Friedman says he never heard a negative story or even a word about Keith misbehaving.  Keith played at the local pub from time to time, always was a gentleman and an all-around good guy...until Keith left town and well, we all know those stories.
 
I think Kris Kristofferson summed it up in his song The Pilgrim:
 
    He’s a poet, he’s a picker
 
    He’s a prophet, he’s a pusher
 
    He’s a pilgrim and a preacher, 
    and a problem when he’s stoned
 
    He’s a walkin’ contradiction, 
    partly truth and partly fiction, 
 
    Takin’ every wrong direction 
    on his lonely way back home
 
    From the rockin of the cradle 
    to the rollin’ of the hearse
 
    The goin’ up was worth the 
    comin’ down