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Rolling Stone guitarist says ‘Ronnie’ is just volume one

Billboard updated 6:40 p.m. PT, Wed., Oct. 31, 2007

DETROIT - Rolling Stones guitarist Ron Wood’s memoir has just hit U.S. bookshelves, but he’s already talking about another volume — and even a film adaptation.

In fact, Wood says he’s “already been approached” by producers interested in putting his life story on the big screen.

“I think it would make quite an interesting one, actually,” he said. “They’re all saying, ‘Who is gonna play you in your movie?’ ‘What?! I have no idea.’ That’ll be a challenge.”

Wood said he regards “Ronnie: The Autobiography” (St. Martin’s Press) to be “part one” of the tale. “I’ve remembered a load more since,” he said. “There’s already a book two kind of ticking over on the back burner if I wanted to do that.”

Book 1 certainly has plenty for fans to chew on until that time. Wood writes frankly about his rock ‘n’ roll experiences, including sharing a flat with Jimi Hendrix and playing in the Jeff Beck Group, the Faces and the Stones.

Then there’s his relationships with Patti Harrison (between her marriages to George Harrison and Eric Clapton) and former Canadian first lady Margaret Trudeau and his own problems with drugs, alcohol and finances. There’s plenty of musical analysis, as well as loads of sensational details, including Keith Richards pulling a gun on Wood when he discovered Wood freebasing cocaine.

“It surprised me how much did come flooding back, and how much has come flooding back since,” Wood said. “It’s quite therapeutic, actually. I’ve always known that fate played a big part in my life, being at the right place at the right time — and also on a few occasions being at the wrong place at the wrong time.”

Wood will promote “Ronnie” for the balance of the year and also will prepare a coffee table book of his artwork. The Stones, he said, are enjoying their individual “sabbaticals” after the Bigger Bang world tour but will reconvene for the April rollout of Martin Scorsese’s documentary “Shine a Light.”

“We had a quick preview of one cut of it in Rome (in July),” Wood said. “I was like, ‘Wow ...’ People were going, ‘That was fantastic!’ and I was going, ‘Was it?’ It was too much for me. I love it, but it was too much.”



Related Story...Rolling Stones’ gunfight: Richards vs. Wood

It’s hard to imagine Keith Richards giving anyone flack over drug use, but he gave the “clean coach” treatment to fellow Rolling Stone Ron Wood back in the day. Well, sort of. In his upcoming autobiography, “Ronnie,” Ron describes his inconvenient cocaine addiction and Keith’s very special display of “tough love.”

“Everybody was angry with me around this time, and after a row with Keith one day, he stormed off to get his gun," the 60-year-old guitarist writes in an excerpt published in the New York Daily News. “He returned with his derringer, pointed it at me and yelled ‘You f---ing b-----d!' I calmly pulled out my .44 Magnum. And that was the last time Keith drew his gun on me ... until the next time.”

Gunplay between the glazed guitar gods wasn’t always a factor, but Keith’s violent interventions grew into a fairly common occurance. In another passage, Ron describes a hotel room dragout “(Keith) barged in, broke the glass bowl of pipe, and came straight at my face,” Ron writes. “He smashed a bottle and cut me with it. I stormed out and went to find Mick (Jagger) and Charlie (Watts), who were working on a song in a room along the corridor. While I stood there bleeding all over the carpet, Mick looked up and asked: ‘Have you got any ideas for the middle eight?’”

Upon Ron’s return, Keith “pulled out his huge ratchet knife, put it to my throat and yelled ... ‘I'd f—ing cut your throat, but your girlfriend would never forgive me for all the mess I'd make.’”

http://www.msnbc.msn.com/id/21570033/

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tA

Tribal Disorder

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[Edited 11/16/07 16:26pm]

it would be an interesting read

but id rather read this

or even this

prb said:

Brought this one up some weeks ago.


tA

Tribal Disorder

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have u read it yet? if so, is it any good?
i cant find that thread

prb said:

Now that I think about it, it was a suggestion to RipHer2Shreds within the body of another thread.

Haven't read it yet but i'm gonna pick it up within the next few weeks.


tA

Tribal Disorder

http://www.soundclick.com...dID=182431