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Concert promoter Michael Cohl told Pollstar last year that the partnership, forged during a blockbuster reunion tour in support of the bands Steel Wheels album, specifically limited involvement by the current Republican Party front-runner. But Trump, Cohl said, inserted himself into the promotional push for the event anyway sending Keith Richards nearly over the edge.
Keith pulls out his knife and slams it on the table and says, What the hell do I have you for? Do I have to go over there and fire him myself? One of us is leaving the building either him or us,' Cohl remembered the Stones guitarist telling him. I said, No. Ill go do it. Dont you worry.'
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Cohl even made Trump agree not to attend the show, but the real-estate businessman went off script. At 6PM on concert night, Cohl discovered Trump in the venue press room, holding court with reporters. A terse discussion resulted in Trump promising to stop talking to the media, Cohl said.
But once the promoter left, Trump resumed his news conference and that prompted Richards angry ultimatum. Cohl returned for a second confrontation with Trump, and he said it quickly got out of hand. Trump brought along three brass-knuckled bodyguards, according to Cohl, and then went berserk.
Hoyt
(54,770 posts)on inauguration day as a preemptive strike.
CentralMass
(15,265 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)Doesn't miss a beat AND he bailed the guy out. Classy fella, that Keef.
Drumpf, on the other hand... looks like he shit his pants.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)Turborama
(22,109 posts)Love it.
napkinz
(17,199 posts)beam me up scottie
(57,349 posts)spanone
(135,846 posts)fuckatrump
Initech
(100,081 posts)monmouth4
(9,708 posts)yuiyoshida
(41,832 posts)Botany
(70,521 posts)Increasingly worried, Cohl said he called his own security detail, which was already en route with tire irons and hockey sticks and screwdrivers, Cohl recalled. Now are you gonna go, Donald? And off he went, and that was the night I fired Donald Trump.
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BTW Trump is batshit crazy.
Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)He can't be punked (or killed) by conventional means.
rockfordfile
(8,704 posts)Solly Mack
(90,773 posts)Monk06
(7,675 posts)Street sessions and Jean de Breteuil was also implicated in Jim Morrison's OD by Marianne Faithful
They were all jacked on heroin back then including John Lennon who stopped by and puked on the living room floor then left
It's rumored Mick Taylor left the group because he was afraid he was going to die of an OD trying to keep up with Keith and the rest of them
Erose999
(5,624 posts)in exchange for a share of their gov't supplied dope. At that time the UK gov't would supply recovering addicts and attempt to wean them off, and also supplied them with speed in an attempt to make them more productive... hence the "speedball" cocktail of herion and speed that killed so many.
awoke_in_2003
(34,582 posts)It's the only way to be sure
Erose999
(5,624 posts)malaise
(269,063 posts)Erose999
(5,624 posts)DinahMoeHum
(21,795 posts)(snip)
The Stones had such power in those days that the 6:40 p.m. slot on the national evening news was going to be an interview with the Stones to talk about and promote the pay-per-view. At about 5:50 p.m. I get word that I have to come to the press room in the next building. I run to the press room in the next building and what do you think is happening? Theres Donald Trump giving a press conference, in our room!
I give him the [come here gesture]. Come on, Donald, what are you doing? A) You promised us you wouldnt even be here and, B) you promised you would never do this.
He says, But they begged me to go up, Michael! They begged me to go up!
I say, Stop it. Stop it. This could be crazy. Do what you said you would. Dont make a liar of yourself.
I go back to the dressing room. Five minutes later, hes back up. They call me back over there. Holy shit. I call him out (again). Same thing happens. I say, Donald. I dont know if I can control this. Stop it. I go back to the dressing room. And I leave my walkie-talkie on in the dressing room. Moronic, on my part.
They call me back, at which point Keith pulls out his knife and slams it on the table and says, What the hell do I have you for? Do I have to go over there and fire him myself? One of us is leaving the building either him, or us. I said, No. Ill go do it. Dont you worry.
I run over. Hes up there again! I go [gives the come here gesture]. We go into the hallway. I said, Donald. You lied. You broke your promise. One of two things is going to happen. Youre going to leave the building and, at 6:40, The Rolling Stones are going to speak on CBS News, or youre not going to leave the building and Im going to go on and do an interview to explain to the world why the pay-per-view was canceled. I know its your building and and in my head Im going, this is so crazy, right? Im trying to throw Donald Trump out of his own building.
But, anyway, the bottom line is I look at Donald and said,
You and Marla (Maples) have to go. Youre fired.
He looks at me and goes berserk.
You dont know anything! Your guys suck! I promote Mike Tyson! I promote heavyweight fights!
And I notice the three shtarkers hes with, in trench coats, two of them are putting on gloves and the other one is putting on brass knuckles. I go on the walkie-talkie and I call for Jim Callahan, who was head of our security, and I go, Jim, I think Im in a bit of trouble. And he says, Just turn around.
I turn around. Hes got 40 of the crew with tire irons and hockey sticks and screwdrivers.
And now, are you gonna go, Donald?
And off he went.
(snip)
Miles Archer
(18,837 posts)Thanks for posting that.