Posted on 04/26/2021 5:49:41 PM PDT by nickcarraway
Ron Wood said he's cancer free once more, after revealing a new bout with a rare and aggressive form of the disease amid the coronavirus pandemic.
"I've had cancer two different ways now," Ronnie told the London-based Sun. "I had lung cancer in 2017, and I had small-cell more recently that I fought in the last lockdown."
Small-cell cancers are typically detected in the lungs but can also be found in the bladder, prostate, pancreas and lymph nodes. Wood, who earlier had a portion of his lung removed after the cancerous lesion was discovered, did not specify which area was impacted this time.
The Rolling Stones guitarist said he kept busy with painting, a longtime second career, focusing on wife Sally and their four-year-old twins for his subject matter. Wood said getting sober likely worked his favor, but that he also turned to prayer.
"When you hand the outcome over to your higher power, that is a magic thing," he said. "That brings you back to the Serenity Prayer: 'Grant me the serenity to accept the things I cannot change.' That's incredible. What will be, will be; it's nothing to do with me. All I can do is stay positive in my attitude, be strong and fight it, and the rest is up to my higher power."
Wood teamed up with Imelda May and Noel Gallagher in January for the single "Just One Kiss," while the Rolling Stones remain off the road. He'd previously predicted that the group might issue its first album of original material since 2005's A Bigger Bang last year, before COVID-19 halted the industry.
One of the best personalities in rock.
Lived the life of a rocker and is paying for it with the C. Like Alice, came through it a heck of a nice guy, imho.
Wish him the best!!
He good?
“Keef” will out live us all. Even covid runs away when he’s around!
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‘I can’t believe I’m still here either,’ he says with a raspy laugh, banging on his chest to indicate lungs free of the cancerous lesion that was removed two years ago. ‘Cocaine, heroin, booze, freebasing [smoking pure cocaine], I went for it all, but it’s the fags [cigarettes] that are almost the hardest to kick. I went to the precipice and I looked over it but I never let myself drop down. Even in my maddest days I knew when to stop because there would be a thought in my head: “I want to do this and that and I can’t if I keep going.”’
Not Stories but Faces.
How is Richards holding up?
He good?
Keith died in 1972 but he's got so much heroine coagulated in his veins that he can't find a way to fall over.
Even Bill Wyman is still kicking at 84. Amazing, that outside of Brian Jones, they’ve all made it this far.
Good for Ronnie! What a great painter and player. I love the sounds he put out with Faces.
Oops! You’re right. I’ve always mixed that up. I think it’s because I used to think it was Rod Stewart singing lead on Brother Louie, a song by the band Stories.
Anyway, thanks.
Stories - Brother Louie 1973 (HQ)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmF3jDwSTmI
He was still playing bass when I saw them for the first and only time back in '89 at Shea Stadium here in New York. It was the Steel Wheels Tour. Never forget it.
"The Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels Tour was a concert tour which was launched in North America in August 1989 to promote the band's album Steel Wheels; it continued to Japan in February 1990, with ten shows at the Tokyo Dome.
The European leg of the tour, which featured a different stage and logo, was called the Urban Jungle Tour; it ran from May to August 1990.
These would be the last live concerts for the band with original member Bill Wyman on bass guitar."
--Wikipedia
The lead singer of Stories sounds more like Rod Stewart on this more familiar studio version of the song than that live one I linked to earlier...
Stories - ‘Brother Louie’ (HD)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mUCcULhyN1I
I saw that show at The Cotton Bowl, almost got crushed getting to my seat.
Brian Jones died for their sins, the rest of them will live forever, it seems
” Amazing, that outside of Brian Jones, they’ve all made it this far.”
It’s interesting. Seems like those who’ve lived the rock & roll lifestyle generally fall into one of two camps: (1) die young, as in *really* young; or (2) amazingly, incomprehensibly indestructible. There doesn’t seem to be that much middle ground. And the Stones, other that Brian Jones, seem to fall mainly into the latter camp.
It’s possible that Jones was murdered.
I saw that show at The Cotton Bowl, almost got crushed getting to my seat.
The most memorable moment for me was the inflatable dolls during Honky Tonk Woman...
The Rolling Stones - Honky Tonk Woman.
Live at the Max - Steel Wheels Tour, @ Turin, Italy - 28th July 1990
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CqVdRS3FCf8
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