In August 1968, The Yardbirds with Jimmy Page on lead guitar play their last ever gig at Luton Technical College in England. The band then breaks up. Page begins looking to form a new band. Manager Peter Grant agrees to continue working with Page. Steve Marriott suggests Robert Plant. Plant suggests John Bonham. John Paul Jones, a colleague from Page’s session days offers his services. The New Yardbirds are born, soon to change their name to Led Zeppelin. Why this history lesson? Ron Wood is so completely out of it, he actually believes that Grant forms the New Yardbirds, that Grant recruits Plant and Bonham, and that Grant then asks Ronnie to be their guitarist, which Ronnie turns down, followed by Grant “hiring” Jimmy Page. If Ronnie Wood is this completely historically inaccurate, how can we trust anything else he says? Sure it’s possible that this is his only inaccuracy. But for an error, or memory lapse, or whatever it is, of this magnitude, so easily corrected, it is remarkable that it slipped passed the editor(s). Bottom line: purchase this book with caution as to it’s accuracy.

Just wondering why another autobiography??! The first one just didn’t sell I guess….So lets add up some other juicy details…

Just wondering why another autobiography??! The first one just didn’t sell I guess….So lets add up some other juicy details…

Just wondering why another autobiography??! The first one just didn’t sell I guess….So lets add up some other juicy details…

RIGHT ON WOODROW ! ! !
Tell it like it is OR how you thought it was…….

Judging from the comment about Richards “Woodie” may be joining forces with Michael Anthony, Sammy Hagar, and the first bassist from Bon Jovi. Christ Ronnie, if Keith hadn’t saved you from the Faces, they’ve done a lot recently eh’, you’d be a trivia question. I wonder if it covers the time that Keith almost replaced you with any number of guitarists because your drunk ass couldn’t play. Some things are better left unsaid or unwritten.

Beltway Greg

ANOTHER MONEY MAKER

Eh, I used to threaten people with guns, have naked girls run up and down the aisles of my private jet and I freebased ALOT of cocaine………….wait, that was my mom. Fuck.

Cocaine and Handguns?

I thought this was Ronnie Wood’s bio, not Phil Spector’s!

Hopefully Ron wont follow up this endeavor with a solo album!

Haha, that third tidbit was completely new to me. I am looking forward to this. I am in the middle of “The Heroin Diaries” right now and it is fucking crazy. Nikki Sixx was out of his fuckin head.