The drums were given to me by Keith Richards. He sent them to me as a Christmas present, and he sent Steve Jordan as the drum teacher. And at a certain point I had these drums. I was not great, but not terrible. At a certain point, a former godson of mine — because if you’re my godchildren, you can become former — a former godson of mine became overly involved in heroin and I thought, even though all evidence to the contrary, “Maybe this will distract him from that.” So I gave him my drums. It did not work, of course, as in fact drumming and heroin, they go together pretty well.
So I don’t have the drums, I might get some other drums. Keith’s doing really well, maybe he’ll send me some more.


