Life Does Give You Second Chances, or: He's Got the Silver, He's Got the Gold

Brian Doherty | July 12, 2007

Just a sweet story of senior success: You might think life after retiring from playing bass in the Rolling Stones would be a letdown, sheer dreary decay. But if you've got some hustle, learn from Bill Wyman: you can apparently move on to a lucrative and fulfilling second career as a designer and hawker of metal detectors.

Comments

|7.12.07 @ 1:43PM|#

wow.

:-|7.12.07 @ 1:52PM|#

I don't get it.
My snark detector must be on the fritz.

Randolph Carter|7.12.07 @ 2:00PM|#

I bet you could get some crazy feedback on a modded metal detector bass

|7.12.07 @ 2:02PM|#

Metal? I heard he found a ruby Tuesday.

TLB|7.12.07 @ 2:07PM|#

He can find the pin in Mick's hip.

Do I win?

Sal Paradise|7.12.07 @ 2:12PM|#

Keef's coke spoon is definitely down there somewhere.

|7.12.07 @ 2:12PM|#

I see that F. Scott Fitzgerald's maxim really does only apply to Americans.

Brian Sorgatz|7.12.07 @ 2:24PM|#

LOL Before I followed the link, I thought he was selling airport-style metal detectors. I thought, how paranoid is this guy getting in his old age?

|7.12.07 @ 2:30PM|#

He's also got a restaurant called "Sticky Fingers," which I'm pretty sure pissed off the remaining Stones.

http://www.stickyfingers.co.uk/

So he seems to be doing OK.

|7.12.07 @ 2:34PM|#

Oh man, I wish you passed that one by Brian. I'd rather not have seen that.

|7.12.07 @ 3:01PM|#

Its a healthy outdoor pursuit and more likely to pay for itself than golf

|7.12.07 @ 3:18PM|#

Wyman's Metal Detector says "I come with a money back guarantee in case you can't get no satisfaction when you start me up."

Mike Laursen|7.12.07 @ 3:28PM|#

Geez, this is worse than when I found out Neil Young likes to play with toy trains.

|7.12.07 @ 3:58PM|#

I'm still waiting to hear how Lars Ulrich likes knitting...

What could it be?|7.12.07 @ 4:21PM|#

In even more minor, non-rock-star celebrity trivia, I find one of JaneaaneGarrofallo's hobbies actually quite cute. Of course, she's probably muttering about how much she hates anyone to the right of her while she's doing it, but it's still pretty cute.

highnumber|7.12.07 @ 5:48PM|#

He was always the old man of the band.

Anyway, I'll bet he's not doing as well as Ronnie Wood.

Randolph Carter|7.12.07 @ 5:52PM|#

hmmm....

Janeane Garafalo is kind of hot. Huh.

|7.12.07 @ 8:18PM|#

Bill Wyman: The Under Assistant Metal Detection Promotion Man.

|7.12.07 @ 8:38PM|#

Watch out if an ex-Stone asks you "Do you have any artificial plates or limbs?"