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

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

bb | July 12, 2007, 1:43pm | #

wow.

:- | July 12, 2007, 1:52pm | #

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

Randolph Carter | July 12, 2007, 2:00pm | #

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

Taktix® | July 12, 2007, 2:02pm | #

Metal? I heard he found a ruby Tuesday.

TLB | July 12, 2007, 2:07pm | #

He can find the pin in Mick's hip.

Do I win?

Sal Paradise | July 12, 2007, 2:12pm | #

Keef's coke spoon is definitely down there somewhere.

de stijl | July 12, 2007, 2:12pm | #

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

Brian Sorgatz | July 12, 2007, 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?

Dylan | July 12, 2007, 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.

Warren | July 12, 2007, 2:34pm | #

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

Julian | July 12, 2007, 3:01pm | #

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

NoStar | July 12, 2007, 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 | July 12, 2007, 3:28pm | #

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

Taktix® | July 12, 2007, 3:58pm | #

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

What could it be? | July 12, 2007, 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 | July 12, 2007, 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 | July 12, 2007, 5:52pm | #

hmmm....

Janeane Garafalo is kind of hot. Huh.

Matt L | July 12, 2007, 8:18pm | #

Bill Wyman: The Under Assistant Metal Detection Promotion Man.

Jon H | July 12, 2007, 8:38pm | #

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