Jet Will Keep Ticking So Long as Keith Richards Does

Posted on Jul 10th 2009 2:00PM by Steve Baltin
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Jet worked with one of rock's eight great wonders, Iggy Pop, when the pair teamed up in 2008 to record a version of the classic 'Wild One.' But having recently gone through some personal issues, the band found inspiration for staying together from other rock stalwarts. "Something that's sort of closer to us in terms of a band going through a lot of their own problems and staying together would be the Rolling Stones," Jet drummer Chris Cester tells Spinner.

As proof, he looks no further than the band's most resilient member. "You've got Keith Richards -- how is he still alive? He's like a cat, it's just insane, I don't understand," Cester says. "But that's what a band is. It just has to keep going."

Jet witnessed that perseverance firsthand opening for the Stones and sharing a bill with Pearl Jam. "One time I was on stage watching them and I'm not the biggest Pearl Jam fan," Cester says. "[But] I really had a moment of admiration for them watching them. They were playing in front of a huge audience in Germany of about 50,000 people and I was just sitting there with Cam [guitarist Cameron Muncey] and I turned to him and said, 'Staying together is almost the whole game.' Nobody really cares about a band that comes and goes and disappears. The fact that they stayed around forever is really appreciated by everyone and that's something to aspire to as a musician."