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boogie69
A long time ago, in a galaxy far away, there was a band called the Rolling Stones. Not the geezers who’ve been making worldwide tours with Mick Jagger’s leering face staring down from a JumboTron at the boomers who’ve shown up in rented limos, but the original band of British ne’er-do-wells who turned a passion for blues-soaked American music and a disregard for the opinion of just about anyone else into… whatever it ultimately turned into.
This is exactly what's wrong with this band nowadays, and why I hate them. Nobody besides these boomers in rented limos (and their offspring) can afford a decent seat at their shows anymore. How many stories have the older members on here told about how they got an upfront ticket to one of the shows on the 69-81 tours for a reasonable price, and sometimes at the last minute? How they got a good deal from a scalper right before the show? How they walked down to such and such place on their lunch break and bought good tickets? How they borrowed their mom's car, skipped school, and camped out to get tickets? You never hear of stories like this happening now. And why is that? BECAUSE NOONE UNDER THE AGE OF FIFTY CAN AFFORD TO GO TO THEIR F-UCKING SHOWS ANYMORE. How can anyone on here not see how wrong it is that this is no longer a possibility, and how wrong it is what the Rolling Stones have turned into? A souvenir T-shirt should not cost the better part of your paycheck. It's no longer rock n roll, it just business, pure and simple. The business has taken over the music and the experience, it's all finally dead. And all anyone on here wants to talk about is how great they still are and how cool Keith is, when all that coolness ever was was just an unrealistic ideal that we dreamed up to begin with to make our own lives seem more interesting. Why do you all continue to give these guys more money, just to see tired versions of the same songs you've seen and heard a million times. And then complain about how badly Keith and Ronnie played. What do you expect, THEY ARE ALMOST 70 AND ARE ONLY IN IT FOR THE MONEY NOW, despite whatever crap Keith tries to say to the contrary. I love their music as much as anyone here, they are always in my top three fave bands, I grew up listening to them, but I have no desire at all to pay to see these ridiculous spectacles they try and pass off as a rock n roll show. It ain't rock n roll, and hasn't been since the 81/82 tour, and even that one pushed the limits. And god forbid anyone have an opinion like mine and go against what all the sheep and cattle believe. Is there anyone, ANYONE, at least willing to admit I might have a point, or that can at least see that my point of view, while maybe not the same as yours, is just as true and valid? Or am I so jaded at 40 that I have no choice but to believe that Rock n Roll is dead because I can know longer buy into the bullshit of my idols like so many others still do? And before anyone calls me a troll, or says I'm sixteen, or can't get laid, or any of the other useless and pointless insults usually said to people who dare to voice a less than stellar opinion of the current state of this band, and rock n roll in general, I feel this way, I'm angry like this, because THESE GUYS ARE BREAKING MY F-UCKING HEART BECAUSE OF WHAT THEY HAVE TURNED INTO, AND HAVE HELPED TURN THE WHOLE SORRY INDUSTRY INTO.