No doubt most of the people in here are huge fans of The Stones but I was wondering if any of you have ever taken a "long break" from the band. I did in the latter part of the eightees- was in my late teens early twenties. Can't even remember why, maybe peeved because they stopped touring after 81' and seemed to "mail it in" for the Dirty Work album. They were still my favorite band but just wasn't into them the same way.

Later on in the early 90's I rediscovered them- bought "Dirty Work" and "Steel Wheels" years after they were released and started getting back into the music- buying all their stuff on cd and now I am more into the band than ever.

Was wondering if anyone else has had a similar experience and took a break from the band/lost interest in the band for a few years?

Yeah car stereo broke down while driving
to the local hotel to pick-up more booze....



ROCKMAN

Yes, twice.

I the 70's I had a period (over the IORR and B&B album) I listened to other kind of music, like Zappa, Crimson, Yes, Genesis, Camel, Tull and stuff like that.

Second time was this summer 2006. Because of the disappointment of the cancelled shows in Europe.

they got my goat so bad with Angie that i refused to buy their records for a few years.
i still Liked Keith, but i was pretty thoroughly displeased by the Rolling Stones.
of course there was no way to avoid them *completely*, and they almost lured me back with IORR -
that irresistibly loony promo video! and by 76/77 i'd forgiven them.
so by the time ER came out and sent so many people screeching, i'd already learned:
the Rolling Stones get everyone's goat sooner or later, and you might as well love 'em for it
because a fat lot of good it does not loving 'em.

yes....I seem to remember a ten minute hiatus back around 1987. Or maybe it was 1988.

Gazza Wrote:
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> yes....I seem to remember a ten minute hiatus back
> around 1987. Or maybe it was 1988.

10 minutes? That long? Thats an outrage!!
Just think, you could've listened to midnight rambler instead...

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with sssoul Wrote:
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> they got my goat so bad with Angie that i refused
> to buy their records for a few years.
> i still Liked Keith, but i was pretty thoroughly
> displeased by the Rolling Stones.
> of course there was no way to avoid them
> *completely*, and they almost lured me back with
> IORR -
> that irresistibly loony promo video! and by 76/77
> i'd forgiven them.
> so by the time ER came out and sent so many people
> screeching, i'd already learned:
> the Rolling Stones get everyone's goat sooner or
> later, and you might as well love 'em for it
> because a fat lot of good it does not loving 'em.

Funny, that, seing Keith wrote "Angie" ;-)

>> Funny, that, seing Keith wrote "Angie" <<

indeed he did - i even (grudgingly!) concede that Keith must have agreed to the sappy strings on it.
but at the time it really sullied the panache of being a chick who got into the Stones -
i was a Keithbabe! i dug the gritty stuff! and suddenly being mistaken for one of these soppy pop-type Angie chicks
going gooey over Mick in that ludicrous little hat [gag] - people who prior to Angie wouldn't touch the Stones with a bargepole -
was deeply traumatic. and my way of proving i wasn't One of Those was to boycott their albums.
and a fat lot of good it did me, huh?! :E

~*hail hail Rolling Stones!*~

with sssoul Wrote:
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> >> Funny, that, seing Keith wrote "Angie" <<
>
> indeed he did - i even (grudgingly!) concede that
> Keith must have agreed to the sappy strings on
> it.
> but at the time it really sullied the panache of
> being a chick who got into the Stones -
> i was a Keithbabe! i dug the gritty stuff! and
> suddenly being mistaken for one of these soppy
> pop-type Angie chicks
> going gooey over Mick in that ludicrous little hat
> - people who prior to Angie wouldn't touch the
> Stones with a bargepole -
> was deeply traumatic. and my way of proving i
> wasn't One of Those was to boycott their albums.
>
> and a fat lot of good it did me, huh?! :E
>
> ~*hail hail Rolling Stones!*~

I take it, you're referring to the video that accompanied Angie at the time?

But I remember seing a different video, shot in very dark colors - I think it might have been a live take (remember the stage-set around '73, where they would have these huge "searchlights" behind the amplifiers projecting light beams over the stage?) with Jagger in his jumpsuit gyrating on the stage floor all covered in articial smoke ...the rest of the Stones mainly in the dark (I think Keef dressed in his black suit with the red rose - but maybe I'M projecting now?? *lol*) (History puts a saint in every dream)

....I thought that was fantastic and it made a huge impression on me (I was only around 12 at the time - and a boy) - but then at the time I had no preconcieved ideas of how the Stones oughta be ;-)

Have you reconciled yourself with Angie? Personally, I liked it then and I still think it's a great number - perhaps even greater now than then?

yeah, there is that other Angie promo as well - look at how *happy* Keith looks in it [not!]
and i still wonder who had the bottle to style his hair like that while he was out cold (he must've been!)

>> I had no preconcieved ideas of how the Stones oughta be <<

yeah, that's the main thing: it is always a mistake to imagine we've got a fence around 'em,
that there's some set way the Stones "ought to" sound (or look, or behave).
the Stones will do what the Stones will do, just like all the other forces of nature.

>> Have you reconciled yourself with Angie? <<

thanks for your concern - i tolerate some of the acoustic versions all right.
and i do recognize that it is a truly great pop ballad - my not being able to love it is a failing of mine, not the number's.

sigh! i'll keep working on it ...



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i sometimes go weeks without listening to them.

then listen to them every saturday night for a few hours for a couple of months,

although there is some songs i havent listened to for months, or even years.

i usually have a batch of my favourites.

over the last 3 months i have been adding you-tube videos to my favourites.

at the moment, my favourite stones songs have been, no expectations, jjflash, im alright, not fade away, silver train and we love you.

with sssoul Wrote:
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> yeah, there is that other Angie promo as well -
> look at how *happy* Keith looks in it
> and i still wonder who had the bottle to style his
> hair like that while he was out cold (he must've
> been!)
>
> >> I had no preconcieved ideas of how the Stones
> oughta be <<
>
> yeah, that's the main thing: it is always a
> mistake to imagine we've got a fence around 'em,
> that there's some set way the Stones "ought to"
> sound (or look, or behave).
> the Stones will do what the Stones will do, just
> like all the other forces of nature.
>
> >> Have you reconciled yourself with Angie? <<
>
> thanks for your concern - i tolerate some of the
> acoustic versions all right.
> and i do recognize that it is a truly great pop
> ballad - my not being able to love it is a failing
> of mine, not the number's.
>
> sigh! i'll keep working on it ...



You must have been really heartbroken when they released "Fool to Cry"? *lol*

Not since 1978. I may not play anything of theirs for a month or two, but then I'll get in the mood and play 'em to death.

>> You must have been really heartbroken when they released "Fool to Cry" <<

nah - what i'm sayin is that the Angie Trauma toughened me up. they can still stagger me, of course,
but it's ... LoFL, kick me like you kicked before, you shining splendid bastards!

seriously: of course their horizons are broader than mine are - of course they are!
and when i look at what i owe to that handful of skinny English cats -
all the kinds of music they have pointed me to and lit up for me and showed me the richness of -
how can a sssoul be anything but radiantly grateful?

~*hail hail Rolling Stones!*~

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Yeah - and in a way it was great back when music was almost a matter of life and death - where you could REALLY be let down by a new record or totally elevated!! I miss that.....

When I'm at work or asleep.

I've gone a few months here and there. let's face it, there is alot of great music out there and there only so man hours in a day. However I find I have a new appreciation for them when I listen to them again after a long hiatus.

i take breaks from certain songs or albums . . . currently in a long ABB hiatus, that i don't see coming to an end anytime soon. as for the band as a whole, since i got into them as a wee tot, there have been very few times that they weren't in heavy rotation.

you can't catch me!