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True, but the drawings are nice. Maybe he could be coached into doing drawings of the parties?

Are there any samples to be seen ?

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you're welcome, Kurt. but polls indicate the ronnie bashing actually hit an all-time high a little over a year ago. there were several other spikes during the ensuing months, then a slight dip, a flat line and then an uptick during this month of exile mania.

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don't know what y'all are lookin' at, but woody is on the new website, right here:
[www.rollingstones.com]
The main 4 pics change; you have to click on ''view all people''

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he is back....i can put my undies on

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I am officially tired and flat out angered at the Ronnie Wood bashing that has hit an all time high with the re-release of Exile. As far as I'm concerned, Ronnie is as much of "The Rolling Stones" these days as Charlie is. Without either of them, there is no more Stones. (Of course, Mick and Keith remain exempt from the debate.)

Sorry, but I'm 45 years old and I could give ashit about Mick Taylor ever coming back. I never saw him live. Being a fan of the Stones for the last 31 years certainly gives me the right to dimiss Taylor from the conversation completely. Look, I love the entire catalog, but Mick Taylor has never been a working member of the group in my "lifetime" as a fan. Bringing him back would only appeal to an extremely limited number of "diehards", and would not help ticket sales one way or the other. In the grand scheme of life, my friends and family consider me a diehard fan, and I would agree.

In life you can either live in the past or live in the now. I choose the latter.

Thanks for listening.

And if the guitar playing "now" sucks, then what? Seriously, criticizing performance, skills and behavior is not necessarily "bashing", nor is suggesting that Mr. Wood's playing in recent years (oh, about 20 or 25 in my book) leaves a lot to be desired mean that one expects or even wants Mick Taylor to come back. Very few have suggested that it would help ticket sales. There are legitimate critics here of Wood, and of the Stones' guitar sound in general recently. It doesn't help Mr. wood's cause that he behaves like a buffoon and has become fodder for the tabloids. You may defend that if you wish, others choose not to.

OK, now we can get to the meat of it. If you think the guitar playing "now" sucks, then look squarely at Keith. There's a reason Blondie has been included on stage for years and years and years...

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I am officially tired and flat out angered at the Ronnie Wood bashing that has hit an all time high with the re-release of Exile. As far as I'm concerned, Ronnie is as much of "The Rolling Stones" these days as Charlie is. Without either of them, there is no more Stones. (Of course, Mick and Keith remain exempt from the debate.)

Sorry, but I'm 45 years old and I could give ashit about Mick Taylor ever coming back. I never saw him live. Being a fan of the Stones for the last 31 years certainly gives me the right to dimiss Taylor from the conversation completely. Look, I love the entire catalog, but Mick Taylor has never been a working member of the group in my "lifetime" as a fan. Bringing him back would only appeal to an extremely limited number of "diehards", and would not help ticket sales one way or the other. In the grand scheme of life, my friends and family consider me a diehard fan, and I would agree.

In life you can either live in the past or live in the now. I choose the latter.

Thanks for listening.

And if the guitar playing "now" sucks, then what? Seriously, criticizing performance, skills and behavior is not necessarily "bashing", nor is suggesting that Mr. Wood's playing in recent years (oh, about 20 or 25 in my book) leaves a lot to be desired mean that one expects or even wants Mick Taylor to come back. Very few have suggested that it would help ticket sales. There are legitimate critics here of Wood, and of the Stones' guitar sound in general recently. It doesn't help Mr. wood's cause that he behaves like a buffoon and has become fodder for the tabloids. You may defend that if you wish, others choose not to.

OK, now we can get to the meat of it. If you think the guitar playing "now" sucks, then look squarely at Keith. There's a reason Blondie has been included on stage for years and years and years...

You have a point there - and that's why I look at the idea of any new tour with a great deal of trepidation - but the Wood problem has persisted for many more years. I just think he has been a weak link for a long time.

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I'm not exactly agreeing with Tod (heaven forbid), but Ronnie did step up after the accident, especially as a rhythm player.

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Jos
they changed it back to present

So he was temporarily out, as I suggested. Just a shot across the bow, to let him and us now what his position is. Nothing (new).

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they changed it back to present

So he was temporarily out, as I suggested. Just a shot across the bow, to let him and us now what his position is. Nothing (new).

Kleermaker, first you said 'He's out' without any clarification or fundation. Then people ofcourse asking you questions and then again, very selfconfident, that he was out at that moment but maybe temporarily. This is ofcourse always a safe bet but when the RS site got corrected after a few hours you wrote, imo with quite some arrogance, that he was temporarily out, just like you suggested....

Would be better to tell us WHY Ronnie was temporarily out......

Hendrik Mulder

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as if the stones were having a meeting, ronnie stormed out, mick goes online and changes ron's status as a band member, then ron comes back and they kiss and make up and mick logs back in and changes the info again.

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worse than kindergarten.

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Jos
they changed it back to present

So he was temporarily out, as I suggested. Just a shot across the bow, to let him and us now what his position is. Nothing (new).

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i loved kindergarten. play time, nap time...the whole deal. i learned to share and enjoyed my milk and cookies.

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i loved kindergarten. play time, nap time...the whole deal. i learned to share and enjoyed my milk and cookies.

Just wait till you grow very old. Then it will all come back

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time for my nap, now....

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Jos
they changed it back to present

So he was temporarily out, as I suggested. Just a shot across the bow, to let him and us now what his position is. Nothing (new).

Kleermaker, first you said 'He's out' without any clarification or fundation. Then people ofcourse asking you questions and then again, very selfconfident, that he was out at that moment but maybe temporarily. This is ofcourse always a safe bet but when the RS site got corrected after a few hours you wrote, imo with quite some arrogance, that he was temporarily out, just like you suggested....

Would be better to tell us WHY Ronnie was temporarily out......

Hendrik Mulder

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i saw ron with stones in 75 while he was 'on loan' from small faces pop group.

You're right, he was a "guest" on the '75 tour...from the Faces.

But you're actually referencing a line Mick used about Ian McLagan when he introduced Mac onstage during the '78 tour.

Mac had just finished recording the second of two albums done by the re-formed Small Faces (with Rick Wills instead of Ronnie Lane). That second record, "'78 in the Shade" is pretty good. At the time I thought Mick's "Small Faces pop group" line was a little dismissive and...stinky.

Not that you meant it that way, Beely. Just want to make things clear for the young people.

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OK, now we can get to the meat of it. If you think the guitar playing "now" sucks, then look squarely at Keith. There's a reason Blondie has been included on stage for years and years and years...