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Doxa
Million thanks, absolutely awesome stuff.

To me the whole 1976 has some kind of end of an era feeling. The end of "Jumping Flash"-era - an era of developing and seeing how far one can go with the dark blues rock format (or you could say: sex and drugs and rock and roll) The Stones perfected from 1968 to 1976.. In 1976 they were so deep in drugs and the rock and roll life style and so full of arrogance and hedonism and super stardom but also at the time sounding like totally losing the musical spark and point of the whole thing. I especially feel that the 'boss' is really feeling 'old' and irrelevant and wondering how he will continue from there on without totally taking the nostalgic trip, and making a kind of caricature, even fun of his own very image (like he seemed to do in 1975/76 tours.).

Two years later they were a different band with a new sound and tone altogether. A beginning of a new era (that would last the following four-five years, and to me personally mark the last truely great era of theirs).

- Doxa