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Justin
IF they tour:
-Drop all supporting musicians
-Cut the amount of warhorses in a show by at least half
-Lower ticket prices by at least half
-Release an album of meaningful music..not just a product to meet contractual obligations
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stonescrow
Just curious, (for fans that have lost their enthusiasm for the Stones) what exactly could the Stones do (if anything) to get you excited again as a fan? Seems like there are many on this forum who are really not that enthusiastic about the future of the Stones anymore, or the Stones in general. Others see no future for them at all.
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Justin
IF they tour:
-Drop all supporting musicians
-Cut the amount of warhorses in a show by at least half
-Lower ticket prices by at least half
-Release an album of meaningful music..not just a product to meet contractual obligations
The first one doesnt bother me so much as I think its something that they seem to need, but the other three are spot on.
The most exciting thing they can do though at this point for me is some serious and professionally organised archiving.
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More Hot Rocks
A press conference.
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Palace Revolution 2000
One last album of music from the soul. 8- 10 cuts of blues, country, reggae.
Everything else would fall into place from there.
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SweetThing
Well,
I think the years are catching up to them and for a tour to work, and be interesting to them and to the stones fan, (do something different) they ought to make a couple of radical changes -
Play a bit of Ronnie, Mick's and Keith's solo stuff - as a band. Let Ronnie start with "I can Feel the Fire" "Breathe on Me" or "Seven Days", and go eventually into Jagger's songs - "God Gave Me Everything", "Lucky in Love" etc. and whatever of Keith's solo stuff.
Bring back Bill Wyman & Mick Taylor (keep Darryl Jones & Ronnie obviously) and only play the old classics Taylor can go off on (since that hasn't been done in years - "HeartBreaker", "Gimmie Shelter", "Sway", "Time Waits for No One" ) and, whatever they haven't done before - not much - perhaps "Think I'm going mad" or "Everything's turning to Gold" The musicians can switch off here in deference to their age in this lineup. (and get a new piano player).
If they want to sell more albums, (and you know they do), without making it a gimmick, let them come up with a bunch of original "duets" or similar in terms of the vocals, perhaps from their contemporaries - Van Morrison, Neil Young, John Fogerty etc - basically whoever might sound good to them and have would have commercial appeal.
Realizing none of this is going to happen and it might offend some purists, but those would be the best scenarios I would like to see happen.
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melillo
just announce the damn thing and get the ball rolling that would do it for me
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Palace Revolution 2000
One last album of music from the soul. 8- 10 cuts of blues, country, reggae.
Everything else would fall into place from there.
I love reggae, but no more from the Stones, please.
Keith and his ersatz reggae jive have gotta end (it won't, but, oh, well...).
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uhbuhgullayew
Simply listening to their music works for me.
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stonescrow
... for fans that have lost their enthusiasm for the Stones ...