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Dana Carvey - drums
Adam Sandler - guitar
G.E. Smith - guitar
Chevy Chase - tambourine
Don Was - bass
Mick Jagger - vocals
There's your band.
And special guest Will Ferrell on cowbell....
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Jagger has been trying to put together musicians to back him on SNL that would
suggest performing hard rock songs. He's reached out to one US band in specific
that I will not name and would not personally consider appropriate. It would
suggest he plans to play Stones songs and not covers. It will also probably not
work out schedule wise. It's nothing like Jeff Beck or Mick Taylor or anything
bluesy for those fantasizing that. Who knows what he'll end up doing when the time
comes but for all you Keith detractors, it certainly does not seem that he is loath
to offend him with it. It's a bit like something the R&R Hall of Fame might out
together is the Stones chose not to show up and they wanted to put something
commercial together in terms of a band teaming with Mick.
For what its worth, and with no disrespect to Teddy, another long-time reliable
source, on the Undercover mailing list, reports the following:
Someone sent me this yesterday....top secret....
Rehearsed in a NY studio.....Mick, Charlie, Keith, Ronnie, Chuck and Don Was
filling in on Bass for 4 songs. Miss You, Fool to Cry, Jumping Jack Flash (all
done twice) and one other one...... Oh, he said they sounded amazing.
(So I'm still listening to the voices in my head, which I already told you about)
I hope so. The source for the story I posted is a close family member, so I'd consider it pretty impeccable. She also said however that it was not likely to work out for the aforementioned schedule problems, which would involve the breaking of a very expensive contract. Maybe the Stones get together was more producti on than Mick had expected? Maybe he's moved on to plan B? Or maybe this story of them rehearsing Stones songs isn't true. We'll see May 19th.
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And the Shadow says: The rehearsals were for the Stones July 12 gig.
And it is a VERY good sign that they are practicing Stones songs, and not
just blues. If it was just blues, the July 12 gig was gonna be their last.
This means the 2013 gigs are (tentatively) back on track. But Mick won't finalize
anything until late this year/early next. Until then, he's got Keith by the balls.
And Keith and y'all are just gonna have to at least tolerate Mick's pick-up
band on May 19. So for the same reason, it is now way more likely that Mick will
rock on SNL and not do blues, and use less famous less awesome musicians.
Mick will be fine but his rock band will be no match for the Stones, whereas
his blues band would have slayed the Stones. You won't get the Stones
on SNL but you won't get anything that damages them either. Unless Keith
majorly fcuks up over the next week or so, which I now think is very unlikely.
Is this my most blue-sky forecast ever?
No, but it is interesting speculation. The band he contacted is famous, but they are a band and not an amalgamation of blues supermen. The idea that Keith (and us) will have to tolerate it might be on target. My manager, who has been friendly with both the Mick and Keith camps (at separate times of course -- can't be both) argues that Mick has earned the right to be a "dick."
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I doubt SNL waited till it was three weeks away to book the host of their final show
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71Tele
Why the Hell would Mick want to play with a bunch of pretenders when he literally has the Stones in town? Really hard to believe (if it were anyone other than Mick Jagger).
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Deathgod
God I hope it's not Maroon5. With Mick popping out after they sing that Moves Like Jagger thing.
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God I hope it's not Maroon5. With Mick popping out after they sing that Moves Like Jagger thing.
Maroon 5 makes maybe the most sense so far. But they're scheduled to be in Baltimore that evening.
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God I hope it's not Maroon5. With Mick popping out after they sing that Moves Like Jagger thing.
Maroon 5 makes maybe the most sense so far. But they're scheduled to be in Baltimore that evening.
I'm in Australia...is Baltimore near NY ?
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God I hope it's not Maroon5. With Mick popping out after they sing that Moves Like Jagger thing.
Maroon 5 makes maybe the most sense so far. But they're scheduled to be in Baltimore that evening.
I'm in Australia...is Baltimore near NY ?
Your also on a computer, with internet, and presumably can navigate to google maps or some such.
To save you the trouble though, no, it's not THAT close.
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24FPS
This is excruciating. It's like the America election, there's still six months to go but the campaigning has already begun. If there's not a clarifying announcement, then there's going to be rampant speculation right up to show time. Can't we accept that there's a 99% chance the Stones won't play? Then we won't be disappointed when nothing happens. Ronnie played AC. Mick Taylor and then Charlie will play in NYC. Mick is quite capable of pulling off some sort of solo (or Superheavy) turn. Let's just relax and quit acting like the second coming is going to happen. Mick solo is good enough for SNL.
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71Tele
There's this band he could use that is in New York. I think they're called "the Rolling Stones" or something.
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treaclefingers
Fantastic schillid thanks. THAT, I saved under favourites!
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The more recent information is... The Stones will not play on Saturday Night Live.