video: [www.bbc.co.uk]

Shame...

Thanks for posting the video. Interesting comments about the reunion, especially the punishment for leaving. Wonder if that's true. Also wonder if he will be joining them this year. Seems like it's not an option to me. Hope I'm wrong.

For me..Sad he ever left...And a shame the Stones didn't let him back and play
an entire show and tour!!!

This tells me that Sir Michael didn't really want him on. But Bill was instrumental for them in order to present the shows as something extra and thereby being able to crank up the ticket prices.
The same goes for Mick Taylor. Fans wants them onstage, the Stones are reluctant to do so.

Do the Rhythm Kings not provide enough tail for this guy? Why would he want back in?

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Do the Rhythm Kings not provide enough tail for this guy? Why would he want back in?

for the higher-quality shagging oppos, prolly.

So this proves Rolling is greater then Rhythm

and a Stone is better then a King

I don't understand why he wants to play with The Stones. He quit touring and recording with them. If you quit your job why go back many years later and work for your old company for a few day. I doesn't make sence.

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Do the Rhythm Kings not provide enough tail for this guy? Why would he want back in?

for the higher-quality shagging oppos, prolly.

I think thats right. he did write a song about it.

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Do the Rhythm Kings not provide enough tail for this guy? Why would he want back in?

for the higher-quality shagging oppos, prolly.

I think thats right. he did write a song about it.

the french one?

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Do the Rhythm Kings not provide enough tail for this guy? Why would he want back in?

for the higher-quality shagging oppos, prolly.

I think thats right. he did write a song about it.

the french one?

no the american one...or was it the swahili one...he's had too many to remember

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Do the Rhythm Kings not provide enough tail for this guy? Why would he want back in?

for the higher-quality shagging oppos, prolly.

I think thats right. he did write a song about it.

the french one?

no the american one...or was it the swahili one...he's had too many to remember

the one that goes ..'if you won't rock me..somebody will..'

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Do the Rhythm Kings not provide enough tail for this guy? Why would he want back in?

for the higher-quality shagging oppos, prolly.

I think thats right. he did write a song about it.

the french one?

(Si si)

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Do the Rhythm Kings not provide enough tail for this guy? Why would he want back in?

for the higher-quality shagging oppos, prolly.

I think thats right. he did write a song about it.

the french one?

no the american one...or was it the swahili one...he's had too many to remember

the one that goes ..'if you won't rock me..somebody will..'

i'm fairly certain chuck leavell wrote that one. alas, it's comforting to know a stone wrote it, anyway...

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Do the Rhythm Kings not provide enough tail for this guy? Why would he want back in?

for the higher-quality shagging oppos, prolly.

I think thats right. he did write a song about it.

the french one?

no the american one...or was it the swahili one...he's had too many to remember

the one that goes ..'if you won't rock me..somebody will..'

i'm fairly certain chuck leavell wrote that one. alas, it's comforting to know a stone wrote it, anyway...

but its so Bill..there's even a bass solo in it..

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Do the Rhythm Kings not provide enough tail for this guy? Why would he want back in?

for the higher-quality shagging oppos, prolly.

I think thats right. he did write a song about it.

the french one?

no the american one...or was it the swahili one...he's had too many to remember

the one that goes ..'if you won't rock me..somebody will..'

i'm fairly certain chuck leavell wrote that one. alas, it's comforting to know a stone wrote it, anyway...

but its so Bill..there's even a bass solo in it..

Hang on...that's Keith on bass

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Do the Rhythm Kings not provide enough tail for this guy? Why would he want back in?

for the higher-quality shagging oppos, prolly.

I think thats right. he did write a song about it.

the french one?

no the american one...or was it the swahili one...he's had too many to remember

the one that goes ..'if you won't rock me..somebody will..'

i'm fairly certain chuck leavell wrote that one. alas, it's comforting to know a stone wrote it, anyway...

but its so Bill..there's even a bass solo in it..

Hang on...that's Keith on bass

well but he was trying to play like Bill.

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Bill with the Big Guys...

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Bill has always been my favourite Rolling Stone apart from Chuck.

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Keith to Mick: " have you got any idea where I was last night? "

Fine. Obviously everyone is letting egos and hurt feelings get in the way of the band sounding better. I'm accepting that Bill's return is one more sign that the end is near. There won't be recordings together with Bill. Fine. Does anyone really expect the current Stones to pull a master album out of their ass at this late date? Fine. I don't need to see them again, if this is all there is going to be, warhorses delivered by a steadily declining band with a pointless bass player. 30 years of studio greatness, followed by 20 years of good stage work. That's more than I deserve.

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whoah! do tell us more!

I doubt that Bill was thinking of rejoining as a full-time Stone. It is more that Bill is now at a point in his life where he is willing to be a bit more generous in recalling a part of his life [30 years worth] that he has left behind. We read in another thread how Bill was only able just recently to open up emotionally about his years in The Stones in those unreleased hours of interviews with the director of Crossfire Hurricane.

I think Bill's disappointment over the reunion stems from the fact that he was hoping for a bit of thanks for those 30 years with the band, to be more warmly acknowledged by the band, rather than being treated as a passenger, a virtual session man for those O2 gigs, which seems to have been the case.

That he's publicly expressing disappointment at only playing 2 songs at the O2 shows would indicate that there is NO chance that he'll be playing with them any time soon.

Sometimes I have the feeling that at his age now he never got over it, that he only was welcomed in 1963 because he had a huge amplifier.

Watching this video a couple of times leaves to me a bitter-sweet impression of Wyman who just stands there and expects that everyone knows what he wants without telling other people what he wants.

It was nice to see him again in London, but he was, as within the 3 decades as a member, invisible. What would one expect?

well he always had other interests outside the band..

lots of them..

I can agree with some of the comments on Bill's possible "self importatance" but none of us really know how much input he had. It's easy to say he didn't do much by watching him stand there quiet during concerts. But that doesn't mean everything in my opinion. Unless his bass playing is suffering I don't see much reason not to let him play on more songs, same for Mick T.

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Keith to Mick: " have you got any idea where I was last night? "

Mick to Keith: Last night? How did I get here now?

That's the first official confirmation he was asked to play in the US too, at least in so many words, as previously he'd only said he wasn't interested to fly to the States (no longer afraid of flying?) for only two songs.

All been said before, but it's a bit hard to generate a lot of excitement around the return of a dude who was basically invisible for 30 years as Grison posted. Still, it would be better to have him around on stange than Darryl of course.

"Invisible for 30 years"? Bollocks, he let his instrument talk. Before anything else (like fake dancing and posing). He's a musician first and foremost. Not a dancer or a junkie.
With him gone the Stones lost an integral part of their sound. The roll, or whatever you want to call it. Never to be found again...