Anybody knows about Blondie absence in this tour and in 2012 shows?!?

he's under the stage.

He was asked to stand behind the amplifiers because his look doesn't fit with the rest of the band.

Serious answer: He was not invited. Just as simple as that, and he is not happy about it.

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Serious answer: He was not invited. Just as simple as that, and he is not happy about it.

Why wasn't he invited? Did something happen?

Thank God, he wasn't invited. Mediocre musician, if not bad. Seen him live some years ago, nothing, absolutely nothing. But when he was onstage with the stones, Keith and Ronnie thought, no matter if the don't focus on their playing, after all, there's a background guitar. The Keith- and Ronnie-parts are much better played now, that Blondie is out of the picture. I'm quite happy about this fact.

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Serious answer: He was not invited. Just as simple as that, and he is not happy about it.

Why wasn't he invited? Did something happen?

Nobody needs him, so why pay him.

Now if they can only lose the other singers they have on stage.

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Serious answer: He was not invited. Just as simple as that, and he is not happy about it.

Why wasn't he invited? Did something happen?

Nobody needs him, so why pay him.

Well, that's fine. I just wondered if he had a falling out with someone in the band. Just me being nosy.

I never heard Blondies guitar with the Stones. I could never hear him live or on bootlegs. It's like he was never plugged in.

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Serious answer: He was not invited. Just as simple as that, and he is not happy about it.

Is there an article on that?

I'm glad he is not there. I like it stripped down with the main focus back where it belongs - the guitars of Keith and Ronnie and of course Jagger.

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I never heard Blondies guitar with the Stones. I could never hear him live or on bootlegs. It's like he was never plugged in.

I think you are actually talking about Keith. You are hearing Blondie.

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he's under the stage.

With U2???

I gotta think the band reads these posts and Keith said "sorry friend. You're gone. I don't want anybody accusing me of playing air guitar to your parts."

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It's like he was never plugged in

Ronnie, Paris, Stade de France 1998

Somebody woke up and realized he really wasn't needed. Lisa and Bernard are more than enough for backing vocals, although I'd rather they revert to having Keith and Ronnie barking and growling their ragged but right backups ala 1978 - 1981. And maybe somebody deliberately decided that Blondie had to go so that Keith would realize he's got to focus and play the way we want him to...without a net. Seems like he's risen to the occasion.

And with the Stones for years...

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he's under the stage.

With U2???

Keith seems in good shape its a short tour but will be interesting to see if he gets better as he used to or if he gets tired. Its a lot of travel for a 70 year old who has more wear on him then most. My guess is he will play better and not pose.

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I never heard Blondies guitar with the Stones. I could never hear him live or on bootlegs. It's like he was never plugged in.

I think you are actually talking about Keith. You are hearing Blondie.

That's mean!

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Keith seems in good shape its a short tour but will be interesting to see if he gets better as he used to or if he gets tired. Its a lot of travel for a 70 year old who has more wear on him then most. My guess is he will play better and not pose.

For the Northern American tour it's only 7 different bases to travel from. There are always days off between shows and he has a team of assistants doing chores for him. He can do this.

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Anybody knows about Blondie absence in this tour and in 2012 shows?!?

Did you realise that brian jones is not there too. Not under the stage but 1 or 2 levels deeper.

Just curious to see how many fans Will invite Blondie to their stones event And want to book h&m now....

Mick sees Blondie as bad influence on Keith - that's why he is kicked out.

Perhaps he'll be playing with Brian Wilson, Al Jardine, and David Marks.

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Anybody knows about Blondie absence in this tour and in 2012 shows?!?

You got to be invited. Eric Clapton has a huge array of people who have toured and recorded with him who are waiting hoping for that phone call. Even for a quickie spot at CrossRoads. All of them are extremely competent. It is up to Eric if he has his people phone you up

Same with the Rolling Stones. You will be summoned if your services are needed. No musician in his right mind will turn down a gig (however fleeting) with Stones or Clapton. Did you happen to hang with Keith or Mick at some absurd fashion show? Lit Keith's cigarette? This can help

The three times I saw the band during the never ending 'Bigger Bang' tour here in Las Vegas, it seemed very apparent to me that Blondie was was being used to cover up both Keith's & Ronnie's playing. Keith's head injury did really do some damage (I thought and still do that all those weird inflatable palm trees that people were waving about like idiots were really in bad taste.)
That, and his (& Ronnie's?) reported drunkeness made two out of three shows a sad and depressing experience for me. Knowing Mick's father had just died before the last show was a strange and bittersweet feeling entirely.
Anyway, that Blondie is not around for this time out is a great thing, IMO. Less is more with the Stones!

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Serious answer: He was not invited. Just as simple as that, and he is not happy about it.

Just a guess or you read a comment of his going that way?

Last year, someone said that Mick had vetoed his presence if they were going to tour...looks like it paid off.

Now I'd like to know who vetoed Matt Clifford's presence on Stones projects after 1990. Keith? Well Matt is still in charge of recruiting and rehearsing the choirs as their "musical director" so I guess he gets the last laugh!

Someone who knows Blondie personally has said Blondie screwed up and is out now and that it isn't just Mick's doing. Doubt we will get more than that for the present, at least not on a public forum.

Regarding Matt Clifford, two keyboard players was more of an eighties thing. They decided to go with one for VOODOO LOUNGE on. That said, Matt is very much a fixture with a hand in pre-production for three of the FOUR NEW LICKS; co-producer and keyboard player for both "Streets of Love" and "Rain Fall Down;" archival assistance for EXILE RARITIES; session work on "Don't Be a Stranger;" and I believe he also had a hand in pre-production of "Doom and Gloom." He also played on "Angel in My Heart" which he helped arrange with Mick and was Mick's musical director, co-producer, and songwriting partner on GODDESS IN THE DOORWAY. He also worked on the Orchestral Stones album in 1994 that featured Mick's orchestral version of "Angie" that sounds like it came from GONE WITH THE WIND.

I suppose they have to keep changing things up and be somewhat dramatic about it all while adding new chapters to someone's soon to be written book, available soon... where all will be revealed, believe it or not

I always enjoy reading only the last few pages of books about The Rolling Stones, as they try to sum it all up and speculate on what will come next...