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Doxa
Wonderful stuff, Turd On The Run... you are beatifully explicating and finding right words for some personal dilemmas I also have in 'viewing' the modern Stones. And among other many great things and insights, your take on today's Keith, Taylor and Jagger is just so spot on that I believe I have never seen anyone doing anything like, So accurate´, fresh, innovative term choices. I could pick up many things there, but since I don't find anything to disagree with, why to spoil such a great, complete cake by splitting it into small pieces?
Wow. What a read! Thank You!
- Doxa
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geordiestone
Continuing from my message above.
Springsteen and Dylan are the focus of their music, if either went on the road with a different band behind them it wouldn't matter too much but the Stones are a group who live all over the place so logistically getting together for a tour must be hard enough let alone a n album too. They'd be tearing each others hair out! You'd need all 4 stones in on any project unlike other artists of their age.
I don't really understand the nit picking, and if they made another good album people would still bitch that it isn't as great as before despite the most recent ones all being very good. Be thankful we still have The Rolling Stones playing, plenty of others are long gone. When the time comes when they're gone i suspect a hell of a lot of us are gonna miss them just being around. Enjoy them.
I meant viewed with hindsight he was temporary, obviously, until he quit he was just a member of the band.Quote
gimmelittledrink
Taylor was not an original member but he wasn't temporary until he decided to quit. If this is is indeed the last tour (or group of tours), keeping Taylor to one song makes no sense at all. And even if they keep going for a few more years, why not make full use of Taylor's abilities? I don't think fans would complain.
Did i imagine SW, VL, B2B, ABB?Quote
Beauforde
i thought the critique was better than anything rolling stone has published since 1974, and could certainly be the centerpiece article of a magazine of true merit for rock musicologists/archaeologists like MOJO. irrefutable in nearly all of its observations.
but i think all of you guys go too easy on the stones. i find it a disgrace -- A DISGRACE -- that they have the energy to put a de-facto fortune 500 traveling corporation/circus on the road again (i.e. the rolling stones on tour) but don't have the energy/motivation to get in the studio, focus and try and say something new. i think it is sheer fear factor... they don't want to be criticized as incapable of producing anything worthwhile anymore, so they indolently resort to leaning on the library.
bullshit. for better or worse, dylan, neil, elton john, mccartney, bowie... none of those guys have resorted to the mortgage tour. the stones have been mining that shit since the late 1980s. uuuggghh.
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paulywaul
<<< Dedicated to Beast, Paulywaul, Anastasia60, Heartbreaker, BV, and every Stones diehard keeping the flame lit… (It is a long read, but take it in pieces, it will go down easier...) >>>
Well thank you kind Sir for the compliment, we're flattered.
Great read, deliciously written, and if I had to choose one phrase to reiterate here, Europe 2014 (if indeed it turns out to be that last kiss) .... well then WHAT a kiss it was ? The long lingering kind, and the miracle of it is that for an artist that one has embraced for a lifetime, when you stand there a few metres in front of them today and take in the sights and sounds, that last kiss is still manages to be as sensually exquisite as memorable as the fist exploratory one - all those years ago !!
How do they manage it ?
"Ladies n' Gentlemen, will you welcome to the stage please ...... the ROLLING STONES".
I cannot bear to think that one day, I will live in a world in which I'll have heard that for the last time.
Boys n' girls n' children, if you're out there and hesitating, don't. Go and see this band. Get close and lose yourself in their world for a couple of hours, there's simply nothing like it. As it might well say in the guide book: Recommended !!
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geordiestone
Continuing from my message above.
Springsteen and Dylan are the focus of their music, if either went on the road with a different band behind them it wouldn't matter too much but the Stones are a group who live all over the place so logistically getting together for a tour must be hard enough let alone a n album too. They'd be tearing each others hair out! You'd need all 4 stones in on any project unlike other artists of their age.
I don't really understand the nit picking, and if they made another good album people would still bitch that it isn't as great as before despite the most recent ones all being very good. Be thankful we still have The Rolling Stones playing, plenty of others are long gone. When the time comes when they're gone i suspect a hell of a lot of us are gonna miss them just being around. Enjoy them.