Hi everybody

I'm new here and this is my first topic. I don't know if this topic has ever been discussed before...

I don't want to be too pessimistic,but we all know that the Stones will stop touring someday.
The Stones are and always will be my number one band, but can someone name a rock band that can fill the shoes of The Rolling Stones.
Music-wise I'm thinking of The Black Crowes, but I don't think they are that well known to the general public.. (So maybe u2, Artic Monkeys,..)
I would like to hear your opinions.

Cheers Aron

What? The Stones will stop touring someday?!

The Stones go barefoot.

to be brief: no

to not be brief: Back when the Stones got big, music was so much harder to come by and thus bands had to be pretty huge to be heard all over the world, thus the iconic generation defining acts. Then the internet happened, and now there are so many different fifteen minute of famers that I don't know if anyone will ever be quite so big and musically well-respected as the acts of the 60s, 70s and a couple from the 80s.

Sonically speaking, there are great bands out there today, but it's a very different world, and I don't think music is as revolutionary as it once was.


Keep in mind that I was born in the 90s so i am not speaking from experience.

@71Tele maybe they will all be holographed like Michael Jackson at the Billboard awards and continue to tour into the 3000s

They wont stop touring. They will even do worldtours in the Heavens and Eternal Hunting Grounds in the skies.

Jeroen

Nope

....ain't heard one yet



ROCKMAN

U2!
<sarc>

How??

They cannot be replaced, they are unique and totally original. There are some great bands out there but no one has ever came close!

Is there a another ball of fire that can replace the sun when it's finally burnt out.

Nate

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Is there a another ball of fire that can replace the sun when it's finally burnt out.

Nate

Billions of them in the universe...proximity is the issue.

There won't be another band to capture the attention of generations like the Stones. That's because the huge range of media and it's consumption is far more diverse now than it was during Stones era. They are the Soul Survivors (sic) of a bigone marketting era.

Last band that had a chance of taking their place was Guns N Roses. Unfortunately they imploded in 1995. Coincidentally it was their cover of Sympathy For The Devil that disintegrated the band.

There are many good tribute bands out there. Many of which play better than the Stones themselves. The tickets will be cheaper and I guess your local pub is a more comfortable environment than a football stadium...

now after 50 years of bad behaviour and numerous excellent riffs, the Stones are for rock music what Mozart is for classic music, the absolute reference !

NO !

For me I have begun replacing them with a bunch of bands. No single band will ever replace that hole in my heart. Seriously. They are giants in my personal music catalog. Bands like Tame Impala, White Denim, Wilco and Spoon do a great job.

The problem with the question is whether you care about new music or not. The Stones seem content with the current business model and I simply am not pleased with $700 tickets and stale setlists. They will become increasingly irrelevant the longer they go without a new album. Winning back the masses with a huge tour with $100 tickets would be great, but I don't see it. Putting out a new album steeped in blues would be wonderful, but I don't see that happening either.

As a fan, they are not doing me any favors at the moment. The occasional bootleg leaking or the extra tracks from Some Girls/Exile finally getting released are all that we have to look forward to. The best thing they've done in the last 20 years is releasing Live In Texas.

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There are many good tribute bands out there. Many of which play better than the Stones themselves. The tickets will be cheaper and I guess your local pub is a more comfortable environment than a football stadium...

No one can play better Stonessongs than the Stones.
The way they play is the way it is.

All the mistakes and faults they make is a part of themselves.

It is nice to hear a tribute band but they can't be better.
If they were better they will play in a Stadium and write there own songs.



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Hi Aron !

Welcome here !

My answer is NO
Cheers,
Sway



I am a Frenchie ,as Mick affectionately called them in the Old Grey Whistle Test in 1977 .

No.

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now after 50 years of bad behaviour and numerous excellent riffs, the Stones are for rock music what Mozart is for classic music, the absolute reference !

Mick Taylor comes to mind. Ask Kleermaker.

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For me I have begun replacing them with a bunch of bands. No single band will ever replace that hole in my heart. Seriously. They are giants in my personal music catalog. Bands like Tame Impala, White Denim, Wilco and Spoon do a great job.

The problem with the question is whether you care about new music or not. The Stones seem content with the current business model and I simply am not pleased with $700 tickets and stale setlists. They will become increasingly irrelevant the longer they go without a new album. Winning back the masses with a huge tour with $100 tickets would be great, but I don't see it. Putting out a new album steeped in blues would be wonderful, but I don't see that happening either.

As a fan, they are not doing me any favors at the moment. The occasional bootleg leaking or the extra tracks from Some Girls/Exile finally getting released are all that we have to look forward to. The best thing they've done in the last 20 years is releasing Live In Texas.

I think it's important to look at the big picture, in terms of what the Stones have meant to the development of modern music. Times have changed in such fundamental ways, thanks to their influence (and others, of course, such as the Beatles), that I doubt any bands could be so culturally significant ever again, let alone musically. They can never become irrelevant, any more than Shakespeare is irrelevant to the development of literature, despite not having released a new play for centuries.

Don't think so, ask me again in 50 years...

No rock band will ever replace the Stones. Rock and roll is dying. Young people don't go for it. I can't imagine any scenario where a young rock band schools itself in the blues, hones its musical skills over a decade, and puts out a string of masterpiece albums like the Stones did in the years 1968-1973.

In the future, fewer and fewer people will play musical instruments. Mixing and electronic music will be the music of the future. Someday music fans will idolize robots and argue which robot makes the best music.

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In the future, fewer and fewer people will play musical instruments. Mixing and electronic music will be the music of the future. Someday music fans will idolize robots and argue which robot makes the best music.

Let's not get carried away . . .

<<I can't imagine any scenario where a young rock band schools itself in the blues>>

Ronnie, Kenney, Rod, and Mac. They'll step up!

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For me I have begun replacing them with a bunch of bands. No single band will ever replace that hole in my heart. Seriously. They are giants in my personal music catalog. Bands like Tame Impala, White Denim, Wilco and Spoon do a great job.

The problem with the question is whether you care about new music or not. The Stones seem content with the current business model and I simply am not pleased with $700 tickets and stale setlists. They will become increasingly irrelevant the longer they go without a new album. Winning back the masses with a huge tour with $100 tickets would be great, but I don't see it. Putting out a new album steeped in blues would be wonderful, but I don't see that happening either.

As a fan, they are not doing me any favors at the moment. The occasional bootleg leaking or the extra tracks from Some Girls/Exile finally getting released are all that we have to look forward to. The best thing they've done in the last 20 years is releasing Live In Texas.

I think it's important to look at the big picture, in terms of what the Stones have meant to the development of modern music. Times have changed in such fundamental ways, thanks to their influence (and others, of course, such as the Beatles), that I doubt any bands could be so culturally significant ever again, let alone musically. They can never become irrelevant, any more than Shakespeare is irrelevant to the development of literature, despite not having released a new play for centuries.

Well said brother. I am not minimizing their contributions to the greater music community, or on my life. The Stones will forever be my all-time favorite band. That being said I am a fan of Keith first and foremost. If I am feeling burned out on new music or the $700/ticket greatest hits tour, all I have to do is pop in Hail Hail Rock N Roll and listen to Keith at his finest. Unlike the Steel Wheels tour, the guitar tone is PERFECT and we get to hear Johnson magic piano instead of Chuck's synth.

I could seriously sit and listen to Keith playing rythm all day long and never get tired of it. Now I am going to listen to the last minute of All Down The Line from Welcome To New York 72 with it faded over to Keith's side.

I completely agree with Aquamarine as to the importance of the Stones and looking at the big picture. The Stones blew our minds as when they became
popular around the world. It was a relatively innocent world for young people then and we had never heard anything so exciting musically and visually. It's why they have lasted so long.

The Stones themselves admired the emergence of Jimi Hendrix, who felt very honored to have their enthusiastic compliments and friendship.

There are no new bands anymore. Modern culture is too fragmented for any band to ever have the cultural impact that the Beatles or Stones had. Post WW2 end of empire. End of deference. Stones lit the touch paper. These circumstances will not be repeated for a long long time and if they do it will be in a very different way.
And hasn't it all been done now?