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doitywoik
Keith made similar remarks in an interview with the German news magazine "Der Spiegel" (Sept. 15th 2014, Der Spiegel 38/2014) when promoting Gus&Me but somehow he sounds less enthusiastic than usual (no "keep the ball rolling" or the like). Funny no-one mentioned this one so far. Here's the relevant part of the interview:
SPIEGEL: Sie haben mit Jagger über 200 Songs geschrieben, aber in den vergangenen 20 Jahren kam nicht viel. Wäre es nicht Zeit, ein paar neue Melodien zu erfinden?
Richards: Man setzt sich nicht einfach hin und schreibt einen Song. Songs kommen aus dem Leben. Man hört, wie jemand etwas auf der Straße sagt, es mag ein völlig seltsamer Spruch sein, aber man spürt, hey, da ist irgendwo ein Song versteckt.
SPIEGEL: Klingt gut, nur hinsetzen werden Sie sich mit Jagger schon müssen, wenn Sie am Ende ein paar Songs haben wollen.
Richards: Wir haben Pläne, das zu tun. Aber während einer Welttournee, wie gerade, ist es ein wenig schwierig. Zuletzt in Europa haben wir eine paar Ideen zusammengetragen. Ich weiß nicht, wann wir Zeit haben werden, ins Studio zu gehen, aber wir werden daran arbeiten.
[rough translation:
SPIEGEL: "You wrote more than 200 songs together with Mick Jagger but in the last 20 years nothing much came (from you guys). Wouldn't it be about time to invent a couple of new tunes?"
KR: "You don't simply sit down and write a song. Songs come from life. You hear someone say something in the street, might be something totally strange but you feel, hey, there's a song hidden somewhere in there!"
SPIEGEL: "Sounds good but still you will have to sit down with Jagger if you want to end up with a couple of songs!"
KR: "We have plans to do that. But during a world tour like now it's a bit difficult. Lately in Europe we brought together a couple of ideas. I don't know when we will have time to go into the studio but we will work on it."]
(edit: typo corrected)
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thecitadel
Ben Waters just moved his Christmas concert from before to after Christmas "DUE TO ME GETTING A REALLY BIG RECORDING SESSION WHICH IS VERY EXCITING "
He was the pianist for the london rehearsals a couple of years ago - long shot, but you never know....
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thecitadel
Ben Waters just moved his Christmas concert from before to after Christmas "DUE TO ME GETTING A REALLY BIG RECORDING SESSION WHICH IS VERY EXCITING "
He was the pianist for the london rehearsals a couple of years ago - long shot, but you never know....
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thecitadel
He was the pianist for the london rehearsals a couple of years ago - long shot, but you never know....
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gotdablouseQuote
thecitadel
He was the pianist for the london rehearsals a couple of years ago - long shot, but you never know....
What were these "London Rehearsals", the stuff they did as part of "Crossfire Hurricane" that ended up not getting used?
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gotdablouse
Don't remember Keith saying that, but Ronnie definitely did after a dinner with Mick before they started recording B2B in LA. He claimed Mick had told him that the Stones would be releasing a new album every 18 months because they were running out of time...
To his credit there were plans to release a 2 CD album called "Memory Hotel" in May 1999 (announced on IORR [www.iorr.org] on 21/05/1999 with a 30/05/1999 release date then "delayed" [www.iorr.org]) but it got pulled with no tracklist ever leaking oddly enough. Maybe "Dreamer" could tell us more about it since she was still working for the Stones at the time I think.