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Rockman
Who knows what's ahappenin' behind closed doors ....
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stonehearted
I think a better question is, When was the last time the Rolling Stones' concert audience was collectively young enough to applaud and cheer enthusiastically when Mick announced to them "We're gonna play a new song for you now"?
Answer: Hampton 1981
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bam
I do wish they would play Plundered My Soul. At least once.
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DandelionPowderman
I remember an excited young crowd cheering wildly for RJ, ONNYA and TPIE, even though they had toured ABB for the good part of two years.
Maybe I dreamt it?...
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Munichhilton
I cheered loudly when they announced "Learning The Game" in 2006...I was told to simmer down
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DandelionPowderman
I remember an excited young crowd cheering wildly for RJ, ONNYA and TPIE, even though they had toured ABB for the good part of two years.
Maybe I dreamt it?...
Must be it, or by "crowd" you mean 20 people.
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I remember an excited young crowd cheering wildly for RJ, ONNYA and TPIE, even though they had toured ABB for the good part of two years.
Maybe I dreamt it?...
Must be it, or by "crowd" you mean 20 people.
Seriously, people were cheering more for the new songs in 2007.
It might have something to do with not being crazy about hearing Miss You for the umpteenth time, but...
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Chacal
You gotta love how the title was edited in such a subtle manner.
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angee
Mick's not too posh to hang out on a balcony in pajamas with the ballerina, at least
until the photo is printed world-wide. Just sayin'...Some of us feel he can pull off the
lyrics quite well. :-D The voice is still there to do it, that's for sure, imo, anyway.
You looking forward to a show or two this time around, NL?
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DandelionPowderman
I remember an excited young crowd cheering wildly for RJ, ONNYA and TPIE, even though they had toured ABB for the good part of two years.
Maybe I dreamt it?...
Must be it, or by "crowd" you mean 20 people.
Seriously, people were cheering more for the new songs in 2007.
It might have something to do with not being crazy about hearing Miss You for the umpteenth time, but...
OK. Maybe I dreamed something different. Believe me I would just love it if the Stones put out some material on par with their best work, or even close. I just don't believe in pretending that anything (to my ears) they have done since around 1984 qualifies.
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Chacal
You gotta love how the title was edited in such a subtle manner.
It's a better question, I thought the orig. title was referring to when they last fought.
I've heard that the Bigger Bang sessions were structured to do exactly that, give Mick and Keith time and room to truly collaborate. The fact that the results were mediocre just tells me that it isn't ever going to be like the golden years.
Too much water under the bridge, too many years growing apart musically and otherwise. Mick and Keith are such different people these days the authenticity of any collaboration is bound to be effected. Such an intimate process, maybe the trust is somewhat diluted, but mainly I think they've already milked their souls for the truly great stuff and they are just less interested in searching the corners for the scraps that are left, and spending the time necessary to truly develop them like they used to.
I think of the old stories of Keith literally spending hours playing the same riff until he had the right groove, no way he approaches a song like that these days. And Micks lyrical content used to be naturally dangerous and relevant in an autobiographical sort of way. Sir Jagger seems a bit too posh, respectable and business-like to be able to pull off lyrics like Brown Sugar and Gimme Shelter, et al. these days. What's he going to write deeply about with any kind of authenticity these days? Hotels with crummy room service? Mansions with noisy neighbors? Politics? Although I am holding out for for a sad and heartfelt tune about the late, lovely L'Wren, but it will be telling if he let's Keith have any part of it.
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bigbitch
Seriously when do you think was the last time Mick and Keith actually had a real go at crafting a Rolling Stones album with the two principals of the Band writing together...I know that during Bigger Bang there was certainly some collaboration when Keith stayed at Mick's and Charlie was still dealing with his cancer....but when was the last time they gave a flying @#$%& about putting out something that was collaborative in the traditional sense of the way the Band used to do it....
I get it...they certainly got sick of one another...and there seems to be a detente that works for touring....I was actually point to Keith who is the one who has not delivered for years.....yawn inducing ballads of meandering sketches of slowly paced songs with nothing to say...yet you would hope that for at least 2 months they would try to write as a team and make a statement at this late part of the game...
Maybe it is just too much to ask of them to even try anymore.....they were and are bigger than life....the expectations and large measure of delivered greatness for the first 25- 30 years ran its course I suppose and there is nothing in the tank I suspect.....
I saw them in a great show in Chicago in 2013 and I might add it may have been the most airtime Mick Taylor received from that point onward...it was a great night...it evoked all of the right things....but I kept asking myself even now why don't they try "Plundered My Soul"....if not for us for themselves....
I used once to say there were about 3songs they could NEVER NOT play in concert....HTW, BS, JJF....and for good reason......but after the last 15 years if I never heard any of them again live - particularly JJF which sux out loud anymore.....I would not be worse for the experience.
It's not bitching so much as wondering....it's too bad....I guess we want our heroes to go out like Ted Williams I am reminded of John famous article on Ted Williams last at bat in the major leagues....
"Like a feather caught in a vortex, Williams ran around the square of bases at the center of our beseeching screaming. He ran as he always ran out home runs—hurriedly, unsmiling, head down, as if our praise were a storm of rain to get out of. He didn't tip his cap. Though we thumped, wept, and chanted "We want Ted" for minutes after he hid in the dugout, he did not come back. Our noise for some seconds passed beyond excitement into a kind of immense open anguish, a wailing, a cry to be saved. But immortality is nontransferable. The papers said that the other players, and even the umpires on the field, begged him to come out and acknowledge us in some way, but he never had and did not now. Gods do not answer letters.