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"Sounds great"
"Working on it"
"Three to five tunes in the can"
"Almost done"
"Maybe next year"
Better than three out of five ...
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I think they'd like at least a couple new numbers to add to the worn out Warhorses. Ghost Town won't be relevant, hopefully, by the time they roll through Europe.
If they had liked the idea of adding new numbers to their batch of war horses they could already have done so for many years (rather, decades). Of course I would very much like get a show once with seven or eight brandnew numbers, then some post-TY material, and only a few "classic" numbers. I'm just afraid it won't happen.
As for Ghost Town, which seems to work well live, there's still the option of falling back on the original lyrics, which apparently had nothing to do with Covid19 (and which perhaps noone except the boys themselves ever got to hear). The way it looks presently, Covid might still be an issue in Europe in the Summer, and then there's the war now ...
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I think they'd like at least a couple new numbers to add to the worn out Warhorses. Ghost Town won't be relevant, hopefully, by the time they roll through Europe.
If they had liked the idea of adding new numbers to their batch of war horses they could already have done so for many years (rather, decades).
They always do. They played Ghost Town and even Troubles A Coming on the last tour. They played a couple numbers off Blue and Lonesome. Before that is was Doom and Gloom.
They could do a couple more.
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I think they'd like at least a couple new numbers to add to the worn out Warhorses. Ghost Town won't be relevant, hopefully, by the time they roll through Europe.
If they had liked the idea of adding new numbers to their batch of war horses they could already have done so for many years (rather, decades).
They always do. They played Ghost Town and even Troubles A Coming on the last tour. They played a couple numbers off Blue and Lonesome. Before that is was Doom and Gloom.
They could do a couple more.
But they don't. They start the tours with usually 2 'new' numbers. By the end it's usually one that survives.
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Yeah...like Mick said in Marseilles in 2018 "Nous n'avons pas joué ici depuis longtemps mais ne vous inquiétez pas ce sont toujours les mêmes chansons" ("We haven't played here for a while but don't worry it's still the same old songs")
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Strange, he is aware of it still he is the one deciding the setlists. I don't think he ever got the question why the setlists are the same (almost) every time. Although he has done thousands of interviews...
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bye bye johnny
Promo for Keith's upcoming "CBS Sunday Morning" interview with Anthony Mason:
MUSIC: Keith Richards on the Rolling Stones and a solo reunion
The guitarist of The Rolling Stones, and frontman of Keith Richards & the X-Pensive Winos, talks with correspondent Anthony Mason about his solo career; writing new music with Mick Jagger; the passing of the Stones' drummer Charlie Watts; and how he kicked his most persistent addiction.
[www.cbsnews.com]
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I think they'd like at least a couple new numbers to add to the worn out Warhorses. Ghost Town won't be relevant, hopefully, by the time they roll through Europe.
If they had liked the idea of adding new numbers to their batch of war horses they could already have done so for many years (rather, decades).
They always do. They played Ghost Town and even Troubles A Coming on the last tour. They played a couple numbers off Blue and Lonesome. Before that is was Doom and Gloom.
They could do a couple more.
But they don't. They start the tours with usually 2 'new' numbers. By the end it's usually one that survives.
They are afraid of their audience. "Let's do something we know they like."
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Strange, he is aware of it still he is the one deciding the setlists. I don't think he ever got the question why the setlists are the same (almost) every time. Although he has done thousands of interviews...
It could be that the setlists are some sort of problem only for some hardcore fans (who would like the band to be something they are not). I recall once someone from the press asking - it could be it was in Stockholm 1995 - why they start the concert with such an unknown tune ("Not Fade Away"), and Mick answered (seemingly not being too glad about the question) 'to make it more known'.
- Doxa
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Strange, he is aware of it still he is the one deciding the setlists. I don't think he ever got the question why the setlists are the same (almost) every time. Although he has done thousands of interviews...
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bye bye johnny
Promo for Keith's upcoming "CBS Sunday Morning" interview with Anthony Mason:
MUSIC: Keith Richards on the Rolling Stones and a solo reunion
The guitarist of The Rolling Stones, and frontman of Keith Richards & the X-Pensive Winos, talks with correspondent Anthony Mason about his solo career; writing new music with Mick Jagger; the passing of the Stones' drummer Charlie Watts; and how he kicked his most persistent addiction.
[www.cbsnews.com]
Oh I love this. 'Writing new music with Mick Jagger' And my response is 'What new music?' Clearly he is reminiscing about when they actually DID write together, twenty years back...
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Strange, he is aware of it still he is the one deciding the setlists. I don't think he ever got the question why the setlists are the same (almost) every time. Although he has done thousands of interviews...
It could be that the setlists are some sort of problem only for some hardcore fans (who would like the band to be something they are not). I recall once someone from the press asking - it could be it was in Stockholm 1995 - why they start the concert with such an unknown tune ("Not Fade Away"), and Mick answered (seemingly not being too glad about the question) 'to make it more known'.
- Doxa
I feel like those of us who qualify to be known as 'some hardcore fans' should shamefacedly apologise for daring to want a more varied set-list. How could we be IMPERTINENT enough to become 'some kind of problem' for everyone else. Especially those casual fans who want to hear the same 25-30 tracks rotated over and over and over again...
Clearly we have been totally stupid for the past 50 plus years. Buying all the albums. Playing the deep cuts. Reading about the influences that shaped the musical journey of The Stones.
Yes, that is it. We have been stupid lifelong, totally committed fans ...
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Strange, he is aware of it still he is the one deciding the setlists. I don't think he ever got the question why the setlists are the same (almost) every time. Although he has done thousands of interviews...
It could be that the setlists are some sort of problem only for some hardcore fans (who would like the band to be something they are not). I recall once someone from the press asking - it could be it was in Stockholm 1995 - why they start the concert with such an unknown tune ("Not Fade Away"), and Mick answered (seemingly not being too glad about the question) 'to make it more known'.
- Doxa
I feel like those of us who qualify to be known as 'some hardcore fans' should shamefacedly apologise for daring to want a more varied set-list. How could we be IMPERTINENT enough to become 'some kind of problem' for everyone else. Especially those casual fans who want to hear the same 25-30 tracks rotated over and over and over again...
Clearly we have been totally stupid for the past 50 plus years. Buying all the albums. Playing the deep cuts. Reading about the influences that shaped the musical journey of The Stones.
Yes, that is it. We have been stupid lifelong, totally committed fans ...
Well, we can hope whatever one can hope, like playing the whole of SATANIC MAJESTIES with if not Brian Jones but Mick Taylor at my backyard, but I am not that eager to complain that all the time in some social media. The Stones are what they are, and it doesn't ask too much reflectivity to see that. If a fan can not face the reality, especially with a band that's been pretty predictable in their doings for decades, I suggest that it would be healthier to find some other interest. Just for a personal gain.
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'Moving on from the Stones' isn't that difficult. Nothing but a couple singles and a blue cover album in 17 years. We've been living in glorious vault land since 2010. It's not like we're following a dynamic, artistic band at this point. I think Charlie's death shocked some. It will be really hard for some when they wake up one day and the Stones are no more. I think that's what drives a lot of people to go see them. They're the last vestige of the 60s and their/our youth. There's been nothing to replace them. You just have to keep discovering old artists, like Michael Bloomfield, and Bix Beiderbecke.
Right now I'm listening to a 3 CD set covering an Otis Redding three night stand at the Whisky A Go Go in 1966. 'They call me Mr. Pitiful....'
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'Moving on from the Stones' isn't that difficult. Nothing but a couple singles and a blue cover album in 17 years. We've been living in glorious vault land since 2010. It's not like we're following a dynamic, artistic band at this point. I think Charlie's death shocked some. It will be really hard for some when they wake up one day and the Stones are no more. I think that's what drives a lot of people to go see them. They're the last vestige of the 60s and their/our youth. There's been nothing to replace them. You just have to keep discovering old artists, like Michael Bloomfield, and Bix Beiderbecke.
Right now I'm listening to a 3 CD set covering an Otis Redding three night stand at the Whisky A Go Go in 1966. 'They call me Mr. Pitiful....'
Yep. Spot on. They are the last - or nearly the last - gunslingers in town. And that will endear them to many.
Unfortunately all they really do for me nowadays is remind me of how long it has been since they were remotely relevant musically. Despite all the adulatory comments about how vibrant and rejuvenated they were on their recent jaunt through The States, some good friends who saw them three time on the tour told me that the entire experience was fairly underwhelming. It was not a train wreck by any means, it was just really average. The same moves, the same on-stage patter from Jagger, the same numbers performed. In fact they had tickets for four concerts but sold their tickets for the final event - at a loss. Why?
Basically it was, they told me - 'all so utterly predictable' There was really no point in hanging about any longer.
What a sad epitaph that makes for a band that once excited, enthralled and elevated us all to the very heights of musical ecstasy.
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If they ever thought an idea of "owing" something to the 'hard cord fans' they never had left Richmond.
Besides, the idea of there being a difference between a 'hardcore' and 'casual' fans is just so bloody elitistic as it ever can be. 'Because I happen to love you more, you own me more'. They do what they do. A pop group, not bloody avantgarde artists.
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But is this interview done before or after the Jamaica sessions?