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Stoneage
This interview is actually better than most of them. Commander isn't an easy interview object. Never has been. Commander wants the PR and he likes to meet new people (he isn't shy like Keith or Charlie).
But...he doesn't like to talk about the past or his own private life. As fast as anyone touches those, tabu, questions he tends to turn off. Even politics or social issues turns him off quickly as he is afraid to lose punters.
The most relaxed interviews I've seen with him is actually with young female journalists. There you get a relaxed Jagger at ease. The trouble is that those young women hardly know anything about the band.
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I feel a bit sorry for Mick. Charlie always gets a laugh when he says he doesn't know which songs are on which album and he never listens to the Rolling Stones ...I think Mick's been listening to Charlie and thought he'd say the same thing.
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The actual interview must have been very short. I would think not much more than
15 minutes. To make the piece interesting, the writer/interviewer had to embellish and build a story around it. One of the the best Mick interviews was in Rolling Stone - maybe 15 or 20 years ago - where the interviewer asked him about specific songs from the Stones catalog. As I remember there was lots of interesting info in that interview.
Yes, in general he was much more open in that interview, and much more willing to discuss the past. If it the one I'm thinking of (this one), Jann Wenner was the interviewer, and he and Jagger go way back, so that probably helped. I imagine that Wenner also promised Mick that he would never ask him about the old days again.
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A missed opportunity there, with at least a couple of inaccuracies - "...with his current other half, ballerina Melanie Hamrick, half his age, whom Jagger met after his long-term partner, designer L'Wren Scott died tragically in March 2014."
Pity one of us can't interview him. My choice would be RevTwentyRedLights.
And how would Mick react to his theories?
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A missed opportunity there, with at least a couple of inaccuracies - "...with his current other half, ballerina Melanie Hamrick, half his age, whom Jagger met after his long-term partner, designer L'Wren Scott died tragically in March 2014."
Pity one of us can't interview him. My choice would be RevTwentyRedLights.
And how would Mick react to his theories?
It would be the greatest interview of all time. Mick's hair would be standing on end.
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I don't understand the negative reviews for this interview.
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I don't understand the negative reviews for this interview.
It's unreadable and it's the 537th time an interviewer tries to sum up the Stones' career with a few "key" words : "Altamont", "heroin addiction", the "Redlands bust" etc etc. At least "Brian Jones" wasn't put on the table! Phew!
A good interview would have been like : "have you moved on since the B&L sessions? Has the writer's block disappeared? Is the new album ready? Is Keith still fucntional as a composer or do you do all the work?"
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I don't understand the negative reviews for this interview.
It's unreadable and it's the 537th time an interviewer tries to sum up the Stones' career with a few "key" words : "Altamont", "heroin addiction", the "Redlands bust" etc etc. At least "Brian Jones" wasn't put on the table! Phew!
A good interview would have been like : "have you moved on since the B&L sessions? Has the writer's block disappeared? Is the new album ready? Is Keith still fucntional as a composer or do you do all the work?"
With all due respect, the sort of things music and cultural historians won't care less about in 50 years.
By that time, their cultural impact will only be measured in terms of 5 years -- 1964 to 1969. From Ed Sullivan to Altamont is about all that will be discussed and debated regarding the Rolling Stones and the culture of rock and roll.
After that it's just a long treadmill of show business as usual.
Their longevity will only be an interesting footnote.
The IORR forum represents only a microcosm of Stones fandom, not the mainstream.
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What if... *gasp
He’s REALLY IN LOVE?
The night of the film Noir in Paris
was for show/kicks and giggles with the crew.
What if he got MARRIED?
Ooh la la...
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What if... *gasp
He’s REALLY IN LOVE?
The night of the film Noir in Paris
was for show/kicks and giggles with the crew.
What if he got MARRIED?
Ooh la la...
I think she posted this photo because the night before, Noor posted a photo of herself and Mick, his arms around her, sitting next to Ronnie and Sally; it was from one year ago according to the caption. Seems baby mama was not impressed.
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It's comforting that Mick has been pretending he doesn't know which songs are on which records for decades now.
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What if... *gasp
He’s REALLY IN LOVE?
The night of the film Noir in Paris
was for show/kicks and giggles with the crew.
What if he got MARRIED?
Ooh la la...
I think she posted this photo because the night before, Noor posted a photo of herself and Mick, his arms around her, sitting next to Ronnie and Sally; it was from one year ago according to the caption. Seems baby mama was not impressed.
*oh dear...
I don’t follow, but interesting. Melanie is quite beautiful, has his child, they seem to have a good time... we want Mick happy, better than being alone.
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A missed opportunity there, with at least a couple of inaccuracies - "...with his current other half, ballerina Melanie Hamrick, half his age, whom Jagger met after his long-term partner, designer L'Wren Scott died tragically in March 2014."
Pity one of us can't interview him. My choice would be RevTwentyRedLights.
And how would Mick react to his theories?
It would be the greatest interview of all time. Mick's hair would be standing on end.
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Rocky Dijon
The great problem with being a living legend from the 1960s is not only are the questions always looking back in time, but they mainly want to ask about yesterday's scandals. They aren't treated with dignity as people, instead it is felt you can say anything to them when you would never do that if you met someone from his generation who wasn't famous and were having your first conversation with them.
Considering how rare it is to get Mick Jagger to sit for an interview like this, it is unfortunate the questions were not more respectful and centered in the present. The past is best approached to ask him to compare and contrast then and now in different ways. A wasted opportunity. He seemed quite happy to talk about his childhood and family (as opposed to how bad a junkie Keith was in 1971) so the interviewer didn't even build upon the obvious openings.
The end result appears to be a nervous and inexperienced interviewer fumbled his big chance to talk to a legend.
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Doxa
I agree that it was not a very good interview. Probably something to do with editing, but the bulk of the questions were not probably that inspiring for Jagger. But then again, Mick seemingly did the whole thing just to promote their Irish gig, so if him promoting there a warhorses show, and thereby relying on the legendary history of his band, that of the interview based on 'warhorses' questions - that is: picking up things Jagger and his band is most famous for - he can at least partly blame only himself... So we have Altamont, 1967 bust, the drugs, his own persona, the whole zeitgeist of (mostly) the 60's, while the musical interest reduces into obvious cases like "Satisfaction", "Sympathy For The Devil" "Gimme Shelter", "Brown Sugar" and EXILE....
To an extent Jagger is playing there with a double cards: he knows how much all those things matter to people's idea of him, and how much that contributes to his reputation and fame (and I am sure he is quite proud of many things in the past and he likes people being awere of them), but at the same all that gives him a template with which he can show his own even arrogant attitude towards questions like these, and how little he seems to give value for them or for his own memorable past... That's part of the Jagger he wants to promote as the always-forward-looking-guy... I am sure there is much truth in there - he is not a man of 'memory lane' - but he exaggarates that... (c'mon, Mick, you actually don't know which songs are there in LET IT BLEED...) Keith would answer to those 'war horses' questions much more warmly (as his public, more easily accessible character typically is), giving him a template to re-cicle his old stories with a couple of fresh witty one-liners; Charlie would just say something to the effect of 'I don't know. You need to ask Mick or Keith. I just play the drums.' There is no use of Ronnie here - he wasn't there when all the interesting things happened... Like Bill once said of Ronnie: 'young guy, don't know much'... In that same interview (done in 1982) Bill 'revealed' that MIck actually has a bad memory, unlike him and Keith. I wouldn't be so sure about - Jagger's memory seems to be a rather selective one - if needed (there is a product to sell), he seems to give surprisingly detailed descriptions of the past... (I mean, now he doesn't 'remember' what songs there are in LET IT BLEED, but just a couple of years ago, he gave pretty detailed account of the origin of STICKY FINGERS songs...)
On with the show...
- Doxa
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A missed opportunity there, with at least a couple of inaccuracies - "...with his current other half, ballerina Melanie Hamrick, half his age, whom Jagger met after his long-term partner, designer L'Wren Scott died tragically in March 2014."
Pity one of us can't interview him. My choice would be RevTwentyRedLights.
And how would Mick react to his theories?
It would be the greatest interview of all time. Mick's hair would be standing on end.
The interviewer missed that Mick was interested in discussing current songwriting and his childhood in greater detail. Everything else was largely dismissed or treated as a waste of his time. A pity.
As for Revvy, yes, he would deliver an amazing and unique Mick interview if granted. Wouldn't that be a trip? Revvy is a born storyteller. He loves being an Individual and Thank Clapton for him. He lights up every (online) room he enters. He's easily among my list of Top 5 die-hard Stones fans I would love to actually meet. I think he's a riot and for all of the flurry of attention his posts create, he serves the amazingly useful purpose of sometimes bringing the truth out into the open. His outlandish theories are also sometimes on the money...and more times than qualify as a stopped watch being right twice a day. I would vote for amnesty and let him practice his art back here any day. He's the only person who can make me venture outside of IORR for any length of time and I detest Tapatalk as much as Yuku and EZboard.
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Stoneage
This picture speaks volumes about modern day feminism, doesn't it?
Guessing the implication is that these younger women somehow turned in their feminist cards because they choose to be, and have babies with, older wealthy rock stars?Quote
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This picture speaks volumes about modern day feminism, doesn't it?
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MisterDDDDGuessing the implication is that these younger women somehow turned in their feminist cards because they choose to be, and have babies with, older wealthy rock stars?Quote
Stoneage
This picture speaks volumes about modern day feminism, doesn't it?
Not my take.
I see two strong accomplished women who choose to be with two strong accomplished men, despite some harsh societal judgements.
They are doing as they please and what makes them happy. Ups their "feminism" cred imo.
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Stoneage
This picture speaks volumes about modern day feminism, doesn't it?