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bitusa2012
I have been/ am a huge fan since 1965 and traveled all over Australia whenever they tour down here. SAT ON THE EDGE of the stage at The Enmore Sydney Licks show in 2003. Front row Adelaide in 2014. Saw them in LA in 75. First date with my ,still, wife at the WACA in Perth in 1973.
I LOVE THE STONES. They've provided me with the soundtrack to my life and I've just hit 65.
But, if they cannot get a new album out of new material this year, and persist in playing a golden oldies show night in, night out, they should either take up a residency in Vegas (and I HATE that sort of thing - to me that's a circus act), or they should just retire. And IT PAINS ME TO SAY THAT. I rather they went out gracefully and with dignity, than to just peter out.
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TurningToGold2
At the end of every show the big screens say "See you Soon." NOT "Never see you again."
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jlowe
Just think:
John Mayall
Buddy Guy
ETC
Mick and Keith are mere spring chickens.
Their live act is also predicated on a raucous, high-energy physical performance.Quote
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jlowe
Just think:
John Mayall
Buddy Guy
ETC
Mick and Keith are mere spring chickens.
But the Rolling Stones are quite different: they’re a collective; not a solo-act whom only had to rely upon themselves.
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glimmertwinz
No I can't see them giving up. In fact someone must have some idea about next year? Maybe a second US leg? Thoughts BV?
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frankotero
Yes, this and the next 5 tours. Isn't that what Mick said at the B2B tour press conference?
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Mick Jagger
we’re trying to finish the new album, maybe we’ll make it and I think it will definitely be the last of the Stones
yes..well..I've seen that comment many times and used to believe it (or hope it would come true) but since they have no interest in including not even one blues number from B&L in the set....it was dropped no?...then the "Blues on Stools" scenario seems highly unlikely. I fervently hope I will be pleasantly proved wrong.Quote
Send It To me
Bill Wyman said someday they'll be sitting on stools playing the blues, so maybe he's right
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frankotero
Yes, this and the next 5 tours. Isn't that what Mick said at the B2B tour press conference?
It is exactly what was said and I remember thinking how ridiculous the comment was at the time.... I was wrong... Mick was right.
UNREAL.
I am very pleased that I was wrong!
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beachbreak
No reason why they can't carry on after this tour, pending good health (my mouth to God's ears).
Finish the new album which I feel will be great!
Then see what they want to do next.
Maybe tour, maybe a residency like others (Aerosmith, Elton John, etc.), record more solo LP's, it's all good.
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TurningToGold2
At the end of every show the big screens say "See you Soon." NOT "Never see you again."
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bitusa2012
All this talk of them being a working band. I just don't see it.
To me they are not a working band.
Or even, if we are totally honest, a touring band, anymore.
They are a show band.
They play, essentially, the same show, 14 times a year. 14x2 hours.. 28 hours work, plus a couple of odd hours sound checking and perhaps a real week of rehearsals. That's not a working band.
I get their age. I ain't far off their age. I go to work every day for a 42 hour week. That's their annual output, as, from what I tell, they hardly spend anytime working in the studio together anymore...
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beachbreak
No reason why they can't carry on after this tour, pending good health (my mouth to God's ears).
Finish the new album which I feel will be great!
Then see what they want to do next.
Maybe tour, maybe a residency like others (Aerosmith, Elton John, etc.), record more solo LP's, it's all good.
I don't really need predictable (such as I Feel Like Playing) or boring solo albums (like Crosseyed Heart) which are far worse than Ronnie's albums between 1974 and 1992 or Keith's albums from 1988/1992.