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Stoneage
To play the cynic: Basically everything after Tattoo You is redundant. They could have quit in 1982. Wouldn't have made a difference. By the late seventies, everything was done. Nothing more to add.
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Stoneage
To play the cynic: Basically everything after Tattoo You is redundant. They could have quit in 1982. Wouldn't have made a difference. By the late seventies, everything was done. Nothing more to add.
By that logic they could have called it quits after the 1969-tour.
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Stoneage
To play the cynic: Basically everything after Tattoo You is redundant. They could have quit in 1982. Wouldn't have made a difference. By the late seventies, everything was done. Nothing more to add.
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Taylor1
The 1989 Steel Wheels Tour was great. Other tours had their moments.Some great songs as well. You could say the same thing about Paul McCartney’s entire solo career, Dylan after 1975, Bowie after Heroes, Rod Stewart after the last Faces Album, Clapton after Layla, Stevie Wonder after Songs In the Key of Life, U2 after Achtung Baby, Elton John after 1976 and on and on. Plus thousands of fans got to see the Stones live.
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Taylor1
You could say the same thing about Paul McCartney’s entire solo career, Dylan after 1975, Bowie after Heroes, Rod Stewart after the last Faces Album, Clapton after Layla, Stevie Wonder after Songs In the Key of Life, U2 after Achtung Baby, Elton John after 1976 and on and on. Plus thousands of fans got to see the Stones live.
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KevinM
I couldn't even name 1 song after early '80s McCartney, it's just fluff & crap...feel free to elaborate either way if you know better.
I agree. I'm a big Macca fan and I bought many of his later CD releases, but still I probably could only name a handful of songs, and in some cases I only played one or two songs on the CD's.
"make up your mind, 'cause I gotta go"
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georgemcdonnell314
I think the big difference is after the late 70's they stopped "hanging out" together as a band and sort of went different directions until they needed to work together again.
And I am sure the lack of touring from 1982 to 1989 took a toll.
The shows became more theatrical and were almost the same routine each and every show.
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Stoneage
I said "let me play the cynic" here, Dandy. What I mean is that the songs and albums they are going to be remembered for will be from that period.
I think it's good that they continued though. Since I'm a fan and was able able to see them live for the first time in 1990. And many years to come.
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georgemcdonnell314
I think the big difference is after the late 70's they stopped "hanging out" together as a band and sort of went different directions until they needed to work together again.
And I am sure the lack of touring from 1982 to 1989 took a toll.
The shows became more theatrical and were almost the same routine each and every show.
I think that started after Exile, as Keith also confirmed in the recent interview.
He said, since they were scattered all over the globe, they had to learn how to write songs etc separately.