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ProfessorWolf
maybe
but i think they'll continue doing a handful of stadium shows a year for at least a couple more years
just hope they don't do one of those "farewell
tours" and just keep performing until they can't or don't want to anymore
just one day they do and the next they don't
Seems like they've always been clear that they won't say such a thing. Mick is always diplomatic, Keith is always "I'll die on stage", Charlie said it's over when his drums blow up and Ronnie... I have no idea but probably along the lines of "It just keeps getting better and better, mate".
Mick stated that the new Stones LP will be the last one. Which to me says more. No matter what, it's winding down.
I believe the Charlie quote is along the lines of "we'll always do a residency in Bognor Regis" and I have never seen or heard where Mick says this will be the last album, although if he did then I'm glad to hear they will be releasing SOMETHING
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calipachangero
Well, I don't think a lot of people thought of Charlie as replacable before his demise. I bet even Keith has his succesor appointed. Not that it will be necessary in the near future. But Mick could and would go on without him.
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Mick stated that the new Stones LP will be the last one.
And I think Mick saying this is going to be the last album is just articulating the obvious.
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Rockman
Yeah where did Mick state that ???????
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slewan
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If they that album is ever released it will surely be the last one – for obvious reasons (or does anybody think that after more than 15 years pause they'll be able to create so enough songs to fill more than one album?
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Mick stated that the new Stones LP will be the last one.
And I think Mick saying this is going to be the last album is just articulating the obvious.
That Mick "statement" has been posted several times, and despite numerous requests from various posters, no source or link has ever been cited.
Check back in a few weeks when the Department Of Redundancy Department will once again issue that pronouncement.
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calipachangero
Well, I don't think a lot of people thought of Charlie as replacable before his demise.
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mrjones
oops-thought I was on the 500 page-thread!
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GasLightStreet
Mick stating the new album would it be it was around the time of Living In A Ghost Town as I recall, I just can't recall where. There was a good bit going on about it, the single, and that's when Mick mentioned it, the supposed new Stones album, being the last one. It might've been Billboard magazine.
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spunky
Any new tour rumors?
There is talk about a 2nd Werchter Classic festival in Belgium on June 26, could it be for the Stones?
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spunky
Any new tour rumors?
There is talk about a 2nd Werchter Classic festival in Belgium on June 26, could it be for the Stones?
But he postponed his European toor.
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spunkyAfter Springsteen postponed the tour there is talk about a new headliner on the old Springsteen date.Quote
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spunky
Any new tour rumors?
There is talk about a 2nd Werchter Classic festival in Belgium on June 26, could it be for the Stones?
But he postponed his European toor.
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Below is an excerpt from a recent Rolling Stone article from an interview with Pete Townshend.
Townsend talks about the difficulty in touring in the pandemic and how artists like that had tour(s) postponed in 2020 and/or 2021 like The Who, Rolling Stones and Elton John were pretty much forced to tour and deal with everything. As opposed to Springsteen that was not in the same situation but was to tour in 2022 with all of these seen/unknown yet difficulties but needed to plan and finalize the tour "now" despite the tour happening "later" and cancelled the 2022 European leg and pulled their USA venue holds.
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RS: How will Covid impact the way you tour? I know that Elton John and the Rolling Stones have been forced to basically create a traveling Covid bubble. Will you be doing something similar?
PT: We have no choice, unfortunately. The insurers are the ones making these dictates. This is not the Rolling Stones or Elton John [making these calls]. This is the insurers. They are insisting that they won’t pay out if you cancel because of Covid. That’s the first thing. And secondly, if they do pay out, they only pay out 85 percent. And thirdly, they up their charges from 2.5 percent to 5 percent and now to 8 percent of the gross income on a tour. It’s absolutely brutal.
I have to confess here that our insurance company here in the U.K., our agent as it were, Robertson Taylor, is a kind of friend. [Laughs] We’ve been working with him since the very beginning. I’ve got no sympathy with the insurance companies, but there you go.
We did get paid out for our U.K. tour, which was fabulous since we were able to pay some of the debt that we had to people around us and help some of the crew and help some friends and family, and just generally charity stuff that we would normally do as a part of what we do every time we go out on tour. We were able to cover some of that in a period that was otherwise totally dead.
I’m happy that they paid us, but one of the stipulations is that when we travel, we’re not allowed to leave our hotel rooms. We have to travel in a very small bubble. And when we’re at the show, we’re not allowed to leave our dressing rooms.
I’m hoping that by May that those restrictions will have been eased a little bit. That’s because your first question was the obvious one: “Are you looking forward to this?” I laughed because this has never been something I love to do, but one of the things that I do greatly enjoy about touring is that people know where you are.
We’ve been in the business now for 60 years. People see our name on a billboard. If they have a phone number of a friend or someone in the crew, or they can get to my PA, they can arrange to meet me. On some occasions, we can fit in a dinner or a family visit. On other occasions, other celebrities or other band members, people I’ve never met, can come backstage and come meet me and talk about music and stuff. The social side of it is really, really valuable to me. I’m not very sociable and I’m not very active socially, so I love it.
Having that taken away from me is a bit saddening. Unlike quite a few people that tour, I don’t spend a lot of time out of my hotel room anyway. I tend to go into a hotel, build a small recording studio, and try to write songs. That’s how I spent my time in hotel rooms. For me, that part of it won’t be too different. But I’ll miss that. I’m hoping, hope against hope, that I can have that back
The idea that I won’t be able to have conversations with the orchestra members that we tour with would be a bit sad. That’s been so great to talk to people about what they do. They might be musicians working with symphony orchestras. They might be session players. They may be half-amateur/half-professional. And we all share that we’ve been stranded on an island for two years. Suddenly we’re back out there. We’ll have a lot we’ll want to share, and these restrictions mean that we won’t be able to.
On the other hand, I don’t want to be Moaning Minnie here. Neither do I want to be a Pollyanna. I think it’s going to be tricky, and I’m very, very keen to make the best of it. We are very lucky, Roger and I, to have a band, what’s left of the band, to take out. We’re lucky that we have what we have together. After two years, I love being at home. I love being at home since I spend so much time in the studio. I love it. I’ve had a very good time during lockdown.
But I work with quite a few other artists. I haven’t just been kicking me heels and feeling frustrated. This is something that … it feels as if the door is opening again. It’s a significant time, and quite strange for everybody. The way that everyone has been turned into pawns of, dare I say it, the politicians, the scientists, the pro-vaxxers, the anti-vaxxers, the people in between.
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Doxa
But leaving all that sentimental stuff about 'this is the very last show ever' or that them leaving the stage forever supposed to be some sort of a Bigger Bang (sic) I think with the Stones the question is that ANY concert is such. And has been for a long time. The Stones are so damn popular and blessed that they have never needed to promote any of their tours as farewell ones. People think and had thought for ages the tours in terms like that without any official announcement: this could be the very last time to see the Stones. And as live performers they are pretty convincing to give such an impression - offering a huge event, even a triumph by playing like this is the last time ever, giving all they can and all those legendary songs in one token. Which will be techically the very last concert (sometimes during the 2030s...), attended by whoever, private or public, will be just a historical anecdote, and mean next to nothing at this stage. Just another gig for them... (and some another, say, 10 million dollars...)
- Doxa
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Hairball
With the news of Keith and the Winos playing the Love Rocks Benefit in N.Y., would be nice to see them do a mini tour of arenas or theaters in select US cities.
Maybe a show or two at MSG, N.Y, then the Forum in L.A., on to MGM in Vegas, and then Chicago United Center...
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I get nervous when I hear about Mick having the stamina to go on and on. Or that the band (or whoever is in it) can perform into the 2030's. It really would be sad to see The Stones ('featuring the amazing original 86 year old lead singer Mick Jagger') becoming a kind of tribute act to themselves. Propped up by session musicians, friends of friends of the original members, or someone Keith and/or Ronnie passes the baton to and tells us 'here is my appointed deputy on earth'.
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With the news of Keith and the Winos playing the Love Rocks Benefit in N.Y., would be nice to see them do a mini tour of arenas or theaters in select US cities.
Maybe a show or two at MSG, N.Y, then the Forum in L.A., on to MGM in Vegas, and then Chicago United Center...
yes please
as i said in the other thread 7 or so shows spread between nyc, chicago and la with one in vancouver to make up for the canceled show last year
and it would keep keith in fighting shape for the stones tour
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With the news of Keith and the Winos playing the Love Rocks Benefit in N.Y., would be nice to see them do a mini tour of arenas or theaters in select US cities.
Maybe a show or two at MSG, N.Y, then the Forum in L.A., on to MGM in Vegas, and then Chicago United Center...
yes please
as i said in the other thread 7 or so shows spread between nyc, chicago and la with one in vancouver to make up for the canceled show last year
and it would keep keith in fighting shape for the stones tour
Vancouver would be awesome but I can't see him being popular enough to do a major arena tour. In 93 he played the Orpheum Theatre here, an excellent show. Would be amazing to see him in a small theatre again.
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With the news of Keith and the Winos playing the Love Rocks Benefit in N.Y., would be nice to see them do a mini tour of arenas or theaters in select US cities.
Maybe a show or two at MSG, N.Y, then the Forum in L.A., on to MGM in Vegas, and then Chicago United Center...
yes please
as i said in the other thread 7 or so shows spread between nyc, chicago and la with one in vancouver to make up for the canceled show last year
and it would keep keith in fighting shape for the stones tour
Vancouver would be awesome but I can't see him being popular enough to do a major arena tour. In 93 he played the Orpheum Theatre here, an excellent show. Would be amazing to see him in a small theatre again.
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treaclefingers
...and while it may well be true that Mick didn't actually say that, let's ease up a bit on Skippy here.
You can definitely extrapolate from recent events, and the interminable time it's taken to get to the point after 17 years where we're still speculating on whether there'll be a new album, that it would undoubtedly be the last, fuelled by their desire for one last hurrah, the 60th anniversary, and an homage to Charlie.
That's if we get it at all.
They probably won't ever say yeah, this is the last one, and this is gonna be the last show/tour. It'll just end and we'll know sometime after that was it.
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With the news of Keith and the Winos playing the Love Rocks Benefit in N.Y., would be nice to see them do a mini tour of arenas or theaters in select US cities.
Maybe a show or two at MSG, N.Y, then the Forum in L.A., on to MGM in Vegas, and then Chicago United Center...
yes please
as i said in the other thread 7 or so shows spread between nyc, chicago and la with one in vancouver to make up for the canceled show last year
and it would keep keith in fighting shape for the stones tour
Vancouver would be awesome but I can't see him being popular enough to do a major arena tour. In 93 he played the Orpheum Theatre here, an excellent show. Would be amazing to see him in a small theatre again.
Did you see him at that show? I must have been sleepwalking, I wasn't even aware he was in town. Saw them the next year during Voodoo Lounge.