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Stoneage
That decision should have been taken decades ago in that case. It's too late to stop now. They have already decided to roll as long as it's possible. All the way to the end.
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Stoneage
Personally, I think they should have quit by the turn of the millenium. Then they still had a couple of fresh albums behind them and the warhorses hadn't been beaten to death.
Then they would have quit on some kind of top. Which is not the fact now. Money kept them coming back though. On a never ending tour.
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Stoneage
Personally, I think they should have quit by the turn of the millenium. Then they still had a couple of fresh albums behind them and the warhorses hadn't been beaten to death.
Then they would have quit on some kind of top. Which is not the fact now. Money kept them coming back though. On a never ending tour.
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kkhoranstoned
Good morning
Could the stones pull off the Springsteen album western stars
Record in a small very small ..the whole new album perform with additional musicians like strings and release as a movie
You could control everything
He was not worth 500 million or more in 2000. He made most of his money beginning with the Steel Wheels tour.He has made many hundreds of millions from 1989 to today on live shows and a much much smaller amount from albums. Albums in the last 10 years haven't brought anywhere near that .So maybe it is a coincidence there has been one studio album in 24 years, or about the same as his solo output.Jagger and the band also did not tour from 2000 to 2002 and 2008- 2012 when recession, the financial collapse, 9/11 hit, causing hard economic times for people to buy tickets. He also was ripped off by Allen Klein, had Bianca and Hall and other women taking a lot of his money. Plus he has like 10 kids to leave inheritance to. I kinda think he does still play live because he loves it but I think the lucrative money he got from live shows was very important at least until the last decade.Quote
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Stoneage
Personally, I think they should have quit by the turn of the millenium. Then they still had a couple of fresh albums behind them and the warhorses hadn't been beaten to death.
Then they would have quit on some kind of top. Which is not the fact now. Money kept them coming back though. On a never ending tour.
I don't know why people say they do it for the money. They always talk about why they still do it. It makes no difference if Mick is worth 500 million or 520 million. His life doesn't change.
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Stoneage
Jazz musicians, who truly loves music, do not play exactly the same songs on every tour. And if they do they improvise on the songs or do different arrangement on them from tour to tour.
If you play Satisfaction or JJ Flash for 1100 times, in more or less the same manner, - is that really for the love of music?
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Rockman
Take all you can get ...
They are living treasures ....
When it ends it will be the longest goodbye ever ......
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vibrolux
I guess I'll jump in here...
Obviously, they don't need the money. Promoters are greedy bastards but that's not this thread so there are only 2 litmus tests:
1) Do they enjoy getting out and playing every 4 nights to a stadium full of adoring fans. Apparently yes.
2) Are there plenty of people who enjoy going to these shows. Apparently yes.
I don't think anything else matters. Consider this:
Are they old? Doesn't matter if 1 and 2 are true.
Do they make mistakes? Doesn't matter if 1 and 2 are true.
Are 70% of the people on stage hired guns? Doesn't matter if 1 and 2 are true.
Have they released any material recently? Doesn't matter if 1 and 2 are true.
I could go on and on, but as long as they like to get out and play and as long as enough of us enjoy the experience of going to the shows, they'll continue to get out and play.
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vibrolux
I guess I'll jump in here...
Obviously, they don't need the money. Promoters are greedy bastards but that's not this thread so there are only 2 litmus tests:
1) Do they enjoy getting out and playing every 4 nights to a stadium full of adoring fans. Apparently yes.
2) Are there plenty of people who enjoy going to these shows. Apparently yes.
I don't think anything else matters. Consider this:
Are they old? Doesn't matter if 1 and 2 are true.
Do they make mistakes? Doesn't matter if 1 and 2 are true.
Are 70% of the people on stage hired guns? Doesn't matter if 1 and 2 are true.
Have they released any material recently? Doesn't matter if 1 and 2 are true.
I could go on and on, but as long as they like to get out and play and as long as enough of us enjoy the experience of going to the shows, they'll continue to get out and play.
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vibrolux
I guess I'll jump in here...
Obviously, they don't need the money. Promoters are greedy bastards but that's not this thread so there are only 2 litmus tests:
1) Do they enjoy getting out and playing every 4 nights to a stadium full of adoring fans. Apparently yes.
2) Are there plenty of people who enjoy going to these shows. Apparently yes.
I don't think anything else matters. Consider this:
Are they old? Doesn't matter if 1 and 2 are true.
Do they make mistakes? Doesn't matter if 1 and 2 are true.
Are 70% of the people on stage hired guns? Doesn't matter if 1 and 2 are true.
Have they released any material recently? Doesn't matter if 1 and 2 are true.
I could go on and on, but as long as they like to get out and play and as long as enough of us enjoy the experience of going to the shows, they'll continue to get out and play.
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vibrolux
I guess I'll jump in here...
Obviously, they don't need the money. Promoters are greedy bastards but that's not this thread so there are only 2 litmus tests:
1) Do they enjoy getting out and playing every 4 nights to a stadium full of adoring fans. Apparently yes.
2) Are there plenty of people who enjoy going to these shows. Apparently yes.
I don't think anything else matters. Consider this:
Are they old? Doesn't matter if 1 and 2 are true.
Do they make mistakes? Doesn't matter if 1 and 2 are true.
Are 70% of the people on stage hired guns? Doesn't matter if 1 and 2 are true.
Have they released any material recently? Doesn't matter if 1 and 2 are true.
I could go on and on, but as long as they like to get out and play and as long as enough of us enjoy the experience of going to the shows, they'll continue to get out and play.
A man (woman?) of few words, but very much to the point. It's as simple as you say
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Stoneage
Jazz musicians, who truly loves music, do not play exactly the same songs on every tour. And if they do they improvise on the songs or do different arrangement on them from tour to tour.
If you play Satisfaction or JJ Flash for 1100 times, in more or less the same manner, - is that really for the love of music?
i think we're confusing love of music with love of performance
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Mathijs
I thought they should have called it quits for the last 10 years...then Berlin 2022 turned out to be one of the best nights I ever had.
Mathijs
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Stoneage
If you play Satisfaction or JJ Flash for 1100 times, in more or less the same manner, - is that really for the love of music?
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Mathijs
I thought they should have called it quits for the last 10 years...then Berlin 2022 turned out to be one of the best nights I ever had.
Mathijs
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treaclefingers
What I think is it's time for this thread to stop rolling.