I remember seeing them years ago when you would wait and wait and wait for them to finally come on. The audiences were worked into a complete frenzy from the build up. You knew when it was technically supposed to start but back then, they started when they started. I think this ending is similar and while I'm not happy about it, I'm not surprised. They were a shooting star for a long, long, long time and now, it's just over. No announcement. It just is. They do what they do and for me, the experience will never be duplicated.

I'm being literal.
‘He can't commit’= I can't make a commitment, there's an obstacle, an impediment, an inability, an insurmountable constraint, at least for a tour in 2026. Temporary? In that case, we'll see about later, but there's the age factor, of course...

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We have to live for the moment without clear explanation.

But we may be tempted to prefer made up answer than to stay in ignorance.

That is humanity.

The fact remains that there is an explanation and if you read between the lines it's probably staring us in the face, i mean everything came to an abrupt halt, BV started a tribute thread for final bows.

For me it was the ending i expected but much later, and obviously it was a horrible way for it to end, not with a bang but a whimper.

There were quite a few bangs in Ridgedale. I believe it was the only 2024 to have pyro.

Yeah i hear what you're saying but they didn't call it the last tour/show, they carried on implying another tour was in the planning 2 maybe 3 times, then nothing, i call that going out on a whimper, and not even being bothered to explain why you can't commit, it's a whimper in my book.

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Keith won't or can't tour but "it's not health related" just continues to perplex me as I can't think of anything besides health that would lead to that. (I would say "aging" and "health" are interchangeable here.)

Is no desire to be on the road at 82 a health reason? Why can't people get through the fact he just doesn't want to tour?

I remember at the beginning of the Hackney Diamonds tour when Keith only did one song and even BV was on here saying that’s all he was comfortable with, then by the end of the tour he was doing 3 songs almost every night and really killing it onstage. The band was in fabulous form by the end of the tour, perfect to work on an album. I guess what I’m saying in the long run is that maybe we’ve seen the end of tours or maybe not, Keith and Mick have surprised us all for decades now and this is just another plot twist. But if that was the last tour it was damn impressive for what it’s worth. I’m more interested in whether the new album will sound like Hackney pt 2 or will it have more of an off the cuff feel like the recent zydeco mix. Bite My Head off was fun but it’s the first one I skip by, I could listen to Keith and Mick do zydeco tunes all night!

If keith don’t want to do it that’s fine. They can spend quality time with their families. They got nothing to prove at this stage. I was very fortunate to have seen them 23 X…"I will always keep those nice memories of seeing them and meeting Stones fans from all over. In 98 I was at a airport In Edmonton I saw Ronnie & Keith . Was a surprise. You never know who y’ll see at a airport! Will see what 2026 brings. If they tour again would be great if not that’s fine too. Long live the Stones.



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I remember seeing them years ago when you would wait and wait and wait for them to finally come on. The audiences were worked into a complete frenzy from the build up. You knew when it was technically supposed to start but back then, they started when they started. I think this ending is similar and while I'm not happy about it, I'm not surprised. They were a shooting star for a long, long, long time and now, it's just over. No announcement. It just is. They do what they do and for me, the experience will never be duplicated.

That was decades ago. Last 1975. TOTA.

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I remember seeing them years ago when you would wait and wait and wait for them to finally come on. The audiences were worked into a complete frenzy from the build up. You knew when it was technically supposed to start but back then, they started when they started. I think this ending is similar and while I'm not happy about it, I'm not surprised. They were a shooting star for a long, long, long time and now, it's just over. No announcement. It just is. They do what they do and for me, the experience will never be duplicated.

That was decades ago. Last 1975. TOTA.

A little later than that because the first time I saw them was 1978. You know what I'm talking about though. The good old days.

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Keith won't or can't tour but "it's not health related" just continues to perplex me as I can't think of anything besides health that would lead to that. (I would say "aging" and "health" are interchangeable here.)

Is no desire to be on the road at 82 a health reason? Why can't people get through the fact he just doesn't want to tour?

I suppose there are a couple reasons, if Keith isn't interested in playing live anymore then why did he get a band together last month and rehearse and play and sing very well with energy and charm.
Also the fact that he doesn't give a reason why he doesn't want to commit with the Stones is strange, like he still has a trick up his sleeve or a plan, not committing in 2026 to the Stones doesn't say it's over to me.
Could it be he wants to do something solo in 2026.

Well, if the Stones play another concert or two in public, there will be their last ever show — sooner rather than later. That’s for sure. Prepare for the day, folks.

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Keith won't or can't tour but "it's not health related" just continues to perplex me as I can't think of anything besides health that would lead to that. (I would say "aging" and "health" are interchangeable here.)

Is no desire to be on the road at 82 a health reason? Why can't people get through the fact he just doesn't want to tour?

I suppose there are a couple reasons, if Keith isn't interested in playing live anymore then why did he get a band together last month and rehearse and play and sing very well with energy and charm.
Also the fact that he doesn't give a reason why he doesn't want to commit with the Stones is strange, like he still has a trick up his sleeve or a plan, not committing in 2026 to the Stones doesn't say it's over to me.
Could it be he wants to do something solo in 2026.

If it were Mick, I would shrug, it's just that Keith being a "lifer," "dying on stage," "like an old bluesman" is such a core part of his identity. I never remember him ever being the one who didn't want to tour, it was always just "Do Mick and Charlie want to?" That's why it doesn't make sense to me.

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We have to live for the moment without clear explanation.

But we may be tempted to prefer made up answer than to stay in ignorance.

That is humanity.

The fact remains that there is an explanation and if you read between the lines it's probably staring us in the face, i mean everything came to an abrupt halt, BV started a tribute thread for final bows.

For me it was the ending i expected but much later, and obviously it was a horrible way for it to end, not with a bang but a whimper.

There were quite a few bangs in Ridgedale. I believe it was the only 2024 to have pyro.

Yeah i hear what you're saying but they didn't call it the last tour/show, they carried on implying another tour was in the planning 2 maybe 3 times, then nothing, i call that going out on a whimper, and not even being bothered to explain why you can't commit, it's a whimper in my book.

They put holds on stadiums, a formality a lot of bands engage in. The rest is just your fantasy and delusion.

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Keith won't or can't tour but "it's not health related" just continues to perplex me as I can't think of anything besides health that would lead to that. (I would say "aging" and "health" are interchangeable here.)

Is no desire to be on the road at 82 a health reason? Why can't people get through the fact he just doesn't want to tour?

We can ask some of the 82 year old Stones fans on this board but I don't think any made it that far.

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Keith won't or can't tour but "it's not health related" just continues to perplex me as I can't think of anything besides health that would lead to that. (I would say "aging" and "health" are interchangeable here.)

Is no desire to be on the road at 82 a health reason? Why can't people get through the fact he just doesn't want to tour?

I suppose there are a couple reasons, if Keith isn't interested in playing live anymore then why did he get a band together last month and rehearse and play and sing very well with energy and charm.
Also the fact that he doesn't give a reason why he doesn't want to commit with the Stones is strange, like he still has a trick up his sleeve or a plan, not committing in 2026 to the Stones doesn't say it's over to me.
Could it be he wants to do something solo in 2026.

If it were Mick, I would shrug, it's just that Keith being a "lifer," "dying on stage," "like an old bluesman" is such a core part of his identity. I never remember him ever being the one who didn't want to tour, it was always just "Do Mick and Charlie want to?" That's why it doesn't make sense to me.

Totally agree, something doesn't add up.

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Keith won't or can't tour but "it's not health related" just continues to perplex me as I can't think of anything besides health that would lead to that. (I would say "aging" and "health" are interchangeable here.)

Is no desire to be on the road at 82 a health reason? Why can't people get through the fact he just doesn't want to tour?

I suppose there are a couple reasons, if Keith isn't interested in playing live anymore then why did he get a band together last month and rehearse and play and sing very well with energy and charm.
Also the fact that he doesn't give a reason why he doesn't want to commit with the Stones is strange, like he still has a trick up his sleeve or a plan, not committing in 2026 to the Stones doesn't say it's over to me.
Could it be he wants to do something solo in 2026.

The fact of your inventing some kind of nefarious scheme between the difference of rehearsing and playing live for 20 minutes or however long it was, which you declared he is not interested in, compared to rehearsing for a month and going on a 4 month tour and "cancelling" a tour that was never announced being the end of the Stones...

It might help if you read what you type.

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If it were Mick, I would shrug, it's just that Keith being a "lifer," "dying on stage," "like an old bluesman" is such a core part of his identity. I never remember him ever being the one who didn't want to tour, it was always just "Do Mick and Charlie want to?" That's why it doesn't make sense to me.

Then make sense of this:

First it was 'There's no Stones without Charlie' from Keith for years.

Steve Jordan is suggested by Charlie and Charlie died and, against the laws of people that can't evolve, the horror of the Stones continuing has caused great - nah, the Stones don't give a damn what anyone thinks.

The core part of Keith's identity was then, those years of making copy. That's been over for quite some time. Because it doesn't matter anymore. The ageism thrown at the Stones ended in 1997.

People change their minds because life changes.

Keith has nice homes, certainly, and a big family, so once he dies it won't matter where to him anymore, only to those that hold up some ridiculous status of who Keith Richards is/was.

And no one is owned an explanation for Keith supposedly ending something that was never announced to begin with that no one has a clue about to begin with to begin with.

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Keith won't or can't tour but "it's not health related" just continues to perplex me as I can't think of anything besides health that would lead to that. (I would say "aging" and "health" are interchangeable here.)

Is no desire to be on the road at 82 a health reason? Why can't people get through the fact he just doesn't want to tour?

We can ask some of the 82 year old Stones fans on this board but I don't think any made it that far.

I'm 61 and I don't want to visit 14 airports the next 2 months.

Personally i think Keith has Health problems,and i think it is his fingers he have problem with.But what other reason could it be?

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Keith won't or can't tour but "it's not health related" just continues to perplex me as I can't think of anything besides health that would lead to that. (I would say "aging" and "health" are interchangeable here.)

Is no desire to be on the road at 82 a health reason? Why can't people get through the fact he just doesn't want to tour?

I suppose there are a couple reasons, if Keith isn't interested in playing live anymore then why did he get a band together last month and rehearse and play and sing very well with energy and charm.
Also the fact that he doesn't give a reason why he doesn't want to commit with the Stones is strange, like he still has a trick up his sleeve or a plan, not committing in 2026 to the Stones doesn't say it's over to me.
Could it be he wants to do something solo in 2026.

The fact of your inventing some kind of nefarious scheme between the difference of rehearsing and playing live for 20 minutes or however long it was, which you declared he is not interested in, compared to rehearsing for a month and going on a 4 month tour and "cancelling" a tour that was never announced being the end of the Stones...

It might help if you read what you type.

Oh come on, like Keith thinks that hard about it, ( as if Keith is intimidated by 16 shows over 4 months, do me a favour ) he's probably pissed off the tour was called off when he was ready last year and possibly pissed off with the result of the new album.

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Personally i think Keith has Health problems,and i think it is his fingers he have problem with.But what other reason could it be?

You remind me of a cuckoo clock.

"And it sure been a cold, cold winter
And the wind ain't been blowing from the south
It's sure been a cold, cold winter"

So Happy I saw them one last time in Vancouver and they surprised the heck out of me... again

Well Keefriffhard,you reminded me of a total clown.So stupid i could almost not believe it.But you Are a total antijagger fanatical mad man.

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Well Keefriffhard,you reminded me of a total clown.So stupid i could almost not believe it.But you Are a total antijagger fanatical mad man.

Yep you chimed in like clockwork.
Trolling Keith hater.

Why is it that every thread Keefriffhards gets involved in it devolves into a mud-slinging match? He is the common denominator... I'll just leave it at that.

Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing him banned.

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Keith won't or can't tour but "it's not health related" just continues to perplex me as I can't think of anything besides health that would lead to that. (I would say "aging" and "health" are interchangeable here.)

Is no desire to be on the road at 82 a health reason? Why can't people get through the fact he just doesn't want to tour?

I suppose there are a couple reasons, if Keith isn't interested in playing live anymore then why did he get a band together last month and rehearse and play and sing very well with energy and charm.
Also the fact that he doesn't give a reason why he doesn't want to commit with the Stones is strange, like he still has a trick up his sleeve or a plan, not committing in 2026 to the Stones doesn't say it's over to me.
Could it be he wants to do something solo in 2026.

The fact of your inventing some kind of nefarious scheme between the difference of rehearsing and playing live for 20 minutes or however long it was, which you declared he is not interested in, compared to rehearsing for a month and going on a 4 month tour and "cancelling" a tour that was never announced being the end of the Stones...

It might help if you read what you type.

Oh come on, like Keith thinks that hard about it, ( as if Keith is intimidated by 16 shows over 4 months, do me a favour ) he's probably pissed off the tour was called off when he was ready last year and possibly pissed off with the result of the new album.

This makes sense to me.

Not sure what or how but they won’t want to finish like this. Might be a single show like celebration day and led zep, might be a residency, might be a mini tour, or a single finish at a festival. But I think they have another bow left in them. Based on nothing but high hopes and thin air

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Oh come on, like Keith thinks that hard about it, ( as if Keith is intimidated by 16 shows over 4 months, do me a favour ) he's probably pissed off the tour was called off when he was ready last year and possibly pissed off with the result of the new album.

You're showing your ignorance.

Thank you The Rolling Stones for all these years.
Thank you always bv.

Happy holidays everyone!!

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Why is it that every thread Keefriffhards gets involved in it devolves into a mud-slinging match? He is the common denominator... I'll just leave it at that.

Personally, I wouldn't mind seeing him banned.

I've just been going through you and Harlem Shuffles posts, do you have to join in on Harlems obvious campaign. Play fair mate don't make it personal, these are just my opinions.



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I think that it would be best to stop this childish business of saying that it’s the end of the Stones, competing in speculations about why a tour that was never even announced isn’t happening, or claiming that the Stones don’t owe us anything (of course they don't, why would they?). Mick, Keith and Ronnie are alive, the new album was planned, and all that remains is to wait patiently to see whether anything else will happen. And if it does – treat it, like everything Stones-related since the Bigger Bang Tour, with joy, as a bonus. In the meantime, there are plenty of other interesting things one can do.



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