I only heared/read great stories about the shows in Seattle an the other cold ones. Not sold out, but great shows with lots of energy and scarfs, hats, gloves. People are experiencing extra energy from the band on rainy and cold nights. The question is if the fans can cope with the weather....?

Especially when they are growing older and older, it is the summer we have to fear... See the death-figures in for example France after a very hot summer: high peekes among the elderly after each heatwave. NO MORE SUMMER TOURS!!!

Jelle

They're sure used to the heat with their spare time mansions in
Bermuda, Jamaica etc. Exception possibly Ron & Charlie.

As long as they perform at nite I dont see any big risks. :-)

Baboon Bro Wrote:
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> They're sure used to the heat with their spare
> time mansions in
> Bermuda, Jamaica etc. Exception possibly Ron &
> Charlie.
>
> As long as they perform at nite I dont see any big
> risks. :-)


Doesn't Ron take trips to Africa? So he would be used to the heat too.

"It's seriously beginning to show - they are getting too old for this..."

- no one said that to BB King or John Lee Hooker. The Stones are just like the old blues men, they will play as long as they live. Only death can stop blues men playing gigs. It's all about love and joy, not money or anything else.

backstreetboy Wrote:
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> they have had bad luck(mostly keiths fall)micks
> voice problems could happen to anyone(he gives it
> his all every night).i do agree though,shorter
> tours make more sense it would give the band and
> our wallets a needed break.also mostly arena shows
> would help.


yep. Only flaw is I cant see them doing that while they still insist on such huge guarantees for every show. THAT is whats driving the shows outdoors. Most arenas cant afford them.

That silly "Stones being sued" news has also reached the belgian news.

lunar!!! Wrote:
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> old....and in the way??.......no..... just old
> ...and tired.....and sick of it........and BS like
> the crap on this board....let them die...thats
> what they want.....really .......you don't think
> so?.....really?......then you are pathetic.......
> harsh but true----LET THEM GO FOR GOD'S SAKE!!!!!
> YOU ARE ALL SCARING THE !@#$#%^&& OUT OF ME
> -----THEY ARE @$# YEARS OLD!!!!!---imagine your
> great-grandfather on stage playing
> satisfaction---GROSS!!!!!.......lets bve happy we
> had them this long.......but of course you won't
> ----LET THE ATTACKS BEGIN!!!!

You forgot to mention that...uh...ehm...lunar has spoken!!!

lazy-slob Wrote:
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> I'm sorry to write this. The Stones are as usual
> rolling, but this tour have been an endless stream
> of cancelled and rescheduled shows. It's seriously
> beginning to show that they are getting too old
> physically for this.
>
> A Bigger Bang has been a triumph as usual, but
> they have to look on the facts that they can't
> handle touring for a-year-and-a-half anymore.
>
> Dear Stones: Please seattle down, concentrate on a
> few more albums and a gig here and there, before
> it gets too embarrasing.


You're quite embarrasing to listen to bro'. Keith falling down a tree, and the following posponements, has nothing to do with getting too old, so that doesn't count. They have cancelled about 5 shows this entire tour as far as I can see. It's a real frickin' shame for the people who was touched by the postponements be it Keith's accident or the 4 or 5 laryngitis shows. You're the frickin' embarrasing one. Not knowing you facts. Shame on you. Go listen to Roxy Music you pervert. :-)

JumpingKentFlash

erikjjf Wrote:
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> Kent??


LOL! Yeah. Like I would write that. It wasn't me.

JumpingKentFlash

lazy-slob Wrote:
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> It's not that I'll like them to stop. I would just
> like to see them grow old gracefully: Do a few
> more great albums and do shorter exclusive tours.
> Then it would be a nice and great end to the
> greatest r'n'r band ever!


How about this: They do only arena tours. Two shows a week. A few more albums. And as Townsend said: "Don't try to grow old gracefully, it wouldn't suit you".

JumpingKentFlash

JumpingKentFlash Wrote:
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> They have cancelled about 5 shows this entire tour as far as I can see.

Barcelona, Madrid, Brussels, 1 Paris, Gothenburg, St Petersburg, Brno, Warsaw, Athens, Zagreb, Nürnberg, Leipzig, Frankfurt, 1 Amsterdam, Valladolid, El Ejido, Honolulu.
17.

As I said: The tree shows doesn't count as being too old. The laryngitis shows do.

JumpingKentFlash

So Mick was also too old in 98 when they cancelled Milan and Bilbao due to his laryngitis?

erikjjf Wrote:
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> So Mick was also too old in 98 when they cancelled
> Milan and Bilbao due to his laryngitis?


No not really. You know I don't think so. When they're being roled out on stage in wheelchairs I might think they're getting too old. Not now. But the laryngitis thing has more to do with getting old than falling off a tree I think.

JumpingKentFlash

I agree with Kent.

Keith's encounter with a shrub which apparently didn't want him to sit on it was totally unrelated to later cancellations for the more mundane reasons of Micks's voice.
With the benefit of hindsight, it's maybe the case that details of the current tour itenery could maybe have been planned a little differently [and issues handled a little more diplomatically]...but none of it really has anything to do with being too old.

I don't care guys. That's my opinion.

I would like to see:

1. Shorther and therefore more concentrated tours.
2. Albums like A Bigger Bang every 4-5 years.
3. More exclusive releases like a new docomentary and some further rarities releases.

And by the way:
The line: "It's seriously beginning to show - they are getting too old for this..." is refering to their physical state, NOT their artistically performances. So comparing them to BB King and the likes you can't. They have also settled down and only touring from time to time.

lazy-slob Wrote:
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> 1. Shorther and therefore more concentrated
> tours.

The amount they do today seems good. 2 or 3 shows per week.


> 2. Albums like A Bigger Bang every 4-5 years.

Or even better: EVERY YEAR!!!


> 3. More exclusive releases like a new docomentary
> and some further rarities releases.

Yes. When they're done in my opinion.


> And by the way:
> The line: "It's seriously beginning to show - they
> are getting too old for this..." is refering to
> their physical state, NOT their artistically
> performances. So comparing them to BB King and the
> likes you can't. They have also settled down and
> only touring from time to time.

With all due respect, what does it refer to then?

JumpingKentFlash

J.J.Flash Wrote:
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> I hope they tour until they physically drop dead
> on stage. That's the way a real rock band ends.


That would be a logistic hell - trying to drop dead all at the same time? *lol*

Not after seeing them last night!!!!!!!!

re: "logistic hell"

If they all climbed a coconut tree during the encore....the odds would increase.

not sure what SCELSA meant......were you unimpressed last night?

lazy-slob Wrote:
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> I don't care guys. That's my opinion.
>
> I would like to see:
>
> 1. Shorther and therefore more concentrated
> tours.
> 2. Albums like A Bigger Bang every 4-5 years.
> 3. More exclusive releases like a new docomentary
> and some further rarities releases.


I'd like to bloody think they could release albums a lot more frequently than youre hoping for. Especially with three songwriters in the band. Time isnt exactly on their side when it comes to putting out new material if you're going to be THAT unambitious. I do NOT want to wait until about 2012 for another album.

They Could do an album at least every 2 years....

retired dog!!!!!----you are correct sir ---how could i have failed to add the most important phrase to any post ever uttered----thank you for straightening me out---every once in a while i need a kick in the !@#$%^-------ahem...are you all ready?....good......LUNAR!!!! HAS SPOKEN!!!!!! aaaaahhhh--that felt good........PS---i stand by my original commentary----its over--lets give them a decent burial.....but i also must confess---i'm taking my 63 year old father to see them in glendale and he is REALLY excited...so i got vegas tix too.....and L.A. also....damn------just when i think i'm out they suck me back in!!!!!! AAAAAAAAAAAGGGGHHHHH!!!! LUNARR!!! HAS SPOKEN!!!!! HEED!!

STONES JAM!! MICKEYS RULES!!! (burp) NADER IN 2016!!!!! GO GIANTS!!

The Worst. Wrote:
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> "It's seriously beginning to show - they are
> getting too old for this..."
>
> - no one said that to BB King or John Lee Hooker.
> The Stones are just like the old blues men, they
> will play as long as they live. Only death can
> stop blues men playing gigs. It's all about love
> and joy, not money or anything else.


BB King and John Lee Hooker don't jump around on stage and play outside in freezing weather. And lately with the Stones, it's been all about the money, what with the screwing of the fans in the most horrible, money-grubbing way passible.


sluissie Wrote:
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> I only heared/read great stories about the shows
> in Seattle an the other cold ones. Not sold out,
> but great shows with lots of energy and scarfs,
> hats, gloves. People are experiencing extra energy
> from the band on rainy and cold nights. The
> question is if the fans can cope with the
> weather....?
>
> Especially when they are growing older and older,
> it is the summer we have to fear... See the
> death-figures in for example France after a very
> hot summer: high peekes among the elderly after
> each heatwave. NO MORE SUMMER TOURS!!!
>
> Jelle


It's doesn't matter how much energy there is, cold weather is still very bad for them to be playing outside. The Stones are not invincible, as you seem to be implying. Cold weather is bad even for a young person, it's very bad for an old person.