...in the open air concert on Let's spend the night together film?
Or is it just my imagination?

One fact is true, he is chewing a gum as if he wanted to disintegrate it.

Are we talkin 80s there cant be anything but "Coca-Cola".

He's high on rock & roll. The best drug you can ever get!

There have been drugs since the stone age. You can be high on drugs for a while but not for 44 years.

Bjornulf

Today he is high of healthy food & physical training...
"Stone -s" age is another thing, but Mick has as good as always
been on the right side. Maybe not in 1978 and at times, i.e ab 1980.

I could verify you get positively high by phys.training;
undersigned have began a new life & now I am at the gym 4-5 times a week.
No more geezer-fat or beer tummmy here. Pure muscles.

I have also tried drugs and those make you stupid, a physical wreck and poor.
Alcohol no better than anything else. An occasional beer a month is my last
unhealthy vice drug-wise (ok, a random chocolate bar & coffee as well...)



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adrenalin and bananas

money.

I think Micks being a health freak since around the 81 tour. He'd quit smoking by then and just wanted to look after himself. I think it's admirable. If he hadn't, then we'd just have a bloated wrinkly, weezing and puffing and panting round the stage. By changing direction, Mick has kept the band going in my opinion.

God!

Some one had to say money didn't they!

ablett Wrote:
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> Some one had to say money didn't they!

Mick took one look at Jerry Garcia in the 80's and said, I don't wanna look like that, I wanna look like Keef!

He's wiping his nose a fair bit on that film isn't he? From what I hear, there used to be bowls of coke sitting around. The shows are more predictable now but that was TRUE rock n roll back then. It's still good now but a much more polished Vegas style act.



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I think Ron, Keith and Jagger had some chemical help in 81/82. Especially Ron. Great tour!

Flashing forward, I thought Mick was high at the pay-per-view St. Louis gig in '97. Reasons why: he almost forgets to introduce Josh Redman before "Waiting on a Friend;" he stumbles upon introducing Dave Matthews, referring to a prior gig with him in Texas as a "big concrete place (i.e. Texas Motor Speedway);" and when they went to the b-stage, Mick yells at "Patrick" in a characteristic stoney way to "turn down the lights."

Big Al Wrote:
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> I think Micks being a health freak since around
> the 81 tour. He'd quit smoking by then and just
> wanted to look after himself. I think it's
> admirable. If he hadn't, then we'd just have a
> bloated wrinkly, weezing and puffing and panting
> round the stage. By changing direction, Mick has
> kept the band going in my opinion.


But, let go at times in disguise, he has been a health freak
since childhood,mhasnt he?

I have nothing to base this on but I really don't think that Jagger has touched anyhting in a long time.

"...no longer shall you trudge 'cross my peaceful mind."

No, not for twenty years or slt. Nothing solid to base upon either.

Big Al Wrote:
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> I think Micks being a health freak since around
> the 81 tour. He'd quit smoking by then and just
> wanted to look after himself. I think it's
> admirable. If he hadn't, then we'd just have a
> bloated wrinkly, weezing and puffing and panting
> round the stage. By changing direction, Mick has
> kept the band going in my opinion.


Ian McLagan mentiones in his book that Jagger was drinking a lot in '81, and that a drunk Jagger isn't the best thing around. I personally think that eveytime you see Jagger chewing gum like a madman, he'd took a fix.

In Munich arena in 2003 he sure took aline a coke. The band was really slow, and the energy level was really low, including Jagger's. In the middle of Midnight Rambler, Jagger disappeared for two minutes, and he came back on the stage like a madman, running around like crazy, chewing his teeth out, and giving the best show I have seen in years. We were standing close to the stage with about 10 people, and we all looked at eachother and started laughing, it was that obvious.

Mathijs

he does seem a bit crazed in that concert, but I think its a natural high. the adrelanin from infront of 30,000 + people for starters...



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A good smack by the belt? (Dutch Bible Belt?)



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georgeV Wrote:
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> he? From what I hear, there used to be bowls of
> coke

This is Mick's brain...
This is Mick's brain on...

Mick definitely did some drugs during the 70's, cocaine in particular, and I think this lasted until the '81/'82 tour. The last time he was really drunk that I remember reading about was when he recorded vocals for Too Much Blood.

Mathijs Wrote:
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>
> In Munich arena in 2003 he sure took aline a
> coke. The band was really slow, and the energy
> level was really low, including Jagger's. In the
> middle of Midnight Rambler, Jagger disappeared for
> two minutes, and he came back on the stage like a
> madman, running around like crazy, chewing his
> teeth out, and giving the best show I have seen in
> years. We were standing close to the stage with
> about 10 people, and we all looked at eachother
> and started laughing, it was that obvious.
>
> Mathijs


Great story.

Jumpin'JackFrash Wrote:
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> God!


I've believed his was, many times.