Staying relevant after all these years.

Reading that Keith drug thing - proves an argument I had w/ by brother-in-law.

The Stones need to get really really high while working on the next album.
Either that, or a least try to make it sound cool.

Please!

would have to be to listen to brain jones, charlie and bill to release i can't get no satisfaction as a single.....because if they didn't i don't know if the stones would even be around? you know keith didn't want it to be released as a single! and they took a vote.....................

OpenG Wrote:
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> actually brian jones and keith started the whole
> weaving thing

Indeed and Keith and Mick Taylor had great interplay, or weaving if you will, during the '69 tour. Not so much after that though.

I still think the using the tongue design is their best decision - as far as marketing the band goes. It's probably the most recognizable logo in rock.

jamesfdouglas Wrote:
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> I still think the using the tongue design is their
> best decision - as far as marketing the band goes.
> It's probably the most recognizable logo in rock.


yep as well as.........

Hey Drake, nice post.
I can't wait to see your new cover design - hey, maybe I'll make it for you!

60's: Touring & playing to the dark side.
70's: Touring & Woody
80's: Touring & Taking time off, & the new backing musicians
90's: Touring & Darryl, and (for them) raising ticket prices
00's: Touring & and (for them) raising ticket prices again

To date?

Carly Simon
Linda Ronstadt - back in the day
Anita
Patti
Jo
Bianca

yada, yada, yada

Thought about this long and hard. It had to be some "thing" not a person I reconed.

The Stones did the same things, had the same management issues, et. as other bands. The one thing they did different was not pretend to be there all the time and to keep up the appearance of consitancy. They kept us guessing, anticipating then the thrill.

My time's comin' any day
Don't worry 'bout me, no.

micwer Wrote:
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> Staying relevant after all these years.


Eh?

lol!

Mick: Boys, I've made a decision. Let's stay relevent.

Charlie: Are you sure?

Mick: Oh yes. I've made up my mind on this one.

Their best decision...

To stick with it.

In the beginning - recruiting Charlie.

As time went by - not letting their differences keep them from staying together, and staying on the rough, live, noisy, unpredictable road instead of retreating to the safe cocoon of a studio.

Creating the soundtrack for our lives....
For that alone, ya should burn a candle everyday for them...



ROCKMAN

Green Lady Wrote:
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> As time went by - not letting their differences
> keep them from staying together, and staying on
> the rough, live, noisy, unpredictable road instead
> of retreating to the safe cocoon of a studio.


best answer yet

although, the two shouldnt have been as mutually exclusive as they have been in recent years!

"Although, the two shouldnt have been as mutually exclusive as they have been in recent years!"

Agreed - I was thinking more of earlier times when the Beatles gave up on live performance and the Stones didn't - and it made all the difference in the world.

I've been reading a history of popular music recently that makes an important distinction between two different kinds of records. There are artists that Make Records - the important product is the disc, as manufactured in the studio. It's not necessarily reproduceable as a live performance, because that isn't the point ... We all know artists like that.

Then the other kind of artists are those who Record Music - the important product is the music itself, and the disc is just a way of preserving a performance. There may be lots of other performances both before and after the record, as the music lives and grows and develops.

Most bands do a bit of both, but I'm very glad the Stones, on the whole, Record Music. I just wish they'd do a bit more of it lately!

Best decision for them was the worst thing for us - Cohl