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StonesBlake
Once they truly stop touring, you'll see the band dust off boxes and see what they have acquired. It will just take time.
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alimente
Just joking, but its already late, if not too late to gain some commercial success from the vaults. problem is that if they wait another 5 or 10 years, the band could not care less to waste time, effort & energy into archive projects that will not sell more than a couple of thousand CDs, DVDs or downloads anyway.
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R
THERE AIN'T NUTHIN' THERE.
The way the Stones record leaves half finished jams and scraps of musical ideas in the vaults - not songs. The only thing they COULD release would be the same stuff we've been swapping for twenty years anyway.
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StonesBlake
The difference is that selling boxers and glasses doesn't impact the band as a live entity.
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StonesBlake
Releasing material from the vault does. It kind of says 'yeah we're not looking ahead anymore'.
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StonesBlake
Releasing material from the vault does. It kind of says 'yeah we're not looking ahead anymore'.
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JumpingKentFlash
I don't think it's a good idea either. What reason would there be to put out something old?
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JumpingKentFlash
Why not wait?
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Gazza
it certainly impacts on their credibility though, which legacy wise when they're marketing this crap whilst choosing to ignore their music can be often as damning. In years and decades to come, how do you think they're going to remembered? As a band or a brand with a cool little logo? The "cash cow" obsession damages that legacy with every succeeding year.
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Gazza
it certainly impacts on their credibility though, which legacy wise when they're marketing this crap whilst choosing to ignore their music can be often as damning. In years and decades to come, how do you think they're going to remembered? As a band or a brand with a cool little logo? The "cash cow" obsession damages that legacy with every succeeding year.
I think this just erks hardcore fans. Other bands sell out just as much. Ultimately the Stones will be judged on their music, not the products they sold.
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Gazza
it certainly impacts on their credibility though, which legacy wise when they're marketing this crap whilst choosing to ignore their music can be often as damning. In years and decades to come, how do you think they're going to remembered? As a band or a brand with a cool little logo? The "cash cow" obsession damages that legacy with every succeeding year.
I think this just erks hardcore fans. Other bands sell out just as much. Ultimately the Stones will be judged on their music, not the products they sold.
If you can find another act with as much kitsch attached to their brand name or who have whored themselves as much, I'd 'love' to see it.
The Stones heyday as a great music act - to the masses at least - was decades ago. As time goes by, there are less and less of those people left who remember that era (for goodness sake, its evident with so-called 'hardcore' fans already, many of whom can barely acknowledge the existence of the band pre-Jumpin Jack Flash). To many people, they're a t-shirt selling machine who play nostalgia-drenched concerts every so often. Even at present, their musical legacy is greatly being eroded due to the fact that theyve produced such a paucity of new music for two decades.
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skipstone
I think that would be a silly reason to not release anything form the Taylor years. That's just stupid! I mean, to me that seems like a stupid reason to not do it.
Then again...Tattoo You does say something. Mick and his flip attitude about not putting any credits on it. You know, for making a shit-ton of money over the eons they sure are cheap ass bastards when it comes to silly stupid shit like that. What's that, in some book, not paying for Muscle Shoals (rumour? True? Lie?) and erasing everything there, leaving no trace. My guess has always been that Mick didn't want credits on Tattoo You because then they would have to dole out money to Taylor and whoever from the Black And Blue sessions and Sonny Rollins etc...although how not putting credits on the album and not paying who their due work together I don't know. I really doubt that.
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retired_dog
For opening the vaults, it requires a record company that is really keen to do that. Virgin is not that kind of company. As already mentioned elsewhere, they are the kind of company that always prefers another greatest hits compilation because it promises more sales than obscure material from the vaults. Virgin simply does not have the vision to do it. Nowadays, they are even not what our common sense understands under the term "record company". They are just a subsidiary of EMI, a trademark. That's why I hope that the Stones leave them.
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skipstone
So....if they were to release an unauthorised something or other - oh wait, they can't - they don't own the masters to the Stones. Nevermind.
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Gazza
If you can find another act with as much kitsch attached to their brand name or who have whored themselves as much, I'd 'love' to see it.
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Gazza
The Stones heyday as a great music act - to the masses at least - was decades ago. As time goes by, there are less and less of those people left who remember that era (for goodness sake, its evident with so-called 'hardcore' fans already, many of whom can barely acknowledge the existence of the band pre-Jumpin Jack Flash). To many people, they're a t-shirt selling machine who play nostalgia-drenched concerts every so often. Even at present, their musical legacy is greatly being eroded due to the fact that theyve produced such a paucity of new music for two decades.