Quotegeorgelicks QuoteJbeckerfan Steel Wheels was released pre-soundscan, but sales numbers were still logged to the best degree possible. But I cannot find the first week US sales for Steel Wheels or VooDoo Lounge, which was post soundscan. Not looking for Chart Position, Looking for actual US sales. Please comment only if you know and have verifiable information. My gut instinct puts b
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QuoteIrix QuoteJbeckerfan Looking for actual US sales. Steel Wheels: RIAA says Gold certification (October 27, 1989) and 2x Platinum certification (January 9, 1990) - . Voodoo Lounge: RIAA says Gold certification (September 12, 1994) and 2x Platinum (December 21, 1994) - . These certifications should mirror the sales numbers until the given dates. I am only seeking the first wee
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Steel Wheels was released pre-soundscan, but sales numbers were still logged to the best degree possible. But I cannot find the first week US sales for Steel Wheels or VooDoo Lounge, which was post soundscan. Not looking for Chart Position, not looking for RIAA totals. Looking for actual US *first week* sales. Please comment only if you know and have verifiable information. My gut instin
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I'm aware that Oldham basically burned the band and locked them into self-serving deals. I am curious to know if the band ever reached a point of 'water under the bridge' with Oldham, and if there are any reports of Oldham ever attending any shows in the last 25 or so years. I am aware he lives in Bogota, and the Stones played there in 2016. Would Andrew have been invited ?
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I would like to read the best book out there on the Stones earliest days of forming and on into the club shows before they really hit big, Is there a book that stands out above all others as having the most detail of 62-66 ?
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We always see various members of the Stones coming out of restaurants. Keith & Ronnie at Musso & Franks in Hollywood, Mick and Charlie, etc. But can anyone recall Mick & Keith actually taking a meal together solo in the last 20 years? You have to wonder if they even could. Do they truly hate each other that much? Keith has said some horrific things about Mick, both in LIFE and els
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Quotestonesstein QuoteJbeckerfan [ Chuck was intentionally left off B2B for specific reasons that have been discussed here elsewhere and I don't feel the need to dig into again. I have never heard of this and have never seen this mentioned anywhere in IORR in the nearly 20 years I have been on the Board. Can anyone here elaborate and fill me in?] Sometime before B2B album sessions b
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QuoteWuudy QuoteJbeckerfan He is not credited on the album and was not present for the kickoff in NYC. Is he out of the band again like during Bridges to Babylon? Chuck was on the B2B tour or do you mean the album? Mick has praised him over the years, even saying that without him there wouldn't be the Stones any more. I imagine that it is probably because of personal reasons. Chuck was
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He is not credited on the album and was not present for the kickoff in NYC. Is he out of the band again like during Bridges to Babylon?
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This is, with very little exception, 99% a Mick solo record. Sure, Keith and Ronnie probably played the guitars, but there isn't one single song here that would have made the cut for even Voodoo Lounge much less Bridges or Steel Wheels. It simply does not sound like the Stones because it's not the Stones.
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QuoteRocky Dijon QuoteJbeckerfan Referring to North America. You can't just plan Japan every week. You asked for Pollstar account for attendance and grosses for North America just to point out he didn't tour North America? I get it. Mick has a platinum album and gold album in the States, 5 Top 40 hits in the States, and played sold out tours of Japan and Australia, but he's
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QuoteRocky Dijon 8 shows in Japan, 170K attendees @ Y6500 apiece. 8 shows sold out in hours. Referring to North America. You can't just plan Japan every week.
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If anyone has a Pollstar account and can download the documented tour numbers (attendance + gross box office $) for Mick Jaggers solo tours I would absolutely love to see them but with all due respect to Mick, at no point in his entire solo career was he ever an arena headliner in North America. Solo Mick should have played the exact same rooms in the 80s and early 90s as solo Keith (3,000 capaci
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QuoteRocky Dijon There were articles in the trades at the time. One of Cohl's business ventures was predicated on participation in the next Stones tour. The band had a problem with being used as a bargaining chip without consent. The band simply used Paul Wasserman's office to make terse statements that they had no plans to tour. A perfectly legal and effective means of communicating th
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Quotelem motlow Quotestevecardi The chick didn’t even have enough sense to put a bespoke clause in his Yves st Laurent contract and he ended up wearing the same jacket onstage as Justin Bieber. This is interesting. Did this come out after the fact behind the scenes? Was Jagger / Jane Rose angered that Saint Laurent hadn't informed her that they were using other artists to promote the
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Does anyone know why the band stopped working with Michael Cohl? Obviously he was tremendously valuable from 1989 - 2006 and you would have thought that Michael would have become so intricately familiar with producing the Stones that it would have either been complicated or impractical to cease working with him. I do recall in 2011 hearing that the Stones were upset at being dragged into Cohls d
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The thread about Bill Graham got me thinking. If the Stones were still getting ripped off as late as 1981, was Rupert Loewenstein really the financial genius that he has been hailed to be? Having started working for the band in 1968, how is it possible that the Stones were still known (and even self admit) to have continued making terrible deals throughout the 70's? I don't think the
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Quotesnoopy2 Graham and Wyman.. I got a bit tangled up for a minute trying to understand how Bill the bass player didn’t participate in Steel Wheels tour He did. He quit the band in 1993. It was Voodoo Lounge and beyond that he didn't do.
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Quotelem motlow But wait, isn’t Jagger a putz for hanging out with high society and meeting people like “Prince Rupert” who Mick subsequently hired to look after the bands finances? Hmmm I’d like to keep my “artistic credibility” and still own a couple of mansions and an island home or two while being too fckd up to stay awake.How do I do that? I’ll take Mick Jagger for $500 million Alex.
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I've read Bill Grahams autobiography as well as "Rage & Roll", which was a very anti- Bill Graham book, as well as "Stone Alone" by Bill Wyman (1990) and the most recently released "Life" by Keith Richards (2010). In Bill Grahams autobiography, nowhere in the lengthy chapter on Steel Wheels does Graham ever reference the band having disputed the finance
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