Quotebye bye johnny (Springsteen playing today) Thanks for posting that.
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Nobody knowledgeable is assuring the fully vaxxed that if you still do catch covid, it won't be bad. Merely that your chances of needing to be hospitalized for it are very low, and the chances of it killing you are exceedingly low. Lots of the fully vaccinated who still catch covid delta are being made very miserable by it. And it is still killing some fully vaxxed people, although alm
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What's the covid protocol going to be in Nissan Stadium? From what I can tell so far, there essentially isn't one. I had hopes when AEG made its announcement about vaccination or testing for its concert audiences starting Oct 1, but when we sorted that out it applies only in venues AEG operates, and those don't include the stadiums of this tour. Supposedly artists have the op
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Hot Rocks' place in my Stones history. My first four Stones albums were 1. Through The Past Darkly. This was the most disturbing looking product to have made it into our conservative southern home at that point. But it had Honky Tonk Women. And, tho just 14, I HAD to have HTW. I'd passed on Let It Bleed because... where's HTW? What is Country Honk? And nobody I knew had the alb
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QuoteBeast ...here's Charlie as that castaway choosing the eight songs - including his favourite of them all - and the book and luxury item that he would want to have with him if stranded on a desert island: From among the various Charlie video and audio I've revisited, or saw or heard for the first time in some cases, since, first the announcement he'd miss the tour, and the
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QuoteJimmyTheSaint Quotecrholmstrom Quotekovach QuoteMizzAmandaJonez Kovach is spot on with this idea: “Maybe Mick or all 3 entering a dark stage and reading a short eulogy like Mick did for Brian at Hyde Park in 69 and starting the show off low-key with an acoustic melody of Salt of the Earth and Shine a Light or something before the standard video start to the main show. Maybe dedicate every
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QuoteSomeTorontoGirl I’ve always thought that Charlie and Keith were particularly close - they’ve been together since Keith was a teenager and they’ve shared so much. There used to be a ‘Keith’s side’ of the stage but for years he’s been sticking pretty close to Charlie, and his book and interviews make it clear he adores Charlie. So I’ve been particularly worried about how Keith is dealing with
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Quotegeorgemcdonnell314 Has anyone seen anything from Bill? I have scrolled through most of the pages maybe I am missing something. He tweeted or instagramed. I forget where I saw it. Edit: thanks bye bye johnny
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QuoteBastion Reading reports here on IORR of my last Stones show - Edinburgh 2018. This photo taken by Hendrik Mulder really got me. Absolutely gorgeous, and so poignant and sadly appropriate.
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We've always known a day like this was coming. Now here it is. And, yep. It hurts as much as feared and expected. More. The gentle - to all but drum kits - and modest Charlie is gone. My deep sympathies to his family.
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QuoteRokyfan QuoteTheBluesHadaBaby All the LED screen talk reminded me of another thought I don't think I've seen here yet. At every show, maybe during the band introductions, I fully expect for Charlie to be projected onto the screens in a brief but live (complete with the usual annoying but minor dialogue delays) video chat with the boys and Steve, and a brief hello-how-are-you to
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QuoteHairball Video calls...they call it "Chat time with Charlie"....yeah....then Mick will sing us all a lullaby, and Keith will come out in his robe and slippers with a cup of warm milk... Chat Time With Charlie... I like that. And I'd sign up for one... Charlie's a lovely man. The "suds" in the toast emoji in this case we'll call whipped cream on mugs
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QuoteNikkei QuoteTheBluesHadaBaby QuoteNikkei You wanna bet how long it takes us to come up with a bogus theory you just came up with? "a bogus theory (I) came up with"? You seem confused on a key element of such theories. They are wrong ideas advanced by people who believe them to be true. I'm anticipating when some such crazy or very gullible people might be claiming this.
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All the LED screen talk reminded me of another thought I don't think I've seen here yet. At every show, maybe during the band introductions, I fully expect for Charlie to be projected onto the screens in a brief but live (complete with the usual annoying but minor dialogue delays) video chat with the boys and Steve, and a brief hello-how-are-you to the crowds. Hopefully he'll be
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QuoteNikkei You wanna bet how long it takes us to come up with a bogus theory you just came up with? "a bogus theory (I) came up with"? You seem confused on a key element of such theories. They are wrong ideas advanced by people who believe them to be true. I'm anticipating when some such crazy or very gullible people might be claiming this.
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So, the No Charlie announcement was Aug. 4. Barely, but Aug. 4. 14 days ago now. How long after Aug 4 do we think the conspiracy theory crowd will insist Paul Is Dead... but Charlie instead of Paul? Somewhere... Reddit, QAnon, wherever. And then when Charlie comes back, "That's not him! That's a body double!" People insist American government is secretly run by Lizard Pe
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QuoteAquamarine QuoteTheBluesHadaBaby QuoteJustin ...logistically how will that work? Is Charlie supposed to jump on mid-tour with no rehearsal at all? ...Charlie will have no one to rehearse with.... It's a romantic idea that Charlie swoops in mid-tour to take over but logistically it just can't happen. He's either there from the beginning (right now) for rehearsals or he&
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QuoteJustin ...logistically how will that work? Is Charlie supposed to jump on mid-tour with no rehearsal at all? ...Charlie will have no one to rehearse with.... It's a romantic idea that Charlie swoops in mid-tour to take over but logistically it just can't happen. He's either there from the beginning (right now) for rehearsals or he'll have to wait and catch the nex
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Quotegeorgemcdonnell314 Charlie is a trooper. He'll be back and hopefully by the end of the tour. I remember an interview where he said touring was like a "call to arms". Everything we've heard so far leads me to believe it's unreasonable to think he'll resume drumming duties during the tour, replacing Steve Jordan. Even if he returns to health, having missed th
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QuoteDougratajczak87 QuoteTopi Note the AEG policy so far only applies to the venues they own or operate, not all the shows they promote. Good catch Topi! ...the list of venues none of... the venues of the Stones tour. 'K, then. Maybe not awesome news yet. Maybe merely good news. That doesn't mean AEG's policy WON'T be adopted for its Stones shows. Merely that the ve
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AEG's decision is awesome news, for the tour and for me. It means two very important things. One, this tour is now almost certain to happen. And two, I won't be sharing tight space in pits in Nashville and Atlanta with people maybe 30% of whom (my own estimates) were going to be unvaxxed. Something I was willing to do to see possibly the Stones' last American tour, but wasn't
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QuoteMisterDDDD QuoteDougratajczak87 Stay tuned AEG to require proof of vaccination to attend AEG concerts, aka the Rolling Stones' promoter. Goes into effect October 1st, prior to October 1st, vaccination proof or negative COVID test within 72 hours is required. Yes!! Heard this through a representative in Austin, didn't quite believe him, but YES!! Yeah yeah, fake card
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QuoteMisterDDDD Perhaps the Stones social media person has a sense of humor, or perhaps he/she didn't think this through, but the text from this post just now startled me The Rolling Stones @RollingStones · 2m You can't say we never tried... Well, that doesn't sound good. More bad news for the U.S. tour coming? Edit to add: Like I said earlier, I don't see any
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QuotePaddy Quotefrtylicks Can anybody answer this question? Im taking my 12 year old to Nashville and Atlanta and was wondering about the section that is on the sides of the stage. the 1st section that you can buy tickets for, if you sit in the first 10 rows how is your line of sight to the band? It's not the floor seats its the sections on about the 20 yd line. I dont wanna spend good money
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QuoteSomeTorontoGirl QuoteHairball Seems a bit devious and misleading to announce the rescheduled shows if they already had Steve Jordan signed on back in early July while knowing Charlie wouldn't be involved. ..particularly since tickets bought after the recent tour dates were announced were (a) flogged with ‘dynamic pricing’ into the stratosphere and (b) aren’t refundable. I’m actually
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QuoteGlimmerGirl24 Steve Jordan signed on in early July and was Keith's choice. No idea how long Charlie has been ill, but it does appear the illness was discovered prior to July. Charlie is expected to recover, but it's unlikely he'll join the tour later on. Thanks GlimmerGirl. Hope you get Cherry Oh Baby! Ok, so it sounds very much like the band knew Charli
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Geez, what a determined, relentlessly pessimistic lot. Already concluding, AGAIN, that this ain't happening. (Am I wrong, or is it more of our European friends who are the most insistent the entire U.S. tour is going to be cancelled? Just sayin'.) Vax rates keep creeping upwards, even in our backwards country. Covid Delta is going to peak and crash like every wave does, and nob
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Quoteterraplane Kenny Jones would have been a better choice if he is still around. Ooooh... now that would've been interesting. Kenney's around, Ronnie has said that this summer he's been making new Faces music with Kenney and Rod Stewart. For my tastes, the more ex-Faces playing with the Stones the merrier. I wonder why that didn't happen? Keith plays to Charlie's d
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At their ages, instead of just their thorough pre-tour check-ups, maybe the band should start adding thorough PRE- pre-tour check-up check-ups, two or three months earlier than the usual pre-tour check-ups. Who knows if that would have found Mick's heart problem in 2019 and Charlie's problem this year... but maybe it might have? It would have been so lovely for Charlie and everybody
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I've toyed before with hypothetical scenarios in which one of the four had to step down permanently (and this isn't that situation), but the rest wanted to Keep Calm And Carry On. My "answer" for Charlie retiring permanently was, rename what remains as The Jagger Richards Wood Band, and rock on. But that the Stones name itself be retired... it not seeming right w/o Charlie.
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