RE: Rolling Stones

Stop it. You're done. Quit milking. Go retire on your moneybed of big bills of money. Originality was never your strong suit.

Much like a beloved old pet that ambles along despite obviously fatal injuries, it's time to put the poor bastard to sleep.

Go away, you pale imitation of what you were. Before you fall down.

Damn, I saw him in '69. I guess that makes the both of us old.

Well, he's older than me, anyway.

Norad: RE: Rolling Stones

Stop it. You're done. Quit milking. Go retire on your moneybed of big bills of money. Originality was never your strong suit.

Much like a beloved old pet that ambles along despite obviously fatal injuries, it's time to put the poor bastard to sleep.

Go away, you pale imitation of what you were. Before you fall down.

I take it on good faith that you cc'ed B.B. King, Willie Nelson, and Buddy Guy on this message, right? I mean, they're all older than Mick. They should just be happy in a nursing home.

Old Rubber Lips is still going strong. Well, he's still going anyway.

Norad: RE: Rolling Stones
Go away, you pale imitation of what you were. Before you fall down.

I know, its only rock and roll, but I like it.
Besides, you can't always get what you want.

Norad: RE: Rolling Stones

Stop it. You're done. Quit milking. Go retire on your moneybed of big bills of money. Originality was never your strong suit.

Much like a beloved old pet that ambles along despite obviously fatal injuries, it's time to put the poor bastard to sleep.

Go away, you pale imitation of what you were. Before you fall down.

Perhaps it's not entirely about the money, and they know their fans would enjoy seeing them perform?

/Not entirely about the money
//Aren't they one of the 'old' acts charging eleventybillion for tickets?

Martstar: Norad: RE: Rolling Stones

Stop it. You're done. Quit milking. Go retire on your moneybed of big bills of money. Originality was never your strong suit.

Much like a beloved old pet that ambles along despite obviously fatal injuries, it's time to put the poor bastard to sleep.

Go away, you pale imitation of what you were. Before you fall down.

I take it on good faith that you cc'ed B.B. King, Willie Nelson, and Buddy Guy on this message, right? I mean, they're all older than Mick. They should just be happy in a nursing home.

It is different with the Blues and Country music. Blues Men age well. It's like the stuff that got them down in their younger days has been replaced with this beatdown that a long weary life puts on you.

The same thing can happen to country and folk guys. I'm not talking about pop country, those folks don't always age well. Look at Kenny Rodgers today. But the old, haggard, grizzled persona works in old school country and folk music.

Rock and roll has always been a young person's game. Rock and roll is about vitality, rebellion, youth. Especially the brand of rock that the Stones put out. They were the rebellious, seedy counterpoint to the Beatles. Now, they are just a shallow shadow of what they once represented. Its like that line in one of Neil Young's songs, "It's better to burn out, than it is to rust".

Happy birthday, Mick.

He's 30 years older than me, done more drugs, farked more chicks and has made more money than I will ever have the chance to. If I tried to run around on stage under those lights like he still does, I'd probably leave the building on a stretcher, maybe a hearse.

I like Alice Cooper's line about Mick being five years older than him, so when Mick retires, Alice has five more years.

If you can still do it, do it. My favorite example of this was when Cheap Trick opened for The Smashing Pumpkins at the Riv in Chicago in the mid '90's for the national broadcast of the Mellon Collie release. Trick tore the house down and the fans were sitting on their hands. Pumpkins came on and looked like four statues. And sucked.

Rock & Roll is about going out and ripping the faces off of the people. It is ageless when done right.

/My lawn
//Remove thyself

Norad: Go away, you pale imitation of what you were. Before you fall down.

I saw them last year in Dusseldorf,and I was highly sceptical before they started... but they were brilliant. Well worth the money that I didn't pay.

I don't need to defend Mick Jagger, but as long as they can play the music, he can sing the songs, and there's an audience to listen, then what does it matter?

Is it really offending somebody's refined musical sensibilities that much when you consider the garbage that's on the charts right now?

Spew your bile where it might do some good - at something that's actually new and insultingly bad instead of something classic that merely suffers from age.

Get a grip.

Some bands/players lose it. Mick and the Stones haven't.

As long as they keep playing, I'll keep dancing.

Nice tribute, and I liked the song, but The Daily Mail had you beat when they posted the pictures and bios of 65 women he's slept with

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kaminariko: Get a grip.

Exactly. I'm pretty sure they enjoy tweaking the nose of the current crop of stodgy people telling them to stop just like they tweaked the nose of the first crop of stodgy people telling them to stop when they started out.

How can people say rock and roll is for young people when the very people who pioneered rock and roll are still alive and playing?
You know, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis are still performing, I do believe.

The Beatles changed the landscape along with the Rolling Stones among others, hot on their heals.

When these people stop performing, that's when you'll know what the age for rock and rollers to stop is.

Mick looks great for 80

Musicology101: How can people say rock and roll is for young people when the very people who pioneered rock and roll are still alive and playing?
You know, Chuck Berry, Jerry Lee Lewis are still performing, I do believe.

The Beatles changed the landscape along with the Rolling Stones among others, hot on their heals.

When these people stop performing, that's when you'll know what the age for rock and rollers to stop is.


Except, they should probably quit too.

All haters should STFU. I saw these guys less than two years ago and they blew the 20-something openers Black Rebel Motorcycle Club off the stage.

Nobody's forcing you to go to the show, so fark off. They packed the stadium at the show I saw, and packed every other stadium on the tour. They must be doing something right.

KEITH still has it; Mick? Not so much.

Good point about Willy, B.B. et. al still playing but I think there's a difference: their music isnt as much of a pale imitation of their earlier stuff; Willie's stuff is timeless and the blues is such a structure form that nothing can (or needs) to done do it.

I would like to see them play more 'mature' r'n'r; go listen to
Keef's stuff for examples of what I mean, EXCELLENT albums even with
his rusted-out voice...

Chrissakes, I remember when the news was that Mick Jagger turned 40. And I'm 36.

/still, hands down, my favorite Stones song.