Rolling Stones: Rumors and number$$

One web site reports that the Stones will tour again but with drummer Steve Jordan, not Charlie Watts. The Stones deny all that, according to another site. Well, they say he's not quitting the Stones, anyway. And there's a money graph, literally, in that first post, about the prices for a proposed Stones tour:

"The Stones will play stadiums and have already rebuffed other overseas offers of $2.4 million a show. A local promoter who pitched $14.4 million for six shows in three cities was told by agents for the Stones: 'You are not even in the ball park.' "

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[STONES RULE]

STONES RULE!!!!!

[Green]

Whats your favorite stones album?

[Bewlay]

To answer Green it's hard to list a favorite: perhaps "Exile on Main Street," or "Sticky Fingers," "Let It Bleed," the Mick Taylor years were good and some of the early stuff with Brian Jones. That's a hard one to pinpoint.
It seems like once a year the Charlie's retiring story comes up and I think Keef's always said that if Charlie quit then they'd do the same, but that mighty dollar I think keeps them at it.

[jajajaja]

Every Stones album is my fav.

The Stones have released something at least every 3 years since 1964. Contrary to dumbasses and myths... ( e.g. ignornats who say things like "blah blah they have not had a good album sionce blah blah blah" ) ....all of the albums are great in thier own way.

The Stones have had more great songs lost in the shuffle of time than, for instance, DMB et.al. have ever released in total.

The Stones released "HOT ROCKS" ( a good starter album ) which only had material up until 1969, ( and it is packed with great stuff). 1969 is the year the Beatles quit ... QUITTERS meaning the music stopped and the beatles never released another album. In 1969 The Stones wre just getting started.

The Stones on the other hand relased some girls tattoo you exile on mainstreet beggars banquet bigger bang bridges to babylon srell wheels sticky fingers etc etc etc plus more and more more ....

It is a trick question ask which Stones release is best because they all are awesome.

Depending on one's mood, one may enjoy one more from one time to another ... but if one dont have every release in one's collection, then one's collection is not complete.......

I have seen the Stones live 30 times, and every single concert was spectacular.

The Stones are responible for a lot of the flash and boom you see in the posers who tour now. For instance The Stones invented were the first to ditch the sound board area and replace it with a 2nd small stage)

There is more to know,but if you dont know, then start with HOT ROCKS, and then buy em all, maybe buy on vinyl for a $1 each, or just go to youtube and listen.

I still stand by what I said before I was a full fledge Stones frrek, and that was
"Most Stones albums have 2 historically spectaculr awesome song and then 6 country songs ; ) it is funny, but true.....but it is a lot of fun.

One of the best live album of all time is the bootleg "Brussels affair", find it, listen to it and be amazed, I suggest a beer while you are doing it
Go search YOUTUBE for clips from 1973 brussels affairs.

I would supply links, but for some reason they always get deleted, but go look it up, it is amazing the stuf you can find on youtube, sometimes it goes away due to copyrights, but it comes back. go look.

my pleasure to help out.

[Stones Brussels 1973]

search youtubes with this phrase

""Street Fighting Man (Brussels 1973)"

or

"ROLLING STONES BRUSSELS 1973"

here is a link

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=PYt4fYubWLk

I hope if the link gets deleted at least they leave the search phrase

Mick Taylor's screaming rock guitar on those Brussles tracks is amazing (and a sign from the times) ( LED ZEP, DEEP PURPLE ETC)

[me]

My guess is $75-$500 per ticket.
A--HOLES!!!

[pellboy]

I'll stop short of saying every Stones album is a great album but I will agree that every album has at least some Stones-level greatness in them. Bigger Bang is grossly underrated btw.

[STONES RULES]

The Stones are the greatest rock and roll band of all time.

They stayed in business longer than anyone else, they innovated more than anyone else, they wrote more great songs.They were the horse I bet on, and they stuck with me with NO BS.

zep left, who went, beatles gone, deep purple byebye, YES vaporized, etc etc etc,,,rock and roll is littered with has beens, but
THE STONES STILL ARE!!! THE STONES FLAG FLYS!!!

THE STONES KEPT ON KEEPING ON, and that is what it is all about.
NO QUITTING,
NO WHINING,
NO DIEING, NO BS .....
MICKFKLJAGGER!!!!!!
KEITHFKNRICHARDS!!!GLIMMERFKNTTWINS!!!
ROLLINGFKNSTONES!!!
SEX DRUGS AND ROCK AND FKN ROLL FOREVER!!!!!!

of course age is an issue now, but they have been counting my friend Kieth dead since 1972, and he has shown them all how wrong dead pools are. I understand that at some point the party will be over, but it sure has been fun ....SO MUCH FUN!!

To discount what the Rolling Stones have done for rock and roll is ignorant.

THE ROLLING STONES ARE THE WORLDS GREATEST ROCK AND ROLL BAND.

[JJ]

It would be cool if the Stones did a 10 night stand at the Crossroads.

[NEW]

I bought "Get Your Ya Yas Out" when I was 10. That would have been 1973. That record still remains near the top of my heap. While I agree that most all their album have some quality material, I still find myself gravitating to the Beggars Banquet through Exile period (1968 - 1972). But let us not forget the New Barbarians and X-Pensive Winos material. Those tours were great.

More on topic, lets face it guys. Ticket prices will be just plain silly.

[JJ]

The only really horrible Stones album was Dirty Work. Stuck in the 80's dated the minute it was released.

[gsp]

Was that the one with "under cover"? I liked that song.

[Ruby]

"Everybody ready?
for the next time...
please welcome ....
THE ROLLING STONES ...

PS
I think I busted a button on my tousers, I hope they dont fall down, you dont want my trousers to fall down, now do ya?

PS
another "expert opinion on how some stones albums suck LMAO!!!

Dirty Work had...
"Winning Ugly" a truely great song... and it had "One Hit (To the Body)" and "Harlem Shuffle" but I have "Had It with You"

[onthemark]

My favorite Stones album is 'Some Girls', followed closely by 'Let It Bleed'. Great music on both!

Not sure if I would pony up the bucks necessary to see them play live again though...

[Paint it Black]

Some Girls has the widest variety of types of music than any other album I know of...

Q- do you know why they called it some girls??

PPS
if anyone did not "get it whilst the gettin was good" back when tickets only cost $17.00 or $35.00 or $$55.00, then I have no sympathy, you you can paint it black you devils.

A- becasue they could not remember their fkn names ; )

Black girls just wanna get .....

American girls want everything in the world that you could possibly imagine.

[JJ]

gsp: 'Undercover of the Night' was from the Stones album 'Undercover' - a pretty good album that is kind of overlooked.

[gsp]

thanks, roommate back then was a Stones nut and always played their stuff, I never had anything after Tatoo You.

[helper]

tattoo you was 30 years ago, there is a lot of great stuff since then, and it is sin to miss out of the fun.

I am happy to spread the gossil according to Mick, and I see the allowed the link above to stay, so if it is ok to post links here of "MUST HEAR" Stones songs, and they leave up, I will oblige.

Try these two on for size.

( I am in no way associated with these posted videos, I am only posting links to help here. I went out of my way to pick two different youtube pages )

These are both from the B2B live show in St Louis a few years back(I was there, on the floor, 7 rows from the stage, it was historic, if you missed it ... oops on you. btw- A picture of my waving stones flag made it into the next days newspaper, but not my ugly face ; )

TRY THESE TWO ...

"OUT OF CONTROL"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XN3pRn6nsWs

"SAINT OF ME"
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qv9nhWxYG84

If these links stay up, and people appreciate them, I am happy to post more ... to spread the gosspil according to Mick.

[Bewlay]

I think "Undercover" may have been the last good Stones record, Keef's solo ones were good or try Izzy Stradlin's early solo albums.

[Dexter Morgan]

Those old geezers better plug in and play some shows before somebody keels over.

[MetalHEAD]

Some of the Stones work frankly sucked; although some was really good.

...but some of it really sucked.

[deep]

lol, oh well.

[pellboy]

Admittedly still a big fan although my last time catching them live was the Steel Wheels Arrowhead show. As for their albums, I think that one was real solid, even Voodoo Lounge and Bridges To Babylon has their moments but for me...again...A Bigger Bang kicks all kinds of ass. A true return to at least late 70s/early 80s-level form in my unabashed Stones-loving opinion.

[Troy]

The Stones are great....but never were and will never be as great as The Beatles who didn't quit but rather did not want to exist any further as a band. The Stones have done, since the 1990s exactly what The Beatles did not want to do...compromise their music for financial touring gains. Apple corp. and their properties could be called somewhat sell-outs given the re-packaging of music but the band stopped creatively at their peak. Stones great.....Beatles gods

[MiketheRevelator]

I hate to be the late coming cold water here - not even sure how i got here. But I'm a bit older I think than most of the posters on here and I've been around through all 3 versions of the Stones, and the band has ranged from mediocre to sucksville since Mick Taylor left in 1974. They were a creative colossus and the greatest live band on the planet from '69 to '74. After he left it was recycled junk, trends, prancing and posing and two guitarists who between them were half as good as Taylor had been. They shifted into automatic and have stayed there ever since. Taylor was getting too much press and had too many new ideas which made Keith worried and they maneuvered it so he'd leave. Just like with Brian. The Grimmer Twind are evil bastards.

[Larry Luper]

The tour was announced recently. It was tapped "The Consequnce of Sound Retirement Tour 2011-2012. It did not go into details of Charlie Watts' or Steve Jordan. It would be nice if Watts participated.

[Miketheretard would be a better name]

Mikethefkngretard be a better name.

in short>>> STFU!!

you are not worth too many words.

[down with bogus revelations]

Gotta agree with the last guy. Even at their worst, Da Stones are still better than most and if you don't think SOME GIRLS isn't the proverbial $#!+, than you just don't know Rock & Roll, my friend. Sure, the Mick Taylor era was the Stones at their best, which is only my opinion, but those guys still put on a pretty good show. "Sucksville??" Get the #@&% outta here!

[MiketheRevelator]

Sorry, truth hurts, I know. I wasn't very happy about it lo these many years ago but it was pretty obvious.
I must not know rock n roll despite playing it for 40+ years and listening to it obsessively for more years than I like to think. But I'm not going to go on about what a great band they are when they really were a great band and because of ego's let it slip away and keep going strictly for money. This band today is a disgrace to the name of the Rolling Stones of 1964 - 1974. And I don't say that as an old fart who thinks everything was better than back in the day. I play with people ranging in age from 20 to 55. I just love music, regardless, but when you've been the champ and keep going when you're chumps, it's a sad sight to see.
But call the messenger names if it makes you feel better. I've been called worse about this. But I was there in 1969 and 1972 and I'm telling you they haven't had a creative influence or genuine artististically creative moment since. And there are plenty of people who agree with me, so it's not like I'm the Lone Ranger. Anybody who saw that crap movie Scorcese made and still thinks this band shouldn't have hung it up a decade ago at least is either a total music newbie or just going along with the crowd.
And dude above, the absolute worst thing you can tell me to do is STFU -- you'll never hear the end of this topic now if your diseased mind wants to keep it going.
Cheers!

[Hating on the Stones=Blasphemy!]

Dude, the Scorcese movie of the Stones gig ROCKED! What drugs ARE you on??

[Mikethestupidfknignorantretarddoucher is more like it]

Mikethestupidfknignorantretarddoucher is more like it

far as your word...yawn..TLDR.... balh blah blah STFU DOUCHER, get a life moron. you are not even worth arguing.

[Naturelle]

As a youngin' coming late to the Stones party (saw them for 1st time on Steel Wheels tour) I still say they ROCK and are creative with their shows. They are not what they were in '72 but still making music and do indeed rock (most of the time). The Shine a Light movie documented a good show but what was up with that freaky Christina A. song? weird.

Nice talk, person above. Simmer down people!!

[Mike A]

Revelator-

Whip comes down
some girls
respectable
far away eyes
Little T&A
shes so cold
and especially for you-
Had it With You

[Rick]

If Watts isn't on board, they should hang it up.