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Stones postpone tour as Jagger receives medical treatment
AP ^ | March 30th, 2019 | By MESFIN FEKADU

Posted on 03/30/2019 4:50:22 PM PDT by Mariner

NEW YORK (AP) — The Rolling Stones are postponing their latest tour so Mick Jagger can receive medical treatment.

The band announced Saturday that Jagger was told by doctors “he cannot go on tour at this time.” The band added that Jagger “is expected to make a complete recovery so that he can get back on stage as soon as possible.”

No more details about 75-year-old Jagger’s condition were provided.

The Stones’ No Filter Tour was expected to start April 20 in Miami. Other stops included Jacksonville, Florida; Houston; the New Orleans Jazz Festival; Pasadena and Santa Clara in California; Seattle; Denver; Washington, D.C.; Philadelphia; Foxborough, Massachusetts; East Rutherford, New Jersey; Chicago; and Ontario, Canada.

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To: LittleBillyInfidel

“If you’ve never seen them live before, please do yourself a favor and invest in the ticket; you’ll likely never see anything as special, ever again! (I’m not even that big of a fan.)”

I’ve been fortunate enough to see them six times.

It was the five best shows I ever saw.

Pink Floyd holds the #2 spot.


21 posted on 03/30/2019 5:02:10 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

They get to live like kings with fortunes to match. With the traveling they play music onstage for a few hours of fun. They can chill out the rest of the time. Keeps the old guys going but the game ending expiration date is fast approaching. A high mileage band for sure.


22 posted on 03/30/2019 5:02:19 PM PDT by tflabo (Prince of Peace, Lion of Righteousness)
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To: Steve_Seattle

“Dave Clark of the Dave Clark Five took the opposite tack: “

Dave Clark never approached the musical level of the Stones.

The Stones are serious musicians, universally respected.


23 posted on 03/30/2019 5:04:18 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

I wasn’t criticizing the Stones, just making an observation about how some performers see things differently.


24 posted on 03/30/2019 5:06:35 PM PDT by Steve_Seattle
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To: tflabo

” A high mileage band for sure.”

No doubt.

But that was decades ago.

Now they are all sober, or nearly sober. Even Keith.

Except for weed. They all smoke weed.


25 posted on 03/30/2019 5:06:55 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

I imagine what it would have been like for the Glenn Miller Band (with Glenn of course if he hadn’t died in 1944), to tour during the rock and roll era. There were the others that did tour until they could no more.

I remember a story of a 1975 Benny Goodman show at a college in Maryland. I have a copy of that show but the story in the liner notes is even better. The person managed to have a soundboard of the show and before the show Goodman came into the auditorium. He had a disgusted look and spat on the floor saying:

“Another F***ing gym.” And he disappeated until it was time for his first note.

So I think about that...how Goodman, a man who at one time was on top of the Muscial world was back performing in venues from whence he started.

Now think of the Rolling Stones. Their audience is as old as them in most cases, if not a little older or a little younger. They love what they are doing just like the artists of yesteryear. They are still tryinbg to cement their relevance in today’s modern fragmented musical world. Good for them. I was always a fan and frankly, for all these years, they have kept their politics to themselves. I do know that they don’t like Trump, but that extends from years back...So what, as long as they keep it to themselves that’s their issue. Yeah...they ain’t “republicans”..but they sure do put on a good rock and roll show.


26 posted on 03/30/2019 5:07:10 PM PDT by abigkahuna (How can you be at two places at once when you are nowhere at all?)
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To: Mariner
It was the five best shows I ever saw.

I know he's not popular here on FR, and truthfully I don't like him very much anymore either, but I saw Springsteen and the E Street Band three times back in the 80s and he was fantastic every time.

27 posted on 03/30/2019 5:08:06 PM PDT by Rummyfan (In any war between the civilized man and the savage, support the civilized man. Support Israel.)
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To: tflabo

Otherwise they’d all be dead.


28 posted on 03/30/2019 5:08:09 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner

I love that Stones song ‘Wild horses’. Just sends me.


29 posted on 03/30/2019 5:08:12 PM PDT by tflabo (Prince of Peace, Lion of Righteousness)
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To: Mariner

Saw them last time they were in Buffalo... Not one person sat down for 3 hours straight!!!

Including my nearly 60 yr old a$$


30 posted on 03/30/2019 5:08:54 PM PDT by Mr. K (No consequence of repealing Obamacare is worse than Obamacare itself.)
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To: LittleBillyInfidel

I saw them in 1990 when they were 50ish and 2003 when they were 60ish. Those were the two best concerts I ever attended. Keith Richards looked like he was 80ish but played like he was 30.


31 posted on 03/30/2019 5:09:06 PM PDT by hardspunned
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To: Mariner

I saw the RS in the Univ. Of Ala. basketball arena. 1972. Twelve dollars per ticket. The brown sugar tour. Incredible concert. No encore. Satisfaction means they always want more.


32 posted on 03/30/2019 5:11:03 PM PDT by Trumpet 1 (US Constitution is my guide.)
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To: Rummyfan

Love Springsteen’s song ‘ Everybody’s got a hungry heart’. Too bad he’s a rotgut lefty.


33 posted on 03/30/2019 5:11:06 PM PDT by tflabo (Prince of Peace, Lion of Righteousness)
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To: Windflier

Not for the faint-of-heart.


34 posted on 03/30/2019 5:12:07 PM PDT by DuncanWaring (The Lord uses the good ones; the bad ones use the Lord.)
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To: Rummyfan

Springstein ALSO puts on a superb show.


35 posted on 03/30/2019 5:12:20 PM PDT by Mariner (War Criminal #18)
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To: Mariner
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36 posted on 03/30/2019 5:14:08 PM PDT by Ronald_Magnus
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I can never hear the name Mick Jagger without hearing an Eddie Murphy background voice “you got some big ass lips”


37 posted on 03/30/2019 5:15:29 PM PDT by dsrtsage (For Leftists, World History starts every day at breakfast)
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To: Steve_Seattle

I really appreciate that view.

And he’s correct.

The problem with the “rock era” (which many think started in the ‘60s only but actually includes those who INVENTED it, in the ‘50s) is in retrospect, it really is undignified. It doesn’t “age” well - all that gyrating and so on really shows how stupid it can be when those who perform AND listen are elderly.

Oh yeah, much of the music is terrific, but some of the “show” with it is just....undignified. Something’s wrong if a child shouldn’t be listening, and an elderly person shouldn’t be “moving” to it.

I don’t know. Just my musings.


38 posted on 03/30/2019 5:16:14 PM PDT by the OlLine Rebel (Common sense is an uncommon virtue./Federal-run medical care is as good as state-run DMVs.)
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To: Mariner

Amen-I can’t imagine anyone wanting to retire anyway-no one around here does it, and most of us are over 65-the guy who runs the feed store is 80-something-and if I were making the $$$$ Mick and the others are, I’d hire a zombiemaker to reanimate me if I died so I wouldn’t have to stop going onstage and making that mega-money...

I was barely into my teens the 1st time I saw the stones-I’ve seen them since every time they are doing a gig fairly close-and I can afford a ticket-there is no comparison to the music and energy of their concerts...


39 posted on 03/30/2019 5:16:32 PM PDT by Texan5 ("You've got to saddle up your boys, you've got to draw a hard line"...)
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To: Mariner

It’s the performing high.....it killed Elvis!!!


40 posted on 03/30/2019 5:18:05 PM PDT by ontap
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