Posted on 03/30/2019 4:50:22 PM PDT by Mariner
“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.
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.
“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.
I wasn’t criticizing the Stones, just making an observation about how some performers see things differently.
” 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.
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.
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.
Otherwise they’d all be dead.
I love that Stones song ‘Wild horses’. Just sends me.
Saw them last time they were in Buffalo... Not one person sat down for 3 hours straight!!!
Including my nearly 60 yr old a$$
I saw them in 1990 when they were 50ish and 2003 when they were 60ish. Those were the two best concerts I ever attended. Keith Richards looked like he was 80ish but played like he was 30.
I saw the RS in the Univ. Of Ala. basketball arena. 1972. Twelve dollars per ticket. The brown sugar tour. Incredible concert. No encore. Satisfaction means they always want more.
Love Springsteen’s song ‘ Everybody’s got a hungry heart’. Too bad he’s a rotgut lefty.
Not for the faint-of-heart.
Springstein ALSO puts on a superb show.
I can never hear the name Mick Jagger without hearing an Eddie Murphy background voice “you got some big ass lips”
I really appreciate that view.
And he’s correct.
The problem with the “rock era” (which many think started in the ‘60s only but actually includes those who INVENTED it, in the ‘50s) is in retrospect, it really is undignified. It doesn’t “age” well - all that gyrating and so on really shows how stupid it can be when those who perform AND listen are elderly.
Oh yeah, much of the music is terrific, but some of the “show” with it is just....undignified. Something’s wrong if a child shouldn’t be listening, and an elderly person shouldn’t be “moving” to it.
I don’t know. Just my musings.
Amen-I can’t imagine anyone wanting to retire anyway-no one around here does it, and most of us are over 65-the guy who runs the feed store is 80-something-and if I were making the $$$$ 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...
It’s the performing high.....it killed Elvis!!!
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