[Mariner]

Likely an inflated ruse over a flu.

Of course, he IS older than Keith Richards. And likely the healthiest 75 year old man on the planet.

Something minor...making sure everyone turns out for this "possibly the last" tour.

At $400 for a floor seat. It ought to be ANOTHER billion-dollar-plus US tour.

All I can say is good on these guys for keeping the R&R flame burning bright.

When they are on, no other band in the world comes close.

[Reno89519]

Why don’t they retire? Like the Chieftains, are they going to be wheeled on and off the stage?

[dp0622]

I’m 50 and I couldn’t stand on a stage that long, no less sing and move around too :)

[Windflier]

What a drag it is getting old...

[Fungi]

Their “last” tour was decades ago. Is this absolutely, positively, their “last” tour?

[Vaquero]

The Steel Wheelchair tour creaks along.

[Dilbert San Diego]

75 years old.and still strutting around doing rock and roll.

The Stones have been around for over 50 years, haven’t they?
How many entertainers of any type, stay on top so long?

[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.)

[Steve_Seattle]

Dave Clark of the Dave Clark Five took the opposite tack: after their initial run was over, he retired and stayed off the oldies circuit and out of the casinos and the small venues. He once said something like, "We played teen music for teens, and I don't want to be playing it when I'm 65. We had our day, and I don't want to be repeating it for the next forty years."

He was one of the few rock stars of that era who maintained control over his own music, and he kept tight control over it, which is why you probably won't find it on jukeboxes or hear it on radio stations.

[originalbuckeye]

Saw the Stones at Dodger Stadium in the 90’s. Spectacular then, probably still spectacular now.

[tflabo]

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.

[abigkahuna]

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.

[Mr. K]

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

Including my nearly 60 yr old a$$

[Trumpet 1]

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.

[Ronald_Magnus]

[Texan5]

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...

[unixfox]

When they are on, no other band in the world comes close.

I've seen lots of bands. Saw them on the Voodoo Lounge Tour, and you're right, no other band comes close.

[right way right]

He probably just needed some shunts for the ticker.
Maybe he went in for a “young person blood transfusion” recommended by Keith’s doc.
I heard that this is Keith’s not so secret solution to a drug weary liver..

I could use an oil change myself.
Maybe I will just squeeze it out of some 20 year old millennial.

After all, I am an eeeeevil 55 year old baby boomer white man.

Rock on old dudes!

[onyx]

DAYUM!

I'D GLADLY PAY $400 for a floor seat to see Mick sing Ruby Tuesday to Y'all and then sing "LET'S SPEND THE NIGHT TOGETHER" to ME!

God speed, Mick!

[mrsmith]

If I built a time machine I’d put early Mick and Keith as my first goals.
Amazing!
Their stuff as ‘old guys’ is great but...

[donna]

The Stones have been bad for us.

For example: Boys never screamed during concerts until the Stones . . . hmmm?