Posted on 06/23/2019 8:20:25 AM PDT by Signalman
An energetic Mick Jagger skipped, spun, sprinted and pranced Friday night as the Rolling Stones launched their North American tour at Chicago's Soldier Field. The 75-year-old showed no sign of ill health three months after the tour was postponed because a doctor said he required medical treatment.
By all visible indications: Jagger was Jagger.
Before a sold-out crowd of around 60,000 at the Chicago Bears home stadium, the band's finger-wagging frontman opened with "Street Fighting Man," running from the stage in the end zone area and down a narrow stage jutting into the crowd on what is normally the 30-yard line of the football field.
What can a poor boy do, ‘cept to play for a rock ‘n roll band
The Stones were just about the best around in the 60s...but they ran out of ideas in the early 70s.They should have taken some advice from The Who: "hope I die before I get old".
The sight of guys prancing around the stage in Depends is one I just can't stomach.Rock & Roll is meant to be performed by the young.
Your is going to “kick off?” Hope nothing or no one else does.
They were starting to get long in the tooth in the 80s.
I didn't care for anything after maybe black and blue came out?
That being said, early Stones is truly amazing, and I can understand why they are, even in their 80s, still pulling in huge crowds.
I would have paid any money to see them 40 years ago but now, meh.
I’ve seen the Stones several times. The last being 3 or 4 years ago in Orlando. They sounded better than they ever had.
Depends on the type of rock n roll.
Guns N Roses was a YOUNG, ANGRY band. I loved them in my late teens and even early 20s.
I still enjoy listening to them but I won’t pay several hundred dollars to see them.
They ain’t young and angry anymore. More like old and ornery :)
The Beatles’ softer rock can be played at any age and enjoyed.
But overall I agree. Rock n Roll is full of young angst and rebellion against whatever.
Doesn’t have the same appeal when the players are older than the people they are rebelling against :)
The Rolling Bones make gobs of $$$ from these concert tours.
Hi.
Schedule of cities and dates?
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I saw them 10 or 12 years ago because I thought it would be my last and only chance. They were terrific.
I really wish The Who took their own advice.
The Stones could just retire and count their money.
They ran out of ideas around July 2, 1969, when Brian Jones was murdered.
He’s Jumpin’ Jack Flash. He’s a gas, gas, gas.
The Rolling Bones make gobs of $$$ from these concert tours.
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They do.
I don’t think music royalties pay much anymore.
I can’t believe these guys “still got it”.
I notice that rock and roll bands and liberal politicians and liberal newscasters never seem to retire, no matter how much money they have.
Mmmmm, what’s the common denominator here?
Brian Jones murdered? Conspiracy theorist.
Boy did you nail it.
I can’t stomach ONE taylor swift song. Now that she let her politics out of the bag (A STUPID business move always), it would sound even worse.
Kate Perry is pop but has an edge, but since she HATES our president I can’t stand her either.
But Politics Aside, music today mostly just SUCKS!
Halestorm and some others are pretty good, but is there a mass audience out there anymore? NO.
It is too masculine (rock) and so it must be crushed by the powers that be.
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