Posted on 07/23/2021 9:02:05 AM PDT by a fool in paradise
...the announcement that Jagger and company will try again, at the postponed 2021 Jazz Fest, caught just about everyone by surprise — even members of the Jazz Fest staff and board. Until Thursday, the Stones organization managed to keep secret not just the Oct. 13 New Orleans appearance but the band's entire 13-date fall stadium tour.
“There may never have been anything that was so big and so quiet,” said Quint Davis, the Jazz Fest's longtime producer and director. “It’s the biggest band in the world doing an American tour that nobody knew about. And they’re playing Jazz Fest.”
...an extra day was added to the schedule.
That also enables the festival to add a few dozen local acts that were initially left out. But that afternoon at the Fair Grounds, the other stages will go dark when the Rolling Stones start up on the Acura Stage...
“Think of everything that had to fall in place," Davis said. “They had to decide to do a North American tour. They had to decide to do it in September/October. And they had to want to do” Jazz Fest.
Davis spent years lobbying for the Rolling Stones to come to Jazz Fest. He traveled the world to attend rehearsals and concerts, and built relationships with the band’s team, including manager Joyce Smyth. The Stones’ health-related cancellation in 2019 came as a huge disappointment.
...The Rolling Stones “don’t play festivals, much less come play one on our stage under a tent. They had to want to do this.”
..For Davis, it was important to have the Rolling Stones perform within the context of what Jazz Fest is. “The three magic words are ‘on Jazz Fest.’ This is the Rolling Stones on Jazz Fest...
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What? Was Cuba already booked up from their last “Viva Castro” tour?
Look down list on each days schedule not the top three lines
Oh, I get it...reparations.
In the 1960s Bob Dylan was playing with Victoria Spivey who recorded in the 1920s.
And in the 1960s tiny Tim was working as a throwback to the music of the first decade of the 20th century.
The fact the stones are still playing at all is amazing. Jagger is 77 and had been known to workout 3 hours a day, six days a week before his heart problem.
Hats off to them.
Maybe he’ll sing with the Soul Queen of New Orleans this year. She’s booked for 2 of the other days.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZQN2IfM_eww
They raised money for the Chinese communist-backed WHO. Remember? PsOSs.
thanks
I saw the Steel Wheels tour. They were incredible.
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It sure won’t be me! I hope they go another 10 years!
Absolutely awesome how he's taken care of himself. He was on SNL about four years ago and I made the exception to watch it. Looked not a day over 50 and held his own better than most of the young hosts I no longer recognize from anything I watch or listen to.
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