I certainly don’t have a problem with any musician continuing to perform.I am musician myself. IMO, it should be done with dignity.. The preening and posturing by singers such as Jagger looks ridiculous for a 69 year old man. Doesn’t he see they that .. is he frigg’n blind ?
A portion of the moves many of these singers utilized, even when they were young, were learned at “ The School of Rock Posturing”..and the moves were always just shy of being silly, even then. And often, as in the case of the floor writhing by Billy Squier in the now famous video, they were career ending.
These old rockers should all take a page from the jazz book and look at how Louis Armstrong, was able to perform, well into old age, with dignity.
Jagger wants to show that he’s still “got the moves like Jagger”.
He is not a 'showman', nothing fancy, just solid music, great musicians (Brian Kennedy, Georgie Fame, Candy Dulfer) combined with many changes over the years from blues (tributes to John Lee) to rock (Jackie Wilson Said) to introspection (Poetic Champions) to R&B tinges (Goin Down Geneva), to religious themes (Hymms to the Silence) to Country (Down the Road (not his best effort IMHO)).
I saw him at the Shrine in '72 (Herbie Hancock opened) and at the Masonic in SF three times, once with the late Sam Butera.
But he keeps rolling along on his 401K tours.
The preening and posturing by singers such as Jagger looks ridiculous for a 69 year old man.
Perhaps, but that wasn’t the point I was trying to make. The fact that he can do it at all, for a two and a half hour performance, at almost 70 years old is amazing. Seems he’s a strong believer in the adage “use it or lose it,” exercise wise.
Although I liked the Stones, I was highly amused the first time I saw Jagger on Ed Sullivan gyrating like a spastic yo-yo. The Stones had the conceit that they were some sort of blues band with a rock tempo. They always sounded like white rock and rollers to me.
Well, at least they didn’t have Iggy Pop stripping naked on the show. ;-)