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Criticizing these guys is just stupid. Especially coming from a forum that supposedly espouses free market capitalism.

I watched the Stones PPV concert from last week. If you get a chance, I think you’d enjoy it. It started a little slow, but got very raucous, which is what you want if you’re a Stones fan.

Reading the reviews, many “music people” say that the band sounded better than they ever have in their “modern touring age” which would I guess start around Steel Wheels in 1989.

I thought they sounded great and the two new songs are as good as anything I hear on the radio.

Jagger stole the show from GaGa, John Mayer, Springsteen, Mick Taylor, etc. because at the end of the concert all you’re thinking is that here’s a guy who just burned about 10,000 calories, didn’t miss a queue or a note, played good harmonica, showed he plays as much guitar as Bruce Springsteen, and did it for well over 2 hours. At age 69.

You would think that sort of thing would be applauded here, not ridiculed.

I still haven't heard an explanation by the people who say rock is just teen music, why people far older than teens still love to listen to it. By similar logic there are a number of people who say white people should not be allowed to play the blues...only black people should be allowed because blues supposedly arose under white oppresson.

A number of problems with that "logic":
No.one: no white person today was around during the days of slavery and few during the days of segregation or involved with the practice. Most white people who liked to play the blues certainly weren't anti-black.
No. two: rock and roll is a derivative of the blues. Virtually all the big hits of early rock were blues structures with a rock beat. Nobody complained about that.
No three: if white people shouldn't be allowed to play the blues, then by similar logic they shouldn't be allowed to listen to it.
No. four: how is it that white people like the blues (an obviously black-born musical expression) in the first place? Liking the blues (or any other black originated musical form like jazz) should be something completely alien to white people's consciousness.

The truth is: people should be allowed to play and sing and listen to any kind of music they want. All humans are connected through music. Which in the final analysis is all the people in the world are: human beings who like what other human beings produce culturally and materially.