Stones' Documentary set for US release 04/04/08

someday they will wheel them onto the stage and put their teeth in for them and they will do the most rousing version of "I Can't Get No Satisfaction" that has ever been seen. They are all about 70 now so it will probably be within the next thirty years.

Nice to see Scorcese is doing something besides impersonating his past films for a change. Oh yeah, that's right, he did the Band's farewell tour thirty years ago. Never mind.

When I was a kid I wondered why my father still listened to Guy Lombardo thirty years past his peak. Now I know. Some people just refuse to move on.
 
You obviously didn't see their concert when they came to Austin in 2006.

Shame. The best concert I have ever attended. Move on? ****, they can keep rocking as long as they want.

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I saw them the first time they ever played the US back in the 60s in San Antonio of all places. Very good. I saw them again 20 years later.

They still have a lot of energy for sexagenarians and so the wheelchair tour wont happen for another 20-30 years. But musically they were played out 40 years ago; they have been cannibalizing themselves ever since. Smoke, mirrors and pyrotechnics and the deluded dreams of their fans will keep them going forever. Sort of like Guy Lombardo.

Although they are more like the Xavier Cugats of the cocaine for lunch bunch.
 
TT: all the groups and individuals you named were creative; the stones are mimics. They ran out of gas about the time of Satanic Majesties and started lifting material from other musicians (often unacredited) and have basically been doing the same thing for forty years.

The Beatles, to use one example, did not just go on repeating themselves year after year. Every time they came out with a new album it was a new album and would be full of exciting new material. They reinventied themselves constantly.

The Doors were extraordinarily creative, though shortlived and still sound good today. But they are not releasing new albums every few years that sounds like their material from 1968.

The Stones are a cult band. That's ok if you want to follow a cult. I'm so old that I don't listen to that much rock anymore though I often get jolted on hearing something by somebody who I never heard of that I learn has been around a while.

My basic complaint about the stones is that they are their own cover band.. But if you like it, that is ok by me. Just because i don't doesn't mean you don't or that I am not dead wrong.

One last thought re Mozart: he died young but he constantly evolved. It is hard to imagine that if he lived to 65 or so that he would have been using other people's materials and playing the same stuff he did when he was 22.

That would have been Vivaldi, of whom it has been said that he wrote the same symphony 170 times.
 
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