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Post subject: Rolling Stones get even richer
Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 12:53 pm
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Posted: Fri Jul 25, 2008 5:34 pm
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I don't know if they're getting richer. I think they're afraid EMI is going to fold. It's the least major of the majors.


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Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:12 am
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Jeez, When was the last time these old bastards came out with a really great album anyway? They should call it a day.What do they have left to prove? Don't they know any better? Enough is enough.It's pretty disturbing now watching Mick Jagger at 65 years old trying to be cool.


No need to remind present company that music is an industry with great entreprenurial endeavor. Product: The Rolling Stones; Market: who ever out there is willing to purchase the product. Perhaps not you.....however.....their audience is growing older with them.....and.....as long as they can deliver.....will be there. Remember, their heroes were old men. They have now become their heroes.

Jaggar was responsible for saving that band from financial ruin at the hands of poor management and I would bet that the decision to make this change was in his hands.

I give him and them credit, and others like them, for remaining a solid, performing act all these years, not unlike other frontmen and women who have gone solo to the detriment of the rest of the band who made them.

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Posted: Sun Jul 27, 2008 9:41 am
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To Jeffo's point, over the last eight years the Stones have had 12 releases: a movie score, 10 compilations or live renditions of old songs, and just one studio effort - 2005's A Bigger Bang.

They've turned out some good CDs over the last 20 yrs. I liked Steel Wheels, though other Stones fans disliked it. I didn't like Black & Blue, yet others liked it a lot so you never know. Certainly the golden age of the Stones was the late '60s - early '70s -- Beggars Banquet, Let It Bleed, Sticky Fingers , and Exile On Main St. -- so imho, they haven't turned out a "great" record in 36 yrs.

If you remember back a few years, the Glimmer Twins weren't getting along and both released solo CDs. Keef's sold fairly well and was received to some critical acclaim while Mick's floundered. Had Jagger's CD been successful, he might have bolted . . . but I guess we'll never know.


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