60 years. SIXTY YEARS. S.I.X.T.Y

[Stinky The Clown]

Today in London this group performed live and lively to mark the sixtieth anniversary of their first performance. One of the originals died last year at age 80. The rest of them are nearly that age. Yet they continue to fill major stadiums. Yet they continue to release new music. They are now a band that has been together longer than any band ever.

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[Skittles]

1. you forgot Brian Jones

he passed in 1969....dude at far right is Mick Taylor I believe

great band

[calimary]

17. I noticed that right away. Brian Jones was my favorite.

Had a big crush on him! Mick Taylor was the first significant replacement after Brian Jones left and then died.

[Skittles]

19. heh, I crushed on Mick Taylor

[calimary]

21. Mick Taylor had great hair, too!

[malaise]

2. I grew up with them

Amazing
Rec

[snowybirdie]

3. Hey

I've been married longer than these guys.

[MuseRider]

4. I remember when they first came over.

I was supposed to hate them after the Beatles, it was supposed to be a rilvary. Was it like that everywhere? I always thought they were really cool and their music was different than the Beatles and that was just fine with me. They are amazing. 60 years ago I was 8. Man oh man I never ever even thought in those kinds of terms back then. I have been lucky enough to see them twice. I will never forget those concerts.

[calimary]

18. There was a big rivalry between the Beatles and The Beach Boys.

I remember a radio contest, asking for votes for the “KFWBeatles” or the “KFWBeach Boys”. The Beach Boys won.

[lastlib]

5. The only things that will survive the apocalypse will be cockroaches....

yucca plants and Keith Richards.....

[Aviation Pro]

8. Keith Richards was here when Adam and Eve showed up.

The Almighty had to explain him to a very confused young couple.

[Ani Yun Wiya]

6. Amazing longevity...

I have seen this band perform 135 times between 1966 and 2021.
They still have that energy and creativity that sets them apart from the rest...

[Raine]

7. First concert I ever went to was the Rolling Stones

seen them in concert several times since that first time. 🎵 🤗

[orleans]

14. they were my first concert too. (1972 i believe). stevie wonder opened for them nt

[WinstonSmith4740]

9. Saw them on the Steel Wheels tour in LA years ago.

We weren't carrying credit cards at the time, and my parents were visiting, so I asked my mom if I could give her the cash and buy the tickets with her card as it would be easier. She had no problem with that part, but I remember her scrunching up her nose and saying, "Why are you paying all that money to go see those freaks?" This was the early 90's, which means I had been following them for around 25-30 years at the time. And my parents still hated them. And that my friends, is Rock and Roll.

[SCantiGOP]

10. I was a pre-teen when they started

Our parents were outraged at the Beatles hair until they saw the Stones, and suddenly the guys wearing suits didn’t look so bad.
They also picked up on the fact that the Beatles were writing pop songs, while Mick Jagger was singing the music of all of those old black guys from the Delta.

[calimary]

20. And the Stones didn't wear uniforms like the Beatles did.

The Stones had that “renegade thing” going on while you could bring any one of the Beatles home to meet Mom. Or at least that was the vibe back then (so say I, the first Mrs. McCartney, who snatched him away from Jane Asher).

Man, what memories, what memories…

[MyOwnPeace]

25. Local DJ here in 'da Burgh' (Pittsburgh)

did a thing about the 'spiritual' mood in the late 60's ('Spirit in the Sky' - Norman Greenbaum) - followed by the Stones' 'Sympathy for the Devil'.......

So now 'we rebels' are fighting using canes and giving up our driver's license!

[SCantiGOP]

34. Exactly

I remember the first time my Dad saw the Stones he said, “well, at least the Beatles look like they’ve had bath this month.”
And that fed in directly to the “dirty hippie” meme.

[Sky Jewels]

11. When I was about 12 their "Some Girls" Album came out

I loved that album, still do, but I distinctly remember thinking that the Stones of 1978 were very, very old and couldn't possibly keep their band going much longer because in a few years they would be heading into their 40s and therefore would be very decrepit.

[TeamProg]

12. That's a Mick Taylor included (far right facing) pic. Not original.. Should be Brian Jones.. n/t

[Mr.Bill]

13. I was about 13 or so and already a big fan.

I was at a friend's house and we were sitting in his room listening to records and his dad came home from work and handed him his birthday present. It was a Roling Stones record. He said wow, dad, how did you know I liked the Rolling Stones? His dad said I didn't. I just went to the record store and bought the record with the five ugliest queers on the cover.

How things were in the 60s.

[MyOwnPeace]

26. There's a whole 'trail of child-support checks.........'

that would argue against the 'queers' thing.......

[Mr.Bill]

30. Very good point.

But that's what a lot of parents, including my own, thought. It was strictly because of the hair. All the saw was female hairstyles (to them) on men. I remember watching the Beatles on the Sullivan show and the Q word was mentioned by them numerous times during that show.

The length of my hair was the source of most of the arguements I had with my parents while growing up. It all seems so silly now. I guess if not for that we would have just found something else to argue about though.

[MyOwnPeace]

35. And you are SO right!

I had a 'military buzz' clear into college (just the way I was brought up) so all of the 'new' musicians were 'bothersome' to my folks. The 'screaming' and the 'gyrations' of these new groups - you know, the things that we (the 'kids' then) loved, THAT'S what bothered my folks......

As it has been forever, I can't imagine what MY folks would say about today's "garbage" that passes as "music!"*

*I trust you know that is all 'tongue-in-cheek' - just 'saying' what our folks said about 'our' music!

[Mr.Bill]

36. When I hear new genres of music

like rap or hip-hop (neither of which I care for) I have to keep myself in check to avoid sounding like my parents.

[MyOwnPeace]

38. Yep! You got it!!!!!

We've become 'our parents!'

[calimary]

44. Oh MAN! We certainly CAN'T have that!

I find myself trying to be mindful of that, at all times! Still do but it was far stronger when the kids were still kids. I didn’t want them to hate me when it was all over and they were independent grown-ups in their own right.

[Deb]

15. Oh man.. My music rock of rocks. EVERYTHING goes better with them

Happy 60 Stones!

[YoshidaYui]

16. They certainly out lasted the Beatles

but you know in Japan there is Buck tick, been around since the 80s and doing quite well

[highplainsdem]

32. Good for Buck-Tick! They've been around nearly as long as Die Toten Hosen,

a German band now on their 40th anniversary tour, and celebrating another #1 album on the German charts, their 12th album to top the charts, more #1 albums there than any other band.

I love it when great bands stay together for decades.

https://democraticunderground.com/10181664814

[YoshidaYui]

40. i know a lot about BuckTick , I was friends with

the lead singer, Atsushi Sakurai ,. We talked for at least three weeks back a few years ago.. He was an
amazing guest, and Sensei.


Atsushi Sakurai Interview 1994 (Eng Sub)

[highplainsdem]

46. How cool that you know him! And thanks for posting that interview!

I wish more of the interviews of Die Toten Hosen at least had English subtitles, but unfortunately most don't, and I've forgotten most of the German I spent several years studying in high school and college. But the thread I posted a link to in that last message does include a documentary on the band that has English subtitles, as well as a couple of old interviews where the frontman, Campino, is speaking perfect English-accented English (his mother's English and raised her children to be bilingual).

[OnlinePoker]

22. Beach Boys have been around longer.

BB - 1961, RS - 1962. Though the Beach Boys have had a lot of legal infighting about rights.

[DET]

23. My all time favorite band

I was hooked the moment I heard them. Saw them twenty years ago in DC. Spectacular. Jagger has incredible energy. The music is timeless.

[calimary]

41. He's probably the closest we'll come to seeing a "force of nature."

And STILL rockin’ after all these years.

[Hotler]

24. Allow me to add; .....

[central scrutinizer]

51. I love Lisa Fischer

She’s amazing. If you get a chance to hear her live, don’t miss it. 20 feet from stardom is a great movie

[Hotler]

53. Thank you, I'll check it out. nt

[highplainsdem]

27. When the Dutch band Golden Earring finally disbanded last year after

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their lead guitarist and founder, George Kooymans, was diagnosed with ALS, it was 60 years since the first version of the band had started performing, and the four-member lineup had been together more than 50 years, since the newest drummer joined. They'd've probably done their 60th anniversary tour by now, if not for that diagnosis. And George was also still recording and performing in a duo with American guitarist Frank Carillo -- they released a new album just last month -- and in a trio with two other Dutch singer-songwriter-guitarists.

The members of the Earring are a bit younger than the Stones, but George formed the band when he was only 13, five years after he learned to play guitar.

Their last concert was a sold-out show at the Ahoy arena in Rotterdam in November 2019, but they'd had a tour scheduled for spring of 2020, shows that had to be canceled because of Covid-19. And then George got the diagnosis of ALS in late 2020.

Video from Top of the Pops in 1973, when they were arguably the best-looking rock band around, as well as great musicians:

And in 1993, a concert on the beach near the Hague for nearly 200,000 fans:

George, who's won awards as well as polls as a guitarist in Europe, can no longer play guitar: https://democraticunderground.com/10181674319

Otherwise we'd still be getting new music from the band, and they'd still be touring.

[Martin68]

28. Where's Brian Jones?

[Mr.Bill]

37. He died back in the 60s.

Found floating face down in his swimming pool at home. Too long of a story to relate here. Just google it.

[Martin68]

49. I know about Brian's life and death. I just thought that an iconic photo of the Stones should

include Jones.

[KarenS]

29. I had to go look the year up,,,,,

I saw them at Sun Devil Stadium in Tempe Arizona 1997 They were 'old' then

I have always loved the Stones!!

[Maeve]

31. And none of them ever expected to reach such a milestone

Hell, they probably never expected to reach 60 years old!

Rock on!

[calimary]

43. Certainly not! When you hit 30, you were "over the hill" and not to be trusted anymore.

[onenote]

33. The band that played its first gig in 1962 didn't have Watts, Wyman or Mick Taylor in it.

It was Jagger, Richards, Brian Jones, Ian Stewart (on keyboards), Dick Taylor (on bass) and Tony Chapman (on Drums).

[GReedDiamond]

39. Saw the Stones in Chicago, 1972...

...the opening act was Stevie Wonder, he was, needless to say, fantastic.

The band had hired filmmaker Robert Frank to document the '72 US Tour.

The resultant film, titled Cocksucker Blues, was so shocking and "potentially incriminating," due to the band's sex and drug-fueled behavior backstage, that they refused to allow the film to be released.

Wikipedia link: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cocksucker_Blues

Back in the 90s, I saw it at The Wiltern IIRC in L.A.

The film actually made me feel like vomiting at one point, but fortunately I kept it under control.

ON EDIT: On a whim, I looked the film up on YouTube, and sure enough, its there, full length and pretty poor quality, if anyone is interested.

[LeftInTX]

42. Saw them in Nov 2021!

[Straw Man]

45. Well ... not exactly THAT group as pictured.

Charlie Watts is deceased, Bill Wyman hasn't played with them regularly since 1993, and Mick Taylor left the band in 1974. So if you think it's all about Mick and Keith, then yes. But I maintain that they will not be the same without Charlie. He was a key element of their sound.

[calimary]

47. Yeah. Charlie Watts. The second original to go, after Brian Jones.

But unlike Brian Jones, Charlie Watts had a good long run and a good long life.

[Martin68]

50. Charlie and Jones, IMHO.

[Celerity]

48. The Beach Boys (1961) are the oldest major rock band that still has original members

So in terms of the Stones:

They are now a band that has been together longer than any band ever.

is not the case.

I am sure there are some other smaller bands as well, and/or non rock bands (as you said any band, without regards to genre) as well.

One of my favourite songs by the Stones:

Where the Boys Go

(1980, from Emotional Rescue)

[world wide wally]

52. Saw them for the first time in '64 or '65 at McCormick Place in Chicago.

The warmup act was Patti Labelle and the Bluebells.
They rocked!

[electric_blue68]

54. A bit of a concert story...

I like them, not a big fan... but I grew up w them along w The Beatles, all the other Brit Invasion bands, Beach Boys (I preferred Jan & Dean), the Motown groups and everything that followed after.

I certainly wouldn't turn down a free chance to hear them live! I looove live concerts in any of my various musical tastes.

Whatever tour was the one with the opening pointed flower on the stage - my dad was working for the lighting company that supplied them with with the very bright lights. He was given 4 tickets. He wasn't going.

So my sis (my partner in R&R concerts, along w others) and I were in the 2nd tier of MSG parallel to the stage. We had a good time.

I gave the other pair to one of my closest friends from college (🧡 we're still friends) who is a Big Stones fan who took her then boyfriend.

The seats were right by the front "petal" of stage!
(I only grumbled to my sis that why couldn't it have been The Who that needed special lighting equipment)

My friend was besides herself with joy, and she had a great time. I was happy for her. 👍

Happy 60th Rolling Stones. 👏