Rolling Stones kick off 60th anniversary tour in Europe

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Just amazing that they're STILL performing and touring!

Apparently, you can teach an old Stones new tricks.

The Rolling Stones started their 60th anniversary European tour by reviving the song “Out of Time,” which they first recorded in 1966 but have never played live.

The song was on the British edition of the Aftermath album. It was later popularized by Chris Farlowe, who released a cover version of it in 1966. Farlowe’s version was produced by Stones frontman Mick Jagger.

The Stones appeared Wednesday at Wanda Metropolitano in Madrid, Spain.

https://deadline.com/2022/06/rolling-stones-european-tour-perform-out-of-time-first-time-1235037118/


Mick et al in Madrid:

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1. Stone's hit from the 80s,

their 80s.

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2. Keith Richards

Preserved by heroin? Mick Jagger is a fitness nut so I can explain him. Richards though?

Cheers on 60 years of rocking. Not one of my favorite bands, but one that I do enjoy listening to. My dad absolutely loved them. He went to a concert in the early 1980s with my brother, and he was amazed that Mick could be so energetic on stage. Who could imagine that he is still going strong 30 plus years later.

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3. Good for them! If they still enjoy this, and if their fans still enjoy their music,

then this is what they should be doing.

The Dutch band Golden Earring would probably have done a 60th anniversary tour by now if George Kooymans (lead guitarist, main songwriter, lead singer on some of their songs, and the band's founder) hadn't been diagnosed with ALS about a year and a half ago, with the Earring announcing they were disbanding when the diagnosis was announced early last year. They are a bit younger than the Stones, though, with their oldest member, bass player Rinus Gerritsen, a few years younger than Jagger and Richards, and all the other members about five years younger. That band had first formed in 1961 when Kooymans was only 13 and teaching his neighbors to play guitar. What turned out to be their last concert was at an arena in late 2019, but they had more shows booked for spring 2020 and Kooymans was also still doing shows as late as March 2020 in a trio that was a side project for him, a Dutch supergroup he'd formed with two other well-known Dutch musicians. And then Covid-19 hit. And then late that year he got the diagnosis. Golden Earring is so popular in the Netherlands that during rush hour on his birthday, March 11 of last year, radio stations, fans and even church bells all over the Netherlands played "Radar Love" to celebrate and honor him and the band he'd kept together for 60 years.

The members of Golden Earring had no plans to retire, until they disbanded because they couldn't imagine continuing as a band without George.

I ran across an article yesterday on the lead singer of the German band Toten Hosen, who'll be 60 in a few weeks, saying he doesn't think he'll still be with the band 10 years from now. They're starting their 40th anniversary tour now. He did say the other members of the band want to keep going at least that long, though, and I wouldn't be surprised if he changes his mind. The band didn't even have their biggest hit until 10 years ago, at an age that I'm sure they hadn't been expecting to still be making music, when they were young punk rockers in the '80s.

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4. A fine nostalgia act, but no longer the REAL Rolling Stones

Over the years, four key members (five if original member / pianist Ian Stewart is counted) have died or quit: Brian Jones, Bill Wyman. Mick Taylor, Charlie Watts. Most of the sound emanating from the stage is now supplied by hired musicians and back-up vocalists. The band should rebrand itself as "The Last Stones Rolling"!

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5. By that standard, most bands around more than 10 years or so aren't the "real" bands.

It isn't at all unusual for bands to have members quit (or get fired) and new members join. The real exceptions are bands like Golden Earring, whose four members when they broke up early last year had all been in the band at least 50 years, with two of them having been in the band for 60 years.

Mick and Keith had more to do with the Stones' sound, IMO, than any two of the other members. Jones, Wyman, Taylor and Watts were all brilliant musicians. But Mick and Keith were the core of the band, both their sound and their songwriting.

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6. The Stones celebrated Ronnie Wood's 75th birthday onstage last

night:

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7. Another song from the Madrid concert here:

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