The Rolling Stones should call it a day!

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: PHJim
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 12:44 PM

Canadian spelling is "practise" for a verb and "practice" for a noun.

"I'd better practise if I want to improve."
"Choir practice is at seven o'clock."

American spelling is "practice" for both verb and noun.

Although it seems that spelling and grammar is becoming less and less important to a lot of folks. Even résumés and job applications don't seem to use standard spelling and grammar any more.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 12:20 PM

A better practiCe, then?! ;-)

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: The Sandman
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 09:07 AM

do you have a thesaurus , I thought you lived in a tree like most backwoodsmen

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 07:51 AM

Yep, ‘Synching’ looks right to me - much nicer than my ‘sync-ing’. Another one for my personal thesaurus.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: GUEST,Jamie McC
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 05:46 AM

I'd agree with 'Synching'. The past tense is, of course, 'Sunk'!

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: Gordon Jackson
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 03:53 AM

'Syncing' or 'Synching' are both considered correct, in which case I prefer the latter. The 'c' in the first one looks like it should be soft.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 19 Feb 21 - 01:59 AM

A hyphen? ‘Sync-ing’? That’s how I do it, right or wrong IDC.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: leeneia
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 06:32 PM

Never mind how to spell practice. How does one make sync into an -ing word?

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: Gordon Jackson
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 02:23 PM

As long as they enjoy it, and as long as a sufficient number of others enjoy it, they can go on as long as they want, surely. It's just like floor spots in a folk club, but on a slightly grander scale

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: The Sandman
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 01:11 PM

jamie mc long may you enjoy them,

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: GUEST,Jamie McC
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 12:26 PM

As someone who was at the London Stadium gig, I thought they were terrific. I think the majority of the 70,000 fell much the same. Of course we didn't have the benefit of hearing it via a selection of 'in-ear monitor feeds to produce a sort of stereo field' and had to settle for the simple experience of actually being there.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 18 Feb 21 - 12:07 PM

Yes, I stand corrected, thanks, GJ and TS.

No excuses as I have published a poem on this matter "For Better or Worse"

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: The Sandman
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 07:46 AM

wav its practise

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: Gordon Jackson
Date: 17 Feb 21 - 05:43 AM

WalkaboutsVerse, you're rather letting the (English) side down by using the American spelling of the verb ;).

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: The Sandman
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 04:13 PM

no reason for them to give up ,i mean mick dances better than the shadows, i mean the shadows dance was twee ,mick dances with energy charlie plays the drums okay.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 03:50 PM

No, definitely in sync, just not playing very well.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: leeneia
Date: 16 Feb 21 - 02:14 PM

From the original post "a recording compiled from a number of in ear monitor feeds to produce a sort of stereo field."

It occurs to me that maybe the trouble was not with the band, but with the synching (sp) of the various feeds.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: The Sandman
Date: 14 Feb 21 - 04:15 AM

why would the stones take any notice mack jigger is like dorothy drew fond of dancing

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: WalkaboutsVerse
Date: 13 Feb 21 - 06:01 AM

Any English who think AMERICAN pop, rock, blues & (c)rap are somehow above English folk plus classical music are fruitcakes, frankly - i.e., they should "know it's only (American) rock & roll" &, rather, practice & perform their OWN good culture.

My WalkaboutsVerse poem "Nationalism Without Conquest"

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: Acorn4
Date: 13 Feb 21 - 04:53 AM

Still some truth in the old adage "What would survive a nuclear war?"

Cockroaches and Keith Richards.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: gillymor
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 04:05 PM

lol, voyager, never heard that one.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 01:41 PM

BTW, I'm pretty sure that The Stones reacted to The Beatles my deliberately adopting a " bad boy" rebellious image. For example, I think that they were the first rock group - in the UK - to dump those silly suits. And, they decided to write some rebellious songs "Satisfaction", "Get off my cloud" etc. And this was all to try to step out of The Beatles shadow with a very different image. Of course, it might all have been Andew Oldham's idea.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: voyager
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 12:30 PM

Canonical Rolling Stones joke here -

What's the difference between the Rolling Stones and a Scottish farmer?

The Stones sing - 'Hey you, get off of my cloud'.
The Scottish farmer shouts - 'He McCloud, get off of my ewe".

(ouch)

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: GUEST,Brimbacombe
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 08:24 AM

Agreed gillymor. If Sympathy for the Devil or Gimme Shelter (to name but two) were released today, they would sound fresh, exciting, threatening, innovative, inventive. These songs are more than 50 years old. In a world as fickle as pop music (and all its sub-genres) how many other bands or artists could you say such a thing about? I love the Beatles and the Beach Boys, but I think their sound has dated more.

If people are still willing to pay to see them perform, good on them. If the Stones still want to perform, presumably to some extent because of their love of music and performing, then good on them. Lots of people further down the chain will benefit too, from support acts to roadies to caterers to techs to journalists, and so on. Whether they play the blues badly or not, their music has brought joy to millions, and I and many others think they've produced some of the greatest songs ever put to vinyl. Go stick the intro to Paint It, Black on now. However you want to categorise their music, there's no way that that's 'bad'.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: gillymor
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 06:33 AM

I haven't been up with their stuff after Some Girls but if they'd hung it up in '63 there'd be no Beggars Banquet, no Let it Bleed, no Sticky Fingers, no Exile on Main Street which are among some of the best Rock albums ever made, IMO.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: Rusty Dobro
Date: 12 Feb 21 - 04:04 AM

If we stopped people playing when they approached 70, I’d have missed Sonny Boy Williamson, John Lee Hooker, Chuck Berry, Bill Haley, Bo Diddley, Jimmy Rogers, Stefan Grappelli, John Mayall, Peter Green, Les Paul, George Melly and many more.

I do have a personal interest in this discussion.....

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: leeneia
Date: 11 Feb 21 - 11:49 AM

Yay for John P, who said "Please stop trying to get other people to stop playing music. It's disgusting."

I agree with you, John. The tendency to quash other people's music is everywhere. I call it the Great Shut Up.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: punkfolkrocker
Date: 11 Feb 21 - 09:36 AM

How many 60s bands who still gig, even have just one surviving original member...???

The Stones are unusually / unnaturally long lived...

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: Mrrzy
Date: 11 Feb 21 - 09:26 AM

Totz disagree with OP. As long as they want to keep performing, they should keep performing. You probably couldn't pay me enough to go see them, but that is my choice. Don't like'm? Don't go see'm. But to say they should stop performung because you don't like them any more? Balderdash.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: GUEST
Date: 11 Feb 21 - 08:08 AM

The BBC sessions from 1963-64 show the Stones at their best.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: GUEST,Tunesmith
Date: 11 Feb 21 - 05:09 AM

The Rolling Stones should have quit in 1963, and left the blues to the people who could really sing it...and without the phoney American accents.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: voyager
Date: 08 Feb 21 - 03:52 PM

1. - Agree with the premise of this thred
2.   Last waltz for this group ('Hang It Up').
3. Caught the Stone act 4 times in my day (age 69)

    1967 @ Hollywood Bowl w/Buffalo Springfield as opening act
      All I remember is Mick, back to the audience, playing the
      tambourine on his bum

    Early '70s w/ BB King, Ike and Tina Turner Review, Terry Riley
      Could no fathom why the Stone were top billing

    Early '80s tour w/ George Thorogood opening act (bad to the bone)
      Lots of stage netting for acrobatics and Mick's 'simian'
      posturing

    Sticky Finger Tour (mid '90s) - playing in DC Football stadium
      (concrete fishbowl) that "did not rock". Lots of stage
      gimmicks.

Always amazed that our mid '60s junior high dances played tunes that are still on the airwaves today.

Skimming thru Keith Richard's LIFE rock bio these days.
His power-chord rock riffs (Start Me Up, Tumblin' Dice and Jumpin' Jack Flash) are he Stones highlights to me, followed by Mick's songwriting, Charlie's Harpo Marx style drumming and Bill Wymans straight face bass riffs are the best for me. So much human 'road kill' in the ascendancy of this group.

Hang it Up
voyager

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: The Sandman
Date: 08 Feb 21 - 04:54 AM

in my experience most artists i have known are not concerned about holding artists back , they often help other artists and encourage them ,but they are most concerned with their own careers.every performer wants to carry on performing as long as they can it is kind of addictive. the stones areonly concerned with promoting themselves having a good time and playing music ,nothing wrong with that, let them carry on
mick and crew, take no notice of bonzo

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: Big Al Whittle
Date: 05 Feb 21 - 11:45 AM

bit of a bugger without bums on seats though...

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: Johnny J
Date: 05 Feb 21 - 07:43 AM

I'm a bit late to the party but if they still want to perform and can get an audience, why not?

There might be an argument that older performers should give way so that younger musicians can have an increased opportunity to progress and succeed. I don't necessarily agree with that either but it doesn't apply here.

We get endless discussions and debates, for instance, about folk clubs which book the same old artists while younger acts don't get a chance. However, even there, if an artist(s) can draw an audience and is still popular enough then age shouldn't matter. Of course, a club committee or booking agent should also consider acts on their artistic merit too. It shouldn't all be about "bums on seats".

However, the above doesn't apply here as the tours and concerts are being promoted independently. So, they aren't holding any other artists back or preventing them from getting gigs. So, good luck to them.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: Backwoodsman
Date: 05 Feb 21 - 06:39 AM

”Cliff Richard & The Shadows 1960 - "that sound" !!!”

Indeed, Bonz. Responsible for my taking up the guitar in 1961.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 05 Feb 21 - 06:17 AM

Cliff Richard & The Shadows 1960 - "that sound" !!!

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 05 Feb 21 - 06:16 AM

I don't do "must" !!!

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: The Sandman
Date: 05 Feb 21 - 05:47 AM

Bonzo you must learn a little objectivity, you may think the stones are not as good as they were ,but let others have the opportunity go to their concerts.
I do not like cliff richard , and think he is worse than he was 50 years ago, but i would not try to stop others from going to see him

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: GUEST,Sol
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 04:10 PM

Saw them a couple of years ago. The second note of the first song intro of the gig ("Start Me Up") was an absolute corker. Keith laughed about it for ages. Not embarrassed in the slightest. Good on him.
Great concert - loved every minute. Never ever thought I'd go and see a group of rockers who were 10 years older than my grandad when he died.:-)

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: The Sandman
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 02:06 PM

The rolling stones should not call it a day.
Bonzo stop thread drifting and stick to your subject, you clearly know not much about blues harmonica

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: The Sandman
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 01:54 PM

this is so funny.. sonny boy no2 born 1912 no better than keith relf,born 1943
keith relf was the yardbirds lead singer who would undoubtedly had been influenced and would have copied sonny boy no2.
yes little walter was also a very good harmonica player, but you said of sony boy no2

Was he really great? I don't think so.

and to say he was no better than keith relf
when sonny boy influenced him is a joke,
Bonzo. you are barking   up the wrong tree

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 01:09 PM

He was certainly no better than Keith Relf, and not a patch on Little Walter.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: The Sandman
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 01:08 PM

the stones started off as an rand b band, they did a fairly good version of little red rooster, after the death of brian jones they changed directioN to some extent.
i can think of better blues singers than jagger joanne kelly and steve rye was a very good english blues harminca player,
but mick jagger is not just a mediocre blues singer he is a front man an entertainer and a dancer. and a competent and decent pop singer
jagger richards wrote some good pop hits and jagger sings these well enough ,
the stones have given a lot of pleasure to people ,why the feck should they stop,
just because some self important musical critic, , who also appears to know nothing about blues harmonica playing, thinks what they did 50 years ago was better, that is not a sensible reason to stop giving their fans pleasure., and for them to stop enjoying themselves

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: John P
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 12:47 PM

Please stop trying to get other people to stop playing music. It's disgusting.

Please stop assuming that the only reason an old person would still be playing music is for the money. It's insulting. I'm old, I still play music, and I don't care about the money. Here's hint: If you don't need the money, what reason is there for performing other than that you enjoy it?

Please stop bashing the performances of whole classes of people. It's unworthy, not to mention rude, ignorant, incorrect, and stupid.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: The Sandman
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 12:40 PM

Bonzos statement about sonny boy no2,
reminds me of an occasion when walkabout verse tried to tell me that the english concertina should not be used for playing harmony.

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: The Sandman
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 12:36 PM

Anyway the stones should continue all the time they want to
i read keith richrds biography , i quite liked him, of all of them he came across as having a genuine love of playing music

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: The Sandman
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 12:31 PM

correction Bonzo 3 legs thinks Sonntboy williamson no2 was not a great blues harmonica player

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: The Sandman
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 12:25 PM

well bonzo your opinion on SonnyBoy, just shows what an unmusical ignoramus you are, he certainly could play blues harmonica better than any of the stones and better than most other people he was on a par with Sonny Terry as one of the best.
Bonzo 3 legs does not think Sonntboy williamson no2 was not a great blues harmonica player, that has given me the best laugh of the day.
To paraphrase Martin Carthy, who is this berk

Subject: RE: The Rolling Stones should call it a day!
From: Bonzo3legs
Date: 04 Feb 21 - 11:43 AM

Was he really great? I don't think so.