A F A T hipster interviews a forgotten relic:
Pointless
A F A T hipster interviews a forgotten relic:
Pointless
Small club show in NYC rumored for later this week. Wood on the Tonight Show Wednesday and Richards on Friday.
Coulda swore I heard Stern tell Keith he'd "see him next week"
Writing In All Proper Case Takes Extra Time, Is Confusing To Read, And Is Completely Pointless.
Who would ever tune in to see Ron Wood? Last anyone has ever heard from him was the time AMERICAN doctors were ripping out tumors from his corroded lungs.
Yeah, new album or not, I'm saying all those fuckers are too old to be relevant anymore no matter how much they suck on the phallus that is Justin Bieber.
Yeah, 49 year old Jimmy Fallon trying to be young, hip, and relevant!
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Fallon is an entitled frat boy who never grew up. His show is unwatchable. No, make that beyond unwatchable. I mean, Ron Wood? Then again, Fallon had on that girl who is a really shitty actress from NetSux Wednesday to talk about "Werewolf School"
Wow, hard-hitting interview by Fallon. So what's Ron Wood going to talk about? Maybe show off his tumors he keeps in a jar? Maybe he keeps them in his pocket? Maybe Fallon will use them as a prop in one of his stupid frat boy games?
In all honesty, the last time I specifically sat down to watch one of those weekday late night talk shows in real time/original air time was probably 1995 and David Letterman on CBS.Originally Posted by Kristy
I went maybe a decade or so from 1995 to...2005, 2006 before I even saw anything coming off of Letterman, Leno or O'Brien, and any content I saw from 2006 onward was solely via youtube clips.
I will say I did watch quite a bit of the Daily Show from 2000 to 2004 and the first couple seasons of the Colbert Report. The Daily Show I enjoyed, but after several seasons it was like, I get it. This show is for limousine liberals who want their daily dose of pablum. The Colbert Report wore out its welcome with me even more quickly. Thus, by the time Colbert and the two Jimmys took over the 11:30PM slots at ABC, NBC and CBS I was already a decade into not caring.
Then again, I never particularly revered Johnny Carson, either. He was a bit before my time, and by the time I could actually physically manage to stay up late enough to watch something at 11:30PM on a weeknight Johnny Carson was stale and out of it. As one tv exec would say of his show by the mid-1980s, even watching that show on tv one could smell the polyester. Letterman I liked, but by the time the 2000s rolled around even his schtick had become tiresome.
Scramby eggs and bacon.
Even beyond all of that, what could Mick Jagger, Keith Richards or Ron Wood have to say that would be worth hearing?
Well, if late night talk shows aren't your thing, apparently the Stones will be on the CBS morning show Monday morning to talk about "songwriting". That's about all I know, from a commercial during a football game.
Eat Us And Smile
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You know what?
I will, in fact, be home Monday morning to watch the CBS morning show.
I think instead of watching said morning show Stones interview I'll instead opt to rub one out and follow that up by a nap.
Mick Jagger looks like a cross between a lizard and a dried-out raisin. Creepy lookin' geezer.
To let the world know they made a Justin Bieber album. Then they will announce another pointless and boring tour for that album and charge @$800 per ticket and that foregoes TicketMaster's corrupt fees. At least Schleppy knew when to call it quits for good when their drummer died.
Was talking to a business associate, this was maybe...20...19? Anyway, she was saying she was concerned that the Stones were going to cancel a concert in Miami that she was thinking of going to, or something along those lines.
I hadn't been to a concert for a big-name act in a couple of years, and I think I paid $150 a pop for those tickets. So, I asked her what she ticket prices for the Stones in 2019 were, and without blanching she said they were upwards of $500 a pop average and the cheapest she had found were nearly $400 a pop. Just for the ticket. Not from a ticket broker, either, but just the straight-up box office prices.
I recall doing a double take and she said something along the lines of 'it's the Stones, they're legends, this might be the last tour, the price is what it is, it's worth it' blah blah blah.
All of that made me remember getting scalped tickets to see them in 1989 for $50 a pop and I thought THAT was a rip-off...now, fuck, Taylor Swift is legit charging $1000 a pop and selling out multiple stadium dates across the country.
I mean, I get that things don't cost now what they did 30 years ago, but for $1000 a pop [Swift] at the very least better take me into a back room, sit me in an oversized beanbag chair, disrobe and slowly grind her body over mine for at least 30 minutes...champagne included.
Visiting day in the old folks home?
What gets me is that all pre-orders of the new album completely sold out in Target stores.
Now, ask yourself, who shops for CDs and vinyl at a god damn Target?
Old rock icons are dying like flies and The Rolling Stones go, buy our new album and come see us on tour.
No! You can't have the keys to the wine cellar!
Shit. They looked old in 1981. I rode down to Phoenix with some lifeguards and greens keepers to see The Stones because they might not be around much longer. I sold a kayak to get money to buy the tickets. 81 was a fun year. The good ol days.
Who shops at Target at all?
I do, maybe once or twice a year. Beats the Hell out of WalMart.
And relevant to this thread, I did find the Exile on Main Street Bonus disc at Target back when the remaster was released in 2010. As opposed to needing to buy the entire album again, which I had already done for the CBS & Virgin remasters.
Was it 50% off for all pensioners that day, slave FORD?
Fuck if I know. There always seems to be old folks in there no matter what day it is.
I haven’t been in a Walmart in ten years. Last time I was in one it smelled just like Stanley Market in Hong Kong because it was full of cheap Chinese junk just like Stanley Market is.
Although, not to be contrarian about it, now that I think about it both my local Walmart and Target do have a section in their respective electronics departments that has newer pressed vinyl of contemporary releases...that 'special limited edition vinyl' edition stuff of whatever artist.
However, to your point, neither of those stores have a tremendous amount of either in-store inventory or different artists for whatever there is in vinyl. It's like, maybe a single display rack or two.
All I know re: Hong Kong is that from what I learned as a kid apparently King Kong plays Ping Pong with his Ding Dong there.
Album release party earlier this evening at Racket NYC. Seven song set with Lady Gaga joining in on Sweet Sounds Of Heaven. Matt Clifford on keys and Daryl Jones on bass.
Shattered
Angry
Whole Wide World
Tumbling Dice
Bite My Head Off
Sweet Sounds Of Heaven
Jumping Jack Flash
Clips from the show at https://www.instagram.com/paintitstones/
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That is definitely Charlie on "Mess It Up". The only drummer who could ever make disco listenable.
Looks like it's all on YouTube already, officially.
Album review from AARP. No, I'm not kidding. And because it's AARP, they mention the age of everybody who plays on the record.......
https://www.aarp.org/entertainment/m...-diamonds.html
Keith's track
https://www.rollingstone.com/music/m...ds-1234858647/
Rolling Stones and Lady Gaga Shatter New York City at Surprise Club Gig
The album release party featured four 'Hackney Diamonds' tunes along with "Shattered," "Tumbling Dice," and "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
The crowd of celebrities, music industry insiders, and media folks that crammed into the New York City club Racket on Thursday evening had every reason to believe they were there to witness a Rolling Stones concert, but it was impossible to be sure at first. The invitation billed the event merely an an “Album Release Party” timed to the release of Hackney Diamonds. We were told all phones and smart watches would be placed in pouches, and “armed guards” and “personal security” wouldn’t be allowed in. “Dress cool,” read the invite. “It’s a party!”
The party started with a DJ set by Questlove and Samantha Urbani as the VIP section slowly filled up with the likes of Elvis Costello, Daniel Craig, Rachel Weisz, and Chris Rock. Rumors circulated all week the Stones were going to play a mini set. The stage was set up with their gear, but it felt like an impossible dream that the world’s biggest rock band were going to play a 600-seat club that has two nights of Ben Kweller and a Talking Heads tribute band on their calendar.
Then the lights dimmed after 10:00 pm, and the Stones indeed walked out into the tiny stage. The core band of Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Ron Wood, bassist Darryl Jones, and drummer Steve Jordan were joined only by keyboardist Matt Clifford, and background vocalist Chanel Haynes. (Longtime keyboardist Chuck Leavell, backup singers Bernard Fowler and Sasha Allen, and horn players Karl Denson and Tim Ries were all AWOL for the evening.)
“How are you doing?” Jagger asked the crowd. “You having a good time? We’re going to play old! We’re going to play new!”
The band started with old by going back to 1978 with “Shattered,” a tribute to a far grimier New York than the one of today. This was the first Stones performance of any sort in over a year, and there were concerns in some quarters when a planned summer tour was scuttled without explanation. Tonight, however, there weren’t any signs of rust. Jagger was in pristine form as he glided across the narrow stage and belted out the tale of West Side rats and uptown bed bugs without even glancing at the teleprompter.
They followed it up with the live premieres of “Angry” and “Whole Wide World.” They’re two of the best songs off Hackney Diamonds, which is racking up reviews calling it their best album in decades. (Best since Steel Wheels? Undercover? Tattoo You even? We need a few more listens to be sure, but there’s no doubt that it’s shockingly great.) Both of the songs crackled with life on the stage.
“It always seems that we launch our new albums in New York,” Jagger said. “We’ve done it in a blimp [in 2002]. We’ve done it on a flatbed truck going down 5th Avenue [in 1975]. We did it in a convertible going over the Brooklyn Bridge [in 1997] and a train going into Grand Central [in 1989]. We were missing the launches so much that we had to make another album to come back and re-launch it.”
“Tumblin’ Dice” was up next, but the truncated band meant they couldn’t do the usual extended coda. It was instead a fast and dirty one, similar to the Exile on Main Street original. Chanel Haynes did a stellar job on the background vocals. Her only prior performance with the Stones took place in 2022 when they flew her to Milan last minute to sing “Gimme Shelter” when Sasha Allen had to miss a show. She was starring as Tina Turner on the West End stage at the time, and the producers fired her for missing a performance to make the gig. It seems like she made the right call because it got her back on the stage with the Stones at least one more time.
“This is the first club gig we’ve played in a long time in New York,” Jagger said when the song wrapped. “I used to come to this club when it was called the Highline. Then it was called Blow and then Powder. Anyway, it’s great to be here making a racket. We’re going to make a racket with his next one. It’s called ‘Bite My Head Off.'”
This is the Hackney Diamonds songs featuring Paul McCartney on bass. It would have been a truly historic moment to see him come out to guest with them on it, but the Beatle is in Australia on his own tour. They did just fine without him, playing the tune at a breakneck speed while Richards and Wood gleefully traded licks. “You think I’m your bitch?” Jagger roared. “I’m fucking with your brain!”
After band intros, Jagger told the crowd they’d be familiar with the next song. It was “Jumpin’ Jack Flash,” and witnessing it up close in a sweaty club as opposed to an 80,000-seat football stadiums was simply surreal. And even though they’ve played it 1,200 times over the past 55 years, more than any other song in their vast catalog, nothing about the performance felt even remotely rote.
They walked offstage at the end, returning after just about a minute for the live debut of “Sweet Sounds of Heaven” from Hackney Diamonds. Lady Gaga sings it with them on the record, and it was no surprise when she walked onto the Racket stage since she was watching the show from the wings all night. Wearing a red sequined jumpsuit, Gaga beamed with joy as she locked voices with Jagger and brought the gospel-tinged ballad to one soaring climax after another. “New York City, the Rolling Stones!” Gaga roared at the end. “Take a bow.”
It was an impossible moment to top. They didn’t even try. And even though they played a mere seven songs, and only three oldies, nobody walked out looking unhappy. This was the smallest venue the Stones have basically ever played in New York City, and likely the only gig they’re going to play anywhere this year. Everyone knew they’d just witnessed something historic.
The show sets up a stadium tour that’s very likely to head across America next summer. Let’s hope they break tradition and play more than just two or three Hackney Diamonds songs in the set. This isn’t another Voodoo Lounge or Bridges to Babylon. It’s not just a few decent songs and a lot of filler. This is a colossal achievement that nobody excepted from a group that started when JFK was president. They seemed on the verge of death many times in the past, and it’ll never be the same without Charlie Watts, but the Rolling Stones proved tonight that there’s at least one more great chapter to come before this whole saga wraps up.
That's just sad. Make that beyond sad.
I want to see the video of “Sweet Sounds Of Heaven”!
I want to see them permanently retire and fuck off back to the Land of the Limey they came from.
Yeah. They're in NYC having a great time. You woke up and get to be you today.
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