Posts Tagged: Mick Jagger
Dressed for (Post) Success
There was always something about The Rolling Stones I couldn’t stand. It was confusing, because I love the music.
Now I know what it is. Please check out the picture accompanying this nice AP review of the band performing during The 50th Anniversary Bank Account Replenishment Mini Tour.
Forget Jagger — the front guy has to dress up (and even his Bar Mitzvah MC get up is a bit subdued). It seems that the rest have decided to just show up and play rock and roll.That’s far better than the posturing, studied coolness and self-reverence that always characterized the band. It was okay in, say, 1970. But it got dumber, more embarrassing and finally a bit creepy as times changed and decades passed.
Now The Stones finally look like what they are: Old guys who still know how to rock. There is nothing wrong with that. Just ask Neil Young. It’s kind of funny: After about 1980 The Rolling Stones became the world’s best Rolling Stones tribute band (probably). Maybe they actually can become creative again. The new song, Doom and Gloom, is good.
Above is Sympathy for the Devil from the November 25 show with the great Mick Taylor on lead.
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Fifty Years of The Rolling Stones
The Rolling Stones — actually Jagger and Richards — played The Marquee Jazz Club in London on this day in 1962. The set list, according to Rolling Stone:
1. “Kansas City”
2. “Baby What’s Wrong”
3. “Confessin’ the Blues”
4. “Bright Lights, Big City”
5. “Dust My Broom”
6. “Down the Road Apiece”
7. “I’m a Love You”
8. “Bad Boy”
9. “I Ain’t Got You”
10. “Hush-Hush”
11. “Ride ‘Em on Down”
12. “Back in the U.S.A.”
13. “Kind of Lonesome”
14. “Blues Before Sunrise”
15. “Big Boss Man”
16. “Don’t Stay Out All Night”
17. “Tell Me You Love Me”
18. “Happy Home”
The story says that the list essentially corresponds to Richards’ recollection in his autobiography, Life. It links to a picture of the current band at The Marquee. I’m tempted to make a snarky comment, but none of us look better now than when we were in our twenties.
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