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Alan - 2005-08-23 11:00:56
Insert witty remark about damning with faint praise. I've loved the Stones' music for most of my music listening life, but I think they should have hung up their spurs after Tattoo You. It's been downhill from there, and the rate of decline continues to increase. Let some of the money for those hundred dollar tickets trickle into the pockets of some other worthy bands.
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Paula - 2005-08-23 11:10:36
Alan:
I know what you're saying, but the fact of the Rolling Stones' existence doesn't take away from other groups. I expect an argument here about promotional budgets and touring, but I don't know enough about the business side of things to argue back. What concerns me is the music. You can't tell a musician not to want to write and play and record. And if people are still listening, well, that works out all around.
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chris - 2005-08-23 11:28:25
forgot the music, what about the abs? Explain to me how someone who is well over 60 can still have 6 pack abs. I guess charging 100 bucks for tickets is good for ones health....
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i wombat - 2005-08-23 13:19:14
I think the abs justify the tours, the stones may be the only oldster band that didn't get all pudgy and bloated looking, and it makes me hopeful, I'm not buyin' any $100 tickets, though.
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Alan - 2005-08-23 16:05:23
My issue is not so much with the bands riding the nostalgia wave as long as they can, as with the marketing machine that continues to cynically exploit it. The consumers of this type of "product" in some radio markets won't hear about anything that competes with these mega-bands or mega-events because that might dilute the demand and hence the profit margin for the corporation that coincidentally owns a huge percentage of all the radio stations and the largest music promotion and ticketing company in the US. I've got nothing personal against Mick and the boys, and I'll happily buy more records from them if they do something I find interesting again, but to me they're a symbol of something I find abhorrent about the corporate music industry.
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Sharps - 2005-08-29 01:00:51
I'm not sure the corporate music business can entirely dictate what people want to listen to. It's often said that the Monkees' success was all down to the "Prefab Four" nature of their existence, the excessive hype, promotion, the professional songwriters, power of the Tube, etc. But if that was all it took artificially engineer a successful music act, the big record conglomerates would be doing it all the time. Yes, they can prime the pump, lead the horse to water, but they can't make it drink. It's regrettable audiences aren't more adventurous, but I can't fault the Stones, even if their last decent record, IMO, was UNDERCOVER (the one after TATOO YOU).
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