Post by Dex on Dec 9, 2016 15:26:00 GMT -5
The Rolling Stones have been satisfying fans for more than 50 years. And as Anthony Mason explains, that most definitely includes the year now coming to an end:
It’s been a busy year for the world’s biggest rock band. The Rolling Stones kicked it off with a tour of Latin America, that ended in March in front of half a million fans in Havana.
So, Mason asked Keith Richards, “how you feeling about the band these days?”
“Band’s rocking, man,” he replied. “They’re really -- no, it’s kind of weird at our age, but it’s getting better.”
n October, the Stones joined a lineup of legends that included Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Bob Dylan and The Who, at the Desert Trip Festival in California.
Jagger described the gig as “very dusty. But it was fun.”
“You were a little wary ahead of time about a concert with --”
“Too many white people!” Jagger laughed. “Well, old white English people!”
“I mean, to have Bob Dylan open up for you, sort of, in a way, ludicrous, you know?” Richards said. “And then of course the second week he gets the Nobel Prize.”
“Now you got a Nobel-winner opening for you,” Mason said.
“Yeah, right. Well, I said, ‘I want mine for chemistry,’ you know?”
They’re ending the year by releasing an unexpected album: “Blue & Lonesome,” a classic blues record, and their first studio album in more than a decade.
And no one was more surprised than the Stones themselves: “None of us would have ever looked each other in the eye and said, ‘Let’s make a blues album,’” Richards said.
more here
www.cbsnews.com/news/the-rolling-stones-keith-richards-and-mick-jagger-return-to-their-roots/
It’s been a busy year for the world’s biggest rock band. The Rolling Stones kicked it off with a tour of Latin America, that ended in March in front of half a million fans in Havana.
So, Mason asked Keith Richards, “how you feeling about the band these days?”
“Band’s rocking, man,” he replied. “They’re really -- no, it’s kind of weird at our age, but it’s getting better.”
n October, the Stones joined a lineup of legends that included Paul McCartney, Roger Waters, Bob Dylan and The Who, at the Desert Trip Festival in California.
Jagger described the gig as “very dusty. But it was fun.”
“You were a little wary ahead of time about a concert with --”
“Too many white people!” Jagger laughed. “Well, old white English people!”
“I mean, to have Bob Dylan open up for you, sort of, in a way, ludicrous, you know?” Richards said. “And then of course the second week he gets the Nobel Prize.”
“Now you got a Nobel-winner opening for you,” Mason said.
“Yeah, right. Well, I said, ‘I want mine for chemistry,’ you know?”
They’re ending the year by releasing an unexpected album: “Blue & Lonesome,” a classic blues record, and their first studio album in more than a decade.
And no one was more surprised than the Stones themselves: “None of us would have ever looked each other in the eye and said, ‘Let’s make a blues album,’” Richards said.
more here
www.cbsnews.com/news/the-rolling-stones-keith-richards-and-mick-jagger-return-to-their-roots/