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=> Gosh, does he look good! Unbelievable! Yesterday, Mick has tweeted greetings to Canadian fans, sitting at a keyboard in the ‘Vocal Warm Up’-Departement and wearing a Canadien Stones-tee: Canada – getting ready for Burls Creek ! Hope to see you all there on June 29 – have a look at it on Twitter
=> Ok, while waiting for the rehearsals for the tour to start probably with beginning of next month, I came along this Charlie interview (Matt Lauer) from 1993, when the band was awed for by the fact of 30 years of still beeing alive and playing.
Now, generally, when Charlie gets interviewed, it’s usually gonna get short and kinda funny. This time around, though, … no. Charlie is talkative and also says something about his then new record, “The Charlie Watts Quintet – WARM & TENDER”…
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=> The fan pre-sale for the Rolling Stones Mercedes-Benz Superdome show in New Orleans on July 14th starts today, Wednesday 29th May at 10am local time!
Use this code (all capitals, that is): JACKFLASH at this link: ticketmaster.com
=> Keith is ready to go on tour!
On Instagram, he greets us, tipping hid hat and saying:
“Hey hi everybody! Happy to say that we’re back on the road again. I’m looking forward to seeing you all there…“.
Check it out at Instagram or at Twitter.
=> Pollstar magazine has some questions for John Meglen (Concerts West) on the interesting subject of rescheduling a Stones tour!
Read it all at pollstar.com. At the end it is asked:
How do they sound now?
Answer: It blows me away how incredibly they are playing today. I don’t know if that’s just growing up and getting a little better with age, or whatever it is. But man, it’s just like you sit there and watch them and you go, ‘Man, they are just so on.’ And by the way, there’s nothing enhanced up there. It’s all them.
=> Stones give back credits of ‘Bitter Sweet Symphony‘ to The Verve’s Richard Ashcroft!
Richard spoke out at the Ivor Novello Awards, which recognize British and Irish songwriters. He said:
“As of last month, Mick Jagger and Keith Richards signed over all their publishing for Bittersweet Symphony, which was a truly kind and magnanimous thing for them to do … I never had a personal beef with the Stones. They’ve always been the greatest rock & roll band in the world.”
Let’s not forget, that all of the legal hassle was based on a Allen B. Klein lawsuit shortly after its release, which forced him to hand over 100 percent of the royalties from “Bitter Sweet Symphony” to Mick Jagger and Keith Richards. ABKO must be credited for this.
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=> “Rolling Stones back in the studio working on new album” – That’s what you can read at msn.com:
Mick and the others are “pressing on with work on their first record of new material since 2005’s ‘A Bigger Bang’, which they started work on last year” and Mick is said to be “keen to make up for lost time“.
There’s no release date yet, but “they are keen to get it out as soon as possible“! Woah! That sounds really great! OK, MSN.com quotes these lines from the english tabloid DailyStar – I looked for that article there but actually couldn’t find it… just sayn’ 🙂
=> GET YOUR ROCKS OFF & YOUR TICKETS AT RS.COM! Further info from RS.com:
Tickets sold for the original dates will be honoured – fans do not need to exchange their tickets. Those who cannot attend the re-scheduled date can refund their tickets by accessing their Ticketmaster account. For transferred tickets, the refund will go to the fan who originally bought the tickets, once they have been transferred back.
=> Radiostation Rock95 in Barrie/CAN will make a huge announcement at 7 AM ! Well, Barrie is near Toronto and that means it’s about 6 AM over there now. So in about 1 hour we will know more it that announcement relates to the Stones’ tourdates or anything else … [thx irix, iorr]
JUN '19 21 - Soldier Field Chicago, IL 25 - Soldier Field Chicago, IL 29 - Burl's Creek Event Grounds Ontario, Canada JUL '19 03 - FedExField Washington, DC 07 - Gillette Stadium Foxboro, MA 14 - Mercedes-Benz Superdome New Orleans, LA* 19 - TIAA Bank Field Jacksonville, FL 23 - Lincoln Financial Field Philadelphia, PA 27 - NRG Stadium Houston, TX AUG '19 01 - MetLife Stadium East Rutherford, NJ 05 - MetLife Stadium East Rutherford, NJ 10 - Broncos Stadium at Mile High Denver, CO 14 - CenturyLink Field Seattle, WA 18 - Levi's® Stadium Santa Clara, CA 22 - The Rose Bowl Pasadena, CA 26 - State Farm Stadium Glendale, AZ 31 - Hard Rock Stadium Miami, FL
*Tickets for New Orleans will go on general sale Friday May 31, at 10am (local time).
The pre-sale for the Rolling Stones mailing list will run from 10am on Wednesday May 29 to 10pm on Thursday May 30 (local time).
=> Some rumoured (!) dates: tour start in Chicago June 21 and 25, Ontario (CAN) June 29, New Orleans July 14 and Miami, August 31. Remember, these ar NOT OFFICIAL! These dates are likely or possible to happen or would fit into a viable tour schedule, nothing more. Let’s see, what happens.
A Chicago based radio station (93XRT radio) apparently has said that the Chicago dates (June 21 + 25) will be the tour start and that more details come tomorrow… well, it’s tomorrow again, folks, hehehe, but that’s alright.
=> rollingstones.com is online again, nothing new so far, though. But there will be news about the tour soon, that’s for sure.
=> YESSS! Mick just published a short sequence of him practicing and dancing! Well that looks VERY promising. What a guy! Unbelievable. Nevertheless, please take care, Mick! See him prancing at Twitter and Instagram
=> The Stones’ website is down since some time! So maybe they prepare the site for the new tourdates? Usually, if something like this happens, I would think, they relaunch because of new data, i.e. dates for the tour, but this seems different. IP is 18.222.72.20, but by now, it’s just offline.
=> Ok, so now yesterday was lacking any official announcement. And up to now, we have no clues as to exactly when that announcement is coming. It will, though. Probably tomorrow. Or later! 😉 But it will come and: the longer we wait, the sooner it will come!
=> 14:00 AM PST, 17:00 EST, 23:00 here at my home … OK, folks, to be honest, I by now doubt there will be some official announcement today. There will be one, that’s for sure, but not today, it sems. So, we have little more else to do than to look forward to tomorrow or Thursday. It’s unusually quiet compared to former announcements – everytime something leaked beforehand – this time, though, it seems like all is locked away and cept under the carpet – no leaks … let’s see what happens at 12 PST. I KNOW YOU FOLKS ARE WAITING AND SO AM I, HEHEHE … so far, no official news hav surfaced, yet. But the day in US/Canada has only just begun, so …
=> Over the past hours, there are 40 – 50 folks of you here at once checking for some news. I apprechiate that very much and I salute you: Hail, Hail, Rock’n’Roll! It goes without saying, that any news will be on display here ASAP! The Stones on tour again: what a band!
=> MAYBE, we will get some official information today, MAYBE. It might as well take some more days. We have to wait & see a little more, but only a little, I guess! :-). So far, there’s nothing really reliable concerning the new tourdates. But they will be there, no doubt…
=> According to rumours, we might get the new dates for the Rolling Stones No Filter US/Canada Tour 2019 tomorrow! Well, let’s hope for the best! And if they come today or later this week, that would be ok with me, too!
In any case, it tells us that Mick’s back on track and that we can look forward to the rehearsals and the tourstart!
=> Just Friday, Mick and his grand-daughter Georgia-May met for “family day” as Jade calls it. And it sure is.
Jade is looking splendid as ever and Mick, too, looks very fine!
Here’s the Jade’s Instagram post and some more text at Page-6-com
=> GOOD NEWS: According to , Mick has been given the “all clear” by his doctors following his heart valve OP.
The Sun writes: “Doctors are really pleased with his progress and were happy to give him a clean bill of health. His healthy eating has really helped with his recovery and he’s been taking it easy and resting, as well as enjoying down time with his friends and family. The health scare has just reminded him to keep taking good care of himself“.
See canoe.com, too for the same message.
So now we wait for the official announcement and the new tour dates which should be published within the next few days…
MAYBE ON TUESDAY!??
=> Ok, we have an official announcement!!! The Stones just tweeted: “Thank you for all your patience and support regarding the re-scheduling of the Rolling Stones US and Canada tour dates. We will have an update and announcement in the coming days for you, please stay tuned!“ Well, now that sound promising, right?! Check it out at twitter.com, instagram.com
=> OK, latest rumours support the hope that the postponed tour will start in Chicago and will last until August! The date for Chicago would be June 21st. Nothing official yet, don’t forget.
=> Just yesterday, Ronnie had a guest appearance at Imela May’s concert at the London Palladium! [thx lien, iorr! ] He played “Wee Wee Hours” (Chuck Berry) and The Bullfrog Blues (William Harris) with her. And he was in high spirits! Enjoy the video below!
That show was recorded for british radio (BBC2), to be broadcasted by the end of this month. See also instagram.com for this.
Meanwhile, rumors have it that some radio station in NYC say that Stones be back on stage in 6 weeks… well, that would be fine with me!
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=> Slowly, but quite naturally, we are approching the end of the waiting period! Maybe, we will get some official news within the next 10 days. So, let’s hope & see what’s coming up. If they want to start that tour, it would be quite reasonable to start with one of the former dates, leaving the rest of the dates as they are and only reschedule the dates from tourstart down to, say Rutherford, maybe.
That would point to Chicago as the date for a tour start. Keep in mind that this is only speculation and rumours, but nevertheless, it would make sense. Mick needs to be at sound health and they also need time for rehearsals before that. So that about tells the story. It won’t take long now, folks, and we will know for sure! 🙂
=> Keith was seen in NYC last Friday, May 3. “Looking cool and quirky” see dailymail.co.uk for this an a few pics. Manwhile, one rumour tells about a possible tourstart not sooner than the second half on June. Nothing is official yet, of course.
=> While we all wait for news about Mick, the healing and the possible new tour dates, The Rolling Stones re-issue the famous Rock And Roll Circus from 1969 on June 28 in various formats, bonus materials and with previously unknown tracks, among them 2 by The Dirty Mac (Lennon, Richards, Clapton and Mitchell)! Here is the tracklist:
BONUS TRACKS
