IT’s 1972. The Greatest Rock ‘n’ Roll Band in the World isn’t merely touring but ravaging America. Dozens of police have been injured and hundreds of fans arrested as a finite kitty of tickets go on sale from coast to coast. The Glimmer Twins – Mick Jagger and Keith Richards – have been jailed in Boston for brawling with a French photographer before being bailed by a Mayor eager to avoid a second Beantown revolution. Richards was by now a heroin addict – which imperilled the liberty and livelihood of everyone around him. The Stones jet was crisscrossing the same big sky country as Air Force One – Richard Nixon’s re-election campaign being in full swing – but its passengers, according to legend (and still-embargoed film), were a smidgen rowdier. Truman Capote has been commissioned to follow and chronicle the tour but all the chaos did nothing to dislodge the writer’s block from which he was suffering. The pricey essay was never penned. He couldn’t see what we see anyway: that Micky’s and Dicky’s planes were both vectoring to victory in the short term but disaster in the long. We’re still sifting through the wreckage.
My essay was to be part lamentation (of what passes for a Hottest 100) and part hearkening back to rock ‘n roll’s grimier days. ‘All Down The Line’ live – from the Exile on Main Street chef-d’oeuvre many regard as the Stones’ and even the genre’s best – would showcase what a band sounds like with nothing but Marshalls, human-tuned guitars, talent and a mile of front. And so it does. But by an amazing coincidence, when I went to verify the first time that former tour manager Sam Cutler described his uncombed quintet as “the greatest rock ‘n’ roll band in the world,” I learned he died last Tuesday in Queensland, aged 80. The likeable Englishman lived a colourful life in a very fast lane but was decidedly his own man. Charlie Watts gave Cutler his seal of approval from the start and that wasn’t something the Wembley Whammer doled out lightly.
As for the famous boast – which the band hated – the Stones lived up to it and then some. Never more so than in the 1969-1974 iteration that included virtuoso Mick Taylor on lead. Three brilliant albums were still to come – Goat’s Head Soup (1973), Some Girls (1978) and Tattoo You (1981) – but by the 1980s the Rolling Stones had become a Rolling Stones tribute band, albeit one whose biggest earnings were still ahead of them. Prior to taking the stage in 1972, a geed up Jagger sat down with TV’s Dick Cavett who asked him if he could picture himself “at the age of 60 doing what you do now.” The audience laughs at the reply. “Yeah, easily.”
Hi CL. After asking very politely a few times for an Open Thread, I still can’t get no satisfaction…which means I’m hijacking (I hope) this thread to throw in a find which explains where many ‘conservatives’ get things wrong…
This means it explains why Affirmative Action people and all other manner of diversity picks…and cheats in general…do NOT CARE about being second raters: have NO self-respect: are NOT fazed by being implicitly condescended to. They get the money or the power or the glory…and that is all they want…
From: today’s https://www.coffeeandcovid.com/p/infiltrators-saturday-july-15-2023
” A FORTY-NINE YEAR OLD unattractive cross-dresser just won the Women’s 400-meter bronze medal at the World Para Athletics Championship in Paris……Mr. Petrillo is +18 years older than the next-oldest competitor in the race. Silver medalist Alejandra Perez Lopez from Venuezala is 25, and Cuba’s gold medalist Omara Durand is 31. According to the Daily Mail, Mr. Petrillo, 49, told the BBC, “Better to be a fast happy woman than a slow unhappy man. I don’t feel like I’m stealing anything from anyone.”
Now look. It’s totally fair. Senior citizens often beat athletic women in footraces, so don’t start.
And that’s it in a nutshell. Leftist liars cannot be shamed.
Which takes us back to the ABC!
Mantaray
To feel shame, you have to hold to some standards. Leftards have none.
BJ. That’s clear enough . However , why do so many non-leftists spend their time pointing out leftist hypocrisies? We already know they are liars, so what is supposed to be achieved by confronting them with their lies since they have no shame?
Which is also why I can’t be bothered joining in the pile-on whenever the ABC gets caught lying, being two-faced etc. Nothing can be achieved except by actions which reach those who have the power to do something about it.
BTW: What I liked about that fraud athlete (see his photo at the link) is how he does NOT claim to be within his rights etc etc, but simply says it as it is. He’s a slow man but a fast woman, so to win he’ll be the latter for a day. Ever heard any other trans-bandwagon-rider that honest?
Unfortunately, I think the Kyle Rittenhouse solution will eventually have to be applied.
“He’s a slow man but a fast woman” haha
Yes, he’s been honest.
And I like Mantaray’s topics.
The Rolling Stones: It’s a sort of fascination, and a puzzlement, that I have understanding ardent fans of the Stones. Talented; many good songs, I know.
But .. I guess you had to be there.
I think it was Mick Jagger that made the point that the Beatles hardly played any large stadia. The Stones’ songs still sound fresh today.
Looking back, Nixon’s worst decision, apart from Affirmative Action, was the Hispanic Category, invented because he was astounded when presented with the evidence of Black Criminality rates.
After that, black Cubans, Mexicans, PuertoRicans, Dominicans magically became Hispanics and the Black Crime Rate went down.
I didn’t know that about Nixon.
Yeah, it happened in 1970.
He saw stats on Blacks and Serious Violent Crime and saw that it would become a huge political issue if it became public knowledge.
The 1971 Census was coming up, so he created the Hispanic Category to bring the numbers down.
Police Departments follow Census categories, so Black Murderer/Rapist/Armed Robber became Hispanic Murderer/Rapist/Armed Robber in a fair percentage of cases, obscuring the real situation.
This heyday of the band was before my time, Christine, but I own a string of their albums. Even many of their unknown tracks are something else.
After this period, they coasted into middle-age and then began a 40-year second career as a sentimental memories act. They have a new album coming out soon – featuring, among others, Paul McCartney on bass. The Rolling Beatles. 🙂
Sounds a bit too German … try The Beating Stones!!
Some of Jagger’s lines have been shown to be prescient in recent times:
Just as every cop is a criminal
And all the sinners saints
As heads is tails
Just call me Lucifer
But some lines which I once believed to be true, are now Luciferian in their own right.
I shouted out
“Who killed the Kennedys?”
When after all
It was you and me
It wasn’t me and Lucifer who killed them. It was some damn alphabet agency who did that – and is ready to do it again.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GgnClrx8N2k
OT. Manta, there is already an Open Thread at Dovers Cat. I stopped reading it because it was continually hijacked by some aggressive psychos, and it was too hard to find the good stuff. Why attract them here?
C.L.
Good article.
But now I find out that not only are you a Leagues tragic but also a Rolling Stones tragic!
what Jannie says 16 July, 2023 at 3:09 pm
The Rolling Beatles. 🙂
Considering advanced age… The Rolling Bones?
There are some serious contenders for world’s dumbest/dangerous politician. Biff Bowman is obviously right up there around peak stupidity. But Vice Resident, Harma Karris, is giving Biff a run for his fake money. Karris is speaking of “reducing population”.
https://www.michaelsmithnews.com/2023/07/how-so-you-plan-to-reduce-population-kamala.html
Well, leftists love abortion and euthanasia hugely, and I don’t see too many of them calling for a negotiated end to the Ukraine war; quite the opposite in fact.
Ruinables and EVs are the way to the unicorn farterland.
and
check this commentary,
Kamala Harris Calls to ‘Reduce Population’ to Save Climate
White House has issued a correction: Karris meant “pollution”, not “population”. All is OK in the Farterland.
Speaking of the Unicorn Farterland, comrade Coochee Gucci Goo has been out back spruiking the Voice, taking the opportunity to sport some fancy designer wear.
https://twitter.com/LindaBurneyMP
and
check this,
I uncovered a child trafficking & drug supply network
And the government and media went after me
Josephine Cashman Jul 16, 2023
The Rolling Beatles. 🙂
Considering advanced age… The Rolling Bones?
Maybe The
RollingGallstones.The Unicorn Farterland motto: To go farter and farter than ever before.
Still my favourite Stones song, as performed by someone else – although the former did perform the music.
Gained some prominence recently following its appearance in “Once upon a time in Hollyweird”.
Those Mod Chicks, oh yeah. 🙂
That’s a cool cover Rabz. This one is also pretty good…