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…well, I will tell you, and I’m sure you won’t be in any way surprised at this, that I have never, ever head of Miles Davis, but I’m told that he was a band leader, composer and trumpeter apparently.
..fine in his day I imagine but as I’m not aware of being exposed to his talents, I couldn’t comment further.
…so it’s MJ, for me.
I didn’t see it myself but absolutely everybody on facebook is saying how crap, disappointing, rubbish, terrible and bad they played at Glastonbury. Not being funny but what do they expect, they all must be 90+ years old now it would be like expecting Merv Hughes, Geoff Lawson and Terry Alderman to perform to their hay day prime in the upcoming Ashes series……..
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Well Nathan, perhaps that says more about Facebook (and similar internet opinion sights) than it does about The Rolling Stones. I never went, haven’t seen clips on TV and they may well have been cr@p, but most of the papers I’ve read today gave them great reviews. Facebook/twitter etc. give gobshites an opportunity to vent their opinions and boy do they use it. (Yes, I know, aren’t I doing just that myself?
)Didn’t help that they didn’t show the whole performance and I thought the sound on the telly was terrible.Found it very underwhelming, and I had been looking forward to it all day. Looking forward to the Mumfords tonight though.
Sluggish start but they warmed well to their task. Jagger is the only one that matters these days and he’s as charismatic as ever.
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They’ve just allowed the first part of the set to be shown and it was brilliant; should have allowed it last night [think they’ve realised they made a big mistake]..it set the tone for the whole show. Like the way The Mumfords pointed out they’d been going for 6 years and this was their 6th Festival whereas the Stones had been going for 60 and….
Mick Jagger was like letting your grandad loose with an 8th of coke, so much energy for an old man.
It was a bit sad compared when they were at their peak in the 60’s – 90’s.
The dexterity in the fingers goes with a lot of guitarists after years of playing and I certainly noticed Keith does not seem to be as fast on the fretboard as he once was.
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I was never a fan of The Stones, even before they were injected with embalming fluid.
Beatles rule
I didn’t see it myself but absolutely everybody on facebook is saying how crap, disappointing, rubbish, terrible and bad they played at Glastonbury. Not being funny but what do they expect, they all must be 90+ years old now it would be like expecting Merv Hughes, Geoff Lawson and Terry Alderman to perform to their hay day prime in the upcoming Ashes series……..
To phrase some lyrics in one of their songs. "Hope I die, before I get old."
"To phrase some lyrics in one of their songs. "Hope I die, before I get old."
That was by The Who written by Pete Townsend!
Regards
"To phrase some lyrics in one of their songs. "Hope I die, before I get old."
That was by The Who written by Pete Townsend!
Regards
Sorry, you’re perfectly correct However seeing pictures of them in the media, they’re well past their prime.
I was never a fan of The Stones, even before they were injected with embalming fluid.
Beatles rule
That photograph of them on the front page of the Daily Mail with the headline, Night of the Living Dead, was hilarious. And quite a funny comment coming from me, with both feet much deeper in the grave than theirs.
Oddly enough, I was going to post about the roguish brilliance of the press at finding a particularly apt photo of the person in the context they are writing about. Today, the expression on Aidan O’Brien’s face in the Sporting Life was a hilariously apt one for the caption, O’Brien gamble landed. I’ve seen it used before, so they may use it again. Very funny.
"Ancient bones found in Somerset field" was Private Eye’s headline
…thousands of BBC camera crews converged yesterday on a quiet corner of rural Somerset, in order to film the disinterment of a pile of old bones believed to be thousands of years old, possibly dating back to the Stones Age…all BBC programmes were suspended for several hours to allow non-stop coverage of this astonishing breakthrough in palaeo-gerontology…considering their astonishing age, it is incredible how much of them remains reasonably intact…
Despite being a greybeard myself I have a pathological dislike of my fellow greybeards who insist on strutting about now in a despairing attempt to remain the snake-hipped beautiful youths they once were – youth makes a fool of middle-aged men. Forever young in mind is admirable; forever young in appearance a tortuous embarrassment
So I made a conscious effort not to watch The Rolling Bones at Glasto as I’ve found their live appearances flesh-creepingly unedifying for approximately 25 years. Old rockers really should follow in the faltering footsteps of their Jazz ‘n’ Blues forbears by allowing themselves to age disgracefully into a sweaty, overweight, unhealthy, confused and drug-deadened terminally knackered state; or ideally, like the true greats, have the good grace to drop dead around the age of 30 having produced some wonderful music whilst living a death-wish
There again, it’s only rock ‘n’ roll but I like it
But heavy metal bands go on forever, as do folk singers. Is it just that they aren’t expected to be visually beautiful even when young? As for the people who go to see them, I tend to only go to folk concerts these days; the only place where everyone else actually looks older than me [albeit still having that frousty smell of ‘t shirt not quite being aired enough before being put in wardrobe’ smell that reminds me of student days].
Droney – and anyone else who likes a lot of good laughs – read a book I’ve just finished: a paperback called, The Cassel Dictionary of Anecdotes by Nigel Rees.
Some brilliant stuff in it, and guaranteed to raise your spirits in a matter of minutes, when you’re feeling a bit down.
By the way, hilarious stuff, that Private Eye article!
PS: I’m just going to refresh my memory about Yeats’ Mt Benbulben… and while I’m about it, the ‘bee-loud glade’!
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Sorry, you’re perfectly correct 
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