2021
A smile relieves a heart that grieves
2021
A smile relieves a heart that grieves
| Mick Jagger (April 13, 2021):
Recording with Dave Grohl So I thought the Stones are a band who very much work in a room, you now, together in a room. And that was impossible so I thought to do this song this is going to have to be someone that’s going to be working remotely and I said I bet Dave’s in L.A. in his house (laughs) and I bet his studio’s in his house - which of course it is. So it was very easy. And I said What do you think? Would you like to do something? And he said Send me a song. He said, OK, I’m going in tomorrow, love it... But this is just a one-off for now. It's just a fun thing. |
| Mick Jagger (April 14, 2021): The
Stones likely on tour again this year It’s a big guess (when we perform again), isn’t it? I think people are hoping that in some countries… each country is going to be slightly different. We’re going to find this in football, aren’t we? In the Euros. That we’re going to have audiences in some countries, crowds in some countries and not in others. Maybe in England, at the end of the summer, beginning of the autumn might be good? Definitely (we’ll do it if we have the opportunity). In a way, we kind of have to ‘cause we’d (laughs) signed up we were going to do an American tour, you know, last year, and we sold the tickets… People didn’t give them all - I mean some people gave them back but not everyone. And I don’t think we can do that exact tour because it won’t be the exact time. But I think we’re pretty much committed to having to do something like that. So I think… things will be somewhere near normal by the end of the summer. Let’s hope anyway... I’ve got to get in
shape ‘cause the tour could be anytime, you
know. It could be sooner than I think so I’ve
got to be ready for that. And keep the songs
coming. |
| Mick Jagger (April 14, 2021):
Coping with the lockdown I’ve been a bit lazier than I would have done (normally) but I’ve kept myself amused… It’s the longest I’ve spent in the country (laughs). I’ve never spent so long in the country - I’m not really a country person. And I haven’t been in a town for a year, really. I think I went to a town, not a very big town, and I was a bit overwhelmed by the whole thing. It’s been really difficult but so many people I know are so worse off than me that I’ve got to count my blessings to be honest. I’m very lucky, I have a lot of family - my family’s visited me, haven’t been over to visit me as much as normally. Some friends have visited me, obviously not as much as normal, you know within the rules of wherever I was. But yeah I got bored and there’s a little bit of mental - I don’t feel “I feel mentally unstable” (laughs) but I feel that people could get quite depressed about the whole thing. I’ve learned to be
adaptable. I always thought I was adaptable but
I had pull on that adaptability, amongst other
things, and not let anything whatever, you know,
you have to roll with the punches. And if the
rules changes you go with it. |
| Mick Jagger (April 14, 2021):
Staying creative I’ve been pretty creative. I’ve written a lot of songs and done lots of… sort of finished records. And then I’ve done like a lot of sketches and a lot of demos. And I’ve worked with some producers in L.A., I’ve worked with different musicians around the world, mostly writing stuff… I mean, I’ve found it OK. Obviously it’s not as good as being together in the same room with a group of musicians. I mean it’s not really a substitute for that. And that’s one of the things that kept me going through the lockdown, is being able to play music and set up little studios wherever I was and keep playing music. The other thing
that kept me going was that I was very lucky
that I had a couple places that had outside
spaces… So I was really lucky having such nice a
garden. Those are two things, the music and the
outside spaces, for me… helped me get through
it. |
| Ron Wood (April 2021): Beating
cancer again I’ve had cancer two different ways now. I had lung cancer in 2017 and I had small-cell more recently that I fought in the last lockdown… I came through with the all-clears. |
Early May 2021: Mick Jagger returns to England after about ten months spent in Italy.
July 9, 2021: The
Rolling Stones' Blu-ray/DVD and CD set A Bigger| Ron Wood (Mid-July 2021):
Working up Tattoo You tracks I saw Mick here last week and Rod (Stewart) and Kenney (Jones) were here yesterday Me and Mick have done nine new tracks for the re-release of Tattoo You. And me, Rod and Kenney have been recording some new Faces music. I’ve had a front-row seat on some amazing rock’ n ’roll projects these past couple of weeks. I’m making every day count. Not wasting a moment. |
| Ron Wood
(Mid-July 2021): Overcoming health scares with
Mick Oh, (Mick)’s fine, but of course we did talk about our health — he’s as thankful as I am for it. Mick is fighting fit and we both can’t wait to get working again. In 2017, I had the first bout; that was lung cancer, which I got through. And then in 2019, I got the small-cell cancer, which was much worse and much more devious. I had to have chemotherapy and radiotherapy, but that was under the radar of the Covid lockdown thing; I had the space to handle it on my own terms rather than it being a public thing. Lots of people say to me, You didn’t tell me. I would have helped you. And I’d say, I didn’t want to bother anyone. I just wanted to handle this on my own and come through it on my own — and with the great help of Sally, she’s been wonderful. So I’ve got the all-clear now and that’s a big buzz. Now hopefully we’re coming out of the lockdown, I’m coming out of my shell, I’m gradually getting a bit more strength and stuff, and I’ll be ready to tour. |
| Ron Wood (Early October
2021): Seeing Charlie for the last time We call it the Rolling Stones suite (laughs). We watched horse racing on TV and just shot the breeze. I could tell he was pretty tired and fed up with the whole deal. He said, I was really hoping to be out of here by now, then after that there was a complication or two and I wasn’t allowed back. No one was. |
| Charlie Watts & Steve Jordan
(August 5, 2021): Bad timing Charlie: For once my timing has a been a little off. I am working hard to get fully fit but I have today accepted on the advice of the experts that this will take a while. After all of the fans’ suffering caused by COVID I really do not want the many fans who have been holding tickets for this tour to be disappointed by another postponement or cancellation. I have therefore asked my great friend Steve Jordan to stand in for me. Steve Jordan: It is an absolute honour and a privilege to be Charlie’s understudy and I am looking forward to rehearsing with Mick, Keith and Ronnie. No one will be happier than me to give up my seat on the drum-riser as soon as Charlie tells me he is good to go. |
| Mick Jagger, Keith
Richards & Ron Wood (August 5,
2021): Looking forward to see Charlie
back Mick: We really look forward to welcoming Charlie back as soon as he is fully recovered. Thank you to our friend Steve Jordan for stepping in, so we can still play all the shows for you this fall. Keith: This has been a bit of a blow to all of us, to say the least and we're all wishing for Charlie to have a speedy recovery and to see him as soon as possible. Thank you to Steve Jordan for joining us in the meantime. Ron: I will miss Charlie on our upcoming tour, but he told me the show must go on! I’m really looking forward to Charlie getting back on stage with us as soon as he’s fully recovered. A huge thank you to the band’s old friend Steve Jordan for rockin’ on in Charlie’s place, and on his drum seat for the autumn tour. |
August 18, 2021: The Rolling
Stones start tour rehearsals at Red Sky Studios in Boston,
Massachusetts.
August 24, 2021: Charlie
Watts passes away in a hospital in London, England,
surrounded
by his family.
| Bernard Fowler & Tim
Ries (Early September 2021): Joining the
rehearsals with Charlie gone Bernard: It’s bittersweet. We miss him so much, but the thing that is really important, that means something to me, is that Steve (Jordan) is sitting in that chair because of Charlie Watts. Charlie chose that and called Steve and gave him his blessing. I almost feel like we are here because of Charlie. He would want them to forge on. He was such a considerate cat. I’m sure he thought about the amount of people that would be affected if he let them down. (B)eing here with the cats is healing. We are all in the same place. It’s a shock. I’m sure (Mick, Keith and Ronnie) knew more than I did. I thought that he was on the mend after his surgery. I was hopeful that he was, at the very least, going to join us next year. Tim: Mick and Keith and Ronnie are there with Steve Jordan on drums and Chuck Leavell and Darryl Jones. They’ve already been rehearsing for a couple of weeks now. So, for us, arriving next week, it’s going to be a shock and weird walking in the room and seeing the drums. There’s been waves of sadness and crying and missing him. The first rehearsal is going to be difficult. And then the first gig onstage in front of people, that’s going to be another a hard night. There’s going to be waves of difficulty over the course of many years. We knew he wasn’t going to be on this tour because he was not well, but the hope was that he would get better and then next year — the 60th anniversary of the band — I assumed that they’d be thinking about touring, and then he’d be healthy enough for that tour.me. It’s been difficult. I spoke with Bernard a lot, Darryl, Chuck Leavell, Ronnie Wood. We’ve been texting. I sent messages to Keith and Mick with my condolences. I have my own connection to Charlie which is very special, but I can’t imagine what it’s like for Keith and Mick, going back more than 60 years. That’s like brothers. And Charlie was like the glue, a diplomat. I’ve never seen him upset. I’m not a Rolling Stone; I’m a musician who plays with them. They have a 60-year history that goes back so deeply. I’m feeling the pain and the shock of this, but for them, I can’t imagine. They’re almost 80 years old and this hit me the other day: it’s not exactly the same, but there was a period when the New York Yankees used to be Babe Ruth and Mickey Mantle, but that didn’t end when they were gone. They had many great years as a team after that. The Rolling Stones is not a baseball team, but the reality is that musicians don’t retire. We play until we die because what are we going to do? This is our love. And Charlie was passionate about playing, and Mick loves performing. Mick is not onstage dialing it in. |
| Mick Jagger & Keith
Richards (September 2021): Losing
Charlie Mick: The thing about Charlie was that he was always there, always played beautifully and was always willing to discuss what to do about it – how he could make it better. He held the band together for so long, musically, because he was the rock the rest of it was built around. We had a lot of wonderful times apart from playing music together. We used to go and watch cricket. And when we’d get together, we didn’t talk about music. We talked about art, which he knew a lot more about than I did. But the thing he brought was this beautiful sense of swing and swerve that most bands wish they could have. We had some really nice conversations in the last couple of years about how all this happened with the band. It’s a huge loss to us all. It’s very, very hard. But we had wonderful times, and Charlie made some wonderful music. Keith: I was jotting down a couple of things that I miss. Charlie had an incredible sense of humor. And my joy was I loved to crack him up. If you could hit that spot, he wouldn’t stop, and it was the funniest thing in the world. He had an incredible sense of humor that he kept to himself unless you sparked it. And then it could be painful to laugh. I can’t think of any one moment, because with Charlie Watts, it was his consistency. A most vital part of being in this band was that Charlie Watts was my bed. I could lay on there, and I know that not only would I have a good sleep, but I’d wake up and it’d still be rocking. It was something I’ve had since I was 19. I never doubted it. I never even thought about it. Only now am I thinking about it. |
| Mick Jagger, Keith
Richards, Ron Wood & Chuck Leavell
(September/October 2021): Bringing in
Steve Mick: He’s very respectful of Charlie. He played with Keith before we started the rehearsals, and then he did homework, listening to the tunes. When we talk about what Charlie did on this one, we listen to the original record, and then we listen to the live versions. There’s certain licks that we want to do, that Charlie did. There’s certain drum licks that one doesn’t think about, but they’re part of the tune in a way that a bass part or a guitar part is part of the tune. Keith: It’s been chaotic. But thank God, Steve Jordan is a tower of strength, as was Charlie Watts. Of course, I’ve been working with Steve for 30-odd years. It was Charlie that recommended Steve to me in the mid-80s: Looks like we got some time off. If you’re going to do anything by yourself, there’s your man – Steve Jordan. And here he is... You don’t change the engine room overnight – which is, of course, what we’ve been working on. Steve and I have been working together on this since somewhere in July. At the time, he was just going to be sitting in for Charlie, which was already to Steve like Wow! Steve brings with him a lot of knowledge about the Stones. He’ll say, No, Charlie plays like this. Steve is so meticulous, so aware of the seat he’s sitting in. Steve said this to me: Charlie played the drums. He didn’t hit them. Also, Steve and Darryl Jones working together is another thing. From a musical point of view, it’s incredibly energetic and wonderfully inspiring. I was like, I can’t pick this up. I don’t care who it is. I can’t pick this up without Charlie. But once Steve and I started to get into it, hey, this is the way it’s supposed to be. Ron: Street Fighting Man has a new energy. Midnight Rambler has a new approach. We thought, Oh dear, how are we going to do Midnight Rambler? Because there’s another language of its own in that song. It takes its own course now, and Steve, if anything, is leading the charge: I’ll tell ya when it’s gonna speed up, I’ll tell ya when its gonna be dynamic. To see Keith say, Okay, then, you tell me – it was a really different thing. And Mick’s like, Yeah, I’ll take that. Steve has respected Charlie’s approach to the drums, the different attitudes he had for each number. He’s adapted that in his own style, put his own energy and kick into what was originally there. Charlie would have loved it. There’s an energy that Charlie projected through his sticks, but Steve projects it physically as well. Whereas Charlie sat dead still, Steve is moving, and so is the whole drum podium. You can see the satisfaction on Keith’s face, on Mick’s face. Chuck Leavell: Steve worked his ass off. He recorded every song every day on his iPhone and would go back after rehearsals and listen for hours. He would also reference the original or live recordings of the songs, comparing how they have changed and developed over the decades. He has to be his own man, and he is, but he honors Charlie’s parts and his spirit with love and respect. In my mind, there is no one else that would be better in that seat. Plus, he’s a great guy - fun, and funny, so he fits in nicely in terms of personality. He also is displaying a certain reverence and humility in his role. Steve has a more aggressive style. His timing and technique are excellent. And he is an intense musician. We have all been grateful to have him with us. And we are all pulling for him, and he is pulling for us. |
| Mick Jagger & Keith
Richards (September 2021): Songs
rehearsed and the set list Mick: We’ve rehearsed 80 to 90 songs. I’m not saying we just touched on them, jammed on them. We can actually play them. That’s a huge amount. Keith and I were saying: the reality is that we have to do at least 12, 13 numbers that most everyone knows... We have a couple of numbers from the extras in the Tattoo You reissue. We do Living in a Ghost Town, which sounds pretty good. We’ve got tons of numbers from most eras. So we have a big set list. We can certainly change up the set list. But we still have to do Paint It Black. Keith: We came across a couple of hidden gems in this new reissue of Tattoo You which we’d been working on then – Living in the Heart of Love and Troubles A’ Comin, a Chi-Lites song. We cut that original track back in the Seventies. Mick dug it out this year: Hey, listen to this one. Hand of Fate – for some reason, that came back to me. I threw it out at rehearsals, and it’s become like, Oh, yeah! And we’re playing Living in a Ghost Town. We keep up with the times. |
| Mick Jagger, Keith
Richards & Ron Wood (September
2021): The last tour? Mick: I’ve been asked that question since I was 31. And your answer is the same: I don’t know. I mean, anything could happen. You know, if things are good next year and everyone’s feeling good about touring, I’m sure we’ll do shows. I’m just trying to concentrate on this tour now. Keith: It’s more (doing this tour and finding out what feels right and possible than the last tour). We hit a very difficult point, to take this thing out. But we’re gonna do it. Charlie was prepared for us to go ahead. We were expecting him to pick it up somewhere. Steve was, thankfully, going to be the pickup. But things ain’t turned out that way. Ron: I got a feeling that we’re just tickling the surface here. We’re seeing another unexploded mine. It’s got a lot of time on it. |
| Mick Jagger onstage
(September 20, 2021): Dedicated to
Charlie I must say, though, at this point it’s a bit of a poignant night for us. This is the first tour in 59 years that we’ve done without our lovely Charlie Watts. And we all miss Charlie so much. We miss him as a band, we miss him as a friend, on and off the stage. And we’ve got so many memories of Charlie and I’m sure some of you that have seen us before have got memories of Charlie as well. And I hope that you will remember him like we do. So we'd like to dedicate this show to Charlie. |
September
29, 2021: Mick Jagger flies in and out of New York CIty
from Charlotte, North
Carolina, to be
interviewed for the first time on The Howard Stern
Show on U.S. radio.
| Mick Jagger (Late
September 2021): Dancing is the fun part
of training When you're training for a tour, you do lots and lots of different things. For me, you know, it's different. I have to do, you know, I have to do voice for a certain amount of time - this is before we start rehearsal - so I have to do voice for a certain time, gym for a certain time, you know, upper body for a certain time, sprinting. But my favorite part of it is dancing 'cause that's what I'm actually doing onstage, that's more like what I'm actually going to be doing. The rest of being in the gym on a machine is not really what I'm going to be doing onstage. So it's more - I always say to my trainer, Well we need more dancing... And that's much more fun, you know, to go into a dance studio and play around, fool around, try things out. And it's also a way of getting fit. If you dance for 45 minutes, you know, (laughs) that'll wear you out and keep you fit! |
| Mick Jagger (Late
September 2021): Playing without Charlie
and the Rolling Stones' resilience Of course I really miss Charlie so much, being up there, playing. And every time we get together now and rehearse, we always say, Oh yeah and Charlie would say this, then he would do that. He was a very quirky guy. And we really miss him... It's strange being without him. But we decided, and he said - when he was sick he said, Well you've got to just carry on and do this tour. Don't stop because of me. So we did. Some people said, Oh well Charlie died, and you should have not done the tour and stopped. And then other people would think, well - but the thing about the Rolling Stones throughout their career has been their resilience. You know in the face of adversity we've had ups and downs - mostly ups to be honest - but we've had adversity. And this was probably one of the most difficult ones. And so we booked the tour with people, you know it was supposed to be played last year, we couldn't do it for obvious reasons because of the pandemic. And I just thought - and everyone in the band thought - that we should just carry on. And after doing the first couple of shows, I think I feel really good about it. I'm glad we're doing it. I know Charlie wanted us to do it. And I think the audience want us to do it, you know they seem to! And of course it's different and of course in some ways it's kind of sad and so on. But I mean you just go out there and rock out and you feel better, you know, and it's very cathartic. So I think it's really good. |
| Steve Jordan (Early
October 2021): Dealing with criticisms
of stepping into Charlie Watts' shoes No. 1, I’ve known Charlie since I was 19 years old. No. 2, I’m just as devastated if not more than any fan out there about the loss. So nobody can tell me anything about that. Obviously, we know that we’re under a microscope. So, there’s that. And then there’s people who don’t approve of them going out without Charlie. And people who are excited about me doing it. And also there are people that don’t understand that I lost a friend. So they’re happy for me but they don’t understand that I’d rather not have this be the case. But the Rolling Stones have really, really done everything in their power to make the transition smooth and sympathetic and empathetic. They’ve been cognizant of everyone’s feelings. I personally appreciate that. I’d met Charlie when I was in the Saturday Night Live band. The Stones did the first show of the fourth season (1978). On that show, security was very high. There were a lot less backstage VIP passes for that week. Everybody obviously wanted to be around the band. It was coming off of Some Girls. That was a new chapter and a re-explosion, so to speak, of the band. The Yankees were playing the Royals in the playoffs that night, which was the most important thing in life to me. I didn’t really care what else was going on. So I just asked somebody to get me an autograph of the band. I didn’t want to try to hang out, meet the band. The Yankees were the priority! As it turns out, it was Charlie who got me the autographs. I ended up hanging out with Charlie in the dressing room and we watched the game together. I was explaining baseball to him. He said, Oh, it’s like a combination of rounders and cricket! That’s how we first met. In 1985 I was in Paris doing a record with a Duran Duran offshoot called Arcadia, with Simon Le Bon and Nick Rhodes. We had a night off and the crew said, We’re gonna hook up with some of the guys from the Stones. Because they were recording at Pathé Marconi. And I said, Could you get a message to Charlie? Just tell him I’m here and I say hello. The message got to him, and he invited me to the studio. When I walked into Pathé Marconi, I went in the control room, and they were set up like they were playing live. I realized just then that that was the first time I’d really seen the Rolling Stones play live in person. My eyes started to well up. I couldn't believe it, because there was nobody there. It was only, like, Ron Wood’s wife, Keith’s dad, the engineer... and me. It was incredible. And I took a lot of lessons from that night into my recording practice. So they all greeted me after they finished playing—and then Charlie asked me to play. I said to him, Absolutely not. I will not play. I’m a Rolling Stones fan. As a fan, if you are alive and well and I play and you could have played, well, I’d shoot the guy who played. So I said, I’ll play percussion with you or something like that. Sometimes I played a little high hat. Sometimes a little bass drum. Sometimes a shaker. And maracas, of course. Maracas are a very important part of the Rolling Stones sound! So I would work with Arcadia during the day, and then the Stones would start at midnight and I would go with them until, like, eight in the morning. I learned a lot about the inner workings of the Stones. I was almost the last to know that I was going to be asked to do this. I spoke to Keith and then I spoke to Mick. It was laid out that this was a work in progress. Charlie was going to come back and they would be rocking again. So, I thought, Okay, yeah, I’ll do it. I’m just filling in for my friend. Purely that. I wrote Charlie a short letter to say that Meegan and I wish you a speedy recovery and I’ll keep your seat warm until your glorious return. All the best, your friend, Steve. Mick was gracious enough to get it to him. So I would say, Okay, well, I’ll do these few shows and it’s kind of like rock ‘n’ roll fantasy camp. It was like, Let’s all just have fun playing the music until Charlie returns. That was the attitude. And then things turned. I was crushed. The world was crushed. It was very, very difficult. It’s still difficult. |
| Keith Richards &
Mick Jagger (Early October 2021):
Dropping "Brown Sugar" from the setlist
because of societal pressures Keith: You picked up on that, huh? I don’t know. I’m trying to figure out with the sisters quite where the beef is. Didn’t they understand this was a song about the horrors of slavery? But they’re trying to bury it. At the moment I don’t want to get into conflicts with all of this shit (laughs). But I’m hoping that we’ll be able to resurrect the babe in her glory somewhere along the track. Mick: We’ve played Brown Sugar every night since 1970, so sometimes you think, We’ll take that one out for now and see how it goes. We might put it back in. |
| Mick Jagger & Keith
Richards (Late September/Early October
2021): Finishing the Stones' next album Mick: Especially during the pandemic time, I wrote a lot of new songs. So I'm really interested in doing new things, as well as just re-doing these (outtakes). I'm aware that these songs, that these albums have a significance and importance to people, and obviously to me too. And I enjoyed doing the Tattoo You things. But while I was doing that I was writing new things as well. Some things I write them and think, That'd be great for the Stones, and some things you think, I don't think that's great for the Stones (laughs). It's great but it's not for the Stones! Without Charlie being there, it's going to be very (emotionally) difficult (finishing the album). And we've got tracks which obviously have Charlie on them. But if we do new things, we won't. So yeah, and it's very sad. I worked with Charlie - actually I did some stuff with him in the studio very recently. You know, while we were doing these Tattoo You things, Ronnie was in the studio, Charlie came into the studio. We did some work on Tattoo You, Charlie did some work - just a few (drum) fills and stuff like that. And then we started messing around and we did some other things. So you know I worked with him - it seems like only yesterday that I was in the studio in London with Charlie and joshing around. It's just so weird, you know, and very sad. We have a lot of tracks done, so when the tour’s finished we’ll assess where we are with that and continue. Keith: If everything hadn’t gotten closed down (because of the pandemic), we might’ve finished the damn thing... Let me put it this way: you haven’t heard the last of Charlie Watts. |
October 14, 2021: The Rolling
Stones perform at SoFi Stadium in Los Angeles.
October 17, 2021: On the 60th
anniversary of the day when Mick Jagger and Keith Richards
met
again in Dartford, England, and started
playing music together, the Rolling Stones perform a
second concert at SoFi Stadium in Los
Angeles.
October 22, 2021: The Rolling
Stones leave Los Angeles for Minneapolis, Minnesota.
October 22, 2021:
The Rolling Stones reissue Tattoo You for its 40th anniversary,
with nine
reworked studio outtakes and a live album from 1982.
| Keith Richards (Late
October 2021): Trusting Mick with the
studio outtake projects I say to Mick: Go on, play with it, and send it to me (laughs). And I say Yea or I say Nay. I had trouble with Living in the Heart of Love at first. Because to me it was still an unfinished work and I said, Ah, I'll never finish it. But then when I heard it back - Mick talked me into it (laughs. And then I got it and I said Yeah, I understand. I think we'll be throwing it in the set sooner or later, as well. |
October 24, 2021: The Rolling
Stones play a concert at US Bank Stadium in Minneapolis.
| Keith Richards (Late
October 2021): Feeling good with the
tour I've got to say it's feeling good, it's really feeling good. You know, crossed fingers, if everybody behaves themselves, this could be a great tour... It's true (there's joy onstage.) I've got to say the last thing I wanted to do was a Rolling Stones tour without Charlie. But Charlie said Go on with Steve. Obviously everybody would know I've worked with Steve for 30 odd years... He'd also worked with Mick and me over the last couple of years in a studio in New York, writing songs and stuff. So it was a sort of seamless transition. But at the same time Steve has brought a new energy to the whole thing that's happening, and that's no bad thing you know. |
| Keith Richards (Late
October 2021): Grieving in small
increments Man, I'm going to miss the man forever. And at the moment I'm still doing it in small increments because otherwise it would be too difficult. But I can almost feel Charlie smiling down us every night. For the moment, that will have to do. |
| Keith Richards (Late
October 2021): Moments of camaraderie
with Mick onstage (Onstage) is when we are at our closest, Mick and I. It's almost indescribable. When Mick and I are out there working and we both know that, Hey, I'm counting on you - I'm counting on you, and (laughs) there's a beautiful jousting and also a support. And that's where I feel my friendship with Mick more intensely than at any other time, is onstage. That's the first time I said that. It's true (we're enjoying this). There's been no faking, that's not the way it is. When I see my man up there singing, I say, Geez, look at that cat man, you know, he's out there stark fucking naked. I can strip him, I can... And there's nothing I can do, I have to go support my friend. And he knows that I'm going to be there. And he's going to put himself in a position where I have to (laughs) go, and he knows I'm going to be there, there's no doubt about it. I have his back, he has mine. It's an interesting piece of improvisation that goes on every night and it's like, How far do you want to push it? (Laughs) And that's half the fun of it, it's never the same. This show has no script. |
October 29, 2021: The Rolling
Stones perform at Raymond James Stadium in Tampa, Florida.
October 31, 2021: The
Rolling Stones fly from Orlando, Florida to
Dallas, Texas.
November 2, 2021: The Rolling
Stones perform their 7th concert (since 1975) at the
Cotton
Bowl in Dallas.
November 6, 2021: The Rolling Stones play
Allegiant Stadium in Las Vegas, Nevada.
November
10, 2021: Mick Jagger visits Piedmont Park, the Clermont
Lounge and the High
Museum of Art in
Atlanta, Georgia.
November 11, 2021: The Rolling Stones perform at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta.
November 15, 2021: The Rolling Stones perform at
Ford Field in Detroit.
November
19, 2021: Mick Jagger checks out the Broken Spoke honky
tonk and Lady Bird
Lake in Austin,
Texas.
| Mick Jagger (December
2021): Posting tour stop pictures on
Instagram I’m doing it to go out, because I don’t want to be stuck in a hotel room watching TV. But, I mean, it gives you a bit of a funny thing: Oh, that’ll make a good picture, that’s hilarious... If you’re only there for a couple of days, you do a bit of planning. Is there a museum? Because each town has something of great interest, whether it’s a beautiful park, or a lovely picture, or a museum that’s interesting to you, or some odd thing that you never thought of... It’s just like a diary in a way, I suppose. The places you’ve been... Touring’s a pretty urban thing, so it’s nice to get out in nature and see a different perspective on things when you go to places like that. It’s wild. I went for some long hikes in some of these other places where I didn’t take any pictures. I think we went out in Missouri for quite a long hike to the forest. It wasn’t marked very well on the map, and the Google map wasn’t very helpful. And we made it. We walked to a place with virtually no one except for a guy in a canoe. (I)t was my idea (to post pictures online), because when I started - I did it in our previous tours. But now, social media has become more popular. People didn’t take quite as much notice as they do now. And when I stopped, when I did it from that bar, you know, the Beaver bar. Yeah. Some people took a lot of notice and I thought, well, actually, this is kind of fun. |
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