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Looks like he's finally fed-up
Keith Richards that is. Doesn't want to spent 4 months on the road anymore.
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I don’t blame him. Been on a long road.
He started out before the Romans invented concrete. |
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12-18-2025, 09:47 AM
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At 82, it's really not surprising. End of an era though...I'd read that it was always Keith who pushed to get back on the road. Playing with the 'Stones is/was his life.
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12-18-2025, 09:52 AM
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I'm 82...and understand completely. It's amazing the Stones kept touring as long as they did..
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Today is his birthday.
I heard it on Sirius this am.
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12-18-2025, 10:03 AM
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I'm sure he's just gotten to the point where the juice and the squeeze don't match up anymore.
I'm just glad I got to see and hear him play live!
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At some point in the next 100 years, he’s going to get bored or run out of cash and do another tour!
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12-18-2025, 10:40 AM
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I saw them in Seattle in 1980 and thought they were over the hill even then. I mean, from a 20 year old's perspective, what band is still relevant where the members are all approaching 40? I was there to see the opening band, The Clash, and only stuck around for the Stones because my girlfriend wanted to. And now, 45 years later... Unbelievable...
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12-18-2025, 10:42 AM
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He will likely just become another X-Pensive Wino playing somewhere unannounced ... and I would love to hear about it
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He will remind me of when I went to the Checkerboard Lounge in Chicago and saw John Lee Hooker. But his handlers had to help him out, and then sat him on a nice comfy stool to play...
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12-18-2025, 02:18 PM
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I saw him and the rest on the Lonesome and Blue tour in Dallas. One of the best shows I ever saw. I my tinnitus will tell you I have seen many. Happy retirement Keef! You earned it.
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Many of the great bluesmen end up entertaining their fans sitting on a stool.
Last time I saw BB King he did his show on a stool and he was fantastic. Still had that big voice and Lucille never dropped a note. The horns were as tight as a tick in a woodpile. A fantastic evening. Johnny Winter at the Crossroads concert a few years ago did his set from a chair. Brought the place down! Just to name a couple.
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Garth Hudson used an office chair on wheels.
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12-18-2025, 04:16 PM
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Can't he go to Switzerland and get some young blood or stem cells or something
Come on Keef
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12-18-2025, 06:37 PM
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Time waits for no one.
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"I would be a tone-deaf heathen if I didn't call the engine astounding. If it had been invented solely to make noise, there would be shrines to it in Rome" |
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He might start a cockroach farm and see who lives the longest
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 Leave it to Keef to PARF his own thread
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We saw the stones here in Atlanta during the Hackney Diamond tour. I think it was 2 years ago. Amazing energy that Mick has - he was dancing/running back and forth on stage and only took 1 break mid-concert and Keith did a solo.
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Saw the Stones at the Georgia Tech stadium about 1990. Great seats and show. Always wanted to see them again, but the Hackney Diamond tour was too expensive.
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