It Is The Evening of the Day: The Rolling Stones at 50

PJ Media ^ | 7/24/2012 | Brendan Bernhard

[mojito]

Good and interesting commemerative essay on the Stones, the band that has defined rock-and-roll - for good and evil - as no other band has.

[Argus]

70 is the new 40.

[JoeProBono]

[sushiman]

Over-rated . Haven’t put out a great album in over 3 decades .

[dfwgator]

What a drag it is getting old.

[GRRRRR]

Saw ‘em at NCSU, Carter-Findlay Stadium.

65,000 person sing-along with Mick.

He started “Sympathy for the Devil” standing on the top of the entire stage, up on the girders where the lights are all attached...

[dfwgator]

Saw them on the Steel Wheels Tour, one of the best shows I’ve ever seen.

[Lady Lucky]

Just saw the magazine today at a store...noticed the Stones on the cover and thought, they don’t look so bad for age 70+.

Then I realized how old the photo was.

[Gay State Conservative]

Up until Sticky Fingers the Stones were truly legendary.Afterward they went into a steep decline and soon became a sad joke,and have remained so ever since.

[dfwgator]

The Beatles were smart, they picked the right time to quit.

[LongWayHome]

Last good thing they did was “Some Girls” way back in 1978.

[dfwgator]

Since then, they’ve been the World’s Best Nostalgia Band. The kind of band where when they say, “And now here’s a song from our new album”, the beer line rapidly expands to a half a mile.

[sushiman]

That’s the album I was thinking of .

[LongWayHome]

Yup....they lost their fastball a long time ago.

[dfwgator]

Yup....they lost their fastball a long time ago.

What band wouldn't over the course of a 50 year career?

[ZirconEncrustedTweezers]

The Rolling Stones: Phoning it in since 1974.

[x]

These guys are older now than ancient figures from the 1920s were when they started — a lot older than the “older generation” of their day. But at least they weren’t the ones who sang “I hope I die before I get old.” Those guys are still around, too.

[genxer]

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[John 3_19-21]

Saw that show in Buffalo, Mick couldn’t sing and Keith was well, you know......Keith.

[LongWayHome]

Well, they seem to have lost it when they were still thirty-something rockers back in the 1970s. They had a short prime, but they did some great stuff....Ill give them that. Everyone’s different. Look at Van Morrison: guy never lost it.