Roiling Stones stick it to Bush (FR mentioned...)

NY Daily News ^ | 8/10/05 | Helen Kennedy

[Rightly Biased]

"The Rolling Stones' main audience these days is that segment of the [baby] boomers that has refused to recognize that the '60s have been over for almost 40 years, and so they'll lap this slop up and beg for more ... while they tie their hair back into gray ponytails and stretch those old tie-dyed T-shirts over their potbellies,"

Quote of the day Heck Quote of the month

[libstripper]

Be happy. It seems like a lot og people other than Freepers lurk at FR. We're getting our message out.

[TexasCajun]

Does the guy have AIDS?

ARE YOU HOPING HE DOES OR SIMPLY DEFAMING HIM?

I'm asking you why the man looks so sick and feeble? Do you know? You ASSUME too much.

[CFC__VRWC]

Heh heh heh.

(Bowing)

[dead]

The press agent for the Stones certainly didn't underestimate the amount of relentlessly fawning media coverage this dopey song would generate.

For example, they grace the front page of the Bush-hating Sydney Morning Herald, though the picture is less than flattering. I guess that's just because the Stones don't take flattering pictures anymore. Ever, actually.

[lowbridge]

Mick Jagger belts out the refrain: "How come you're so wrong, my sweet neo-con?" "You call yourself a Christian, I call you a hypocrite," the verse goes. "You call yourself a patriot. Well, I think you are full of s---!

Entertainment Tonight this week featured a spot on Mick Jagger's tryst with MacKenzie Phillips, daughter of John Phillips of the Mamas and Papas. One night during the '60s, when things were psychedelic and free love was in the air, and Jagger and the Mamas and Papas lived in the same apartment building, Mick and MacKenzie and John Phillips were making tuna fish salad sandwiches in Jagger's apartment. Sly old Lucifer told Papa Phillips that they needed mayonnaise for the tuna salad and sent him upstairs to get it it. As soon as Phillips left, Jagger bolted the door, told MacKenzie, then 18, he had been waiting for this moment since she was 10(!), and took her to bed.

http://www.worldnetdaily.com/news/article.asp?ARTICLE_ID=19213

You were saying, Mick?

[Noumenon]

Those aging, pony-tailed boomers are "Jerry's Kids".

Jerry Garcia, that is.

[rochester_veteran]

There is a lot of good music today. Some of my favorites today include Three Doors Down and Staind. I like new music.....just my taste I guess....

This pretty much sums it up for me as well. I also like new music. I listened to my kids music and I liked alot of it. My sons play in a band and write their own music and it's really good. Most of the garage bands write their own music, kind of like it's their badge of honor. I get sick of hearing the same music over and over and there's alot of creativity flowing from the young people and kids nowadays.

rochester_veteran

[elfman2]

Congratulations to CFC__VRWC! He made the NY Daily News with this.

The Dixie Chicks played to country audiences before their "moment", and country music listeners do not take kindly to having their country and their President trashed and compared to Nazi Germany. They responded by turning the Chicks off, and since liberals don't listen to country music, that ended their career.

The Rolling Stones' main audience these days is that segment of the Boomers that has refused to recognize that the 60's have been over for almost 40 years, and so they'll lap this slop up and beg for more. They'll have orgasms about how "Mick is like really sticking it to Chimpy, dude!" while they tie their hair back into gray ponytails and stretch those old tye-dyed t-shirts over their pot bellies.

This song will get played to death by all the radio stations and will probably clean up at the Grammys. All the music critics will rave about it and excitedly proclaim that "the Stones are back, man!"

[elfman2]

Neocon Quiz: http://www.csmonitor.com/specials/neocon/quiz/neoconQuiz.html

[KateatRFM]

When I went to see Lightfoot in Atlanta, about 10 years ago now, there were a yuppie pair in our row who looked like they had stumbled down the Rabbit Hole. Everyone else was in jeans and work shirts and we all knew the music so well that we would applaud when the first chord sounded. A couple of young people appeared to be grandchildren and were enjoying the people in the audience as much as the concert! I still like "Alberta Bound" and "Edmund Fitzgerald" best of all his music.

[EmilyGeiger]

Those are 2 of my favorites of his as well. Sounds like we went to the same concert. :) the one we went to was outdoors and you could bring a picnic and chairs. It was probably one of the best concerts I have been to, because he played for the audience and he played every single song he has recorded.

[KateatRFM]

Yep, that would be Chastain Park. I went to see Pete Seeger there too and nobody knew who he was.

[Behind Liberal Lines]

The irony here is, of course, that Mick Jagger is such a capitalist he makes the guys at Haliburton look like Woody Guthrie.

My wife and priced tickets to the concert before I heard about this song. Tickets ranged from $99.00 to $350.00. And that's box office, not scalper prices.

[Revolting cat!]

Buncha old farts!

[SerpentDove]

>>...Keith Richards is "a bit worried" about the song because he lives in the U.S. <<

That's odd. I read about ten years ago in a music mag where Keith said he couldn't wait to die so he could "kick God's ***."

I didn't think the old arthritic morphine-monkey was scared of anything.

(Pardon me, the blasphemy is Keith's not mine.)

[SerpentDove]

If somebody ever develops an "ugly bomb," that's a target-rich environment.

[Revolting cat!]

Those were the days...