# Are the Stones "done"? **URL:** \ **Category:** Cafe Society\ **Created:** [October 26, 2010, 2:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-stones-done/558371 "2010-10-26T02:03:10Z")\ **Posts on this page:** 11\ **Page:** 3
**Author:** ![TreacherousCretin](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/treacherouscretin/32/476_2.png) [@TreacherousCretin](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/TreacherousCretin)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 5:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-stones-done/558371/41 "2011-03-26T17:18:35Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > There was an old Bloom County where they actually mentioned something like that back in the 80s. > > How old is Mick Jagger? Without checking I’m sure he’s gotta be close to 70… Sir Michael will be 68 in July. ---
**Author:** ![Sakuma\_Drops](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/s/50afbb/32.png) [@Sakuma\_Drops](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Sakuma_Drops)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 5:55pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-stones-done/558371/42 "2011-03-26T17:55:36Z")
I saw the Stones at Duke U. about 5 or 6 years ago. Mick Jagger was not only in shape, but he pretty much ran up and down the stage for the whole show (I heard later that he’s pretty fastidious now about watching his health - he’s into all-organic food, exercise, etc.). Keith Richards looked like you would expect him to look, but he still played guitar like a sumbitch. Whatever substances he has imbibed over his lifetime apparently missed the music lobe of his brain. I’ve heard that Charlie Watts is in and out of ill health. That more than anything might limit how much touring they do. ---
**Author:** ![cochrane](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/cochrane/32/10441_2.png) [@cochrane](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/cochrane)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 6:59pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-stones-done/558371/43 "2011-03-26T18:59:12Z")
> [@Jolly\_Roger](#): > > about 12 years ago I tried to by a Dream Academy CD at a used CD store…it was 50 bucks so I didn’t. The guy told it was so expensive because it gone “out of print”. I’m pretty certain Dream Academy wasn’t as popular as the stones, so I can only imagine what they’d charge for 40 licks. Not a lot. I saw it on [Amazon.com](http://Amazon.com) for $21.99 for a “new” copy, as in factory-sealed. For a double CD, that’s actually quite reasonable. ---
**Author:** ![appleciders](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/a/85f322/32.png) [@appleciders](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/appleciders)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 7:26pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-stones-done/558371/44 "2011-03-26T19:26:53Z")
I can’t imagine that the Stones will stop touring as long as all four members are physically capable of doing it. Why would they? They enjoy it and get paid absurdly large salaries to do so. I think there’s a reasonable chance that the Stones will not stop touring until at least one of their members is dead. ---
**Author:** ![drastic\_quench](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/e36b37/32.png) [@drastic\_quench](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/drastic_quench)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 7:34pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-stones-done/558371/45 "2011-03-26T19:34:46Z")
> [@Sakuma\_Drops](#): > > Keith Richards looked like you would expect him to look, but he still played guitar like a sumbitch. Whatever substances he has imbibed over his lifetime apparently missed the music lobe of his brain. Mostly heroin, supposedly. Which when injected, reportedly doesn’t cause physical brain damage. I imagine some of the adulterants they cut it with could cause brain damage, but a millionaire rock star wouldn’t have trouble affording the good stuff, as well as clean single-use needles. ---
**Author:** ![Chefguy](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/chefguy/32/138_2.png) [@Chefguy](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Chefguy)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 8:58pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-stones-done/558371/46 "2011-03-26T20:58:11Z")
I don’t know about ‘done’, but I’d bet that most of them are at least baked. ---
**Author:** ![gaffa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/g/e68b1a/32.png) [@gaffa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/gaffa)\ **Post date:** [March 26, 2011, 11:44pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-stones-done/558371/47 "2011-03-26T23:44:59Z")
> [@appleciders](#): > > I can’t imagine that the Stones will stop touring as long as all four members are physically capable of doing it. Why would they? They enjoy it and get paid absurdly large salaries to do so. I think there’s a reasonable chance that the Stones will not stop touring until at least one of their members is dead. [Already happened,](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_jones) and it didn’t stop them then. ---
**Author:** ![Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/e47c2d/32.png) [@Biffy\_the\_Elephant\_Shrew](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Biffy_the_Elephant_Shrew)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 12:07am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-stones-done/558371/48 "2011-03-27T00:07:05Z")
> [@gaffa](#): > > [Already happened](http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Brian_jones) Technically no, as Brian Jones was no longer a member of the band when he died. ---
**Author:** ![Jim\_s\_Son](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/e19adc/32.png) [@Jim\_s\_Son](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jim_s_Son)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 12:44am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-stones-done/558371/49 "2011-03-27T00:44:08Z")
I remember a press conference in the late 1980s when Keith Richards was asked “Is this going to be a farewell tour?”. Keef responded “We were first asked that in 1966. Next question.” These guys love money (most of us do) and as long as people will shell out, they’ll play and collect. ---
**Author:** ![Shakester](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/shakester/32/437_2.png) [@Shakester](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Shakester)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 4:23am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-stones-done/558371/50 "2011-03-27T04:23:04Z")
> [@Spoke](#): > > Here is what I would like to hear from the Stones (and something which they may still have in them): a quiet, bluesy, mostly acoustic album. That would be fitting for gentlemen of their, erm, advancing years, and it’s a style they do very well when they bring their considerable talents to bear. I fully agree. **If** the Stones decided to strip back the production and play some dirty acoustic-based old man blues, I believe they could still put together a really worthwhile album or two. But that’s a huge “if”, and I can’t really see it happening. They’ve collaborated with Tom Waits a few times: they should get _him_ to produce an album for them. I’d pay to own _that_ album. I’m about 70% through Keith’s book; it’s well worth reading. There’s nothing in it that’d be a major revelation to any Stones fan, but it’s very interesting to get Keith’s version of events that have previously only been written about by outsiders. The Brian Jones/Anita Pallenberg triangle gets what seems to me to be a pretty fair and reasonable treatment. He’s amusingly bitchy about Jagger in some passages. The passages about Gram Parsons are _great_; Gram is often dismissed as a drug-buddy footnote to the Stones’ story, but he was a great friend to, and a great influence on, Keith Richards at his musical peak, as well as a great (and under-acknowledged) talent in his own right. Keith says that Jagger ended up being deliberately unfriendly to Parsons, trying to drive him away because he felt that Parsons was too close to Keith and was a threat to the Jagger/Richards partnership. Which is silly, of course, but Keith’s version of the story rings very true to me. I can certainly picture Jagger acting jealous and threatened in that situation. Fascinating stuff, I’d recommend the book to any Stones fan. ---
**Author:** ![Boyo\_Jim](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/b/87869e/32.png) [@Boyo\_Jim](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Boyo_Jim)\ **Post date:** [March 27, 2011, 5:32am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-stones-done/558371/51 "2011-03-27T05:32:14Z")
Just found [this Billboard story](http://www.billboard.com/news/the-rolling-stones-we-have-no-firm-plans-1005019852.story#/news/the-rolling-stones-we-have-no-firm-plans-1005019852.story), dated February 2. A Stones press release says no tour this year, but doesn’t rule out future tours. [Previous page](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/are-the-stones-done/558371.md?page=2)