Steel Wheels wrote on Nov 26
th, 2014 at 11:56am:
The days of new Stones albums are over. The time for new music was the 50th.
Quite correct.
Pretty evident that Mick and Keith now see the Stones as exclusively a big paying nostalgia act and that any creative juices they have left will be channelled into side projects.
New Stones music doesnt generate money like it used to and they've all but given up trying to push it on a concert audience who they feel arent interested, so they seem to see creativity as something that will be aimed at a minority of their audience. They could make more money out of a couple of concerts in arenas than they would out of a new record.
If anyone needs evidence of that change in modus operandi, consider the fact that in the last two decades Keith has been the primary or sole writer of no more than about ten new Rolling Stones songs (most of which were on Bridges to Babylon) - and that's including the 'new' songs that were worked on for the Exile and Some Girls bonus discs. Yet instead of using what recent songs he has for a Stones album, he's chosen to put them on a solo record instead.