Paranoid Android wrote on Mar 9
th, 2012 at 1:26pm:
How does Springsteen* get a channel and the Stones don't?
Oh...i know, when there was the 2005/06 tour they did...but they certainly can have one 24/7/365...Stones, solo stuff, old blues, and the like.
It's not like the Bruce channel is carrying the network or anything like that, now, is it?
* also Pearl Jam, Sinatra, Elvis P, Dead, The Margaritaville guy, Eminem, Ozzy, BB King, Neil Diamond, Dylan, Simon AND Garfunkel, Tim McGraw and others too
The Stones aren't active, that's why. They'll have a 'temporary' channel when it suits them to do , I suppose...ie, when a tour is happening. This time seven years ago the Stones were finishing recording their most recent album. Bruce has put out five new albums since then (excluding 'The Promise') as well as playing about three times as many shows as the Stones have.
I'd imagine its mostly down to the Stones themselves. I'm sure Sirius would be all over them like a rash if they wanted a permanent channel.
Unfortunately, they seem to be a band which all but ceases to exist and shuts down totally in between tours and when they have new product to promote.