Gazza wrote on Sep 5
th, 2008 at 6:56am:
Oh, that plus the fact that they - with very few exceptions - barely written songs prior to being in a studio for most of the last 35 years.
Give that man a cigar. This is the Rolling Stones we're talking about. They put together material in the studio and they fake/wing their way through it. They don't sit around carefully crafting each chorus and riff for hours on end at home, obsessing over their quality control, artistic integrity and drive, and need to please their fans with the deepest depths of their souls.
I am just trying to imagine Keith at home working on some riff, taping it, with specific intent of presenting it to the "boys" . . . "Man, fiss'll knog'emout!" he says to himself, as he figures out a new turnaround to the riff for the chorus and mumbles a few key words along with it for Mick to flesh out . . . he is so excited by his idea that he gets online, quickly converts his tape to MP3, and e-mails it to Mick (subject head: INCOMING!), who, sitting by his computer watching porn, because producing a movie requires jack shit attention to detail, listens to it, begins dancing around madly, and writes Keith back "Brilliant mate! I'm a do two, three draffs of lyrics tonoight . . . I'll send 'em to ya or better yet I'll give ye a call an' sing 'em over the speaker phone. You'll get on an' play, an' we'll have a li'l Skype jammie . . ."
Mark my words, the Stones are busy not writing new material for a Stones album as we type. . .