Mr. Yeats wrote on Jun 30
th, 2015 at 1:19am:
This tour, as with the last several, is about making shitloads of money.
The tour is about promoting the Sticky Fingers re-release, as Jagger, Richards and Wood have all alluded to. Even going so far as to say they may play the entire album live (which they've done exactly once on this tour).
And it's no coincidence that the Stick Fingers-era 'Marquee Club' package was released two weeks after the SF packages. They're touring behind a 40 year album with lazy bonus material because they're too lazy, spent or embittered with each other to record new material, and their main source of new income is playing live shows; so they tour behind an old release because the world largely doesn't care about new Rolling Stones music and it wouldn't sell much anyway because of downloading and such.
So Ian - I disagree with you, mate.
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Yes... the tour concerns making shitloads of money, Mr. Yeats. I also agree in that The Stones have been really uninterested in recording a new album over the past 7-8 years but now that is starting to change ... but The Stones are not touring behind anything, nor are they touring behind the re-release of an album dating back 40 years ago.
Finally, after 7-8 years of total dis-interest they will record another album ... (as I always said they would). It's coming / they are going to start on it after this set or South America shows. Nobody in the Stones camp ever said the tour was about promoting the album. If it was all about that, then why not just say it? Sure the side notion works because it is conveinient in that Sticky Fingers is being released .. but that was not it's intended primary purpose. Mick Jagger said this tour wasn't specifically to promote the album .. and the name of the tour is taken in two different ways ... it refers to the zip-code of the stadium or area they are playing ... (and it serves as a hint or a code name... no pun for Sticky Fingers album / it's cover).
Promoting the album goes 'hand in hand' but there is no money in promoting the album Sticky Fingers... Why tour behind something that isn't going to make you much cash at all? If they are lucky it will sell 3 million copies... thats not going to do anything for them, really. The money is in the tour if you want to consider the cash part of it. The tour is a continuation of the 50th .. but in stadiums... and in cities they did not reach in 12-13.
The tours basis is not to promote Sticky Fingers... that part works nicely, and it is in the cards... but the main point of the tour is to do a string of summer stadium shows again.
Mr. Yeats... sure they like the money but come on man .. how much do they need? This isn't solely about the change. They seem to seriously love doing it. Sure they may not do it w/o the cash ...but I seriously think they like doing it FIRST and the cash is a nice incentive is all.
Ian