new page, so some new reference music...

because if you're still addicted to only Their Heroin Era i'm afraid
this new album might leave you on the outside looking in...

also, judging by their recent lyric vids, they seem to be emphasizing
social commentary, so let's do some of that...

Historical footnote: Keith played on the Uhuru single "Shine Eye Gal"

Tributo Bar is a crap source, having been wrong about EVERYTHING
this year. They, like BV, just repeat what they're told. Info/misinfo/
disinfo they don't care, they don't use their brains. They're parrots
dupes tools...

So yeah, Tributo's correct finally about the autumn album, long
after literally everybody else has come to the same conclusion.
I of course was first, right here on Rocks Off

iorr dot org's "rocky dijon" does have sources, but he also uses
his considerable brain to moderate his mouth. Here's his latest take,
exactly echoing mine:

Well, not exactly echoing me. Steve will get producer credit on
some songs sung by Mick

Replying to "rockman" on iorr dot org

"Yeah but poor ole Revvy is like those
punter guys who bet on every horse in the race ....."

A lie ! A slander ! and you know it is, terry, so i'm offended,
and will respond less generously if you persist with this
ill-advised and unbecoming trolling

in summary, "rockman" sucks when he's serving as an
errand boy (I was gonna say "butt boy", but changed
my mind) for his sources/connections. When he's true
to himself and the music, he's great

Since the first week of feb, i've been consistent with my
ideas, and have been FIRST with EVERYTHING that has
been proven correct...

"no announcement in feb"                        correct
"no summer tour"                                    correct
"no fall tour either"                                  correct
"no june album"                                      correct
"no tour ever planned"                             apparently correct
"no injury or illness"                                apparently correct
"album in the autumn"                             apparently correct
"watt, was, matt, steve etc producers"      we'll see
"lotza album promotion"                          we'll see
"lotza cover songs"                                 we'll see
"surprising number of orig co-writers"      we'll see
"multi-version mega-album"                    we'll see
"album versions released week by week"  we'll see
"virtual picture sleeves for all tracks"        we'll see
"steve and darryl officially stones"            we'll see

so far in 2023 i'm the man and Rocks Off is the place

(past results are no guarantee of future performance)

p.s. thanks to iorr's "cristiano" for the link to Iggy playing D.J.
for the BBC. The pre-classic pre-satanic cover-song sharing-the-
spotlight all-genre vibe is in the air. Can you feel it yet? Its not
just in my head, its everywhere. It was thick at Willie's event,
it will be thick at Jeff's, and it will be thick on the new album
"rocking the blues". Even the new original tracks will have that vibe.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001l15f

(if you didnt know, Matt and Andrew are currently on tour with Iggy)

Real, not AI:

SuperRevvy

(if y'all didnt know, Matt and Andrew are currently on tour as
members of Iggy and (supergroup) the Losers, also including
Duff from Guns & Roses and Chad and Josh from the Chile Peppers.
At the Orpheum in L.A. Iggy invited the crowd onstage)

(if y'all didnt realize, the Stones org is behind Iggy's tour, as part of the
build-up to "rocking the blues". At least that's what my big head is telling
me. Did ya listen to DJ Iggy's show yet? It confirms where we're headed)

https://www.bbc.co.uk/sounds/play/m001l15f

just now, BREAKING NEWS via iorr dot org's "KevinPenthouse":
Darryl July 13-16 playing with Tom Hamilton of Aerosmith, Vin Appice
of Black Sabbath and more special guests at The Cutting Room NYC

also via iorr, another show to consider, Burton being one of Keith's heroes:
"James Burton and Friends" London Palladium on 04 June 2023.
Joining James are Sir Brian May, Van Morrison, Albert Lee, and
Jeff “Skunk” Baxter, with more surprise guests to be announced.
Proceeds from the show will go to The James Burton Foundation,
supporting music education for those in need through guitar donations
and music instructions.

Studio wiz and music educator Rick Beato doesnt go quite as far
as me with regard to the dance-pop and rap music of today. But he
does summarize the day after tomorrow quite well...



The one bright note here is that although AI can do recent Drake
perfectly and recent Taylor Swift quite well, it can't come close to
doing the best stuff of the Stones or any of the roots-based musics.

This AI/social media/fentanyl "music" is literally destroying minds,
and so, yeah, the Stones are fighting back by doing this mega-album
and aligning themselves forcefully with the practitioners of every variety
of human-touch music, from Muddy to Toots, from Iggy to Billy Joe...

Andrew Watt, Robbie Krieger, Miley Cyrus



Andrew Watt, Post Malone



Andrew Watt, 2011 age 20, Rolling in the Deep/Gimme Shelter

Also here's the poster for the Darryl thing. Unclear if the public
can attend any of it, or if the entire thing is "campers only"

Very relevant to our discussion of a possible probable
Stones mega-album is today's story at Variety dot com:

Nine of the 30 songs on “Rockstar” are originals, and the other 21 are
covers of familiar material. FYI, I continue to imagine that the Stones'
mega-album will have significantly more tracks, more originals, and
less guests than Dolly's. Also FYI, even with a Nov release date, her
first single comes out this week. So we got some hope for a single.
In a month or two. Patience please.

ARTISTS UNITED AGAINST THE MACHINES

Benjamin Franklin —
'We must all hang together, or assuredly we shall all hang separately.'