For what it's worth:



Nui Te Koha
From: Sunday Herald Sun
May 23, 2010 12:00AM


 



The ageing rockers, led by Mick Jagger, are making plans for a world tour that will reach Australia by 2012.

"The Stones are coming - and they want crazy money," a respected tour promoter told the Sunday Herald Sun.

The Stones will play stadiums and have already rebuffed other overseas offers of $2.4 million a show.

A local promoter who pitched $14.4 million for six shows in three cities was told by agents for the Stones: "You are not even in the ball park."

People in the Stones camp say US drummer Steve Jordan will stand in for Charlie Watts, who has vowed to quit world touring.

And they say guitarist Keith Richards has reconvened the band to make a new album and take a show on the road.

"This has been rumbling for the last 18 months. Offers are on the table," a source said. "An announcement and dates are imminent."

The Rolling Stones' media handlers, US firm Rogers and Cowan, did not respond to email inquiries about tour plans.

But a source within the Stones said: "Keith has put the call out for a new album and a world tour."

The Herald Sun

Unnamed promoters and sources in the Stones camp, an "imminent" announcement, and especially the regurgitating of the Charlie's quitting rumor make this story extremely dubious...

 

well I've had my bullshit fix for the day now.....

Must've gotten his intel from Paul Cashmere...

Charlie denied that rumor months ago, and said last week that's he in for another tour.

Not real except for the money part.

Speak of the devil, and the devil he do appear...

Charlie Watts Is Out Of The Stones Story Resurfaces

by Paul Cashmere - May 23 2010

When I wrote the story that Charlie Watts had left The Rolling Stones back in September 2009 it sent shockwaves across the world. Stones fans everywhere went into denial. Stones spokesperson Fran Curtis childishly reverted to calling us names.

It is becoming more apparent that Charlie Watts is no longer a touring member of the band.

Today in the Herald Sun, respected music journalist Nui Te Koha backed up the original Undercover story stating “US drummer Steve Jordan will stand in for Charlie Watts, who has vowed to quit world touring” on the band’s next tour”.

Jordan has a history with The Stones and especially with Keith. He played in Keith’s other band The X-pensive Winos. Our original story named Charley Drayton, also an X-Pensive Wino, as the drummer. That’s the only part that has changed in the 9 months since the original story.

While Charlie may have stopped touring with the band, he is definitely still very much part of The Rolling Stones as a business. There has certainly been no indication that he will not record with the band, just that he won't tour.

The Stones have a history of denying stories. When Bill Wyman left the band, it took 18 months for confirmation. At the time they were in hiatus and simply denied he had quit. When they got back together, Bill wasn’t there.

The Stones have a similar window of opportunity to deny Charlie won’t be behind the drum-kit for the next tour. They have been vocal in the past two weeks talking up the expanded and remastered ‘Exile On Main Street’. That has lead to lots of questions about when they will be back on the road, to which Keith Richards has responded “not this year”.

2012 is the obvious time for The Stones to go back on the road. It will mark their 50th anniversary.

No doubt there will be more Charlie Watts has left the band denials this week. To put it back into Stonespeak “time is on our side”.

undercover.com.au

i have been hearing "stones to tour australia" rumours that come to nothing since 1975

I bet Shirley cant wait to get him out of the house for a year or two.

Keith needs to get his .38 out. 

left shoe shuffle wrote on May 24^th, 2010 at 9:20am:



..and demean the guy's credibility at a stroke by saying he writes for a small music website.

A three point shot, right there!

Thank God.   (((who is that twerp anyway?)))


Because Charlie is the glue. If Chas. quit, then Keith would quit and then Mick would quit and then Ronnie would say fuck it.   And that would be a big mess wouldn't it?

Tumbled wrote on May 24^th, 2010 at 10:58am:



One at a time, ladies...

I tend to believe him because seeing that he's wearing Elton John's wig, he must have big time connections in the industry. This clown should just be ignored.

Seems like a spiteful move timed to deflect attention away from 'Exile'.

Had either of those journalists read and/or listened to any recent interviews they'd have heard it from the man himself, not some unnamed source.