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Meanwhile, Mick Jagger and friends were described as "having a great time" at Long View Farm in North Brookfield, Mass., where they have been rehearsing for the upcoming tour. Their reaction to the controversy in Boston was said by one source to be "mild amusement...
...Tops," Jagger, who turned 37 this year, digs even further into the hypocrisy he and his mates have lived on, intoning over and over to no one in particular, "I'll take you to the top, bay-ay-by/I'll take...
...rolling the Stones have done since the early Seventies. "Start Me Up" and "Hang Fire," for instance, open the first side of Tattoo You with a solid one-two kick in the pants. "Let's get it on and let's raise some hell for no good reason," Jagger saysin so many words, with suitable moaning, yelping and clapping from Richards and Co. The album is heavy on falsetto, and Jagger puts to rest rumors that his voice has deteriorated with a piercing performance on "Worried About You." The song illustrates the Stones' ability to put a song together with...
...Stones can, for example, throw themselves ecstatically into a song like "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (or "Neighbors" on the new album), rattling the ceiling and shaking the floor. Mick Jagger lets the mood and the rhythms and the words overrun his body as he raves on. But Jagger also has scorn for the power he wields. He slurs his meanest lines with utter disregard, perhaps to illustrate how idiotic it is to hang on every syllable he and Richards decide to cram into a verse. By the same token, take a look at any picture of minimalist drummer Charlie Watts...
...clear and simple. The result may not be as consistently good as it once was, but it's the best you can get: the slicing sound of a slightly out-of-tune Stratocaster dissecting a simple bass line, the snare drum snapping on 2 and 4, and Mick Jagger offering, "I'll take you places you've never, never seen before, yaaaaaah." To love the Rolling Stones is to love rock and roll, because both are just right at just the right time and nothing more...