A Mick Jagger question.

As noted I did attend yet another RS concert on July 17 this summer with a brother where I had most highly craved for field level GA standing room zone tickets in the back of the sound board and chairs. That is the only area one could easily dance at with a view of the stage though not for watching musicians that I normally don't go to concerts for. In this era if one wants to watch famous musicians close-up without paying $$$, far easier to simply watch YouTube videos.

My first RS concert was June 1972 at Winterland Ballroom in San Francisco. I have 17 of their songs on my MP3 players out of 214 total Classic Rock songs. In that era a lot of people actually danced at concerts but except for Grateful Dead concerts, that ended after the rise of hated Disco.

Each item in the below tour list has a sub-page of city dates.

List of the Rolling Stones concert tours - Wikipedia

There are some web links linking Mick's dancing style to Tina Turner but that wasn't true as he never answered that clearly. But an old story had leaked out from a family member during the early era:

https://www.grunge.com/149025/the-untold-truth-of-mick-jagger/

...Mick Jagger comes from a family that's pretty much the opposite of today's entertainment royalty. His father, Basil Jagger, was a phys-ed teacher, and his mother, Eva, was also a teacher. He was born in 1943 — and yes, the infamous "crossfire hurricane" is a reference to the Luftwaffe bombers that were strafing England at the time, notes the Irish Independent.
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And as Jagger himself notes, this was a time when his family didn't have phones or televisions and needed to make their own entertainment. Family members would take turns dancing, playing instruments, or — in his case — doing impressions and song-and-dance routines.

He started there, and by the time he was 14, he was sneaking out of the house to hang out with local bands and learn what he could. "It was like fun. ... I could see I got a good reaction."

It all took off from there, even though he says his parents weren't happy when he told them he was giving up his spot at the London School of Economics for a career in music. But much, much later, he would also credit his parents with giving him a "centered upbringing" that kept him from descending completely into the self-destructive behavior that takes so many musicians. He told The Talks, "When you are young and you have a sort of close family life and stuff, it helps you to be centered for later."

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Jagger like others from that era tended to dance after consuming specific drugs and MJ has done at lot of that with like others. Until about 1975, there were several rock frontmen that danced in front of audiences. He liked getting a concert going with Jumping Jack Flash.
 

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I bought a poster in 1969, then in 1979 I carved it into leather. In the 70's I would have killed for a ticket to a Stones concert, they were the best band in the world and Black n Blue proved that. By the 90's I wouldn't have crossed the street to see them. I think that they lost me in the 80's
A friend of mine was a crew member of a charter yacht hosting Mick and Bianca for a week in the Mediterranean. He found Bianca frustrating as she liked to go topless regularly and flaunting it at that. He enjoyed tipping her out of a dinghy. 😜
 
It is the sound that matters, not the quality of the singing. Mick Jagger can't really sing, but it's the song which is important. I've always been a fan of theirs, even though they had a reputation as 'bad boys'. Mick is very energetic and I like his clothes, so much more exciting than the tame Beatles.
 

I never got in to the Rolling Stones.
Some of their songs are just hideous with girls being explicitly taken advantage of. "Brown Sugar" is one of them. Jagger explains himself in the paragraph below. I do like "Hey You! Get off of my cloud!" though.

The Rolling Stones' song "Brown Sugar" is about a combination of lewd subjects, and Jagger has said that the song's lyrical ambiguity contributed to its success. In a 1995 interview, Jagger said, "God knows what I'm on about on that song. It's such a mishmash. All the nasty subjects in one go". He also said that he probably wouldn't write the song now because he would "censor myself".
 
I think Mick Jagger is a very good vocalist because he has both a high and a low range. In my opinion, the Rolling Stones are a great band of musicians and Mick Jagger's distinctive voice, energy and sheer showmanship makes him the perfect fit for the music they play and the image they have.

I agree with the earlier comments regarding the lyrics of some of their songs which, unfortunately, reflect some attitudes of the time which, hopefully, would not be okay now. Stray Cats (which is about a 15 year old runaway) for example :(
 
Put me down as one who recognizes their sound, but that sound has never agreed with me. Of course, I stopped listening to popular music back in the mid-70s when the scourge of disco hit the airwaves. Gravitated to classical and jazz.

I'm an instrumentalist, so with a few exceptions, my preferred music lies in that genre -- not so much the vocal style that the RS produces.
 
There was only one band I gravitated to at the time of their onset in popularity and that was Pink Floyd. All other bands I did not fully appreciate until later in life. This includes, The Beatles,The Stones, Allman Brothers Band, Emerson Lake and Palmer, and many other super bands I failed to incorporate into my appreciation library until later in life. Thank goodness for recorded music.
 
The Stones and Jagger never captured my attention for some reason. They were probably essential to rock and roll, but I had other favorites at the time.
 
The best Mick Jagger vocals from each Rolling Stones album

Gimme Shelter from Sticky Fingers. Mick Jagger with the amazing Merry Clayton, many would argue is the most powerful spine tingling dual Rock vocal performance of all time.


And this long live version with Lisa Fischer is absolutely awesome with much crowd interaction.

Gimme Shelter was on Let it Bleed not Sticky Fingers. Someone made a mistake.
 


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