According to Rolling Stone, the Rolling Stones have been forced to postpone an upcoming North American tour after Mick Jagger’s doctors advised him to stay home for “medical treatment.” The official word from the band is that Jagger will “make a complete recovery,” but it’s worth noting that nobody has actually said what Jagger’s medical treatment is for—Rolling Stone even says that a representative for the band “declined to elaborate on Jagger’s medical condition.” Jagger also released a statement of his own on social media, apologizing for letting fans down and saying he’ll be “working very hard to be back on stage” as soon as he can.
The tour was supposed to start on April 20 in Miani and run through July 29 at a show in Canada. Reschedule dates, naturally, have not been announced yet.
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It’s that same treatment they gave Luke after he got hypothermia on the ice planet Hoth, only the liquid he’s suspended in is baby piss.
That’s a bacta tank
I hope this doesn’t delay the Rolling Stone’s farewell tour too much. If it does, this farewell tour could run in to their next one!
This is a tired comment. The Stones have never had a farewell tour. They’ve been very clear they want to continue as long as they can. They also still perform at an incredibly high level, and can hold their own with any other performer, young or old.
Indeed. They played the Fonda in Hollywood (a very tiny venue, even more tiny if you’re The Stones) a couple years ago at an invite only show. *I* didn’t get an invite but I have many friends in the music press here in LA who did and they were all like “… they made bands 1/4 of their age look bad.”
They are legends for a reason. Amazing performers. I would kill to see them at a small venue.
The shows been released as ‘Sticky Fingers Live at the Fonda.’ I would definetly recommend purchasing for anyone with an interest in the Stones, as its pretty unique amongst their live concert videos and not just a greatest hits show.
Oh man, I had no idea it’d been released!
It’s very much worth a purchase!…or at least a vieiwng on youtube. (They didn’t really promote the release nearly as much as they should’ve, but it’s easily the strongest of their later period concert films and gives a sense of how amazing it would be to see them in a smaller venue.)
“They also still perform at an incredibly high level”
Well four of them do. Sometime during the late 90s, Keith decided “rhythm guitar” means strumming a chord on every down beat and noodling and posing for the other three. Ronnie does an admirable job of trying to cover both of their parts.
To be fair to him, the only thing keeping Keith upright at this point is scotch tape and dark magic, so anything he can do is an effort.
Tenuous ability to remain upright seems like a good reason to quit.
That’s incorrect. Here’s a magazine from their 1981 tour. It was promoted as their farewell tour.
Should’ve saved this joke for the next Kiss news article.
Well, you know, sometimes you want to try material out in a smaller venue first.
That’s just their funeral, buddy.
He get his dick stuck in a 20-year-old?
I hate when that happens.
A 20-year-old what?
Gibson Les Paul.
Wow. Rolling Stones are ‘Life-Long Rock ‘n’ Roll Troopers’. Etc.I love you Ana Marie Cox. Everbody else does too 🙂
OK, so they didn’t release a statement saying what the treatment is for. Fine. Who cares? It’s apparently not anything terminal, so is this really any of anyone’s business?
Right, because if it is terminal, then it is everyone’s business.
Fair point.
Well, yes, that is the rule.
It’s no big deal. Keith’s blood-replacer guy got a last-minute call from Betty White and had the reschedule.
The Stone stink! It’s all about THE DOORS, maaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaan.
Listen to Bruce’s pronunciation of “Doors” in that skit. Doesn’t it sound just a little bit like… “Dawes?” Yes, truly he is another champion of that sweet Laurel Canyon sound rather than the Sunset Strip degeneracy of Jim Morrison and his filth-ridden crew!
Agreed! Love Live Judee Sill…in, um…the afterlife. Yeah, that’s the ticket.
The Doors were famous for playing at the Whisky, which is not all that far from Laurel Canyon…
Not that far geographically, but worlds away musically and morally! The drug-taking on the Strip was epic, but you’d never catch, say, James Taylor taking heroin!
That’s only because he’s too canny to be caught!
But The Stones cleared the way for Love, who cleared the way for The Doors!
And The Doors birthed Iggy Pop and The Stooges, although, some fail to admit it.
You mean Episcopalians?
Hell, yeah.
You guys do realize that North America and the U.S. are not the same things… Right?
Sam Barsanti doesn’t realize anything he isn’t informed of.
Isn’t that a tautology?
Semantically, sure. I meant that he doesn’t realize anything that is not explained to him.
That’s bothered me for years when I’d see “North American tour” and by “North American” they’d mean the United States and Toronto. Sometimes they’ll mix it up by having Vancouver or Montreal instead, and occasionally it’ll even be two of those major Canadian cities.I don’t blame the AV Club though as it’s usually the band/singer/comedian promoting it as a “North American tour”.
I don’t get the complaint. Calling it a U.S. tour if they go to Canada isn’t accurate, so it’s a North American tour. There’s no obligation to hit every country in the continent if you’re touring it.
Yes, there is. There’s a law about it and the punishment is a kick to the groin.
Huh. What up? You Mexican or South ‘Merican sumthing? ;-)Peace.
Fun fact: Mexico is also in North America. How often do they get included in “North America” tours?
Central something. Alcapulco & Cancun baby 😉 We’re drunk & stoned in Mexico. I am not a tourist.
Trump’s going to close Mexico.
My answer is “I have no idea” since I don’t usually pay attention to acts that would be on a North American Tour. But logistically most of the populated areas of Mexico aren’t very close to the USA (Mexico City is at least a 16 hour drive) and Central America is extremely far, where Canada’s three major cities are all three or four hours away from at least one if not more major US cities. I feel like we’re getting to implied racism territory where maybe it’s just not always feasible even for someone like the Rolling Stones.
“drive”, lol. That’s cute. 😉
Mick and Keith are going to fly but how do you think the hundred crew members and many tons of equipment are transported?
One contains the other so by the laws of transference a US tour is also a North American tour. Plus this one is also playing Canada. If they were on a European tour would they be required to play every country?
Updated to: “U.S. and at least one North American country that doesn’t bankrupt its sick people to then die on the street tour.”
Uh, uh, yeah, yeah, yeah, yeah, uh
Miani, uh, uh
I know they’re direct quotes but there’s something about having quotation marks around “medical treatment”, especially in the headline, that makes it sound sarcastic.
To be fair, nobody’s ever explained to Barsanti how sarcasm works. Not even when Sean O’Neal was right down the hall.
Especially since it doesn’t need to be in quotation marks like that. It definitely reads as sarcasm or disbelief.
The official word from the band is that Jagger will “make a complete recovery,” but it’s worth noting that nobody has actually said what Jagger’s medical treatment is for—Rolling Stone even says that a representative for the band “declined to elaborate on Jagger’s medical condition.”Maybe it’s not skepticism, so much as a sense that if they’re canceling/postponing the tour then we’re all entitled to know more details about the reason. I lean more towards the view that even celebrities in an information-drenched age are entitled to keep details about their health private if they want to.On top of that, Jagger’s 75 years old. There are a lot of not-all-that-serious medical issues that could keep someone that age from being able to go on tour fronting a rock band. If he were 50 years younger then a sudden tour cancellation for “medical treatment” would raise a lot more questions.
It’s not even a point of view, people have a legal right to medical privacy. 😀
For all we know it’s a treatment for ED. Can’t be going on a tour with your John Thomas not able to get to full mast!
At his age and with everything he’s done, I think just being Mick Jagger is technically a medical condition.
“Sir, you appear to have the honkey tonk blues, an inability to obtain satisfaction, and a compulsion to consume brown sugar. Years ago we would have diagnosed you with major depression, alcoholism, nymphomania, and and an eating disorder, but now we call it ‘Mick Jagger Syndrome.’”
“No, it can’t be true! I want a second opinion!”*gets up, starts to walk away, notices unusual head-bobbing gait*“Oh my God. It is Mick Jagger Syndrome!”
“Don’t worry, sir. While this is a serious condition, we’ve found that with proper treatment 18 percent of patients diagnosed with Mick Jagger Syndrome get what they want. And, among those who try at least sometimes, 86 percent get what they need.”
*slow clap*
There are a lot of not-all-that-serious medical issues that could keep someone that age from being able to go on tour fronting a rock band That was my first thought – anyone who’s seen the band, even on film, knows how hard Jagger works, and it could be something like, “Hey Mick, your blood pressure/cholesterol/whatever’s a little high so maybe get that settled before you fucking run, sing, shout and prance around for two hours a night.”I do not mean to sound dismissive, especially about Jagger on stage. Think of any 75 year old you know, and then think of them doing half of what he does at a show, even minus the singing. Just the moving. For all we know it’s an ingrown toenail.
The snark is definitly pouring over from Jez.
Dehydration.
Cancer from wolfing down too much pussy.
Having a ticket to that Miani show will be a collector’s item
*Miani?? (Punjab??)
He got something horrible stuck in his ass and is going to be anonymously covered in Deadspin’s annual article on that subject. Betcha.
Mick Jagger has Mick Jagger.
He’s come down with a case of being a 75 year old man.
I really hope whatever it is isn’t too serious. People like to joke about their ages, but the Stones still put on incredible live shows. I love this band, and I’ll be very sad when it really is over. A lot of people take for granted the absolutely gigantic influence they’ve had on rock and popular music.
Mick suffers from ‘I’m Fucking 75 years old!’ disease.
He suffers from I’m 75 and I fuck 25 year olds disease.
Mick Jagger suffers from “The way I lived I sure as fuck did’t expect to reach 75″ disease.
Mick Jagger is 75
Keith Richards is 74
Ronnie Wood is 71
Charlie Watts is 78
-that’s a combined 298 years and makes them older than….
Jim Beam (1795) – 224 years ago
Cocaine (1855) – 164 years ago
Hashish into Europe (1777) – 242 years ago
Rheumatoid Arthritis discovered (1800) – 219 years ago
Osteoporosis first diagnosed (1835) – 184 years ago
BENGAY (1898) – 121 years ago
I’m so proud to have seen the Rolling Stones during that tour that everyone assumed would be their last because they were so fucking old.That was 1989.
Perhaps, Mick is Passing a Stone? …
Ok, you try to tour after having your 19th nervous breakdown…
Steven Spielberg and Philip Wylie nailed it almost 50 years ago:
Doctors have prescribed him plenty of Brown Sugar.