Hannio wrote: 
Mick's hair may be a little "suspicious" for a guy closing in on 70, but nobody's going to accuse him of getting any work done on that mug!

 Canlistener wrote: 

Just for that I will move mine up to 10.

I really wish some horses would have dragged these guys away about a hundred years ago.. Just awful.

 fingerpin wrote: 

Yeah, but a little slower for some of us that didn't over-indulge like the two gentlemen pictured!!

My favorite country music song of all time!!!!!

 Hannio wrote: 
If any one of you thinks it's not going to happen to you, you're sadly delusional.
It's coming for you....bwahhhaahhhhh!  

Stingray wrote:
It needs nothing but a goat, to drag you away - I'm stealing that. Your rants are pure absurd art! Dada is alive and well.

Great one!

This song is one of the few that makes me cry. Such gorgeous hopelessness. Mick sounds like he's lying on the floor and not at all well, but he argues that "wild horses couldn't drag me away." It makes me think of love. It makes me think of addiction. He makes it even better as he looks to the future. "We'll ride them someday." Will that day ever come? It's as heartbreaking as the hopeful chords are clean, pure, and shimmering.

    
first song my dear Hogan man and I danced to .. 1996
:) love him so...

 mandolin wrote: 

not always. Led Zeppelin, Yardbyrds, etc never felt the need to ape a Yanks accent and what I was wondering is what was the SPECIFIC inspiration for Jaggers accent on these songs (Wild Horses, Country Honk, Honky Tonk Women, Fool to Cry etc). Considering Mick is one of the greatest  poseurs of modern times, I am sure this was done very carefully.

After hearing them for forty years I'm still dazzled by the Stones' simple musical brilliance...

The older I get, the less inclined I am to make fun of these geezers!

Oh, and 9 for the song.

 Hannio wrote: 

The Horror!! The Horror!!

 Stingray wrote: 
WTF??! Hey, you! Cut it out! Better still...go away. No one cares that you rant and rave about songs you don't like, but to attack someone's name?! What's up with that? Geez...

Even slow Stones suck! Just not for me, folks!

 horstman wrote: 

PUT YOUR OWN PHOTO UP - WORSTMAN!

The name "HORST" alone proves your age, belly
and wrinkles!

"HORST" - possibly the most ridiculous name on the planet!

It needs nothing but a goat, to drag you away!

Now play Hope's Wild Horses

 Hannio wrote: 
Put these two in a line up with other middle sixties men and you'll see that they look pretty much like a lot of older men. Sure they got wrinkles but growing old gracefully and with dignity is far better than the hollywood way of botox, plastic surgery and everything else thrown out there to make a face look younger.

These guys still rock and roll and it's nice to see them touring even after playing for five decades.

 Cynaera wrote: 

 thewiseking wrote: 

...faux american accents permeated british music around the time of their initial american rock-and-roll and blues infatuation, prefacing the sixties british invasion...

Wild memories of wild teenage years come to mind  

gram parsons singing this would be nice on RP

always loved this but was recently wondering...............from where did this middle class Brit derive this working class American twang which permeates most of their best narratives?

Geez - chills. Even after all this time, I can't listen to this song without thinking, "Day-AM - they're good..." Jagger's face looks like it was broken and reconstructed wrong, but he still looks better than Keef (who looks like he was broken and the reconstruction was abandoned with an expletive and a subsequent bout at a pub with straight shots of Aquavie.)

Still - the Stones are up there, in my book, with Zep, Aerosmith, and the Beatles as icons - broken or not.

Mick Jagger by ~noir-badger
Krissy
Mick Jagger Portrait (c) 2007

I was on such a tight deadline to get this done. I had a week to do two portraits, which resulted in my having to be working on it from when I got home from school (3:00pm) to 11:00pm then getting up at around 5:20am and working till 7:45am three nights in a row. The other portrait is Ron Woods (jya jya, rolling stones i know )

They go up for sale tomorrow at the Christchurch Art Centre as a fundraiser for my trip to Mexico

Time Taken: 12hrs
Tools Used: 6H, 4H, HB, B, 2B, 3B, 4B, 6B, sizes 2-8 blending sticks, kneaded eraser, cotton wool balls, ruler, and an average-joe type eraser! phew!