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Zack wrote:
Bad karma! Bad karma!

If Charlie is fine then he's fine, full stop! Saying shit like this is just so not necessary and creepy. (That's what's wrong, Fotini.)

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Gazza wrote:
>You know, how about what everyone (including me), and one Rolling Stones official publicist said about Charlie in reguards to his cancelling his tour dates arlier this summer. It was stated that other plans had come up with the Rolling Stones. In reality, or in actuality, he was undergoing diagnosis, and then an operation of throat cancer! Then he was getting radiation treatment and taking medications for it and all such and we had no clue of anything.


well..the thing is Ian, no one other than probably a TINY amount of people close to Charlie or the band really knows for sure what the exact timeline for all of these things were (ie when he was diagnosed, when he decided to cancel shows - ie, whether it WAS in preparation for Stones activity or because he was ill). Nor should we have the right to have a clue about anything until things are confirmed and definite... the same applies to someone's health as well as their work plans. So, if they covered Charlie's health problems by saying he'd cancelled shows for other reasons, then good for them. If it meant giving the man some privacy for a few more months before the press started photographing him coming out of radiotherapy treatment, then I'm all for that kind of misinformation.


>How about all the posters who said they were working on an album or the new album is basically done, or someone they new heard the new album stuff.

I think you'll find that these people were rubbished and exposed as bullshitters by anyone with a shred of commonsense and reality within minutes of them posting. From what I recall, some people persisted in feeding their ego by not only wanting to know what the songs sounded like, but what frame of mind the band were in and even what they were thinking about regarding how important it was for them to make a great record.


>And that is after all the rumors about an "Out Takes" album had subsided.

I wouldnt be so dismissive about what the content of the next Stones album will be. The Stones did rough work on about 20 or more songs in Paris two years ago and its quite conceivable that the demos and material from those sessions would be carried over to future sessions. That's often been the way they work (Exile and Tattoo You to name but two albums) They wouldnt have bashed out all those demos for nothing, knowing all the while they were going to only use a maximum of four of them for "40 Licks".


True very true. But Gazza I meant out-takes people spoke of from the seventies through steel wheels, voodoo, and bridges.
I'll reply more later on this.
Ian

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kath wrote:
i guess i am still a newbie here, but i didn't see anything wrong with the post. maybe there is some history here i am unaware of....

what erik posted was accurate as to timeline, but that isn't news....it's been on the boards as long as we have known about the problem.

point is, let's just move on....maybe they will tour again. if they do, that'd be great! if they don't, then they deserve to be able to put their feet up and call it a day.

they've given us tons of stuff to listen to, bitch about and live our lives to for generations to come.

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IanBillen wrote:

Once again, I really do not see what is so "mad" about this post???
I am tired of getting the finger pointed at me by a select group of amatuers who have nothing better to do with their time except make snide remarks and point the finger at me.

Why don't one of you dig down deep in the creation section of your soul, if their is any creativity down there, and post a topis about something that is
A. Positive
B. Having some originality or real reference to the band

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gotdablouse wrote:
Ian, George Harrison called, he says he wants his karma back ;-)

Seriously, why do you insist on putting "...from Ian" in the title of each of your messages ?! This is mind-boggling! When you start a thread your name will appear in full right next to the title of the thread. Also, where are you located, sounds like you could be French like I am?

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