...and still touring like a madman playing 30 song setlists...

[www.setlist.fm]

turns 80 next year

Damn right. He's also ornery as hell.

Make note though, he's been phoning in those performances for about the last 15 years. They are even a hair more Vegas than Vegas.

Still doing it though.


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He also didn't turn his body into a toxic dump. HUGE difference.

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He also didn't turn his body into a toxic dump. HUGE difference.

I don't know. It sort of resembles a smokestack of sorts...
But he is proud of not drinking and such. You got that right.


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He also didn't turn his body into a toxic dump. HUGE difference.

I don't know. It sort of resembles a smokestack of sorts...
But he is proud of not drinking and such. You got that right.

I doubt Willie smokes as much ganj as Keith smokes as many fags AND ganj.

And how old is his band? A bunch of 60 plus year olds, or much younger?

The band is mostly the same oddly.
Mickey Raphael, Paul English and such


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How old is that guitar he uses most of the time.

......and he wrote Crazy a number that Patsy Cline took to the
top of the charts and held the record as the most played juke-box song for many years

ROCKMAN

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How old is that guitar he uses most of the time.

called Trigger.
1969

[www.willienelsongeneralstore.com]


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The Stones are still rolling...just separately.

Except for one, for whatever the reasons are -

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How old is that guitar he uses most of the time.

called Trigger.
1969

[www.willienelsongeneralstore.com]

Thanks Munichhilton,saw him live a few years ago,unique style,my son who was with me was not impressed though.

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How old is that guitar he uses most of the time.

called Trigger.
1969

[www.willienelsongeneralstore.com]

Thanks Munichhilton,saw him live a few years ago,unique style,my son who was with me was not impressed though.

Completely understood . Willie is now a taste that you need to have acquired years ago...


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It would be interesting to see a time lapse video of good ole Trigger as the hole has grown from a scratch to a gaping hole

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...and still touring like a madman playing 30 song setlists...

[www.setlist.fm]

turns 80 next year

Yes, and to think the Stones may never perform together again is enough to make one sick.

...



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Willie unfortunately looks 20 years older though. Actually, on the bright side 10 years ago he looked 30 years older and 20 years ago he looked 40 years older.

He just doesn't change. In another 20 years they'll all look the same age.

willie explains everything:





Too many pain pills too much pot
Tryin to be something that
I'm not Superman Superman Tryin to do more than I can I ain't Superman

Well I blew my throat and I blew my tour
I wound up sippin on soup d'jour
I wasn't Superman I wasn't Superman Try to do more than I can I wasn't Superman

Well the doctor said son It's a cryin shame
But you ain't Clark Kent and I ain't Lois Lane
You ain't Superman you ain't Superman Tryin to do more than you can You ain't Superman

And when I die put it on my stone
God said sucker get your bad ass home
You wasn't Superman you ain't Superman Tryin to do more than you can You ain't Superman



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...and Buddy DeFranco is 20 yrs older than Mick & Keith... +++ --- ...


I was driving home early Sunday morning through Bakersfield...

Willie's amazing - his duets with Jerry Lee Lewis on Couple More Years and Whisky River show a guy that's even able to beat the Killer at his own game.

He also, apart from Randy Newman and Joe Henry, is a top rate user of irony in his songs. Funny How Time Slips Away being a case in point.

His versions of standards on Stardust pre-date Robbie Williams, Paul McCartney, Rod Stewart, by a good 30 years, and are done with panache, style, and produced by Booker T Jones too.

Spirit, Teatro, and Country Music show an artist producing some great recent material. I'd pass on The Great Divide though, albeit the title track is done far better on the Bridge School 2cd set.

Saw Willie last year. He was great. So was his older sister, Bobbie, who still tours with him and is great on piano.

the best part for me of that "superman" vid above is willie's all-cracker
audience cheering unanimously for snoop. you can just imagine how a stones
audience would react, booing and throwing shit at him.

incidentally, that is the main reason the stones are ending. their audiences
are mostly useless dinosaurs at this point.

present company excepted of course.

Another great thing about Willie is...the guy works. He never lets up on recording and touring.

Certainly true.

Willie's work rate is phenomenal, and shows no sign of slackening - maybe he just doesn't smoke that much weed, or maybe it has no effect ?

I haven't got round to buying Remember Me yet, which I think was his last album. I dug out the maligned Great Divide: I only really like his cover of Mickey Newbury's Just Dropped In. However, I bought Country Music and American Classic, and found them both excellent. I also enjoyed his Ray Charles tribute with Norah Jones and Wynton Marsalis.

What I love also about Willie is his diversity of duet partners: Wyclef Jean, Bob Dylan, Diana Krall, Keith Richards, Leon Russell, Elvis Costello, Merle Haggard, Susan Tedeschi have all worked with Willie.

I also think that he is still a great guitarist, even after carpel tunnel syndrome, and that he should continue to be so.

He's always been 80 even when the Stones were in their 20's.

nelson didn't become really popular until around 1975 which by that point nelson was in his mid 40's. i agree willie somewhat phones it in live now. the setslists seems to change very little. he does release a new album every year but really they are hit and miss. since 2000 it looks like the even number years (2000,02,04,06,08,10 and 12) produce great albums and all of the albums from the odd years are bad imo.

Keefriffhard4life,

I beg to differ. He was popular circa 1972/73 when Jerry Wexler produced Shotgun Willie, and Phases & Stages. He was selling out 04th July picnics and was also beginning to appeal to the rock crowd. He certainly had Leon Russell's support at the time, and Leon Russell was huge 1972/73.

1975, true, was when he became a mega seller with Red Headed Stranger (Sony should reissue this as a 2cd set), and he became absolutely stratospheric with Stardust in 1978. My favourite album of that time is Sings Kristofferson though, closely followed by the Willie & Family Live.

Some good stuff in the latest Texas Monthly:

[www.texasmonthly.com]




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Keefriffhard4life,

I beg to differ. He was popular circa 1972/73 when Jerry Wexler produced Shotgun Willie, and Phases & Stages. He was selling out 04th July picnics and was also beginning to appeal to the rock crowd. He certainly had Leon Russell's support at the time, and Leon Russell was huge 1972/73.

1975, true, was when he became a mega seller with Red Headed Stranger (Sony should reissue this as a 2cd set), and he became absolutely stratospheric with Stardust in 1978. My favourite album of that time is Sings Kristofferson though, closely followed by the Willie & Family Live.

Doesn't really sound as though you're 'differing' much at all.

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Keefriffhard4life,

I beg to differ. He was popular circa 1972/73 when Jerry Wexler produced Shotgun Willie, and Phases & Stages. He was selling out 04th July picnics and was also beginning to appeal to the rock crowd. He certainly had Leon Russell's support at the time, and Leon Russell was huge 1972/73.

1975, true, was when he became a mega seller with Red Headed Stranger (Sony should reissue this as a 2cd set), and he became absolutely stratospheric with Stardust in 1978. My favourite album of that time is Sings Kristofferson though, closely followed by the Willie & Family Live.

Doesn't really sound as though you're 'differing' much at all.

i know right