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flacnvinyl
I have read countless threads on Dirty Work and the fact that they never toured in 86, but what about Undercover? Why did they not take it on the road?
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ryanpow
Back in that era they didn't always tour right after an album came out. they didn't go on the road when Emotional Rescue Came Out.
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ryanpow
yeahfrom what I remember of pictures from those sessions it just looks like another day at the office.
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StonesTod
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flacnvinyl
I have read countless threads on Dirty Work and the fact that they never toured in 86, but what about Undercover? Why did they not take it on the road?
you heard of the three-year rule?
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StonesTod
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flacnvinyl
I have read countless threads on Dirty Work and the fact that they never toured in 86, but what about Undercover? Why did they not take it on the road?
you heard of the three-year rule?
I've heard of the 8 year rule.
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WeLoveToPlayTheBlues
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treaclefingers
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StonesTod
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flacnvinyl
I have read countless threads on Dirty Work and the fact that they never toured in 86, but what about Undercover? Why did they not take it on the road?
you heard of the three-year rule?
I've heard of the 8 year rule.
When was it 8 years?
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WeLoveToPlayTheBlues
Because they had just finished one? They started on the LP in late 1982, right? Kind of quick to just go back out on the road, which, realistically, would have been 1984 one might think. Still a bit soon by Stones standards.
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Gazza
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WeLoveToPlayTheBlues
Because they had just finished one? They started on the LP in late 1982, right? Kind of quick to just go back out on the road, which, realistically, would have been 1984 one might think. Still a bit soon by Stones standards.
There was two years and two months between the release of Tattoo You and Undercover.
At that point, it was the longest gap between Stones studio albums ever.
They had already been off the road for 16 months when Undercover came out, and the 1982 Euro tour (about 35 shows) was hardly an arduous ordeal. They could quite easily have gone on the road in spring 1984.
By the time Undercover came out, they had signed the new deal with CBS and by early 1984 Mick was planning a solo record, I suppose. I dont think band relations were that good, although they were about to get much worse.
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Gazza
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WeLoveToPlayTheBlues
Because they had just finished one? They started on the LP in late 1982, right? Kind of quick to just go back out on the road, which, realistically, would have been 1984 one might think. Still a bit soon by Stones standards.
There was two years and two months between the release of Tattoo You and Undercover.
At that point, it was the longest gap between Stones studio albums ever.
They had already been off the road for 16 months when Undercover came out, and the 1982 Euro tour (about 35 shows) was hardly an arduous ordeal. They could quite easily have gone on the road in spring 1984.
By the time Undercover came out, they had signed the new deal with CBS and by early 1984 Mick was planning a solo record, I suppose. I dont think band relations were that good, although they were about to get much worse.
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WeLoveToPlayTheBlues
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Gazza
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WeLoveToPlayTheBlues
Because they had just finished one? They started on the LP in late 1982, right? Kind of quick to just go back out on the road, which, realistically, would have been 1984 one might think. Still a bit soon by Stones standards.
There was two years and two months between the release of Tattoo You and Undercover.
At that point, it was the longest gap between Stones studio albums ever.
They had already been off the road for 16 months when Undercover came out, and the 1982 Euro tour (about 35 shows) was hardly an arduous ordeal. They could quite easily have gone on the road in spring 1984.
By the time Undercover came out, they had signed the new deal with CBS and by early 1984 Mick was planning a solo record, I suppose. I dont think band relations were that good, although they were about to get much worse.
Well, OK, but they were considered old men by that point. Having just toured for TATTOO YOU in the States and Europe one would think they were not in any hurry to get back out. Not sure why or how it being the last Atlantic release and being signed to a new label would mean anything.
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Gazza
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WeLoveToPlayTheBlues
Because they had just finished one? They started on the LP in late 1982, right? Kind of quick to just go back out on the road, which, realistically, would have been 1984 one might think. Still a bit soon by Stones standards.
There was two years and two months between the release of Tattoo You and Undercover.
At that point, it was the longest gap between Stones studio albums ever.
They had already been off the road for 16 months when Undercover came out, and the 1982 Euro tour (about 35 shows) was hardly an arduous ordeal. They could quite easily have gone on the road in spring 1984.
By the time Undercover came out, they had signed the new deal with CBS and by early 1984 Mick was planning a solo record, I suppose. I dont think band relations were that good, although they were about to get much worse.
Not to mention Charlie's heroin problems--the real reason they couldn't/wouldn't tour Dirty Work. He also couldn't finish the Undercover album. Don't know which tracks he didn't play on. It's one thing to have a smack-addled rhythm guitarist, but a drummer has to be on. The Clash had the same problems with Topper Headon, that's why they replaced him for their Combat Rock tour. But who would you replace Charlie watts with? Better to just cover it with excuses instead: [Mick on Undercover going on tour]: "We'd just done one." And of course, breaking the 3-year cycle for the first time since 1969, he uses his solo albums as an excuse not to tour the Stones, which after 4-5 years, would have been far more lucrative. It just didn't make sense.