Jay Jay French during an interview he gave to Ultimateguitar.com shoot heavily on Rock icons. During a Q&A session on Spooky Empire convention, Twisted Sister guitarist Jay Jay French had some pretty interesting comments about bands that are continuing to play despite their old age. He said (via Blabbermouth)
If The Stones were smart, they'd hire two 25-year-old guys from Nashville who know how to play their song parts and let these two cadavers walk around on stage and fucking act like Johnny Depp in fucking 'Pirates Of The Caribbean'. They can't fucking play.
"And it bothers me they charge eight hundred dollars [for a ticket]. At least when you go to see The Eagles, there's 45 guys on stage, 'cause you want the [band] to sound like The Eagles. And when you see go see Roger Waters, there's 45 guys on stage, 'cause you wanna hear what 'The Wall' sounds like. But The Stones insist that you watch them decompose in front of your eyes for a high ticket price. And they suck so bad.
"I get annoyed only because we work so hard to be perfect every night," he continued. "And I watched them. I've been a Stones fan, by the way, all my life and saw them at the peak of their fucking life — in '69, '70, '71, '72. They were arguably the greatest rock band on the planet earth. And there's a DVD, 'Ladies And Gentlemen: The Rolling Stones', which you can watch. Why are they happy sounding so bad when you've got this?
Pleaasse, take a look to the videos below and decide yourself
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"You guys don't even know that [Led] Zeppelin was deteriorating so badly that by 1975, you couldn't go to a Zep concert without throwing up. They were so bad! You couldn't give tickets away to Zep concerts, but if you came to see Zebra playing Zeppelin on Long Island, you heard perfect Zeppelin — perfect Led Zeppelin. If you saw Rat Race Choir, you saw perfect Pink Floyd, you saw perfect Emerson, Lake & Palmer.
The Rolling Stones returned to the top of the most profitable tour chart, grossing approximately $ 10.1 million per show during the No Filter tour in the United States in 2021.
The figures were reported by Pollstar, who also added that the Stones managed to sell 100% of the tickets available for each tour date.
In a recent interview, Paul McCartney referred to the Rolling Stones as a “blues cover band” Jagger Hits Back at McCartney In Concert: ‘He’s Going to Join Us in a Blues Cover’ Now The Who frontman Roger Daltrey described the Rolling Stones as a “mediocre pub band” in a recent interview.