Mick Jagger turned 79 yesterday. To honor that, let’s give a listen to my favorite cut on the Live at the El Mocambo 1977 album, the Stones’ cover of that hoary chestnut “Route 66”.
The band, razor sharp through the whole show (remarkable, considering the circumstances), is especially on for this song. The guitar interplay between Ron and Keef is electrifying — I say that as a big Mick Taylor fanboy — and Charlie Watts just drives everything. Mick’s having a blast, too.
Get The Picture 
Mick is an excellent example of how regular exercise and clean living lead to a long life. Well, mostly.
Happy Birthday to the lead singer of the greatest RocknRoll band of all time.
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Wait, what? Today’s McCartney’s birthday?
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To paraphrase Jesse Jackson from SNL, “Your position is moot, ChopDawg!”
60 years active as opposed to 10 years active.
Hell, I’m not even sure the Beatles were RocknRoll.
😉
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They played it a McCormick place when I saw them in November, 1965!
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I84, you are one each old muthafuka. Keep on rockn!
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Seen “Dog”? Ranger flick, it’s just ok.
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No sir, probably won’t either.
I did watch A Dog’s Purpose. I sort of leaked at the end. The last dog looked remarkably similar to ol Bo. That was my buddy from 16-26. I had to leave him on the farm when I left at 18, Dad would say he fed Bo every day, but there was no doubt whose dog it was when I came home.
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Spoiler, unlike many dog movies it’s a positive outcome. I didn’t realize Rangers had dogs, my buddy was a tracker and way back then it was a separate outfit.
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El Mocambo 1977, is the Stones on a really goooood, have their talents together night…
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To my favorite Brit Mick, who famously sang “White girls they’re pretty funny, sometimes they drive me mad…Black girls just wanna get fucked all night, I just don’t have that much jam” on the first album I ever bought…
Happy Birthday, and hopefully you got plenty of Smucker’s left in you!
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I see the Stones “canceled” Brown Sugar from their live playlist. It seems their critics couldn’t be bothered to actually read the words to the song and realize it was critical of slavery.
Mick pisses off the right people.
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2019 was the last time they performed it due to the criticism…even Keith was in the press back then as I recall talking about the song exposing the horrors of slavery, by no means condoning
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I saw them at the Anaheim Duck Pond in ’99- the worst sounding venue that will ever exist- in seats basically across the rink from them. You could barely make out Jack Nicholson’s scowl across the arena. But midway through they came down a little runway that basically ran the length of the hockey rink, from one goal to the other, and gathered on a small stage right in front of me and my date and launched into this. What a great moment.
The song’s co-author, Bobby Troupe, had died just up the road that same week. I wonder how many there knew that?
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He’s only 79? Glad that wasn’t a million dollar question.
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Thanks, Senator, for turning me on to this album a few weeks’ back! I downloaded it and have been wearing it out since.
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Since I bought it, the only thing I’ve played more is the replay of the last ten minutes of the national championship game. 😉
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