New Poem; DON AND CHARLIE ARE GONE

 accomplishments before frailty and finality

 music lives forever on different formats

 plus video clips both professional and cell phone jitter

 stories told before are exhumed on social media

 Warren Zevon discusses Don and Phil’s calm on storm tossed plane

 Keith Richards on how Charlie punched out Mick for condescension 

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 younger people may have momentary interest

 older folks see time passing too rapidly

 so they turn on radio and TV for official confirmation 

 and communal mourning from musical peers

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 all over the world, silent prayers beginning with

 please don’t let anyone else die this week

 

The Rolling Stones, high ticket prices and the perils of limited touring.

Here's August Brown of THE LOS ANGELES TIMES mentioning a block of $85.00 tickets being released in time for tonight's Staples Center show.
http://www.latimes.com/entertainment/music/posts/la-et-ms-rolling-stones-85-dollar-tickets-staples-20130503,0,5693752.story

And here's a link to the Bob Lefsetz blog entry Brown references:
http://lefsetz.com/wordpress/index.php/archives/2013/05/01/stones-tickets/

Clearly, the Stones thought a limited-date tour warranted prices as high as $600 for tickets (as much a reason as the "beat the scalpers" thesis of Lefsetz).

And many fans (some of them probably angered by the band ignoring key U.S. markets outside of the East and West Coasts--except Chicago) are pushing back and staying home.

Curious if Led Zeppelin (allegedly Robert Plant's interested in another reunion; guessing it's keyed to the upcoming reissue-with-bonus-tracks of the band's recorded catalogue) will learn something from the Stones' victory-lap stumble.

Times are sort-of-a changing: Bob Dylan approved to perform in China.

http://www.pastemagazine.com/articles/2011/03/bob-dylan-cleared-to-perform-in-china.html

Trying to figure out what a Bob Dylan-plays-China set (that would please Chinese ministry officials) would consist of.

ROLLING STONES TRIBUTE--TORN AND FRAYED