Keith Richards Suggests Possible Timeline for New Stones Album
Keith Richards suggested that the Rolling Stones could release a new album in 2019, although he refused to commit to a precise date.
The band has not released new music since the recording of two songs for the compiled "GRRR!", Of 2012, and the plans to record original material in 2016 were abandoned in favor of the covers album "Blue & Lonesome". Singer Mick Jagger recently said he had been working on new songs.
"Mick and I get together a few days a month, more or less, in the studio, just to play," Richards told Rolling Stone in a new interview. "Other than that, there could be a session in December, but I do not cross my fingers for that."
About the recent session he said "it was great. We played some songs together with [the producer] Don Was. We are only working on some things. We had a great time, we got some good things." In relation to the sound, he indicated that it is "guitars, drums and bass".
When asked if a release date for the album had been analyzed, Richards replied: "Oh, no. As I say, we are in the early stages. I'd say we're going to do this tour, so maybe around this time next year, I'd say. Perhaps. That seems a reasonable projection."
The Stones recently announced the North American dates of their "No Filter" tour, which Richards said he was eager to perform. "Give me 50,000 people and I feel at home," he said. "The whole band does it. As Ronnie [Wood] and I used to say before leaving: 'Let's go on stage and look for peace and tranquility.'"
He predicted that, after rehearsals, the repertoire would probably be different from previous shows. "We will try different things," he noted. "Mick sometimes has different ideas about the staging for a certain number and you have to figure things out"
When asked about the difference in traveling the United States today, unlike the first time they visited that country, Richards recalled that the Stones "used to do it in a van. The United States was a very different place in the mid-60s. Honestly, I can not believe I've been doing this for all this time. I have seen this country grow. I know it better than most Americans, because I'm older!" But he avoided a question about the country's current political environment, saying: "I'm not going to go into that because it's not worth talking about. We all know what is what. God help you!"
He also said that this stadium tour, 57 years after his first show, could be the last: "Maybe this is the last one, I do not know".
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