Yep… still don’t like to look at 'em tho… lol. They’ve looked that old for decades now. Got to see the Moody blues a while back and gotta say they were still as great as always too.
I take it that Mick, Keith, and Ron are all “total extreme chain smokers”.
I think that’s how they stay so incredibly skinny. And that’s what makes their skin look so awful.
Mick’s face, at least, looked really really bad during the Steel Wheels tour in '89. That’s 29 years ago and the Grand Canyon was smoother than his face even then.
But hey. These guys sure have had lives. And the Stones music was a big part of my personal soundtrack through make many days and years, good years, bad years, weird years.
@f00l Although some of it is likely genetics. By all dermatologist arguments I should look like a wrinkled prune with a ton of sun damage on my face, etc. due to all the years I worked on “tall ships”, took people camping for a living and rarely used sunscreen back then. Instead I look younger than my age with little damage (well other than a couple of basal cell skin cancers).
@Kidsandliz
Heavy duty chain smoking is notorious for creating the famous “super craggy face” look.
Sun damage creates a different look. And all this stuff is highly variable by person.
Supposedly, once you get into your 60’s, a dermatologist (or other experienced medical person) can glance at your current photo (or, in some cases, glance at a painted portrait of a person of that rough age in life, who lived pre-1900) and make a very accurate estimate of the lifelong smoking habit (this diagnostic ability does not extend to persons who are/were light smokers).
Heavy smoking also supposedly totally changes the skin color and tone.
@f00l@Kidsandliz and sun. My grandfather looked like that…he had quit smoking decades earlier but… he was at the beach every day fishing in a cove. Too much sun, wind and salt water blowing in your face every day doesn’t help. My mom on the other hand has smoked ever since I’ve known her and most people think she’s younger than she is. She gripes about wrinkles but honestly for 80… she has few. Soon we’ll be sisters since she had me pretty young, lol.
Amazing they still play pretty good music & can still sell out any stadium anywhere. They were my favorite band in the 60’s & I still love their music.
Glad to see it. Thanks.
Mick and Keith bonded over the old Delta and Gulf blues records as teenagers. And they still got the blues in 'em. Even if they are rich, decadent, self-indulgent old farts.
I guess there is no way to fix the faces. Or else they keep their current faces as acts of a sort of social defiance against too much “cleaning up”.
Cause if some fancy expensive Swiss clinic has a fancy cure or shortcut for fixing up habitual stupid death-defying life choices, someone in that band has tried it. [Cough, Keith].
They’re in their 70s, fer cryin’ out loud!
Similarly, saw this recently and it filled my heart (video is a bit longer, but worth it):
/youtube McCartney car pool karaoke
Regrettably, their wonderful tune, “shahnm and his refrigerated batteries” never quite had the same commercial appeal, so they don’t ever play it anymore. Pity.
Yep… still don’t like to look at 'em tho… lol. They’ve looked that old for decades now. Got to see the Moody blues a while back and gotta say they were still as great as always too.
They still move pretty well.
I take it that Mick, Keith, and Ron are all “total extreme chain smokers”.
I think that’s how they stay so incredibly skinny. And that’s what makes their skin look so awful.
Mick’s face, at least, looked really really bad during the Steel Wheels tour in '89. That’s 29 years ago and the Grand Canyon was smoother than his face even then.
But hey. These guys sure have had lives. And the Stones music was a big part of my personal soundtrack through make many days and years, good years, bad years, weird years.
/youtube only rock and roll live rolling Stones
@f00l
Here’s chain-smoker skin late in life.
This is the poet WH Auden
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As a young man he looked fine.
@f00l Although some of it is likely genetics. By all dermatologist arguments I should look like a wrinkled prune with a ton of sun damage on my face, etc. due to all the years I worked on “tall ships”, took people camping for a living and rarely used sunscreen back then. Instead I look younger than my age with little damage (well other than a couple of basal cell skin cancers).
@Kidsandliz
Heavy duty chain smoking is notorious for creating the famous “super craggy face” look.
Sun damage creates a different look. And all this stuff is highly variable by person.
Supposedly, once you get into your 60’s, a dermatologist (or other experienced medical person) can glance at your current photo (or, in some cases, glance at a painted portrait of a person of that rough age in life, who lived pre-1900) and make a very accurate estimate of the lifelong smoking habit (this diagnostic ability does not extend to persons who are/were light smokers).
Heavy smoking also supposedly totally changes the skin color and tone.
@f00l @Kidsandliz and sun. My grandfather looked like that…he had quit smoking decades earlier but… he was at the beach every day fishing in a cove. Too much sun, wind and salt water blowing in your face every day doesn’t help. My mom on the other hand has smoked ever since I’ve known her and most people think she’s younger than she is. She gripes about wrinkles but honestly for 80… she has few. Soon we’ll be sisters since she had me pretty young, lol.
Amazing they still play pretty good music & can still sell out any stadium anywhere. They were my favorite band in the 60’s & I still love their music.
Glad to see it. Thanks.
@daveinwarsh
Mick and Keith bonded over the old Delta and Gulf blues records as teenagers. And they still got the blues in 'em. Even if they are rich, decadent, self-indulgent old farts.
I guess there is no way to fix the faces. Or else they keep their current faces as acts of a sort of social defiance against too much “cleaning up”.
Cause if some fancy expensive Swiss clinic has a fancy cure or shortcut for fixing up habitual stupid death-defying life choices, someone in that band has tried it. [Cough, Keith].
They’re in their 70s, fer cryin’ out loud!
Similarly, saw this recently and it filled my heart (video is a bit longer, but worth it):
/youtube McCartney car pool karaoke
@compunaut ha… my sister sent me this vid about a week ago. Fun.
Regrettably, their wonderful tune, “shahnm and his refrigerated batteries” never quite had the same commercial appeal, so they don’t ever play it anymore. Pity.
@shahnm After today, it’s ‘shahnm and his refrigerated batteries and watches’