4-— Sunday, September 10, 1989 - Nerth Shore News SAW A photse of Mick Jagger walking down a street with his five-year-old daughter’s hand clutched in his own, just like 2 billion other fathers. In Mick’s case, he would have even more reason to hang on to his innocent little girl’s hand than the rest of us. As lead singer of the world’s baddest rock and roll band, Mick no doubt bedded hun- dreds if not thousands of other sweet fernmes in his time. If anybody knows how depraved the male psyche can be, it would have to be the head honcho Roll- ing Stone himself. ’ But row look at him, the Old Man, trucking along father-style, not letting his little treasure out of his sight. The ultimate satyr turns Papa. One thing about life, it sure exercises our instincts in different ways. The Rolling Stones are on tour again. Gawd, 20 years ago I would have been lining up to get my tick- et weeks in advance, which is ex- actly what I did when the Stones passed through Vancouver in ’69 or °70 or whenever it was. They played at what now seems like the “‘little dome’’ at the PNE grounds. Seemed big enough then. There must have been 15,000 of us packed in there. It might have been fumes in the air, but the whole exercise came down to a mass exodus into psycho-space. We went out there into mid-galaxy on electric brainstem-thrumming riffs, while Mick howled ‘‘piease allow me to introduce myself, I’m a man of wealth and taste...” I like comedian Robin Williams’ line about how if you remember the ’60s, you weren’t there. Trying is $485 NORTH VANCOUVER 1324 Lonsdale Ave. North Vancouver V7M ZH8 announcing Robert Bateman’s latest print “THE CHALLENGE - BULL MOOSE” 23"x34R" A time limited edition print. 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They package themselves precisely. They match their sounds to researchers’ findings. ’’ there... As you get older, your tastes tend to harden into ruts. My rut happens to be the rock and roli era, from birth to its finish, which scems ta be now. This Stones tour is the Last Hurrah of rock. What an era to have lived through! As fate would have it, no sooner had my mother and a cousin final- ly succeeded in teaching m- how to do 2 two-step waltz without stepp- ing on anybody’s tiny shoes than Rock Around The Ciock hit the airwaves, and I forgot waltzing (except for the close clutches) and turned my attention to learning how to jive. That’s what we called it at first, because jiving had been what our parents did. This new music was sort of like jiving, but there was an African pounding going on in front and centre, and what we VANCOUVER Vancouver V7X IM3 684-4585 MON--FRI. the trauma (or liberation) for a Catholic-raised kid in staid old Winnipeg to hit puberty just as Elvis, Little Richard, Chuck Berry et al were coming onstream. Needless to say, i became one of the greatest rock’n’roll dancers of all time. Right? i mean, didn’t we all? Of course we did. It was essential to our sexual identities that we become rock’n’roll maniacs. Today, it’s all quite different. I don’t think there’s a word yet for what happens today because there’s no one particular thing happening. Well, I should qualify that by saying I think a planetary kind of music is emerging, but it is too soon to call it the Global Sound. In the meantime, as an iden- tifiable period of music, like baro- que in the 19th century, rock’n roll lasted from the release of Bill Haley and The Comets’ theme music from The Blackboard Jungle as a single in ’53 to the Stones’ last tour, the grandfather tour, in ’89. Today groups and troubadors find a market niche. They package themselves precisely. They match their sounds to researchers’ fin- dings. They are choreographed, cosmeticized and directed. They don’t match up to any broad sense of movement or drift or even restlessness in society. The truth is, exactly as predicted, music has been co-opted into the system. Oh sure, they’re all ‘‘rebels.’’ It’s just that there docsn’t seem to be much fire for them to play with. I guess that was the thing. The Rock’n’Roll Age seemed like a time of upheaval. The old rockers gave voice to a vast shared fantasy. 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