AND EVEN OLDER CODGERS ARE 'AVIN IT AS WELL.

Also news that may well be not exactly new to you is the 'news' that IGGY AND THE STOOGES are playing again as well.
This time round the band has said that they will be playing a lot of 'new' material that they have just recently written and which makes up their new LP.
All well and good i hear you shrug, well, i was initially interested until i saw the cost of the tickets, they were so high they would make MICK JAGGER blush, i know its good to see bands writing new songs but to ask someone to pay the financial equivalent of a pound for every one of the bands collective facial wrinkle's just to see them live is taking the piss, if these blokes had some kind of musical continuity behind them it might not be so bad but people are being asked to pay for hearing an old re-formed band play a set of new songs when they haven't written one together for almost forty years and they know the fans want to hear the old songs anyway.
It might work and the new songs might be great, or they might be utter shit. being at their gig might be torture, and finding that they have dropped long time favourites for crap new songs would be awful, imagine they took 'SEARCH AND DESTROY' off the set list for a middle of the road plodding song "from our new album", it wouldn't get me buying the record and would leave me very pissed off for paying the small fortune they are asking for tickets to hear songs i didn't want or expect to hear.
And face it, IGGY is only human and he has made 'one or two' shit records, but then, who hasn't done that when they have been around for as long as he has been? so the stooges input may help, or they might all be into folk or Gospel music themselves by now, bringing that sound to the new STOOGES songs, they should let the new songs out slowly not all at once, let the stick in the mud fans get used to them because don't forget THE STOOGES were a 'stuck in time' memory kept alive through their few recordings for years so new stuff after so long could be a hard pill to swallow for those who have known nothing else, especially if they have a different sound than people expect from the band.
A new album of songs from a band after a whole generation has a lot of years of the same old usual mythical 'rock'n'roll genius's' rubbish to live up to and be forever compared against.
It wouldn't be an easy job for any band to pull off, lets see if THE STOOGES can do it, I'm sure we will soon find out.