Brooks & Dunn opening for the Rolling Stones...

Things that make ya go hmmm??

http://apnews.excite.com/article/20051221/D8EKAF3G2.html

Brooks & Dunn to Open for Stones

<SNIP>"We've thrown around the concept of opening for the Stones forever," singer Ronnie Dunn said Tuesday. "I can't believe we're doing it."

<SNIP> Though billed as the world's greatest rock and roll band, the Stones have drawn from country music over much of their storied career. Their early 1970s albums "Sticky Fingers" and "Exile on Main Street," in particular, had strong country influences often attributed to Keith Richards' friendship with Gram Parsons of the Flying Burrito Brothers and previously of The Byrds.

<SNIP>By opening for the Rolling Stones, Brooks & Dunn become an instant trivia question for obsessive Stones fans. The group's opening act announcements can be as anticipated as their set lists, with everyone from Metallica to the Black-Eyed Peas to Beck warming up the crowd in recent years.

I wonder if Brooks & Dunn will still be soaking in the afterglow when the stones rip into "My Sweet Neocon"??

A little something for everyone. :crazy:

ed: because I was wrong and DU is wacky.

you don't have to be there on time.


Far Away Eyes

(m. jagger/k. richards)

I was driving home early sunday morning through bakersfield
Listening to gospel music on the colored radio station
And the preacher said, you know you always have the
Lord by your side

And I was so pleased to be informed of this that I ran
Twenty red lights in his honor
Thank you jesus, thank you lord

I had an arrangement to meet a girl, and I was kind of late
And I thought by the time I got there she’d be off
She’d be off with the nearest truck driver she could find
Much to my surprise, there she was sittin in the corner
A little bleary, worse for wear and tear
Was a girl with far away eyes

So if you’re down on your luck
And you can’t harmonize
Find a girl with far away
And if you’re downright disgusted
And life ain’t worth a dime
Get a girl with far away eyes

Well the preacher kept right on saying that all I had to do was send
Ten dollars to the church of the sacred bleeding heart of jesus
Located somewhere in los angeles, california
And next week they’d say my prayer on the radio
And all my dreams would come true
So I did, the next week, I got a prayer with a girl
Well, you know what kind of eyes she got

So if you’re down on your luck
I know you all sympathize
Find a girl with far away eyes
And if you’re downright disgusted
And life ain’t worth a dime
Get a girl with far away eyes

Who cares? They are MUSICIANS first and foremost and maybe, just maybe, they respect each others talents. Not everything is political. Shit.

though I much prefer Big and Rich to Brooks and Dunn...too bubble gum country for me. This says more about the Stones than Brooks and Dunn anyway....

If the Seahawks go, (and they could, they really could) I'm going, and B&D will just give me more time to stand in the beer line......