Bob Dylan disses The Rolling Stones

"They're pretty much finished, aren't they?"

Joe Bosso, Wed 15 Apr 2009, 3:40 pm UTC

'How does it feeeel? To be a washed-up Rolling Stone?'

It's not just young rockers and rappers who talk trash. Veteran artists like Van Morrison (who recently dissed The Beatles) slag their contemporaries too. Take Bob Dylan, for example, who recently said time wasn't on The Rolling Stones' side.

Sitting down with noted music journalist and MTV executive Bill Flanagan, Dylan, who was promoting his 33rd album Together Through Life, took aim at the group once called 'England's Newest Hitmakers.'

"They're pretty much finished, aren't they?" Dylan said.

When Flanagan cited the fact that The Rolling Stones' last tour was one of the biggest money-making jaunts in concert history, Dylan said, "Oh yeah, you mean Steel Wheels. [That tour took place in '89, by the way.]

"I'm not saying they don't keep going, but they need Bill [Wyman]. Without him they're a funk band" Bob Dylan on The Rolling Stones

"I'm not saying they don't keep going, but they need Bill [Wyman]. Without him they're a funk band. They'll be the real Rolling Stones when they get Bill back."

Guess good ol' Bob Dylan just isn't down with the funk.

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User comments (1)

lazur

9 weeks ago.

The Stones were already getting into lame extended funk jams long before Bill quit the band. I wouldn't be surprised if it's part of the reason he eventually quit, but he took -many- years to do so. If Dylan was really paying attention, he'd realize the Stones haven't been quite the same since BRIAN quit, (& of course, died) , in 1969. Brian taught the Stones how to play like "Chess" records: A real ensemble blues band. Mick Taylor was an ego- driven extended-solo player, never fully part of their integrated sound, & although Ronnie is well-integrated, he simply didn't do 1/10th of the roots homework that Brian did.

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