Beatles or Stones?

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Here's a point of comparison... When's the last time you heard a Stones tune in a department store or a doctor's office, or an elevator for that matter?

For the Stones, hiring Ron Wood was a step in the wrong direction IMO. It would have been better if they had found themselves a real good lead guitarist, which Wood ain't.

they very nearly had Jeff Beck, and I think that would have been great.

That I didn't hear. Yeah, that would have been very interesting for sure. And it would have been good music for a while. But I can't see it lasting. Beck was/is too much of an individualist, and his style is a creative jazz fusion sort of thing which I think wouldn't find a good outlet in the Stones.