Regardless of being of their 80s – excluding Ronnie Wooden who’s 79 – the Rolling Stones are nonetheless very a lot energetic. In truth, the group simply this month launched their twenty fifth studio album, Overseas Tongues. 

However as for whether or not they plan to tour the document? That’s nonetheless up within the air, Ronnie Wooden explains in a brand new interview with Basic Rock. Requested whether or not he and his bandmates Mick Jagger and Keith Richards plan to hit the street in assist of the document, he replies: “Let’s hope.”

“Not this yr, however possibly subsequent yr – we’d like to,” Wooden says. “It’s an apparent factor that we might like to, as a result of the Stones…”

Any rockstar approaching their 80s could be forgiven for eager to decelerate a bit, and even name time on touring solely, however Wooden goes on to disclose his and Jagger’s unending love of taking part in music.

“Me and Mick, we by no means cease eager to play,” he says. “That’s why I’m going to take my solo band out to do a number of gigs, to maintain the chops collectively in my fingers. It’s received to be carried out. You’ve received to maintain it heat, hold the music heat.

Again in April, Ronnie Wooden added two new reveals within the UK and Germany to his stay schedule later this yr.

“It’s nice,” he continues. “And if the Stones can tour subsequent yr, let’s do it. That’s our perspective.”

One factor which may get in the best way of plans to tour, although, is guitarist Keith Richards’ arthritis. Final yr, the band cancelled a string of deliberate tour dates as Richards “didn’t suppose he may commit” to the gruelling schedule.

However Ronnie Wooden stays optimistic. “Something’s attainable,” he asserts. “We simply, you recognize, toss a coin and see the way it lands. That’s the best way we’ve at all times performed it.”

Mick Jagger echoed Ronnie Wooden’s feedback in Might, saying he would “completely love” to tour Overseas Tongues.

Overseas Tongues is out now. Pay attention beneath:

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