


“You can not take away the fact that Mick Jagger is still the number one rock ‘n’ roll showman up front,” he said. As Rolling Stone reports, The Who singer Roger Daltrey has likened the Stones to a “mediocre pub band.”ĭaltrey was asked about McCartney’s “blues cover band” comment in a recent interview with the Coda Collection, and he agreed with the Beatle’s assessment. “I think our net was cast a bit wider than theirs.”) Now another classic-rock contemporary of the band is taking a shot. Back in October, Paul McCartney raised some eyebrows by making a dig at the Rolling Stones and dismissing them as a “blues cover band.” (“I’m not sure I should say it, but they’re a blues cover band, that’s sort of what the Stones are,” the former Beatle told the New Yorker.
