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...drag night at the New England Speedway and there's nary a feather boa in sight. The only flames in evidence are painted onto the sides of a tricked-up Rambler with its name--Impatience--emblazoned on its sides. Long lines of eager participants inch forward slowly, racing their motors eagerly. After negotiating a path between the bumpers of the cars crowding the waiting ramp, visitors cross a barren patch of dirt to get to the bleachers. Pot-bellied silhouettes with gleaming headphones and walkie-talkies loom ominously from the dark hulk of a conning tower, floodlights throw stark shadows...
Unfortunately for Stones devotees, the feeling that these guys are really far out has disappeared. Where is the haunting space and humming jive of "2000 Lightyears From Home"? Where is the delirium of "Midnight Rambler"? You just can't dance or roar with the new stuff. Dare one suggest that Mick and Keith are too straight and sober these days to truly do justice to their reputation? The creativity and let's-all-blow-this-joint-to-pieces attitude of the Rolling Stones has, woefully, subsided...
Make way for the Swatchmobile, a sassy two-seater that looks like a cross between a Volkswagen Beetle and a Rambler. In fact, it is the product of an odd corporate marriage sealed last week between Mercedes-Benz, the maker of luxury cars, and Nicolas Hayek, the man who put almost 150 million Swatches on wrists all over the world. So far, the two companies have worked on separate prototypes, which they plan to merge into a single model produced by a joint company (Hayek's stake is 49%, Mercedes' 51%) for the 1997 market...
...Rambler Song Shellac...
...like an update of "Hot Stuff," while "Take It So Hard," recalls "Brown Sugar," and "Rockawhile" recalls any number of two-chord Stones jams. "Struggle" is a Stones voodoo party-from-hell song, like "Gimme Shelter" or "Sympathy for the Devil," and "Whip It Up" calls to mind "Midnight Rambler," even though it's not about S and M, as the title would have you believe...