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Many fans have been calling the band an oldies act for quite a while now, because of the lack of new material for so many years and the staleness of the live set. They've played the same songs over and over for tour after tour.

It remains to be seen what happens on this tour. But replacing one set of their past hits for a slightly (and I emphasize slightly) different set of their own past hits does not suddenly mean they are doing "new" material.

The last decade or so they have rested on their laurels treading the same old ground. That is a tribute band or an oldies act or whatever you want to call it. That is not a vibrant creative band.

Firing a key member and bringing in new people to take his place (not necessarily to form a new band doing brand new music) still keeps you an oldies act playing to people's nostalgia for your old hits. That's fine for what it is; but it's not a 'new' band.

The irony of it is that the band member they fired is the one band member who continuously pushed them to record new material so they would have new material for the live show. The lead singer who remains is the one who resisted recording new material for the last decade, meaning there was no new material for the show. She may have argued, along with Mick, for adding in more old hits from the PG era, but again, that is not doing "new" material.