Rolling Stones resume tour in Atlanta

After taking a week off to play the halftime show at Super Bowl XL, the Rolling Stones resume touring tonight (Wednesday, February 8th) in Atlanta, Georgia. During a press conference in Detroit before the game, frontman Mick Jagger addressed what keeps the Stones motivated to keep touring and playing shows: "Sometimes you don't feel very motivated, I'm sure that applies to everyone. You go out and as far as we're concerned, you get to some places, you're in the middle of the winter, you got a cold, you feel like crap. But when you get out there something happens because you look at the audience and they're, like, wild and you know they've been looking forward to it, and it gives you that sort of extra bit of inspiration. But most of the time it's there anyway."

The Stones' A Bigger Bang album is nominated for a Grammy Award for Best Rock Album at tonight's ceremony in Los Angeles. The group has never won a Grammy other than a Lifetime Achievement Award.

After Atlanta, the rock legends begin a six-song swing through Puerto Rico, South America, and Mexico before returning to the U.S. for four more shows.
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