Stones Open Tour In Fenway Park In Top Form

[DudeAsInCool]

Still Rocking, Still Swaggering, Still the Stones

BOSTON, Aug. 21 - Four decades ago, the Rolling Stones made their name by defying propriety. Now they are defying age. They opened their latest tour tonight at Fenway Park, with an audience of 36,000 filling the stands, the outfield and balconies overhanging the stage for the first of two shows here. Mick Jagger is 62, Keith Richards 61, Charlie Watts 64 and Ronnie Wood a spry 58. Age can be cruel to musicians, eroding voices and stamina. But yes, the Stones can still do it.

http://nytimes.com/2005/08/21/arts/music/2...Y0zTV6q9/Ilytyg

[DudeAsInCool]

:scratchin:

[DudeAsInCool]

Stones discuss anti-war song:

http://theedge.bostonherald.com/musicNews/...articleid=98912

[DudeAsInCool]

LA Times Review: Stones Tours Have Grossed A Billion Dollars In the Last Decade

http://www.calendarlive.com/music/reviews/...-home-headlines

[rainbowdemon]

On Sept. 28 The Stones are going to be in Pittsburgh. About an hour from here. But look at this.

http://www.ticketsnow.com/tickets.cfm/p=267585

[DudeAsInCool]

On Sept. 28 The Stones are going to be in Pittsburgh. About an hour from here. But look at this.

http://www.ticketsnow.com/tickets.cfm/p=267585

Im hoping they play the Roxy or something like that in LA...

[DudeAsInCool]

The BBC gives the Stones a rave review:

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/entertainment/4176156.stm

[AnalogKid]

A Darwin Award candidate.

BOSTON (AP) -- A woman was hospitalized with broken bones after she climbed onto the rafters of Fenway Park during Sunday night's Rolling Stones concert and fell 35 to 40 feet.

Twenty-year-old Claire O'Leary, of Westport, Conn., was hospitalized with two broken ankles and a broken wrist after she fell 35 to 40 feet Sunday from the rafters above the right-field grandstand.

http://www.azcentral.com/news/articles/082...sFall23-ON.html

Edited August 25, 2005 by AnalogKid

[KiwiCoromandel]

Rolling Stones off to sizzling start........

The Rolling Stones have kicked off their latest tour with a flashy, high-energy concert at Boston's Fenway Park that made no concession to the band's more than four decades playing pounding rock 'n' roll.

Led by sinewy lead singer Mick Jagger, the band thrilled the sold-out crowd of 36,000 fans with a show loaded with time-tested favourites but sprinkled with new numbers from their soon-to-be-released album A Bigger Bang.

The concert opened with a bang, with fireworks and flames shooting up from the stage, as the band broke into Start Me Up.

They pulled out all the stops as they ripped through such war horses as Shattered, Beast of Burden, Brown Sugar and Honky Tonk Woman.

They also played Miss You, Sympathy for the Devil and She's So Cold, a popular tune Jagger told the audience he was not sure they had ever played on stage.

At 62, the satin-clad Jagger showed no signs of slowing down as he swaggered and strutted across the stage, swiveling his hips and pouting his lips.

"A good thing never ends," he said during one brief pause between songs.

Craggy guitarist Keith Richards, 61, charmed the crowd exchanging riffs with Ron Wood, who at 58 is the "baby" of the group's core membership, while stoic drummer Charlie Watts, 64, provided the backbone.

New songs included Oh No! Not You Again. The two-hour show wrapped up with encores You Can't Always Get What You Want and Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It).

Jagger made a joking reference to the presence at the show of California governor Arnold Schwarzenegger, who was reported to have been soliciting wealthy political donors to join him in one of the baseball park's luxury boxes.

"When we drove up, he was out front, scalping T-shirts and selling a few tickets," Jagger joked.

Not making the show's set list cut was the Stones' controversial new song Sweet Neo Con, which has drawn a lot of attention for its criticism of right-wing politics, religious extremism and corporate scandal.

After touring the US and Canada through early next year, the 1988 Rock and Roll Hall of Fame members plan to tour Mexico, South America, the Far East and finally Europe next year.

source:AP