Hah—trick category, since there isn’t one, and a Rolling Stones Christmas album is about as likely as a string section on a Gov’t. Mule album. I throw it in as an excuse to mention that we saw the Stones a couple of years ago. In fact, the same week that a number of the newspapers had a great picture of Mick coming out of his osteopath’s office. The concert was pretty good–Keith only fell over once, they’ve got Chuck Leavell from those great Allman Brothers albums of the 1970s on keyboards, and they do put on a good show–how can they not, with all those great songs? We went with another American couple, and we were both trying to remember the last big stadium rock concert we had been to. In our case, it was Elton John about six years earlier, and only because we got free tickets because my employer was using him in their ad campaign that year, and while Mrs. W says it was a rock concert, I’m not quite sure what it was. Before that it gets fuzzy. In our friends’ case, it was Bob Marley–and he died in 1982.
Full story »
|
Archive for December 1st, 2009Christmas music (5)–Best Christmas album by the Rolling StonesPosted on December 1, 2009 by wufnik under Scholars & Rogues [ Comments: 12 ]
|
|
