Too cool was tonight’s Rolling Stones concert at the Bell Centre in Montreal.
We won these two front row center tickets at a breast cancer function that ICP Solar sponsors back in September. I had many offers to sell them, yet figured it was a once in a lifetime opportunity (while Jagger is getting younger, I’m not!) to see the Stones live and what a great choice I made to hang onto them.
They played a mix of old and new. While appreciating some of the new, you can’t help but boogie to “Satisfaction” with extra fervor. And when Keith Richards played a new ballad, I was thinking about the Stones’ brand and how they had carefully crafted it over the years, staying loyal to it and never swaying away. Cool bunch of older guys that stay in relatively good shape, have a very particular sound and consistently entertain in their own magical manner. Focus is on the music with no outlandish effects.
Tonight’s concert featured a moving stage that went up and down the hall giving almost everyone a “front-row” feeling, alteit for a short while and a backlight system which was not really overstated. The focus remained on the music and entertainers (including a lovely female backup who took center stage during a Ray Charles’ “Night time is the right time” remake).
Givers gain. I gave at a charity, and we received a very entertaining and memorable evening together. Oh well, tomorrow is another day of sunshine…
Sass Peress