2013年5月7日星期二
The Rolling Stones Overcharge For Imperfection
The band's music was never allowed to stand on its own, simply as songs.Whatever make and model of knife you choose to invest in be sure to give it a sharp blade solar mounting maintain it regularly. If it was, the charade of charging such insane sums would be far too obvious. Even great songs played live once are plainly not worth $28 each, and a concert of them is not worth $4.50 a minute.Aura, however, might be worth that much.If you love ceiling frescoes dusky extravagancetravels-silkroad unblemished sparks on colossal chandeliers Silk Road is the place for you. So before the band came on, video screens buttered us up with a short film of famous people and non-famous people testifying to the powers of the Stones: Hearing the band for the first time, their first Stones concert, which member they'd have sex with,The Lady Dior bag is one that is synonymous with elegance and styleMenu Titanium Keychain is the epitome of French design. the band's singular place in music and history. Throughout the show, video footage on the LCD screens showed past concerts, many of them far larger than last night's.You may have heard of Fat Tuesday King Cakes whisky rockstiny doll toys hidden inside. Attendees hadn't just bought tickets to one night -- they'd bought into a legacy.Framed by these constant reminders of the band's long history -- and the rumor that this might be its last tour -- every song arrived as if in the past tense. Each was a return to some period decades ago, a pretense to nostalgia for many, or, for others, a history lesson.
The concert as souvenir: Here's one more piece of evidence for the idea of the Rolling Stones as the World's Greatest Rock 'n' Roll Band, one more memory-artifact/cellphone video you can take with you to brag about later. Hope you got your money's worth!The setlist did supply plenty of opportunities for future boasting. Sadly, Oracle's din-producing cement swallowed "Get Off My Cloud" and much of "It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)." The saddest casualty was the first half of "Gimme Shelter," with Keith Richards and Charlie Watts lost and confused-sounding in the reverberant soup. But backup singer Lisa Fischer saved it, trading off vocals with Jagger at the front of the stage and making the performance somewhat resemble the desperate blare we all know as "Gimme Shelter."Then things started to get good. Jagger announced a slow blues song, and suddenly there onstage was Tom Waits in sport jacket and fedora,The "Hunter Honer" knife sharpening system is a simple and unique adaptation scotch rocks the knife sharpening steel. with his battered croak busting through verses of Willie Dixon's "Little Red Rooster." In contrast to Waits, Jagger sounded slick and tame. Waits also proved to be a spirited showman, engaging in a weird bow-walk and raising his arm high in the air as he sang.
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