 American
Airlines Center, Dallas, TX
on Tuesday, November 29th. 2005. Many fans had expected a great
warm-up with Merle Haggard, a good country musician and close friend to Keith,
but unfortunately he was ill and replaced by Delbert McClinton.
Set list:
Start Me Up - You Got Me Rocking - Shattered - Tumbling Dice - Oh No, Not You
Again - Rain Fall Down - Wild Horses - Midnight Rambler - Night Time Is The
Right Time - Intros - Slipping Away - Infamy - Miss You - Rough Justice - Get
Off Of My Cloud - Honky Tonk Women - Sympathy For The Devil - Brown Sugar -
Jumpin' Jack Flash - You Can't Always Get What You Want (encore) - Satisfaction
(encore)
Reviews:
By ROBERT PHILPOT
Star-Telegram staff writer
DALLAS -- Prancing, preening, strutting, pouting, Mick Jagger burst onto the
American Airlines Center stage Tuesday night and for the next two hours held
20,000 people in the palm of his bony hand.
Say what you want about the Rolling Stones being too old to rock 'n' roll, but
if you've dismissed these blokes, you've done it prematurely.
This was loud, loose, fast, sloppy stuff, with the band's scruffiness and
Jagger's intonations and insinuations ensuring that even war horses such as
Brown Sugar sounded fresh as Jagger incited the audience to a chorus of "Yeah,
yeah, yeah, woos!"
Often, when rock acts do the sing-along-with-me bit, it comes off as pandering,
but Jagger just seemed to be caught up in the moment, as did the band's
staggering, grinning, swooping guitarists, Keith Richards and Ron Wood. Drummer
Charlie Watts played the eye-of-the-storm role as always, keeping everything
from disintegrating.
Jagger got going early, with a hurricane of harp blows on a typically epic
Midnight Rambler, amped with adrenalin as the song shifted gears through myriad
tempo changes.
That song has always been one of the creepiest of the many creepy things in the
Stones' canon, and it was a little bizarre to see guys singing to their dates
what I've always interpreted as a rape fantasy. But then, this is a band about
the dark side, and one that can still get an audience to whoop through the
equally creepy Sympathy for the Devil.
The only lull came during Richards' two vocal numbers, Slippin' Away and the new
Infamy. Although Richards sang them as well as his ravaged voice allowed, the
songs seemed to be there to allow Jagger a break and some crowd members a chance
to get more beer. But the moment Jagger was on stage, things charged up again,
as he performed one of his best vocals of the night on Miss You, and a section
of the stage parted, complete with all the core band, and moved to the center of
the arena for the guys to play stuff like Get Off My Cloud in the round.
The set list contained few surprises, although a Ray Charles tribute -- Jagger
and backup singer Lisa Fisher doing a duet on Night Time is the Right Time --
was a good touch. And the band performed several songs from its latest album, A
Bigger Bang, the highlight arguably being Rain Fell Down, featuring a thumping
solo from bassist Daryl Jones. A four-piece horn section added punch to many
other numbers.
If the songs were a little predictable -- you know they're going to do
Satisfaction and Start Me Up -- the execution wasn't. Jagger played to every
member of the crowd that he could reach, the band took no prisoners, and the
Stones gave every indication that they could still be doing shows like this in
2015.
Fort Worth's Delbert McClinton, subbing for ill opener Merle Haggard, laid out a
confident 45-minute opening set. McClinton's voice was as rich as it's ever been,
and he sang to an arena that was more than half-empty as if he were singing to a
full house. Not bad for a last-minute turn by a homeboy.
© Tom
Tingle/The Arizona Republic
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