 Bradley Center, Milwaukee, WI
on Thursday September 8th. 2005. Stones do another indoor show here
at the Bradley Center in Milwaukee. The 20.000 seated big stadium is almost sold
out.
Buddy Guy came along on stage on Night Time this night, and Mick Jagger informed
audience, that parts of the show will be on MTV Saturday night for hurricane
benefit.
Set list:
Start Me Up - It's Only Rock'n'Roll - She's So Cold - Tumbling Dice -
Rough Justice - 6. Waiting On A Friend - You Can't Always Get What You Want -
All Down The Line - Night Time
- Intros -
The Worst - Infamy - Miss You - Oh No Not You Again - You Got Me Rocking - Honky
Tonk Women - Sympathy For The Devil - Paint It Black - Brown Sugar
- Jumping Jack Flash - Satisfaction (encore)
Reviews:
No stopping Stones from rocking
Band keeps fans on feet for 2-hour show by Dave Tianen
King Kong is 72 years old.
Would you want to fight him?
In much the same way, the Rolling Stones remain a rock 'n' roll behemoth long
after logic and the calendar should have dictated otherwise.
Thursday night the Stones brought their Bigger Bang tour to the Bradley
Center for another sold-out show. For two hours from start to a one-encore
"Satisfaction" finish they kept a mostly middle-age audience on its
feet without a break, without even more than a smattering of ballads to rest
Mick Jagger's 62-year-old bones.
How do they do it? It starts with an arsenal of great rockers that pack more
bang than Saddam Hussein on his best day. "Start Me Up," "It's
Only Rock and Roll," "Sympathy for the Devil," "Tumbling
Dice," "Brown Sugar," "Jumpin' Jack Flash," "You
Got Me Rocking," and even the Middle Eastern guitar voodoo of "Paint
It Black," they are all timeless.
So in their own way are the sodden blues of "Honky Tonk Women" and
even the hedonistic sentiment of "Miss You." "Miss You" is
regret and longing wrapped in a slippery coat of lubricant.
Some of Thursday's best moments were less expected. The Stones have always
liked to use a voluptuous black woman as an erotic prop, and Lisa Fischer - all
plunging cleavage, slit skirt and booming pipes - matches Mick, hoochie for
coochie. On a salute to Ray Charles, Fischer and Jagger took Brother Ray's
classic blur of blues and gospel in "Night Time Is the Right Time" and
lit a match to it. Adding to the heat was opener Buddy Guy, who busted a string
trying to fan the flames.
The Stones also served a fair sampling of new material and kept the crowd on
its feet for such unfamiliar fare as "Rough Justice" and the
hard-pounding "Oh No, Not You Again." Themes of sexual persecution
abound on "Bigger Bang," and one of the best was Richards croaking his
way through "Infamy," a sort of plea for mercy to the decadent.
And then there is the sheer force of personality. Jagger remains a study in
narcissistic arrogance boiled to charismatic perfection. Still ridiculously lean
and gaudy as the Vegas strip, he prances, struts, poses and shimmies like the
devil's own hooker. Thursday he came on stage all in black and red with a
plastic fedora, looking like a box of bon bons from Frederick's of Hollywood.
And then there is Keith. Keith Richards makes decay cool. Lined beyond
cragginess, he still has the swagger of an ancient pirate, with a tangled nest
of frizzy black gray hair held in check by a spangled head band. He strikes the
classic Chuck Berry pose, legs splayed, bent at the waist and rocking side to
side on emerald green shoes.
Even Charlie Watts is a kind of wonder. How many 64-year-old drummers could
hold up to two hours of "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and "You Got Me
Rocking" night after night?
As mentioned, Buddy Guy opened. Often cited as Eric Clapton's favorite
guitarist, Guy is by far the most vital of the remaining classic Chicago
bluesmen. With his muscular style, he made Stevie Ray Vaughan and all his
musical progeny possible. Unfortunately, he has a tendency to clown and showboat
his way through a set. Thursday, he came to play, and the Bradley crowd was
rewarded with an intense one-two of "Feels Like Rain" and "Damn
Right, I've Got the Blues."
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