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tommyThe Rolling Stones were in concert at the Forum Wednesday night. A Bigger Bang tour, presented by Ameriquest Mortgage (watch the volume) (also sponsored by Mercedes Benz) is to help sell A Bigger Bang album. It was a sold out show. It was a fun event. But for $400 a ticket, it had better be fun. Of course, I didn’t have to pay $400. I have a lightning-fast-digit-dialin’ wifey to get me some free ones. Yeah, first the Eagles and now the Stones. No kidding.
It’s not the first Stones concert in the area. The world’s greatest rock ‘n’ roll band first played at Clearwater’s Jack Russell Stadium in May of 1965. They played four songs before being rushed off stage by police, hoping to avoid a riot. Current Clearwater police spokesman Wayne Shelor says it “may have been the first rock ‘n’ roll riot” ever. Tampa’s hillbilly soul singer Ronny Elliott was at that show, and says you can’t even call it a riot.
Either way, the Stones stayed at the Jack Tar (now Fort) Harrison Hotel during that tour, and it was then that Keith Richards came up with the opening riff to the second greatest song of all time.
To bring it full circle, the lyrics to “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” were written by Mick Jagger within the following days. According to Rolling Stone (the magazine), Jagger wrote the words as a litany of disgust with “America, its advertising syndrome, the constant barrage.” Read that again, and then read the first paragraph (or just check the photo).
I hereby absolve myself of any nagging concern about my previous post.
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October 21st, 2005 at 11:30 am
The Ameriquest commercials alone show that the Stones are a sell out. I thought “Sweet Neo Con” was their attempt to show they aren’t such a big sell out but after that picture reminded me of who sponsored their tour in part — well, Sell out is appropriately the title for Mick and co now.
October 26th, 2005 at 9:02 am
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