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Post by *Deep, Pained Sigh* on Feb 11, 2020 20:45:06 GMT -5
angel olson at the apollo apparently this was her biggest ever show and she absolutely smashed it. definitely try and catch this tour if you're a fan because her band is on point and she has a violinist and cellist to spice up some of the classics.
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Post by chalkdevil π on Feb 13, 2020 12:18:25 GMT -5
I got tickets for Deftones for this summer but failed to get Rage Against the Machine tickets in Minneapolis. Once I finally got through the queue there were just nosebleeds available and they were $145 a piece with fees. Just too much to be an entire stadium away.
Important update: A second RATM show was added and my buddy was able to get floor tickets. The cost is the same as nose bleeds (damn commies!) but at least we get to be closer to the action and probably get kicked in the face by middle age mosh-pitters.
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Post by Post-St. Patty's Day Bloat on Feb 18, 2020 19:53:45 GMT -5
I'm at Soul Asylum/Local H.
Drove an hour in freezing rain/slush.
Scott Lucas better come to the merch table and so help me god, they better play High Fivin' MF.
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on Mar 18, 2020 11:37:19 GMT -5
Some friends of mine are putting on shows for nobody, and this seems as good a place as any to start posting links to live streams of concerts from empty venues. Friday 3/20, 8PM Pacific: Kvasir, Young Hunter, Meterse live @ The Hallowed Halls. Stream will be here. Facebook event page here. [This has been cancelled as of 3/19.] Sunday 3/22, 7PM Pacific: LaGoon (album release) live @ who knows, probably someone's house. Stream will be here. Facebook event page here.
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on Apr 16, 2020 22:14:03 GMT -5
Stoner metal fiends Toke are streaming a quarantine set on Friday April 17th at 8PM EDT / 5PM PDT. Facebook event page
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Post by Desert Dweller on Apr 26, 2020 22:48:22 GMT -5
Tonight I watched the YouTube stream of Broadway stars performing for Stephen Sondheim's 90th birthday. It was awesome. There were a bunch of technical issues, and it started about an hour and a half late. But, who cares? It's Sondheim! And the replay video is posted so you can all experience it with no technical issues!
Raul Esparza (who organized this) pointed out a silver lining to having to do this in quarantine. There is no way he would have been able to get all these Broadway superstars on stage for a one night live concert in an actual concert hall. Scheduling wouldn't permit it, and the cost of actually hiring all of these mega stars would make it impossible.
Instead he simply asked pretty much every major Broadway star to record themselves singing their favorite Sondheim song, and he got 2.5 hours of the best Broadway performers alive. Wonderful!
Edited to add: I've now watched this twice. It is phenomenally great. I tried to make a short list of the best performances, and I couldn't narrow it down to less than 12. Ugh! So good!
So here's some people I want to give special mention to:
Judy Kuhn - Thank you for shocking everyone and singing a song from the film "Dick Tracy", and NOT the one that won the Oscar. You could not be more different than Madonna. Lovely.
Aaron Tveit - Aw, you 36 year old baby. How'd you get invited to this event of heavyweights? No matter. You were awesome. And this is one of my favorite Sondheim songs. Thanks so much for so honestly playing the ambiguity, uncertainty and self-delusion in it.
Elizabeth Stanley - Ms. "I will now perform the greatest ever version of 'The Miller's Son' and you will all bow down". Bowing down. Phenomenal. No joke, this is now the definitive version of this. She added something to it that has never been done.
Mandy Patinkin - Ugh, singing Lesson #8... singing about how he misses seeing all the people in the park on Sunday...Ugh, I'm crying, he's so great.
Lea Salonga - "Hello, I'm here to audition for a revival of 'Passion' ". Me: Stephen, please do this revival NOW! Ugh, so great.
Laura Benanti - Literally sang on the floor of her bathroom. It was amazing. "Evening Primrose" suddenly feels very relevant. Amazing how this song can be so devastating in the current circumstances.
Chip Zien - Flex points for singing a song you originated on Broadway. (Points to Mandy, also.) I cried, it was amazing.
Brian Stokes Mitchell - See's Chip's flex and doubles it, "I'll be performing a cut song from 'Assassins'. Steve called me up a couple years ago and asked me to sing this..." You are a National Treasure, Stokes. This was phenomenal. He had COVID-19 less than a month ago!!
Michael Cerveris - "Ha, you all think I'm going to sing something from "Assassins" or "Sweeney Todd". Ha ha ha ha nope". Instead he pulls out THE Sondheim song, gives an incredible performance of it, and as an encore, brings out his dog.
Alexander Gemignani - "You all only know my dad, so to impress you, I'm going to sing a song from "Follies" in which I will play ALL the parts, and do choreography with my office chair." Hello, sir! You are now allowed in the club.
Ann Harada, Austin Ku, Kelvin Moon Loh & Thom Sesma - Who knew? Quarantine and a Brady Bunch-esque use of Zoom produces the best ever performance of "Someone in Tree". Finally, this song can be staged in a way that makes sense! Special shout out to Thom Sesma who looked so joyful that I could actually feel it, and Kelvin Moon Loh who performed sitting under a table in order to get the correct visual effect for the song.
And for my 12th pick, I am choosing everyone that performed after the 1:50:00 mark. Raul Esparza with an incredible version of "Take Me To the World" which I need him to professionally release NOW, Donna Murphy doing an incredible understated version of "Send in the Clowns", Christine Baranski/Meryl Streep/Audra McDonald doing an awesome version of "Ladies Who Lunch", Annaleigh Ashford & Jake Gyllenhaal doing a surprisingly credible performance of "Move On", Patti Lupone giving us an emotionally crushing version of "Anyone Can Whistle, and finally, the best ever Sondheim interpreter, Bernadette Peters reminding us that even in these times, "No One is Alone".
Stellar concert!
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on May 2, 2020 9:42:29 GMT -5
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on May 7, 2020 9:27:02 GMT -5
Psychedelic black metal beasts Oranssi Pazuzu will be live streaming a performance of their latest offering, Mestarin kynsi, on Friday May 15th at 12PM PDT (9pm Germany, 10pm Finland, 3PM EDT). This album is in my top 5 of 2020. The band was originally scheduled to perform this set at Roadburn 2020, which has been cancelled like everything else. The show will stream on the band's Youtube channel. Here's a link to the Facebook event page. And here's a Bandcamp link to stream and/or buy the album. Seriously folks, if you enjoy black metal at all, you owe it to yourselves to see this band live from the comfort of your own home.
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on May 15, 2020 15:07:02 GMT -5
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on May 16, 2020 10:44:24 GMT -5
Foo Fighters is streaming a show from 2008 at Wembley Stadium that features appearances by Jimmy Page and John Paul Jones.
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on May 20, 2020 16:35:57 GMT -5
Gojira is streaming their 2017 show at Red Rocks.
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on May 21, 2020 16:44:58 GMT -5
I have been absolutely living in the blueheronvideo channel on Youtube. If you want a taste of the metal scene in Portland, check out these live shows from some of my favorite venues in town over the last few years. www.youtube.com/channel/UCptuGjzlfWCizHmmcGkasTA
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Post by Desert Dweller on May 25, 2020 23:26:26 GMT -5
On Sunday afternoon Yo-Yo Ma played a live stream of the Bach Cello Suites. This was apparently only live, because the link isn't active any longer. The credits said he had audio engineers helping this. Hopefully he recorded this for release. It had a number of differences from his other recordings.
This was a superb rendering of these Cello suites. Suite 3 and 4 were simply wonderful. It was so great to actually watch him play this. It was utterly wonderful to see the expressions on his face as he played. Wonderful! Sincerely hope this gets released.
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on Jul 24, 2020 11:06:28 GMT -5
Some good streaming concerts this weekend: Friday 7/24 - Godfather of doom Scott "Wino" Weinrich (The Obsessed, Saint Vitus, etc. etc. etc.) will be supporting his solo album Forever Gone as part of the depressingly titled Rock For Rent series. His cover of Joy Division's "Isolation" has been my song of the summer. www.facebook.com/events/3297425126970831Saturday 7/27: Portland's own ils (ffo: mclusky, Jesus Lizard) will be streaming a record release show for their debut full-length, Curse. Joining them will be Gaytheist (ffo: Superchunk, The Frogs), whose 2020 album How Long Have I Been On Fire? will probably be in my top 5 of the year. www.facebook.com/events/567410177277118
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Sept 19, 2020 9:33:07 GMT -5
So this thread's been dead for a while.
The other night I went to an actual in-person concert for the first time since early March: Mid-nineties one-hit wonder Local H playing a drive-in movie theatre in a middle-of-nowhere small town in the Midwest. I've always enjoyed their music and I usually see them when they come to town, but the novelty of a drive-in concert was something I figured I had to experience once (fingers crossed it's a novelty this year only). Tickets were relatively inexpensive by drive-in concert standards (fifty dollars per vehicle at reasonable occupancy limits or ninety if you wanted a guaranteed spot near the stage--no outside food/drink allowed but I don't know how that would be enforced and I saw no attempts to do so). Still, it was pretty sparsely attended with the majority of the lot empty.
In lieu of an opening act, there was a screening of one segment from the film "Trilogy of Terror" and one of the band's new videos. Contrary to my expectations, the show itself was not projected onto the big screen (as the band played, lengthy scenes from seventies drive-in classics played above them, like Jaws, Death Race, something with Bruce Lee, and others I couldn't identify), meaning that for those that opted for the lower-priced option, line-of-sight was an issue (I was in the fifth row of cars, roughly center and could see only a small portion of the stage so I imagine if people had been more than three rows behind me they would seen almost nothing).
People had the option of watching from inside their cars or standing/sitting outside them (I noticed people started to go inside as the night got colder--mid-September is not a great time for an outdoor evening show in the midwest). I followed the rules and stayed in my designated spot leaning against the hood of my Chevy, but from what I could see some people from my section were walking forward to crowd near the front--the band at one point told them to spread out, noting "We don't want this to be another fucking Sturgis."
The show itself was good. They played for about three hours, a lot of fan favorites, a bunch off their new album, and an acoustic set near mid-set of about five or six songs including "All The Kids are Right." The sound was great, even if the experience visually was poorer than any almost any show I've been to. I guess I would go to another drive-in if they remain necessary for the future, but I'm not sure how economically viable they are using last night as a model.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Oct 12, 2020 6:01:10 GMT -5
Saturday night I got to see my favorite local has-been rock band Sponge play at a strip mall bowling alley. In autumn 2020 that counts as a highlight of the concert season.
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on Oct 20, 2020 13:53:39 GMT -5
Here's Run The Jewels from their Holy Calamavote show on Adult Swim from this past weekend (October 17th), with the occasional weird voting drive bit from Eric "America" Andre.
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on Nov 12, 2020 11:11:24 GMT -5
Downtempo beep-boop legends Kruder & Dorfmeister are doing a free virtual record release show today (November 12th) at 3pm Pacific. For some reason I was convinced at least one of these guys was dead, so I'm pretty stoked. kruderdorfmeister1995.com/
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on Nov 14, 2020 14:33:30 GMT -5
Here's Mastodon's set from Adult Swim Festival 2020 (yesterday).
...and here's Blood Incantation.
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on Dec 3, 2020 11:28:05 GMT -5
Here are the sets from the show I got to go to last month. 30 people in attendance, seats (mostly) socially distanced and outside, band inside behind plexi. From The Ages (from the ashes of Mammoth Salmon - no bandcamp yet) ...and the mighty Kvasir kvasirpdx.bandcamp.com (who are putting their first full-length out in Spring 2021 on Glory Or Death Records)
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Post by Desert Dweller on Dec 4, 2020 0:58:39 GMT -5
Aw, looks like fun!
I wish someone could figure out how to arrange outdoor concerts here. We have the perfect weather to accommodate this. We even have outdoor amphitheaters! Sadly, this is not happening.
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on Dec 4, 2020 11:46:01 GMT -5
Aw, looks like fun! I wish someone could figure out how to arrange outdoor concerts here. We have the perfect weather to accommodate this. We even have outdoor amphitheaters! Sadly, this is not happening. It was really well set up. The bar (The Fixin' To) basically took a wall in their performance space out and replaced it with plexiglass so the band could be inside and play to the people in their newly covered patio. The crowd was mostly seated on socially-distanced benches, with a nice fire pit in the middle (which makes it look like the drummer Jay's crotch is on fire for at least a chunk of the show). It all seemed to go really well, but they haven't had any more shows because our county went back in "lockdown" mode (or stage F or whatever we're calling this) the next day. Can't tell you how much I needed this.
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on May 8, 2021 10:21:00 GMT -5
The new version of mclusky (still Falco and Jack, with a new bassist named Damien) is doing a live stream on June 20th as a part of a fundraiser for Gig Buddies, a pretty cool sounding UK organization that matches up volunteers with people who have learning disabilities or autism, so they can go to shows together. Tickets are pay-what-you-want with a recommended donation of Β£5 (and no minimum). There's also a raffle. Please note: I can not find any info on whether this stream will actually work outside of the UK without a VPN or something. I got a ticket and entered the raffle anyway. Tickets and info: www.headfirstbristol.co.uk/#date=2021-06-20&event_id=64312This new iteration of mclusky's latest release (it's live and excellent): christianfitness.bandcamp.com/album/gateway-band-mclusky-live-in-cardiff-and-londonGig Buddies: gigbuddies.org.uk/A sample of outstanding stage banter and a rough idea of what you'd be getting into:
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Jun 30, 2021 10:08:13 GMT -5
Since concerts still aren't a thing again here quite yet, I burned a few of my vast surplus of vacation days to drive out to Cleveland to see Cracker play a free show last night. The setlist was not terribly different from the previous time I saw them in 2014 (they apparently haven't add anything new out since then, so not too surprising), but they did open with "EuroTrash Girl," possibly as a conscious decision to get it in in case the show was rained out (a very real possibility). ibb.co/N23rkXZPhoto courtesy of my preshow backstage pass. David Lowery was visibly checking his watch right before this was taken, but Johnny Hickman complimented me for the obscure band whose rain-soaked T-shirt I was wearing.
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Post by ganews on Jul 12, 2021 15:33:43 GMT -5
I forgot to post in this thread, but while I was in Georgia three weeks ago I went to my first live music in >1.5 years: an outdoor stage in a small town, a couple hundred people spread out around the courthouse next the the confederate memorial. A soul cover band that was fine, a college kid string band that kind of sucked, and Tim Cadiere and Washboard Road Band, a pretty good southern touring band. That was the origin of "any band that covers 'Jambalaya' and 'Purple Rain' back-to-back is all right with me". A very Georgia experience.
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Post by Djse (and a Sack of Cats) on Aug 2, 2021 21:44:32 GMT -5
Back in 2019, I bought a ticket to attend Psycho Las Vegas, then scheduled for August 2020. When the festival was postponed until this August, a number of bands dropped off the bill (including Elder from the Psycho Swim pre-show, which was honestly the main reason I bought the ticket in the first place) and the fest opened up a brief round of refunds. I opted to optimistically hold onto my weekend pass, and even upgraded to "High Roller" VIP for the whole festival for 2021. Surely they'd get suitable replacement bands, and covid would be a distant memory by then/now, right?
Welllll last week when the White House announced that they were not lifting travel restrictions due to the delta variant, the festival announced that all of the European bands were applying for special exceptions to get into the country, and there would be more news today. That news today was that several of the bands (including Satyricon, the other absolute-must-see on my list from the original lineup) have opted to push to 2022, and while others are still actively pursuing travel exceptions it is highly unlikely that any of them will be able to get into the country in time for the festival. Because of this, the fest has opted to open up another round of refunds.
I'm trying to get a refund, but none of the options that are supposed to be there for me to do so are showing up on the AXS app or website. My guess is it's because I upgraded and somehow that screwed things up. I had a brief support chat with AXS today and the rep said that she'd submitted a request for a refund on my behalf, and that I should wait up to 72 hours for a response. The problem with that is the window for refunds closes at 11:59PM on August 5, or around 80 hours after I had this conversation. I'm sure the support people have been getting hammered with requests like mine since the fest opened up the last-minute-ish round of refunds (the festival starts August 19th)...but the chat did not leave me feeling super positive about the whole thing. I hope I actually get a refund so maybe just maybe I can go next year when the bands that I wanted to see in the first place are going to be there (and hopefully it's a little safer to be in a big-ass crowd).
[ETA: the refund showed up on my credit card as pending today (August 4th). I never got an email or anything but the ticket is gone from my account on the app/website. This refund will pay for six months of car insurance and then some.]
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Sept 4, 2021 9:43:54 GMT -5
My town held a free Stone Temple Pilots concert last night. Fake Weiland is barely not trying to be fake Weiland, but least he's dropping the stupid megaphone gimmick.
The opening act was The Guess Who, which apparently actually still exists.
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Post by moimoi on Sept 13, 2021 10:55:58 GMT -5
I went to Pitchfork last night! Flying Lotus and Yves Tumor were amazing! Thundercat did a walk-on during FlyLo's set :-) Erykah Badu went on 30 minutes late and I think she was having voice problems. It was about has much fun/hassle as usual. My outfit was cute. That is all I have to report.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Sept 28, 2021 7:20:13 GMT -5
Finally went to my first and second Metallica shows this past weekend. They played nights two and four of the Louder Than Festival in Louisville and as someone who isn't really a huge fan, I thought they absolutely fucking killed. Some of the best shows I've seen in a long time (and I've been hitting up a lot of shows lately). No repeats across the two nights--the first set was strictly greatest hits and the second included the Black Album played in full, but the track order was backwards (I'm assuming because it's frontloaded with the big rock radio hits), bookended by two or three cuts from other albums. Plus Kirk Hammett made a surprise appearance to do "The Green Manalishi" with Judas Priest before the second set.
Stray thoughts from other bands across the four days: ----The singer from Korn doesn't know how to pronounce "Louisville". He had COVID about a month ago and was still noticeably affected by it, sitting down through long stretches of the set and apparently taking hits of oxygen just to get through his performance. ----I saw at least four bands that were just a guitar/drums combo. Doesn't anybody use a fucking bass player anymore? ----If you've been following the Machine Gun Kelly/Slipknot beef (and really, why would you?), Machine Gun Kelly was the secondary headliner on Night Three. Yes, we booed him and it felt great. There were some people I could see who enjoyed his set, but overall it was the most negative reaction I've ever seen at a concert, so much that he spent much of the show acknowledging it. He was a terrible fit for the festival to begin with and insulting a band most people there like was not going to win over the crowd. He apparently assaulted one of the booers during the show, but I didn't see it. ----I bought tickets before the lineup was announced (much cheaper that way), but due to all of the COVID tour cancellations, a bunch of the bands initially announced had dropped out before the actual show, including Nine Inch Nails, who were supposed to headline Night Three. At least a dozen bands, including five of the top-billed seven acts on Night Three were last minute-ish replacements. Cancellations continued through the week of the shows, but the promoter did a decent job immediately filling in for them on short notice. ----Jane's Addiction still puts on a kick ass show. ----Two of the acts used their sets as a political platform, one anti-Mitch McConnell and the other anti-Joe Biden. The anti-Biden one was far more well-received by the crowd (a trend I've seen at a lot of metal shows lately). ----I saw one arrest during the festival, and it was ironically during an anti-police brutality song by Cypress Hill. For what's it worth, the whole arrest seemed non-eventful. Both parties were pretty cooperative with each other and the arrestee didn't seem drunk or disorderly. ----If you're familiar with the band The Hu, they played a set Sunday afternoon. They're a Mongolian metal band that sings almost entirely in Mongolian and augments the traditional guitar/bass/drums with several traditional Mongolian instruments. They've gotten some attention for their cover of Metallica's "Sad But True". Ordinarily I would think a band shouldn't do a cover of a song the headliner is playing later that night, but it was different enough I thought it was okay. A fun band, but it's still a novelty act I don't really see going too much further (although I guess five years ago I wouldn't have thought Korean boy band pop would become hugely successful mainstream, so who really knows?) ----Some other bands I thought did good sets: Avatar, Sevendust, Anthrax, '68, Volbeat (although someone in line ahead of me described them as "Diet Metallica and I absolutely agreed), Gojira, ----I stopped a casino on the trip down and won enough money to cover daily incidentals and found forty dollars someone dropped at the show, but goddamn was that festival expensive. Parking onsite was twenty-five dollars each day. Just getting one subpar meal a day was twenty dollars, and some of the prices of the stuff I didn't buy was insane: eight dollar pizza slices, seven dollar ice cream scoops, ten dollar beers (which is actually cheaper than I usually see at concerts, but still outrageous). I don't drink, but I have no idea how every drunk around me could afford it.
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Post by MyNameIsNoneOfYourGoddamnBusin on Oct 6, 2021 20:12:33 GMT -5
Made the trip out east to see the Rolling Stones in Pittsburgh Monday night (they're coming here later in the year but I wanted to play it safe and see a show earlier in case of imminent cancellation). Yes, Mick Jagger is seventy-eight and absolutely looks seventy-eight, but nothing he did on stage seemed like the actions of a seventy-eight year old. Keith and Ronnie looked more like tired old men but seemed to loosened up over the course of the night. The show began and ended with video/photographs of Charlie Watts and there was a brief monologue between songs about how much he'll missed--for all of the well-known in-fighting within the band, Mick and Keith seemed genuinely saddened by his death (there were no special memorial items at the merchandise tables, a little surprising for such a capitalist act).
The set itself was mostly the stuff you'd expect, heavy on the biggest hits with a few of the smaller B-tier hits thrown in ("Let's Spend The Night Together, "Street Fighting Man," and "19th Nervous Breakdown" were all early in the set). They also threw in a few deeper cuts, including the mid-set section where Keith Richards sang lead on a few. They did their new song from 2020, "Living in a Ghost Town" as well. It was fine, but I think you could have asked everyone in there what they would have liked to have heard instead and gotten at least a hundred better choices.
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