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This is my review for this show as sent to BV/IORR Review by Gerardo Liedo
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LINK: http://www.iorr.org/rew99/hartf1.htm
First of all I just want to say that the whole trip to Hartford was just fantastic. This was the second time in my life that I travel to see the Stones but it was the first time I travel also to meet Stones freaks and it makes the experience indescribable! Since this is just the review of the first show I will omit words about the great time we had on my birthday celebration on Saturday at the Black Eyed Sally’s listening to the Danny Klein group, STONESCRAZY, and all the fun and cool scenes we had during all the warm up and post-show parties at the Hartford Brewery, this will be a trip I will never forget and as we were saying “Stones friends are the greatest friends of the world and they are forever”
What a great tool is the Internet that allows us to meet people from everywhere with one thing in common: PASSION FOR THE GREATEST LIVE ACT IN THE PLANET. Keep on rocking everybody!
Before making this review, I read all the reviews of both shows in this site to avoid duplication of information. I will focus my review in features not mentioned or my particular perception of the show. Songs not mentioned were OK, but all commented previously or simply nothing to add.
What a great intro! This was my first show of the tour and it is a real cool intro: The light off, then the video while the crowd is going crazy and then Mr. Richards takes the stage wildly with JJF. Great version but not just that, it is just great to hear it as the opening. Sometimes in the regular place in the setlists on previous tours, neither the Rolling Stones nor the audience have the energy and enthusiasm that this classic deserves.
Bitch was just great, Mick with a lot of power, it rocked. I liked more this version that the regular on the B2B tour.
The versions of You Got Me Rocking and Respectable were SUPER. For me, the audience didn’t respond as expected. Memory Motel HYPONTISED the audience, we were in complete silence except for the Keith vocals in which we showed our great appreciation for him.
Some Girls was excellent, I was trying to catch the lyrics to see for any change due to Luciana and/or Jerry but I couldn’'t, he was so fast for my poor English, but thanks Scott Allen for including this in your review.
Paint it Black started with it's typical guitar solo with the audience watching in silence, then when Charlie played the first beat the crowd went crazy; it was cool, even that most of the audience remained seated. During this song somebody in my back threw something and did hit me requesting us to seat. We did it >:=((
During the intros and thank you's, I noticed something different: For the very first time (at least in my shows experience including recorded audios and videos) the audience gave the longest and louder applause and ovation to Ronnie instead of Charlie as usual. He of course deserved that but let me tell you “Charlie'’s good tonight”.
For the Keith singing section, he selected the best two songs from his own set-list in the current tour. For the first time I heard You Got the Silver, I was in an emotional trance during this long-time favourite of mine. He didn’t introduce the song saying “I got the silver” as in previous shows; maybe he’s broken.
Then LOL, Before They Make me Run was played without “rarities” in between (call them improvisations or slight “changes”, or out-of-tunes, words missed, etc) Great version it was like a cover of the original studio version. For the B-stage, I just want to mention that the version of Midnight Rambler paid my whole trip including all expenses. It was outstanding the best part of both shows (for me), saying this I am also saying that this version was better than the one in the second show.
For the rest of the show, IORR was great. But woo who! What a great encore we had, what a great version of Sympathy for the Devil. I simply closed my eyes and start singing a duet with Mick. I didn'’t open my eyes during the whole performance; it was a different experience that I cannot describe due to lack of words even in my own language.
At the end of the show we were trying to make a miracle, to have a second encore but we couldn'’t. So we were at The Hartford Brewery to meet and celebrate the end of another concert. Unfortunately this City has some “out of time” regulations and the bars there close at 1:00 AM... The city sleeps, somebody said to me when watching the city from the 20th floor “it looks like a graveyard with street lights”
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