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Stones at ACC June 6, 2013
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Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones play the ACC in Toronto Thursday, June 6, 2013. (Dave Thomas/Toronto Sun)
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TORONTO - Return engagements can be fraught with disappointment, high expectations being what they are.
Unless, of course, you’re the Rolling Stones.
The bad boys of British rock returned to the Air Canada Centre on Thursday night to perform for more than 15,000 fans and frontman Mick Jagger, who gave our embattled Mayor Rob Ford a bit of hard time the first time the Stones were at the venue with their 50 and Counting Tour on May 25, couldn’t resist commenting again.
“It’s great to be back here,” said Jagger, 69. “Anyone from out of town? Oh yeah, well, you’re welcome in this city. (Just) don’t mention the mayor.”
At the first show, Jagger quipped about the ongoing Ford crack cocaine scandal: “We’re not going to do any jokes tonight about the mayor. It’s much too easy a target. It’s a big cheap shot. We’re going to crack on with the show.”
In response, on the Ford brothers radio show, Rob’s brother Doug commented that remark was like “the pot calling the kettle black,” given the Stones’ own drug woes in their storied past.
Otherwise, Jagger proved to be not only quick with his tongue but light on his feet — Prancercise anyone? — during the Stones’ two hour and 15 minute performance, part of their North American trek to celebrate their 50 years as a band. (The only other Canadian date so far is Sunday at Montreal’s Bell Centre.)
In fact, Jagger, joined by the group’s core of guitarists Keith Richards, 69, and Ronnie Wood, 66, and drummer Charlie Watts, 72, reminded the crowd that Friday was the 50th anniversary of the Stones first single, Come On, a cover of a Chuck Berry song.
“I can’t really remember much of it,” said Jagger before attempting a few verses and eventually giving up: “See, Charlie remembered!”
The set list, meanwhile, was mostly the same with a few deviations and new songs as the band opened with Get off My Cloud, just had they had previously, on their huge iconic lips and tongue stage that boasted a giant catwalk and enormous back screen.
There was no special guest on Thursday night like there had been on May 25 when Carrie Underwood showed up to sing It1s Only Rock And Roll, but in the end, it didn’ t really matter.
The Stones were the show.
Standouts proved to be such dark classics as Paint It Black, Gimme Shelter — with special mention again of backup singer Lisa Fischer’s ridiculously good voice, and Sympathy For the Devil; Richards taking over on lead vocals on You Got The Silver and Before They Make Me Run; former Stones’ guitarist Mick Taylor stealing the show with his jammy playing on Can’t You Hear Me Knockin, Midnight Rambler and Satisfaction, the final song of the night; the Cawthra Secondary School Chamber Choir singing on You Can’t Always Get What You Want and my personal fave Tumbling Dice.
“Ladies and gentlemen, good evening,” said Richards during his turn at the mic. “Hey, thanks for showing up.”
New song additions included the fan choice, Worried About You from 1981’s Tattoo You, with a falsetto-voiced Jagger playing the keyboards and admitting: “I had to go back to square one and relearn this one.”
The Stones, rounded out by bassist Darryl Jones, keyboardist Chuck Leavell, backup singer Bernard Fowler and saxophonists Bobby Keys and Tim Ries, also played Rocks Off from 1972’s Exile On Main Street, which they hadn’t at the earlier Toronto show.
If this is, in fact, their final tour — which no one in the band has said it is — they went out on top, leaving the crowd wanting more.
SET LIST
Get Off Of My Cloud
It’s Only Rock ‘N’Roll (But I Like It)
Paint It Black
Gimme Shelter
Worried About You
Rocks off
Emotional Rescue
Doom and Gloom
One More Shot
Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’ (with Mick Taylor)
Honky Tonk Women
You Got The Silver (Keith on lead vocals)
Before They Make Me Run (Keith on lead vocals)
Midnight Rambler (with Mick Taylor)
Miss You
Start Me Up
Tumbling Dice
Brown Sugar
Sympathy For The Devil
ENCORE
You Can’t Always Get What You Want (with Cawthra Park Secondary School’s Chamber Choir)
Jumpin’ Jack Flash
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (with Mick Taylor)
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