From the opening notes of "Midnight Rambler" Mick had the entire audience wet between its legs. The beat raced. Mick became the hero-rapist and the music supported his role. He crouched face-down on the floor and flailed the stage and straining teenage hands with his silver-studded belt. "Come Live With Me," and "Honky Tonk Woman" (cheaply dedicated to "the loose women in the house"), and then Mick lept with calculated savvy into the air, did a split, and gave us "Satisfaction." By this time the house lights were on. Mick wanted to see "how beeyewtifool" we were. The scene was spectacular in Kleig daylight.
Mick paced and stalked, pouted and minced, brandishing the mike stand like a phallic bludgeon. This slight, sylph-like figure filled out, swelled his larger-than-life reputation. He accomplished what he had set out to do. He bedazzled the thousands. Although everyone was on his feet, few danced—it was Mick's show, a celebration of him, not us. He came as close as he could to immortality. His closing, guttural promise to "see us again" was a threat.
Related:
The Rolling Stones | Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert, The Big Hurt: The decade ahead, Bearstronaut | Broken Handclaps, More 
- The Rolling Stones | Get Yer Ya-Ya's Out! The Rolling Stones in Concert
This live 1969 Madison Square Garden set was released at the band's peak, following Beggars Banquet and Let It Bleed , preceding Sticky Fingers and Exile on Main Street , and recorded a week before the disaster at Altamont.
- The Big Hurt: The decade ahead
As a new decade dawns, it's time to cast a curious eye toward the future.
- Bearstronaut | Broken Handclaps
There's a distinct absence of wildlife or astronauts on Lowell electronica quartet Bearstronaut's latest release.
- Super 8-Bit Brothers | Brawl
It's easy to forget how annoying certain pop-culture artifacts were in their heyday.
- Ke$ha | Animal
If balancing adolescent stupidity and abandon with effortless hooks has been a sacred rite of pop music since time immemorial, then crunk-pop diva Ke$ha is on her way to priesthood.
- Various Artists | Casual Victim Pile: Austin 2010
The notion that regional musical flavors exist independently in American cities is quickly becoming an archaic truism, seeing as how the world really is a stage these days, at least in the digital sense.
- Review: In Search of Beethoven
Phil Grabsky's exhaustive documentary doesn't exactly dispel any stereotypes about Beethoven's being a shaggy genius prone to rages.
- The Big Hurt: Falling down the rabbit hole
Lee, Hoppus, Wentz, Avril, and 3OH!3 fall down the rabbit hole
- 5 for '10
I love baby bands, and I hope the ones I mention here don't mind my calling them that.
- Tight but loose
I had never come across the adjective "jangular" until I visited the Glowkid website.
- The Big Hurt: Billboard Top Hip-Hop and R and B songs
This week, a jolly traipse through one of Billboard 's most artistically fecund charts: "Top Hip-Hop and R&B Songs." What wonders await?
- Less
Topics:
Flashbacks
, Entertainment, Music, TD Garden, More
, Entertainment, Music, TD Garden, Ronnie Wood, Sports, The Rolling Stones, Mick Jagger, Charlie Watts, Keith Richards, Bill Wyman, Less
