10/10
What can I say? It's a beautiful thing from a beautiful time...
23 August 2005
The Rolling Stones Circus is amazing. You can tell the party that was going on in the background, because it is so full of energy. From the start, all of these terrific musicians lined up in crazy clothing, walking around with instruments, to the last "goodnightly song", with a whole audience and all the musicians swaying back and forth, it is terrific. I can hardly even pinpoint the best performances. The Who's is definitely up there. The performance is great musically as well as in terms of the overall thing--basically everyone (besides Entwistle) going wild. The Dirty Mac is really interesting as well, to see this medley of famous people playing with each other--not in their own respective groups. I didn't originally buy this because of the Rolling Stones, more for John Lennon, the Who and the basic idea. But seeing and hearing them got me to listen to several of their albums...Pete Townsend is right about Mick Jaggers energy...he certainly keeps it alive at 2am in the morning after 2 days of insanity. Basically, this is just a beautiful and amazing show. Something like it could never happen again for many reasons, but at least we can watch it. It's so alive and crazy, and though I wouldn't really know, I like to think that it does sum up part of an era. A great one at that. Wish I could have been in the audience...
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