Grandfather rockers can still teach us a thing or two

My ex-classmate since Primary 1, ex-band organist, now retiring age, was still awed by the Rolling Stones in concert recently in Sydney. Here is his report to his ex-band members:-

Hi Guys,

WOW !!! What a fantastic show !!! Don't miss it if the Stones comes to your part of the world. It seems this show is the best ever – Bigger Bang!

The intro to the show was simply awesome! Fully packed to the bream, this football stadium in the Olympic park.

Yes, the intro was something like this….just imagine the packed stadium including the field itself all fully packed and the lights were all switched off, of course the women all screaming and whistling, and then all of a sudden you can see on the big giant screen a missile/ meteorite slowly approaching direct to you together with the accompanying sound effects and as it reaches you, a monster of a BANG ! really really load bang – you can almost feel your heart jumping out of your chest, everyone sort of looked at each other with a kind of pleasant shock, then another same one followed, this time, the BANG was accompanied with fire works explosives and then, the last one…………….just imagine an even BIGGER BANG with even much louder fire works explosives – you might think someone exploded the whole stadium, just as the fire works almost fizzles out, suddenly the spot lights came on the centre stage (none of us could see that all of them the Stones were actually there on the stage already) and Keith Richards struck the first chord of Jumping Jack flash and like WOW! everyone (including myself) jumped out of their seats.

Overall a really really enjoyable time, would be even better if all of us could be there, plenty of women, all having a really good time. No fun just going with the wife, better with your mates, have a few beers – ( get to a stage where you are only slightly "high") dancing & singing and watching the show. Almost everyone around us sang all the songs and on each occasion, when Mick Jagger comes near to our end, all of us would stand up and all the women screaming and frantically waving to him as if trying to catch his attention.

Another interesting part of the show was that the centre part of the stage actually detach itself and glided from one goal post to almost reaching to the other goal post area with only the backup singers and the wind instruments left behind on the main stage – maybe for those who paid A$399 sitting on the ground section near the other goal post end to benefit.

Also very happy with the organizers, the train services was free and very little time spent waiting for trains and crowd control were well maintained and orderly – what do you expect from crowds our age – eh?

I was hoping they play Ruby Tuesday, but very happy with lots of oldies sang especially Charlie Watts drumming out his roll in "Get Out of my clouds" and Honky Tonk, and as usual ending the show with Satisfaction and more fire works after that to end the show.

We must all go together to the next show if it happens in KL or S'pore.