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Rolling Stones Bring Back Octogenarian Pride, Rocking as Vigorously as Ever at SoFi Stadium Show: Concert Review
The Rolling Stones revisited SoFi after three years, Mick Jagger still skipping, Keith Richards and Ron Wood still riffing, time still standing still.
No one has yet parsed the possible issues of “Midnight Rambler” to the point of banishment, anyway — so that remains in its perennial spot as a great “11:00 number” (not quite literally, but in Broadway terms), extended as always with stops and starts so that Mick can get down on his knees at the end of the stage’s thrush ramp, and so that it can go into double-time with as much blowsy harmonica soloing as ever from Jagger and his apparently bottomless lungs. To see him skip down the ramp — or to see him teasingly lift up his T-shirt to reveal a flash of skinny torso — is to see breezy youth personified, albeit in an admittedly somewhat gnarled package; it’s an oxymoron you can waste time trying to unpack, or just find ongoing delight in. As for the encore selections, there’s something telling about the juxtaposition of “Sweet Sounds of Heaven,” a latter-day attempt at spiritual earnestness — and a song that, to be honest, skirts right up to the edge of being corny — with “(Can’t Get No) Satisfaction,” the ultimate expression of immaturity.
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