B-Stage: Shattered Beast of Burden Miss You

Main Stage: Midnight Rambler You Got Me Rockin Tumbling Dice Street Fighting Man Jumpin' Jack Flash

Encore: Satisfaction

Mick Jagger has said in interviews that the stadium shows the Stones play on this tour are going to have a "theme," i.e. they're going to play plenty of songs from a certain album in tehir catalogue.

On Monday, it was Exile on Main Street at the Fleet Center. Tonight, at Gillette Stadium, the Rolling Stones let Some Girls Let It Bleed. With 4 songs from each album, they sotre through the their peaks of the 60's and 70's.

the setlist was, no surprise, a decent summation of their greatest hits. I called it when I said they would open the show with Brown Sugar (which kicked ass). The hits were performed with expertise, of course.

The stage was comparatively simple. Simple, that is, compared to past tours. The set was a gigantic wall with a few pyros that went off at the end (and fireworks...). Plus, eight thin video screens that would comebine in different patterns throughout the night to broadcast the band.

I was in the eighteenth row... Eighteenth row, that is, behind the football field. So, the big screen was useful for watching Mick Jagger (who has the best moves in rock again, now that Chris Robinson has become a folk singer) and the rest rock out. Speaking of whcih, they were showmanlike, but not to the point of hurting the music (see: tthe albums Love You Live/Still Life).

The show was AMAZING, though. Everywhere, energy abound. Hell, Keith even sang one of my favorite songs of his, "Slipping Away." I simply can't ask for much more.

The only problem I had was their mini-set on the B-stage. The set was fine; I LOVE Some Girls... that's a great album. However, they either had sound problems or felt like being assholes to anyone outside of the 20 ft. radius around the B-stage, because they killed most of the crowd's energy. "Shattered" was a mess, "Beast of Burden" got a little better, but "Miss You" just didn't have anything to keep it afloat (I DID start some of thsoe "Hoo hooooo's" in my section, though).

But then they picked upt eh ball and RAN with it. "Midnight Rambler" is ALWAYS a highlight live. "You Got Me Rocking" was the lone song from the 90's in the set, but it works. And the rest never fail to impress.

Hey, I even got "Monkey Man"!!!!!!!! I LOVE that song, and they never play it live. Sure, the studio version was better, but it was still great to hear. Psychedelic funk all the way!

Anyway, I just felt like sharing my concert experience here, because it was certainly something that I truely enjoyed. Hopefully a bootleg will pop up somewhere so I can re-live the experience.