If you think this was a fitting tribute to THE ROLLING STONES...You need to get out more. With the exception of a few...Nobody brought their "A" game. Ian Hunter acted as if he never listened to the words to "19th Nervous Breakdown" before in the last 40 years. This was a tribute to The Stones in New York City @ Carnegie Hall...Not a bunch of garage bands playing some dive bar in WISCONSIN.

thanks guys for your reviews.
Wild Horses version is beautiful.
as strange as it may sound, this tribute concert makes me sad.
Sounds like the beginning of the end, the twilight of a great adventure.

A few more from those rehearsals, while we're waiting for any more from the actual gig to show up:

Satisfaction with Juliette Lewis:





Heart of Stone with Peaches:





Street Fighting Man with Angelique Kidjo:

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If you think this was a fitting tribute to THE ROLLING STONES...You need to get out more. With the exception of a few...Nobody brought their "A" game. Ian Hunter acted as if he never listened to the words to "19th Nervous Breakdown" before in the last 40 years. This was a tribute to The Stones in New York City @ Carnegie Hall...Not a bunch of garage bands playing some dive bar in WISCONSIN.

I think you are in the minority in this view. The artists all brought their best and it was for a great cause. What the --uck do you know, anyway?

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The Crowes could of been carried the torch from the Stones but love got in the way...

Yeah hammer their sound was right, their keyboard player for their 1st and best reecord was the same (Chuck L.) but one ingredient very obviously missing...SONGWRITING.

Thanks to those posters who attended and wrote act by act reviews. Much appreciated. peace

Should the Stones have been there if it was a tribute to them? I've heard some people ask that and it made me wonder - does that even matter? There are tributes all the time with the artist being tributed not on the same continent even. Does that even matter?

I don't know...I thought some of the artists could have done well with more practice with their lyrics and music.

I'm originally from Wisconsin, btw. I do think Carnegie Hall deserved a bit better. As usual, audience expectations influence perception of performance.
Garfunkel needs to hang it up, in my view. But still, some of this is a matter of personal taste, with
such diverse talent and styles in the line-up

~"Love is Strong"~

Great song for an American Idol audition.

Funny. I was there and to me, Rosanne Cash's "Gimme Shelter," which seems not to have been discussed, was the showstopper. So surprising and spooky. She's got miles and miles of class and cool.

"Street Fighting Man" was brilliant as well. And when the ensemble careened into "Tumbling Dice," the room went wild. I don't think I was alone in leaving with my Stones love thoroughly energized.

Of course, the bittersweet element of all this is the Stones' own latter-day reluctance to be anything other than utterly faithful to the arrangements on the records.

Like many others, I've been bored to tears by the tour speculation and the band's dormancy. Relief has come from my new, 500-plus song Stones playlist on my iPod. The standard of quality is staggering and I find that "Let Me Down Slow" and "Gunface" sound even better when they fall next to, say, "Prodigal Son," "Slave" and "Little Queenie."