Midnight Rambler on the b-stage at Staples Center 2003 was intensely amazing....I was mesmerized, I was rocked, and I was rolled....
It was the the free NRDC Benefit concert, and I was miraculously gifted with a ticket located on the rail of the B-stage from a close friend.
I've mentioned it before, but it was almost an out-of-body experience....Keith directly in front of me...blasting away...eye to eye contact...showing how it's done...
I had flashbacks of all those years I had been a fan of the Stones and Midnight Rambler...listening to various versions of MR repeatedly... playing guitar along to to it as a teenager, or trying to...
It was perhaps the most intense and memorable 10 minutes of a live Stones performance I'd ever experienced up to that point, and probably ever since...and it was free...
Listening back to the performance later on a bootleg was not quite as exceptional, but being there in person and in the moment was beyond my wildest dreams.
_____________________________________________________________Rip this joint, gonna save your soul, round and round and round we go......