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August 19, 2005
Podcasting with the Rolling Stones
Walking home from our parking space off Boston's Beacon Street tonight, we couldn't help but notice the guy down the street blasting "Miss You" by the Rolling Stones from his apartment. That is, until we realized a few moments later that we were hearing the Rolling Stones performing a dress rehearsal concert at Fenway Park.
Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, et al will be kicking off their world tour this Sunday night in Boston. They arrived in town a day or so ago, performing their first dress rehearsal last night. Unfortunately, it didn't occur to us then to open our apartment windows to enjoy a free concert. You see, even though we're a mile away from Fenway, the neighborhood acoustics make it possible for us to sit in our sun room with our windows open and hear any live performance taking place at Fenway. Usually that translates into baseball chatter, but tonight, it's an evening of Mick Jagger belting out Rolling Stones classics. (Right now, they're working their way through "Brown Sugar.") They're performing in front of an actual audience this Sunday and Tuesday, so we potentially have a total of three opportunities to take in a free Rolling Stones concert rather than shell out the $450 face-value price for an actual ticket, let alone the eBay scalper's markup.
(Sidebar moment: As I write, they're now playing "Sympathy for the Devil." Oooh oooh. Oooh Oohh. Hope you guess my name. Cool.)
In case you don't believe me, I'd like to present this podcast. I recorded this sitting in our sun room as our cat Dizzy and I enjoyed a free performance of "I Can't Get No Satisfaction," with the relaxing sounds of crickets in the background. (Listen to the podcast with headphones to get the full stereophonic Mick Jagger vs. the Giant Crickets effect.) Technically, you might be able to argue that this is the very first bootleg of the Stones' 2005 World Tour, but they way I look at it, I see it like this: if I can sit in my apartment and have the Rolling Stones intrude on my personal space, I should be able to record a podcast of it. Anyway, that's my story, and I'm stickin' to it. -andy
Posted by acarvin at August 19, 2005 9:51 PM
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