rolling ramble

Here follows the set list from thursday night's Rolling Stones concert:

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Start Me Up
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
Shattered
Tumblin' Dice
Rough Justice
Ruby Tuesday
Sweet Virginia
All Down The Line
Night Time Is The Right Time
Miss You
Oh No Not You Again
Get Off My Cloud
Honky Tonk Woman
Sympathy For The Devil
Midnight Rambler
Paint It Black
Brown Sugar
Jumping Jack Flash
You Can't Always Get What You Want
Satisfaction

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there is the story about what it was like to be an usher

there is the story about how being an usher is not really the job for me

there is the story about how the wheelchair section i was stationed at had spaces numbered 1-13 but the tickets issued were numbered 1-18

there was the bomb threat which at first i thought was a good old fashioned drug
bust (it happened just after band introductions; ron wood was sitting down to do something special for us)

there was mick jagger, who looks swell at 62

and how about his his t-shirts for trivia: a black one with sparkles, and a reddish one with some funky full frontal skeletal batik

there was the stage and the big blasts of flame they shot out from its two pillars accompanied by fireworks


Here is 70 Volt Parade's set list (Trey Anastasio & friends)

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Air Said To Me
46 Days
Tuesday
Come As Melody
I Am The Walrus (The Beatles)
Night Speaks To A Woman
Shine

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trey anastasio hit the stage full on just rang it out serious guitar trance

but i didn't watch and couldn't really hear the details because all the people were pouring into the stadium just then and i had to help them find their seats and ponder the questions i hadn't answers for

(is it any mistake that we had not a single briefing about what
wearing the bright yellow t-shirt that said "STAFF" really meant

yet we were stationed on one of four aisles closest to
the stage where all the "wanne be closers" were flooding

and no smoking in the stadium meant we were
expected to tell people to put it out)

my final thought for this particular misguided entry is that
being an usher takes the magic out of being present to the performance,
but,
the magic is with me now,
and that is real cool