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Stones plan first stop in city since '69

Stones plan first stop in city since '69 Stones, from Page lc a chance for that." He said the Rolling Stones could have returned for a second show in Washington but will be able to create more excitement by coming to Baltimore a few months after their D.C. show. "The Stones are very, very smart about keeping the magic, and if they had announced another D.C. date, the reaction would have been, 'They were just here,' " Hurwitz said. "This is a great way to come back and play the general area again. And it's a great boon for Baltimore. But I don't think it's anything significant." The biggest recent test of Baltimore's appetite for concerts is Rams Head Live, an 1,800-capacity club that opened downtown in December. Hurwitz said bands that play the club only sell half as many tickets as they do in D.C, but the club's owners say they're pleased with business. "Everything's going great," said Erin Brunst, vice president for Rams Head. "We continue to announce strong musical acts, and we continue to get rave reviews from patrons and from the musicians themselves." She said the club has had several sellouts, including last week's show by Bob Weir, a founding member of the Grateful Dead. "The crowds have been showing up," Brunst said. There's no doubt crowds will greet the Stones' return to Baltimore. Dave Hill, program director for 98 Rock, said many of his station's listeners went through a Stones phase and have a soft spot in their heart for the band. He only wonders why the group took so long to come back. "It's a huge thing for Baltimore," Hill said. "We don't get a lot of larger acts through here because we end up playing second fiddle to Washington, and a lot of bands just assume that if they play Washington, they're taking care of Baltimore. But that's not really the case. We're our own city, and we're happy the Stones decided to come to town." The Rolling Stones' last Baltimore show was Nov. 26, 1969, when 13,000 showed up at what was then the Baltimore Civic Center. The Sun reported that ' XwlII Rolling Stones When: Feb. 1 Where: 1st Mariner Arena in Baltimore Tickets: On sale Saturday at 10 a.m. Prices are $62, $101 and $162. Gold Circle tickets also available. Buy: At Ticketmaster locations, online at ticketmaster .com and cellardoor.com, or by calling 410-547-SEAT. Read memories of previous Stones' concerts in Baltimore online at baltimoresun.com stones. If you'd like to share your own reminiscences about the Stones for inclusion in a future story about the band's return to Baltimore, send us an e-mail with Rolling Stones in the subject line at sun.featuresbalt sun.com. Please include a phone number where you can be reached. WINSLOW TOWNSON : ASSOCIATED PRESS Keith Richards (left) and Ron Wood of the Rolling Stones play Sunday at Fenway Park in Boston. some fans clashed with police, and 20 were arrested on charges ranging from assaulting a police officer to marijuana possession. But, the paper said, "The crowd of youngsters was, for the most part, orderly, although one teen-aged miss leaped into the orchestra pit and nearly climbed up onto the stage before two burly guards carried her bodily to the sidelines." The Washington Post, in a review of the show, described Jagger as "dressed in black bell-bottomed pants set with metal studs down the outside seam, long-sleeved black T-shirt and a long, red scarf draped across his neck." The paper also called him "the closest thing to an incarnation of evil that rock music has." The Stones are touring in support of a new record, A Bigger Bang, which is due out Sept. 6 and is their first in seven years. The tour kicked off Sunday night at Fenway Park in Boston and will conclude March 9 in Little Rock, Ark. One of the most enduring bands of all time, the Stones pioneered a raw, blues-based sound in the '60s that would come to define hard rock and presage punk by a decade. They began as the sexier, more dangerous alternative to the Beatles, epitomizing the rebellious attitude of the era. Over the years, Jagger's upfront machismo and campy antics gave the band a strong visual identity, while Keith Richards' and Brian Jones' vibrant guitar work marked the band's sound. Over the years, as the group delved into psychedelia and even disco, the Stones never abandoned their blues foundation. The band's most celebrated albums include Beggars Banquet (1968), Let It Bleed (1969), Sticky Fingers (1971) and Exile on Main Street (1972). The quartet stumbled through the later part of the '70s and the '80s. They never matched the creative exuberance and sheer energy of those early albums. But in 1989, the Stones went back on the road (the first time in seven years) with the highly successful Steel Wheels tour. And musically, the band bounced back in the '90s with critically well-received albums like Voodoo Lounge (1994) and Bridges to Babylon (1997). This week's tour kickoff before 36,000 at Fenway Park was well received by critics and fans. Jagger, now 62, raced across the stage even two hours into the set, and The Boston Globe's headline was "Stones hit it out of the park." And The New York Times, in a review of the Fenway show, said of the Stones' somewhat older incarnation and sound: "It may be classic, but it still rocks." Sun pop music critic Rashod D. Ollison and Sun researcher Jean Packard contributed to this article.
Article from 23 Aug 2005The Baltimore Sun(Baltimore, MD)
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