Sunday, February 12, 2006

The Stones concert


Last night I saw the Rolling Stones at the Coliseo. It was pretty good. The sound was kind of annoying, they cranked it up real loud but sounded kind of distorted. One could barely hear Mick Jagger singing. Sometimes one could barely recognize the first chords of a song. Someone told me the Coliseo has serious acoustic problems because it was not built with concerts in mind. I guess they built it for hockey.

The real highlight was "Start me Up" which seemed to be the only Stones song that many people attending knew by heart. There were Stones fans there but one could tell there were a lot of people who were there because it was the "trendy" thing to do. Not many people were singing along the old Stones hits, it was a crowd who knwe the Stones from the 1980's...not the ones from the the 60's and 70's.

So all in all, it was a pretty good concert. Was it worth $400??? I guess if you had never seen them before live, maybe. As for me, hmmmm...I don't know.

2 comments:

Anonymous said...

auch!, espero que hayan cantado angie...amo esa cancion pero casi nadie la conoce. y satisfaction, por favor!!! si esa no la canto el publico, hay que ver cuan posers son aca en pr!!!!

yo sabia que ese coliseo no iba a ser the ultimate in audio accoustics....por algo tuvo tantos problemas cuando lo estaban por inaugurar, es que aca construyen con chicle (no te comento sobre el nuevo centro de convenciones...dios, como se nota qeu lo abrieron apurados, se le ven las costuras a los arquitectos e ingenieros)

Anonymous said...

A mi me encantó el concierto, creo que se escuchaba mal depende dónde te sentaras- en el área frente al stage se oía perfecto, parece que el problema está en los lados.

La organización y seguridad fueron excelentes, tanto en el Choliseo como en el Tren Urbano. Pensé que habría caos a la hora de salir del concierto para montarse en el tren, y para mi sopresa la salida fue todavía más rápida que la llegada. Muy bien coordinado y organizado.