The Rolling Stones are playing Moncton? WTF?!

[HEyHEY]

MONCTON, N-B -- Legendary rock 'n' roll band The Rolling Stones will play four Canadian cities during a massive world tour that will begin this summer in North America.
The aging rock stars, led by 61-year-old Mick Jagger, will play Ottawa on August 28th; Moncton, New Brunswick on September 3th; Toronto on September 26th; and Calgary on October 28th.
The tour will begin in Boston's Fenway Park on August 21st.
They have 35 dates confirmed in the United States and Canada.

[ghostsofgiants]

1. Wow, and I thought Pearl Jam playing St. John's was big...

[MissMillie]

2. I've actually been to Moncton

can you believe that?

[HEyHEY]

3. I used to live there... love it!

[welshTerrier2]

19. me too ...

stopped there on my way to Prince Edward Island ...

vaguely remember some kind of tourist trap called Magnetic Hill ... i think it was an optical illusion that made you feel like your car was rolling uphill ...

[graywarrior]

4. Hey, I've been there too!

[HEyHEY]

5. It really is a great town

[Blue-Jay]

6. They're having a press conference next door to me today.

[bballny]

7. Sorry for

hijacking your thread but Cream just played Royal Albert Hall and the 3 songs I have heard are great. It is far more interesting to here about Cream than the Stones at this time. The Stones have continued to tour and seeing them now is no big deal. I saw them many times including '72 with Stevie Wonder. I also saw Cream in '68 and I find their concert far more newsworthy.

[HEyHEY]

8. You've never been to Moncton have you?

It's like 100,000 people. That's why it's such a shock

[kwassa]

11. Cream has reformed ??????? the greatest band ever?

I passed up a chance to see them in '68 and forever regretted it.

[bballny]

16. Did know

if they are touring this summer but there is a crowd recording of the show. I've heard "I'm so Glad, Crossroads and Sunshine of your Love and it is really good. Clapton's breaks are inspiring.

[LynneSin]

9. It's stuff like this that almost makes me glad John Bonham died...

..when he did.

I terrible miss Led Zeppelin but I feel that their imagine is intact. And although Plant, Page and Jones are still doing solo works at least they're not touring around ruining the good name of Led Zeppelin.

Rolling Stones haven't put out a decent album since "Some Girls" and I think I was still in High School when that came out. It's time for them to retire - their music is almost becoming anecdotal

[kwassa]

13. The Stones are still a great live band, better than most current bands

who are clones of each other and have no individual personality.

I saw Led Zep on their very first US tour, and they weren't very good then.

[Atlas Mugged]

18. Thanks

It's nice to hear that. This forum is so anti Stones it's pathetic. But, gawd forbid you trash Paul McCartney and Wings.

Anyway, I go to all their tours and I'll go to this one in Toronto. Their shows are alway abosolutely amazing, and I still love their studio releases, which are always critically acclaimed.

[bballny]

17. I saw Led Zep's

second tour in the U.S. and I know many people love them but they never did it for me. I was a huge Yardbirds fan and even owned an original copy of Having a Rave up with the best version of "The Train kept a rollin". .That being said Jimmy Page was at this Cream concert.

[lenidog]

10. Why is that suprising? Is it a small town?

I heard of the place but I don't know anything besides where it is on the map.

[HEyHEY]

14. Only about 100,000 people and it's not near any other larger cities

[jonnyblitz]

12. I have been to Moncton as a child.

I don't remember much about it. :shrug:

I do remember Prince Edward Island though. Nice place!! :thumbsup:

[Orsino]

15. They just haven't been the same since Wyman left...

These new Stones are bogus. :-)

[Atlas Mugged]

20. I don't agree, at all

I go to see Keith Richards more than anything.

[bballny]

21. I didn't

knock the Stones at all and I do think they are good in concert. I just think the Cream concerts are more newsworthy. I can't poet yet so I needed someplace to talk about the Creanm shows.

[Atlas Mugged]

22. I'm sick that I missed the Cream shows

I'm looking forward to seeing if they take it any further.

On the other hand, I don't have to listen to complaints about how old the Stones look as much anymore. Baker and Bruce look positively septugenarian. Regardless - I'll see them if I have the chance. Fuck the ageism that pollutes our culture; looks has nothing to do with performing.