The Night Mick Jagger And The Stones Came To My Party

Hey just because I can't watch movies and TV shows in repeat mode doesn't mean the same rules apply when it comes to music being played live. The greatest Rock concert stories come from passion dripping fans that have spent more bucks then common sense on connections born while standing in long lines to use the bathroom, hoisting ice cold beer to a set of lips burned by an unforgiving outdoor festival sun or from singing the lyrics with so much presentation the person in the seat next to you is convinced that you're the reincarnation of the people on stage. Being "Live" isn't an honor that only belongs to microphone munching. guitar riffing, video monitor monsters of music's finest. It's you're show too baby! I'll never forget the night Steven Tyler of Aerosmith was so disappointed with the crowd's reaction that he began to impersonate the peeps in the seats. Arms crossed, blank emotions or barely spark in their eye. Once ticketholders caught on to the front man's stand against being "life-less" at his "Live" performance...the night ignited like a beer fart carrying the scent of vinegar flavored North Carolina BBQ. What? People remember that stuff! They laugh about it for years. Dang! Thought Johnny was in need of some serious EMT! If he had...wouldn't we all be in jail for hangin with a known weapon of gas destruction? So word has it that Mick Jagger and the Rolling Stones are coming back home to the stage. I'm still lit with laughter on how we entered Ericson Stadium in Charlotte, NC. Featured was one extremely exclusive luxury box ticket; the rest were somewhere out there in a nest of fans from every corner of the planet. As a joke we poked fun of the idea of holding the tickets in a special way that said, "This is us...you've gotta let us in." Through the first set of gates we flew no questions asked. Keep in mind this was well before these new digitized laser guns became the stun game. So human dependability was based on reliability. Up the ramp we raced like rats on a chase. To make it through the second gate our chosen fate. Security knew my face. Into the private space we did play. We were having so much fun in that luxury box the Mayor and other well known's plus restaurant owners dropped in to steal a sneak peak from the seats that somehow someway became the hood to hang! By the final song I couldn't sing. Those private suites feature plenty too much to drink. Whoa Daddy! I'm still convinced that we didn't go see The Rolling Stones. They were the house band at our once in a lifetime Rock party. True story!!!! I'm sure this is nothing compared to the 50 years of satisfying that's been accomplished. And just when you thought it was done...word in Rollingstone Magazine is the journey is coming. It's shaping up to be a major fall for the Rolling Stones. In addition to recording new music in Paris last week, the band will play its first shows since 2007 later this year to celebrate its 50th anniversary. Rolling Stone has learned the band is planning two shows at Brooklyn's Barclays Center to happen before the end of the year. "This was accomplished in a Navy SEAL-like operation," a source familiar with the deal tells Rolling Stone. "No one I knew whispered a word of this before yesterday." Billboard reported yesterday about the Brooklyn shows and added the band will also play two shows at London's O2 Arena in November with Virgin founder Richard Branson and Australian promoter Paul Dainty promoting the gigs. A spokesperson for the Stones declined to say the London and New York shows were confirmed. The band gathered to record two new songs for an upcoming box set last week at Guillaume Tell Studios near Paris, where they also recorded new tracks for 2002's 40 Licks set a decade ago. "Had fun in the Paris studio this week!" Mick Jagger tweeted with a photo surrounded by Telecasters, Stratocasters and harmonicas. "I'd love to get some tracks down and see what songs we've got," Keith Richards told Rolling Stone before the recording sessions. "And that goes along with part of getting the band back together and getting things moving. So I'd love to cut some tracks, yeah." Asked if he saw himself writing one-on-one with Jagger again, Richards said, "I have no doubt." The Stones also rehearsed songs from their entire catalog in the New York area in April. "That was a great time," Richards said. "I thought I'd be quite rusty, after all we hadn't done it for a while, in five years or something. And amazing to hear it sounded as fresh as you could hope for. It was a great week." The final day of those rehearsals were filmed for Crossfire Hurricane, a film spanning the band's entire career to premiere November 15th, directed by Brett Morgen (The Kid Stays in the Picture). "Nobody has put the story together as a narrative," Morgen told Rolling Stone earlier this year. "We've been looking under every rock going through their archives. It will be music never heard before, and I've conducted 50-plus hours of interviews so far. By the time we're done, they will be the most extensive group interviews they've ever done." At the time, Richards told Rolling Stone, "He told me 80 percent of the footage has never been seen before, which amazes me. I didn't know there was that much around."