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NS. LOUIS (AP) — The Rolling Stones are now touring again without heartbeats, or at least backbeats.
Legendary rockers launched a delayed pandemic “unfiltered” tour at the Americans Center dome in St. Louis on Sunday. There was no drummer for nearly 60 years.It was clear from the beginning how much the band members and fans missed Charlie Watts who died last month Except for a private show in Massachusetts last week, the St. Louis concert was the first since Watts’ death.
The show started with just an empty stage and drum beats, with Watt’s photos flashing on the video board. From the second song onwards, the exciting production of “It’s Only Rock and Roll (But I Like It)” appeared in front of the stage with Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and Ronnie Wood. Jaguar and Richards clasped their hands, thanking the fans for their support and love for Watt. Jaguar admitted that seeing Watt’s photos was inspiring.
“This is the first tour we’ve done without him,” Jaguar said. “I miss Charlie both on and off the stage.”
The band then dedicated “Tumbling Dice” to Watt.
The tour was scheduled for 2020, before the coronavirus virtually closed the tour industry. Signs of a pandemic were everywhere in the Missouri show. Missouri was hit hard by a delta variant of the virus.
Tens of thousands of fans wore masks, as required by the St. Louis antivirus protocol. Stones itself has appeared in public service announcements that encourage anyone with symptoms to stay home. A vaccination site has been set up in the dome, and similar sites are planned at each tour stop.
The concert itself featured the same driving beat anthropomorphized by Watt, thanks to his successor Steve Jordan. Drummers may be new to fans, but nothing new to Stones. Jordan has been playing for years on Richards’ side project, X-Pensive Winos, and many other major acts.
Still, despite his true love for jazz, enthusiastic fans couldn’t help but miss Watts, who is widely regarded as one of Rock’s greatest drummers. He joined Jaguar and Richards at the Rolling Stones in 1963. Wood joined in 1975.
For Laura Jezewski, 62, from Omaha, Nebraska, seeing a stone without Watts was bittersweet.
“It’s really sad,” she said. “He is the first old stone to die.”
The show featured a long series of band hits. Jaguar didn’t look like a 78-year-old man, but pretended to be half around the stage, one-third of his age. A vortex of constant movement. His vocals, and Wood and Richards’ guitar pieces, still sounded good.
After St. Louis, the tour will include a stop in Charlotte, North Carolina. Pittsburgh; Nashville, Tennessee; Minneapolis, Minnesota; Tampa, Florida; Dallas; Atlanta; Detroit; The band also added new dates in Los Angeles on October 14th and 17th, and a concert in Las Vegas on November 6th. Added.
Jezewski and her 60-year-old husband, Brad, took their 30-year-old daughter Sarah to St. Louis for a concert. It was Sara’s first chance to see the Rolling Stones. Her mom and dad have seen them in different places — Ames, Iowa. Boulder, Colorado; Denver; even Wichita, Kansas — dating back to the 1970s.
With the band members who survived the 70’s, Jezewskis didn’t want to miss this opportunity.
“If it’s their last-we’re here,” said Brad Jezevsky. “And if there is another tour, we will be there too.”
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