Arts & Entertainment
Al Schaben/Daily Nebraskan
Keith Richards, left, and Mick Jagger, right, of the Rolling Stones perform
Saturday night. The veteran band performed classic hits, as well as new ones
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“Undercover of the Night” before a crowd of nearly 55,000 in Ames, Iowa
from its 1989 album, 'Steel Wheels.'
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Rolling Stones’ concert worth tne trip
By Matt Burton
Staff Reporter
AMES, Iowa ~ I know it’s only
rock n’ roll, but this is ridiculous.
Tacky sponsorships, clothes lines
at JC Penney, endless hype of the
“concert event of the decade” and
unprecedented traffic congestion
for hours on end
Saturday night, the Rolling
Stones had to justify all of these
hassles to a packed crowd at Iowa
State’s Cyclone Stadium. And
despite the handicaps, the band
proved that the bottom line was to
shut up and listen to the music.
Living Colour opened the show
playing mostly songs from its first
album. The crowd slowly filed in
during the set, but the band didn’t
grab the entire audience’s full at
tention until the final number,
“Cult of Personality,” when the
entire stadium jumped up in pure
head-banger fashion.
After a long break between
bands, the lights dimmed and the
stadium filled with tapes of the
raucous drumming from “Conti
nental Drift,’ ’ while a burst of fire
works exploded, lighting up the
extremely large industrial stage.
The opening rift to * * Star t Me Up ”
filled the cold air, and nearly
55,000 people stood up on their
ctaurs to watch.
The Rolling Stones, dressed for
the brisk fall weather in heavy
coats, ripped through many old
songs and a few off of “Steel
Wheels,” including a funky
“Rock in a Hard Place’’ and
“Mixed Emotions.”
Next, the show whipped into
full gear with a raunchy “Honky
Tonk Women,” complete with
huge balloons of sleazy girls being
blown up on each side of the stage.
The show was going full tilt
when the band began to play a
large amount of material off
1969’s “Let It Bleed,” withadeli
cate yet hard-edged attitude.
It played “Midnight Rambler”
and the band was in top form.
Keith Richards grinned ear to car
as he played and it was easy to
forget that the band had not toured
since 1981. Charlie Watts kept ex
cellent time, showing he didn’t
need a 50-piece drum set to play
well.
Richards* guitar was cranked
louder for his two songs, “Before
They Make Me Run” and
“Happy,” and he occasionally
joined with the band for an off
beat, showing how tight the band
members play together.
Mick Jagger would walk off
stage to doff a new jacket, and he
showed what a great performer he
was by often walking to the sides
of the stage so the low-visibility
seats could get a glimpse. At one
point, after a psychedelic “2,000
Lights Years From Home,” the
Stones eased into ‘‘Sympathy For
The Devil” and Mick climbed four
stories high on the stage scaffold
ing getting closer to those scats iff
the nosebleed section.
The show ended with a raucous
version of “Satisfaction,” up
dated and more melodic than the
original, followed by a single en
core of “Jumpin’ Jack Flash.”
After band members left the
stage the audience was treated to a
large fireworics display as the
crowd slowly filed out of the sta
dium.
The crowd included people of
all ages. A woman in her 40s, who
had seen the Stones five times, said
the band had improved 100 percent
since the first time she saw it.
Tickets to go on sole for Lied Center s opening seoson
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Lied Center for Performing Arts season
ickets for the grand opening season will go on
ale by late October and individual tickets will
>c sold in January.
Cheryl Clark, marketing director for the
-ied Center, said an order form with a list of the
;rand opening season performances will be
ivailable in mid- to late-Octobcr.
To qualify as a season ticket holder, tickets
> at least three events in any one ol the scries
iffered must be purchased.
Season ticket holders get a 15 percent dis
ount on their series order and also can pur
hase early tickets to one or more of the special
vents.
Those who buy season tickets also get the
est seals for performances because their or
ders are filled before individual ticket orders,
'lark said.
Individual tickets will go on sale alter Jan.
The box office will fill season ticket orders
in the order they arc received, Clark said.
University of Nebraska-Lincoln students
and anyone under 18 receive half-price tickets
to all but the Lcs Miserables performance.
Prices for Lied Center productions range
from $6 to $40.
Groups of 25 to 44 get a $2 discount on each
ticket purchase and groups of 45 or more get a
$3 discount.
The three series of the grand opening season
are:
Grand Series _,
•Madame Butterfly, by Opera/Omaha, Feb.
9
•Nebraska Chamber Orchestra with Jean
Pierre Rampal, Feb. 21
•Isaac Stern in Recital, Feb. 28
•Robert Shaw conducting an All-Nebraska
Choral and Orchestral Festival, with Lin
coin Symphony Orchestra and Omaha
Symphony Orchestra, March 17 and 18
•Die Fledermaus, UNL Spring Operetta,
April 27 through 29
•Cinderella, by Opera Ballet de Lyon,
France, May 5
•Grand Kabuki Theatre, Tokyo, Japan, June
22 and 23
Variety Series
•Doc Severinsen and the Tonight Show
Band, March 3
•Japan’s Kodo Drummers and Dancers,
March 20
•Lincoln Symphony Orchestra Pops con
cert, with Steve Allen, March 24
•Marie Osmond, April 7
•Omaha Symphony Orchestra Pops concert
with Marvin Hamlisch, May 6
Weekend Series
•Madame Butterfly, by Opera/Umana, rco.
9
•Doc Scverinscn, March 3
•Robert Shaw, March 17 and 18
•Lincoln Symphony Orchestra Pops concert
with Steve Allen, March 24
•Marie Osmond, April 7
•Die Fledcrmaus, April 27 through 29
•Cinderella, May 5
•Omaha Symphony Orchestra Pops concert
with Marvin Hamlisch, May 6
•Grand Kabuki Theatre, June 22 and 23
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•The Joffrcy Ballet, March 9 through 11
•Philadelphia Orchestra, May 22
•Lcs Miserables, May 23 through 27
Group discounts can be arranged by calling
Norah Goebcl-Georgc at the Lied Center Of
fice, 472-4700.
For more ticket information, call the box
office at 472-4747.