<p>I’m watching this right now on HBO. So far:
Crosby, Stills, and Nash
Bonnie Rait
James Taylor
Smoky Robinson
Stevie Wonder
John Legend
and right now, BB King</p>
<p>wow–Stevie Wonder and Sting</p>
<p>Watching it right now.</p>
<p>Hope you guys don’t have to get up early tomorrow…apparently it’s on until after midnight…TIVO here…</p>
<p>Awesome Simon and Garfunkel brought back memories. Aretha’s on now!</p>
<p>DVR here.
Wayy past my bedtime.</p>
<p>Patti Smith, Bruce Springsteen, and U2 performing together. This should be interesting.</p>
<p>I was there for the concert the first night and it was a unique concert experience. Read that the second night was also terrific. The first night’s concert ran 5 1/2 hours. Definitely worth recording.</p>
<p>I have drifted off but I really enjoyed hearing CSNY sing so very well…and seeing Simon and Garfunkel, too. Jealous my son at Vandy saw Bruce just last week on what could be a final run with the E Street band alive and well…they are going on hiatus.</p>
<p>get this…my son told me that the concert was “rather touching…”…all those older people singing along so earnestly…" </p>
<p>He actually enjoys Springsteen a great deal so he had fun but said he had dropped into a former generation all together…</p>
<p>I thought Paul Simon’s rendition of “Here Comes the Sun”, with Crosby and Nash, was gorgeous. </p>
<p>Who was the young woman with the long dark hair singing with U2 and Mick Jagger?</p>
<p>I’m so glad this thread was started because I had forgotten this concert special was going to be broadcast. It’s a wonderful show! My H and I enjoyed it so much. Simon and Garfunkel and Crosby, Stills and Nash were great and the ending with Springsteen and friends was also. I wonder if there will be a CD of this?</p>
<p>Booklady, just watching the DVR tonight. That was Fergie from the Black Eyed Peas with Mick and Bono on Gimme Shelter. She was actually pretty good and I’ve never been impressed with her before.
I thought Simon and Garfunkel held up better than CSN. By the way, that was James Raymond, David Crosby’s son on keyboards in the background. He is an accomplished musician in his own right.</p>
<p>Thanks ebeeeee. I feel old. The only Fergie I know is the Duchess of York.</p>
<p>S&G were very good. We saw them in concert a couple of years ago, and Artie’s voice was shot, but this time he sounded great.</p>
<p>Little Anthony and the Imperials were amazing…</p>
<p>The highlights from what I’ve seen on the DVR has been Ghost of Tom Joad with Tom Morello - the guitarist from Rage Against the Machine* - playing very well and then a straight out version of Jungleland by the E Street Band. The song may resonate more now that Bruce is older. (BTW, he grew up next to a big Amoco station, so the line about the giant Exxon sign makes literal sense.) </p>
<p>I was disappointed that Metallica sounded kind of ragged. The beauty in their work was the tightness.</p>
<p>A problem with this kind of show is that they end up with lots of people on stage and they all have to do something all the time so you get a bunch of noise. But that’s what fast forward is for.</p>
<p>*I always had to laugh a little at Rage because Morello is the son of an ambassador and went to Harvard, so you have this revolutionary group rooted in the upper middle class (or higher in his case). Same with Beastie Boys.</p>
<p>^Thanks for mentioning that guitarist. He was incredible. My husband and I missed his introduction and we wanted to know his name. </p>
<p>My husband also noticed the female bass guitarist playing with Beck. He seems to think that it was Beck’s daughter. </p>
<p>We loved when Fergie came out and rocked it. The look on Mick Jagger’s face was priceless. In our opinion, his expressions were a combination of being totally turned on by her and totally afraid of what she could do to him. LOL</p>
<p>Fergie is 34. I guess that’s young compared to Mick Jagger, though.</p>
<p>Beck’s bass player was Tal Wilkenfeld. She’s Australian.</p>
<p>I didn’t like the Gimme Shelter version because that song to me gets at the essence of the Stones’ rhythm and blues; the song is heavy, heavy rhythm guitar and requires more but subtler guitar than Edge really carrying the thing could deliver. I’m not saying he did a bad job, just that the song lost its musical purpose and became for me a famous song being done by famous people. Gimme Shelter is one of my absolute favorite songs and what drives it for me is the deep connection to R&B. If you’ve ever seen tape of the Stones doing it years and years ago, they did it almost laid back.</p>
<p>^Thanks for the info about Beck’s bass player. I’ll pass the info on to my husband. She was very good.</p>
<p>Tom Morello was ridiculously talented. DH was asleep but I am going to play it for him tonight.</p>
<p>The night I was there, the crowd went wild for Simon and Garfunkel and wouldn’t let them off the stage, so they came back for an encore. There was so much energy in the place. And Bruce went on and on seeming as if he never wanted to leave. I got to see the second night from the HBO special. There were some terrific performances. I also loved the Mick Jagger surprise appearance and his song with Fergie.</p>