Notebook dump: the Rolling Stones, New Orleans Jazz & Heritage Festival, May 2, 2024
I wrote a review of yesterday's Rolling Stones show in New Orleans for Variety, but I thought I'd do a traditional notebook dump of the unfiltered thoughts here.
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I wrote a review of yesterday's Rolling Stones show in New Orleans for Variety, so you can go read the full thing there. But I thought I'd do a traditional notebook dump of the unfiltered thoughts here. The quotes are things I actually wrote down or cut out of what I filed.
The Festival Stage was modified to accommodate the Stones’ appearance, with the distinctive lips and tongue logo on displayed on either side of the stage and along the back wall with a small version of the Jazz Fest logo, the silhouettes of a traditional New Orleans second line, which normally dominates the stage display. The 3D image of Professor Longhair – the man that Dr. John declared “the guardian angel of the roots of New Orleans music” – that crowns the top of the Festival Stage remained firmly in place.
