In honor of the Andy Warhol retrospective (which we saw at the Wexner in Columbus, OH, and found amazing) opening, the Frist had the Long Players on board to play
Sticky Fingers all the way through. The Long Players are basically ace studio musicians with various folks taking lead vocals for each song.
Knowing this was the Frist, we got there right at 6:00 PM, and sure enough, they were launching right into "Brown Sugar" as we walked up. One cool thing was that they had Bobby Keys, the original saxophonist on the album, sitting in with them. Another cool thing was that one of the guest vocalists was Dan Baird of Georgia Satellites and solo fame.
One great highlight was Keys telling the story of recording "Can't You Hear Me Knocking?" in one take (!) and how Mick hated sax solos in rock songs. The band was very tight, of course, though at times they were
too tight, in that they lost some of that Stones swing/swagger on tracks like "Sway." They killed "Can't You Hear ..." and "Moonlight Mile," though.
They played a second set of other Stones tunes, but we had to split before then. Sure enough, they played
Sticky Fingers in original order and quite spot on ...
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