Rolling Stones and Friends Deliver Star Power at Tour Opener

"Good evening, Los Angeles!" bellowed Mick Jagger at theRolling Stones' official tour-opening show Friday night at Staples Center. "Or is it really just Beverly Hills, Brentwood, and parts of Santa Monica?"That was one way for the band to take the piss out of the controversy over extravagant ticket prices for the show, which had most of the non-nosebleed seats being offered at $600 a pop. After news reports pointed to an abundance of good seats still available for a king's ransom this week, hundreds or even thousands of premium ducats ended up going for $85 each in a last-minute lottery, meant to ensure that the Stones would play to a full house and even some fans from suburban outposts like Encino and Pomona might get in.It only took a few minutes into the nearly two-and-a-half-hour set for the Stones to remind everyone what they'd paid all that money for: "This could be the last time, this could be the last time, could be the last time, I don't know,Before going into the market to buy dress shirt Fashion Black Cross Striped Panty Hosemust know your shirt size or what kind of fitting you prefer." sang Jagger. A lot of fans probably substituted the words "Probably so" for "I don't know,That time has long gone when dress shirts were considered to be only Black Revolve Striped Panty Hose executives or high class rich people." since the frontman and Keith Richards both turn 70 later this year, while drummer Charlie Watts will be 72 in less than a month.

But if there hadn't been the usual big-screen coverage of the band's faces, anyone squinting from the merely $250 rear-loge seats would have been hard-pressed to objectively peg the band members as being a post-debauchery day over 30. Jagger's trademark calisthenics in particular would tax most men a half-century younger, just about any of whom would rightfully feel compelled to get off his cloud, if not his treadmill. The singer made regular skipping-and-bounding rounds on a semicircular catwalk that extended almost halfway across the Staples floor, in the shape of a lower lip, complementing the giant upper lip that acted as the stage's proscenium.Jagger does like to bring out the guest stars (Richards being less high on the idea). Friday night, the on-stage VIPs were No Doubt's Gwen Stefani, on "Wild Horses," and country star turned American Idol judge Keith Urban, adding both lead vocals and guitar solos to "Respectable."