Rod Stewart Huntsville Concert reviews
A little bit for everyone ....
Some time ago, Rolling Stone said approximately this about Rod Stewart, paraphrasing Winston Churchill: "Never has so much talent been squandered for so long on so little," and that's kind of the way I feel about Rod. He's a great singer. He has ... broad tastes, which range from, let's be honest here, great to bad. The show is pure Las Vegas. Glittery. Emotional pandering and virtue signaling with random backdrop graphic references to Ukraine, his family, Rosa Parks and MLK, Jr. (during "People Get Ready," but, still). But, too, as I think Dorothy Parker once said, bad show business, like bad sex, is only but so bad. Every Picture Tells A Story is one of my favorite albums of all time, and he did some from then, and he did them well. Ooh La La from the Small Faces (and then Faces). Great. And he did Hot Legs, and Da Ya Think I'm Sexy and he did them well. A deservedly long career, and you got something from every bit of it, along with leggy blondes doing something Celtic with drums and dancing for lord knows what reason other than that Rod Stewart can leave the stage for a while randomly no one seemed to care don't we all wish we were having as much fun as Rod Stewart. The fourth star is purely for how much Rod seemed to relish the whole thing. Cheap Trick, on the other hand, just sucked. I wanted to like them, but it was not possible.