Music of the Moment: The Rolling Stones - “Rough Justice,” Pt. 2
If you wait long enough, it happens. You can’t run around with this store of music in your head – a true virtual jukebox – and not have a song pop into your head. I’ve been allowing my iPod to randomly serve up songs while I waited for something to appeal to me and then it happened.
I read an article about the avowed idiot Adam “Pac-Man” Jones and his appearance on an upcoming pro wrestling pay-per-view event called “Rough Justice” or some silly fucking thing like that.
Queue up The Stones. This reminds me I’d been humming their cover of “Bob Willis Is Still The King” from the Biggest Bang DVD. I know I’ve written about this song before and am likely to touch on some of those same things, but why have an album or a song on your iPod if you’re only going to listen to it once? If I listen to it, I’m going to write about it.
“Rough Justice” is one of my favorite songs from the A Bigger Bang album, mostly because of the sleazy slide sounds from Ronnie Wood’s guitar. Here I go again about guitar heroes, but Wood isn’t considered as one of rock’s great guitarists but he does have a way of making that slide sing and sting. “Rough Justice” is one of his finest moments.
Jagger walks that fine line between cocksure and embarrassingly juvenile. The conviction in his voice, the slight distortion on the vocal, and the sincerity of Wood’s slide make all the difference in the world. The energy of the music elevates the song to something more than a creepy, misogynistic tale of a 60-year old man chasing tail a third his age.
That’s one of the tough things about being Mick Jagger at this point in his career. I don’t think anyone wants to hear him sing about bran muffins and hearing loss but it does feel a bit unseemly for a grandfather to be chasing models that are the age of his daughters.
It’s Friday and my weekend is about to get A Bigger Bang courtesy of Pac-Man and The Stones.
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