The New Barbarians were a band consisting of Ronnie Wood, Keith Richards, Ian McLagan, Stanley Clarke. Zigaboo Modeliste, and Bobby Keys. 

The Rolling Stones were on hiatus and had not toured in awhile, so with Wood, Richards, and the late great Stones saxophone player Bobby Keys  in the band, everyone was hoping for an impromptu Rolling Stones reunion to happen.

Mick Jagger did not appear but the all star band provided the exuberant crowd with a good old fashioned rock and roll show for the ages.

My friends and I somehow made our way into the front left orchestra and managed to squeeze on to the top of the folding chairs so that we could fully participate in this communal rock and roll celebration. 

When the lights came on at the end of the show and the exhausted crowd began to leave Madison Square Garden; smoke hung in the air over the mangled metal seats in an orchestra that looked as if a bomb went off. The power and glory of rock and roll sucked all of the palpable energy in the room and blew the lid off the place. It was a show for the ages and anyone that was lucky enough to be there got their rocks off. 

Before They Make Me Run

Rock on

GQ