Cyndi Lauper opened last night’s Jones Beach Concert with a cowboy western theme wearing a purple wig and carrying a suitcase. While thoughts of this being a long evening crossed my mind, Ms. Lauper provided s mix of New And old with a professional band in tow slowly building to her crowd pleasing hits like Girls Just Want to Have Fun (damental Rights) and the old Kodak commercial dong “True Colors”. Cyndi aptly straddled the line politically without being overbearing and later came out to sing a song with the headliner; Lauper’s set was an entertaining prelude for what was to come.

The legendary Rod Stewart pulled out all the stops for this tour that left out the standards that dominated his set lists some years back and this time around he emphasized his numerous 1970’s and 80,s hits. 

The 72 year old singer, who is holding up a lot better than many who attended last night’s concert, was energetic and in goood voice through the night. Stewart opened with “Infatuation” and closed with “Do Ya Think I’m Sexy?” with dancing girls, violins and mandolins in between. The multi media extravaganza will play well in Las Vegas and those who stayed until the very end at the sold out venue saw Sir Rod slip out the side and into the night leaving the rest of us to struggle with the worst parking lot gridlock I have seen in some time.

Maggie May 

Rock on!

GQ