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We sure had fun singing along to "Brown Sugar" with Mick Jagger last night. Singing along from our bedroom up on Bernal Hill, that is. Earlier in the evening while we were making dinner at home, we thought our neighbors were rocking some old school Metallica awfully loud, but we figured it was Sunday night, let them have their fun. When a friend from the other side of Bernal Hill called and asked if we could hear the music, we realized something bigger was going on. We leaned our head out of our 2nd floor window and realized Mick was serenading us from SBC Park -- four miles away. We could hear the "yeah, yeah, yeah - woo!" as distinctly as if it were being pumped from a stereo inside a house across the street (here's a terrible video of it from our digital camera). It could have been worse, at least it wasn't the Dave Matthews Band wafting across the city and up the hill to our window. But it would have been better to have been there.
We got an email from a Noe Valley resident who confirmed they too could "hear every note several miles away in Noe Valley with all [their] windows closed." They called the SFPD who apparently had been getting tons of complaints. We've heard of crackdowns on decibel levels for small clubs, but we're wondering why SBC Park was allowed to drown the city in sound?
Did you go to the show? Were you annoyed by the noise? Tell us about it in the comments.
Image of Mick from www.iorr.org.
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I could clearly hear the music through closed windows in the middle of the Mission... it even drowned out the usual mix of drive-by shootings and car alarms. My wife and I were discussing whether the music was professional or not: I thought it sounded like somebody playing a CD, while she thought it was more like kids in a garage band. I think this proves you really CAN be too old to rock. Metallica must be going after music downloaders because any comparison with their old stuff will showcase how old and decrepit they've gotten.
Believe it or not, I heard the noise from Teresita Blvd, just south of Twin Peaks.
The way the accoustics of SBC Park work is truly bizarre. I work 1 block away from the park, and never hear ANYTHING coming from the ballpark on game days--because that's the "back of the stadium." But drive 5 blocks south in the other direction, down Third Street, and you can hear the crack of a bat!
i have to be the devil's advocate and say that we *do* live in a city. if you want peace and quiet...move out of the city. we all live and play together within 7 by 7 miles...either you like or you get out. BTW, the concert was done by 10:30pm...shouldn't you guys be watching Grey's Anatomy or last week's Family Guy on tivo?
odd...
I live at 7th & Folsom, and never once heard the music... although I could see the lights glimmering in the sky, there wasn't a single guitar riff in my direction... at least that I heard!
Be thankful for the free show!
Hey, wow! There is an advantage to living on 33rd Avenue. (Besides the child molester vans parked alongside Golden Gate park, that is.)
Who would've guessed?
You gotta be fucking kidding. It's a concert in a city and it was over by 10:30 and there is a concert at SBC like once a year. Move to Ukiah if you want it quiet by 7 PM.
Yeah really, talk about whiney bastards from Noe Valley. Move to Walnut Creek, thk.
OK everyone, I'm going to politely (I hope) pitch in my lot with the folks saying it really should be all right for a big city like this to play host to a cultural thing like the Stones once in a while. Old jokes aside, they really provided an amazing experience for a hell of a lot of people. They were really, really good and I for one was inspired -- something that's a bit lacking in San Francisco sometimes, the way people seem to confuse complaining with sophistication sometimes. Cities should be places where things happen, where they're allowed to happen, even if it's messy.
And now, a major potential qualifier: It is distinctly possible that I was one of the only people in town who actually heard the music clearly, because I was just OUTSIDE the stadium. It might have been so loud inside that I could have had to be taken out on a stretcher, quivering for all I know. So whatever trauma y'all went through up their in your Bernal bedrooms singing along with Mick Jagger, I just want to assure you that I do sympathize. I really do.
I agree with the last comment. I would be happy to have shows like that in my hometown. It really wasn't an all-night event, was it?
I went to the show, not because I love the Stones, but because a friend got some free tickets. Anyway, I agree that if you live in a city, you gotta put up with some noise on occasion. It happens.
Those Blue Angels have been flying over us every year for forever and I doubt that anyone is going to ask them to stay away. At least the Stones don't waste tons of gallons of fuel or create loads of exhaust like the Blue Angels.
I think part of the problem is that the speakers were pointed towards the city, as the seats in the park are directed away from the city.
Anyway, it was a surprisingly good and un-cheesey show. The Stones have maintained a loyal connection to the blues and r+b that has carried them through the years kindly.
J
It was my first concert ever. And, boy, what a fantastic show! I became an over night Stones fan. Those guys have incredible energy, especially MJ who practically ran a marathon by the time they made us go home. We stuck around hoping they would give us "one more" for the road. Alas, we got fireworks and memories, and I still have the beat in my head two days later.
I think the "noise" was perfect - good music should be turned up just a little bit. I would love to trade places with any of the SF neighbors who were bothered by the entertainment.
The trouble for me now is, who to see live in concert next? What performer(s) can follow this act, considering age and talent, and the charisma to make new fans out of types who are "unlikely" rock fans?
I thank my cousin Margie for inviting me to see a legend. And to think that I almost missed out on the experience because I wanted to go to work instead! IOU cuz!
I just have to pitch in - I was a block away, and I had no problems. I even headbanged a little to "Enter Sandman," and I still had sweet dreams.
Then again, I'm part deaf, so it doesn't really matter, eh? Eh? What? Huh?
I was at the concert on tuesday 15 and the sound at the SBC Park was very good. Just about the right volume for a concert situation, loud but not deafening and crystal clear.