Concert Review: Metallica and The Rolling Stones

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.