When word got out that The Rolling Stones would be appearing at Rentschler Field in East Hartford, HM editor Richard Urban e-mailed me requesting that my column should be about the upcoming concert. I quickly thought to myself that this attempt to get The Rolling Stones into Connecticut was so simple and easy that I could barely fill a paragraph, much less a column. I didn’t want to tell Richard that, of course, because I always want him to think that every concert I bring to town takes great effort, and that the big ones require me to climb high mountains and cross very deep seas to get that artist into Connecticut. But this Rentschler Field show was simply a matter of taking a phone call from The Rolling Stones office and agreeing with them that Rentschler Field would be a great venue for the band to play.

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