Mick Jagger is an animal.
So says Mick Adams, who’s been channeling the legendary front man of The Rolling Stones for 18 years. And anyone who’s seen Jagger perform probably wonders how the animal is still standing at the end of a show, after all the belting, striding, dancing and oozing of charisma.
“I look at it as an acting job as well as a singing job,” Adams said from home in Arizona. “I don’t think I can achieve the same energy as Mick, but I try to do my best.”
Adams will perform Friday and Saturday at Pikes Peak Center alongside a four-piece rock band, the Colorado Springs Philharmonic and guest conductor Brent Havens.
They’ll do hits from the 1968 album “Beggars Banquet” and 1969 album “Let it Bleed,” including hits “Sympathy For the Devil,” “Street Fighting Man,” “Gimme Shelter,” “Midnight Rambler” and “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” and songs from the Rolling Stones’ ABKCO record label years, including “Let’s Spend The Night Together,” “Brown Sugar” and “Ruby Tuesday.”
“It’s the music of The Stones along with a 40- to 60-piece orchestra,” Adams said. “At times it’s really powerful. Other times it’s sensitive and almost haunting. The Stones wrote some really interesting tunes.”
Adams typically is lead singer of his band, Mick Adams and The Stones, his fourth Stones tribute band, though it won’t be his band at the weekend shows.
Why is he so enamored with Jagger that he’s spent almost two decades of his life becoming him?
“Other than the fact he’s a great writer and probably the best front man in the history of rock music, he’s what I call a type quadruple A personality,” Adams said. “The catalog of material they’ve written is approaching 600 recorded songs, to say nothing of the stuff that didn’t make it. So it’s probably closer to 1,000. He and Keith Richards are amazing writing partners.”
