10:52 p.m.: Providence Journal music writer Rick Massimo is at Fenway Park with the Rolling Stones, I'm at home in my den. Our phone connections were terrible early on -- it all felt like tin cans and string -- and at one point my landline went busy when it landed on its face and turned on. Rick called my husband's cellphone (our backup number) and the show went on. Fortunately, I can tap into the AP photo feed Web client from home, so fresh photos were available even during "radio silence." A few years from now, effortlessly wired, we'll laugh about it.

10:40 p.m.: Jumpin' Jack Flash and Brown Sugar wrapped up the set, with fireworks. Encores: You Can't Always Get What You Want and It's Only Rock and Roll.

Me: "Good show?"
Rick: "Yeah, good show. I'm still sorting it out."

And now he comes home to write on deadline.
Updated 1:19 a.m.: Here it is. Review: Satisfaction at Fenway. (Free reg.req.)

That's all, folks.

Keith Richards, left, and Ron Wood, having fun now. AP.

10:22 p.m.: Rick's back.

Keith Richards: Still the wild man, but he's always looked like this. AP.

Observations:

-- "Mick and Keith are barely acknowledging each other."
-- "The stage is like a five-story parking garage that's as tall as Fenway itself (not counting the light stanchions)."
-- As he was talking, "Flames just poured out from the top of the stage, fireworks that turned into flames. On purpose, of course."
-- "Mick is really singing. He's been accused of just mumbling a few words, but he's not doing that here. He's really holding his notes."

More set list:
You Got Me Rockin'
Nighttime is the Right Time, which Mick dedicated to Ray Charles.
Two songs by Keith: The Worst and Infamy.
Miss You -- During this, they gathered in the center of the stage, which slid out on runners into the crowd so they didn't have to stop playing.
Oh, No, Not You Again from the new CD.
Satisfaction
Honky Tonk Woman
The signature inflatable lips and tongue came out, but not in red: they were blue-flowered.
Sympathy for the Devil in a pseudo hip-hop style.

9:51 p.m.: Since he wasn't part of the group photo, here's Ron Wood by himself.

Ron Wood. AP.

9:43 p.m.: The little people at the bottom of the photo are the Stones.

The scene at Fenway. AP.

9:35 p.m.: How do they look? See for yourself:

Keith Richards, Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts live at Fenway. AP.

9:25 p.m.: The first photo is out:

Mick Jagger live at Fenway. AP.

Nobody is pinging the Technorati blog search engine (tag: Rolling Stones) or uploading photos to flickr (tag: rollingstones) with any attempt at live Stones coverage (except me). Not much is getting out of Fenway tonight.

8:51: Rick valiantly tries again. Mick's holding a slide guitar, starting Back of My Hand, from the new CD. I asked Rick who is in the crowd -- old, young?

"It looks like your a
verage Fenway Park crowd, actually," he said. Then the sound wave overwhelmed us again.

They sound really good, he added. Of course, they were here a few years ago, so it's not a surprise.

8:45: Rick got through enough to yell that the Stones are doing Rough Justice, the single from the new Big Band CD now; they've just finished Shattered and Tumblin' Dice.

(Morse code next time!)

From Randy Lilleston of USA Today:

8:39 p.m. Starting up: The Stones have hit the stage with -- what else but -- Start Me Up.

8:26 p.m. Rick's cell phone is breaking up badly. I can't hear him, he can't hear a word I'm saying. All I got: "Keith looks more and more like a native American..." Then it cut out.

Plan B: USA Today is live-blogging -- typing rather than shouting -- but no indication there that they've even seen Keith yet.

Wouldn't it be nice if they broadcast these if they sell out?

Patty Cornell of Manchester, N.H., center, holds up a Rolling Stones shirt outside Fenway Park. AP photo.

7:20 p.m. The Black-Eyed Peas, opening for the Rolling Stones, just finished their set, but had a hard time getting anybody's attention.

The baseball park is so big, he said, that he could see them perform, and he could hear them over the speakers, but it didn't quite synch up.

The stage is in left center field, from the scoreboard to the triangle.

This was just a "sound check" phone call. Rick will call again when the Stones start playing.