Friday, December 17, 2004

Live Review: Tom Jones




Tom Jones is still the cat who makes the ladies purr and throw underwear: Aidin Vaziri | Tom Jones -- dressed in perilously tight trousers with a goatee and puff of black hair on top of his head that made him look less like Larry from "Three's Company" than Michael Jackson circa "The Wiz" -- spent the night gyrating through an increasingly curious set list, moving from a cod reggae take on Bob Seger's "We've Got Tonight" to a triumphantly lean remake of Howlin' Wolf's "300 Pounds of Joy" (remade to weigh in at no more than "200 Pounds of Joy"), and closing the encore with his bump-and-grind version of Prince's "Kiss." All the while, one of his tanned paws swung near the crotch. The guy is smooth.