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The Rolling Stones 50 and counting tour - Next Gig:

May 20 - LA #2

[RIP - Ray Manzarek has died today in Munic aged 74 - we will miss you! May all doors be open for you, so you just break on through...]

Right! Here we go again! Yehaaw! Have a blast, everybody!

1. Get Off Of my Cloud
2. It's Only Rock 'n Roll
3. Paint it Black 
4. Gimme Shelter
   (setlist is a bit mixed up here - will be put straight later)
5. Far Away Eyes
6. Sway with Mick Taylor [voted song] - Woah!! That's really cool! Do we get 2 Taylor songs tonight?
7. Doom & Gloom
8. One More Shot
9. Can't You Hear Me Knocking with Mick Taylor - Woah! Another great change tonight - 2 Taylor songs so far...
10. Honky Tonk Women
    Introductions
11. You Got The Silver - Keith
12. Happy - Keith
13. Midnight Rambler with Mick Taylor (!!! What a setlist tonight! Can't wait so see the videos!!)
14. Miss You
15. Start Me Up
16. Tumbling Dice
17. Brown Sugar
18. Sympathy For The Devil
    Encores
19. You Can't Always Get What You Want
20. Jumpin' Jack Flash
21. Satisfaction with Mick Taylor

Well, last night was a dream come true for all Stones- and Mick-Taylor-fans! Maybe the Stones have read or heard, what was posted all over the net: that many, many people would like to hear Mick Taylor on more than just one or two songs (i.e. Midnight Rambler and Satisfaction). Last night, the Stones had balls enough to delf into Sway and Can't You Hear Me Knocking - both of them hot juwels from the Mick Taylor years. That led to four (4) songs with the second Mick. All I can say about this is: please, please, keep that man playing with the band like last night!! That was a thunderous start but even then, there's room enough to even top that later in the tour! So please enjoy the videos from that gig in LA:

==> I have put that shows' better VIDEOS so far known to me into an ==> Extra page you can open in an extra widow by clicking here - enjoy!

The Band on stage | Ronnie twittered this: "Mick Taylor just popped in for a chat ~ not long to go before the gig #Staples We're talking about Jimi Hendrix ~"

May 18 - Anaheim #2

1. Get Off Of My Cloud
2. It's Only Rock and Roll
3. Paint It Black
4. Gimme Shelter
5. You Got Me Rocking
6. Wild Horses
7. Bitch - with Dave Grohl
8. Shattered
9. Doom and Gloom
10. One More Shot
11. Honky Tonk Women
12. You Got The Silver - Keith
13. Happy - Keith
14. Midnight Rambler with Mick Taylor
15. Miss You
16. Start Me Up
17. Tumblin' Dice
18. Brown Sugar
19. Sympathy For The Devil
    Encores
20. You Can't Always Get What You Want
21. Jumpin' Jack Flash
22. Satisfaction with Mick Taylor

Special Guest tonight: Dave Grohl from the Foo Fighters! Enjoy the show tonight, everybody!

==> I have put that shows' better VIDEOS so far known to me into an ==> Extra page you can open in an extra widow by clicking here - enjoy!

Some pics: The band on stage | Mick and Keith | Dave Grohl joins in | Pre show impressions | Here's John Mayer backstage meeting Keith and Charlie [thx rubyfriday, stonesplanetbrazil!!]:

May 15 - Anaheim #1! John Mayer, San Jose FLAC, ABKCO

1. Get Off Of My Cloud
2. It's Only Rock 'N Roll
3. Paint it Black
4. Gimme Shelter
5. Rocks Off
6. Waiting On A Friend
7. Campagne And Reefer with John Mayer (Woah!!)
8. Emotiona Rescue
9. Doom And Gloom
10. One More Shot
11. Honky Tonk Women
12. Before They Make Me Run
13. Happy
14. Midnight Rambler with Mick Taylor
15. Miss You
16. Start Me Up
17. Tumbling Dice
18. Brown Sugar
19. Sympathy For The Devil
    Encores
20. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
21. Jumping Jack Flash
22. Satisfaction

==> I have put that shows' better VIDEOS so far known to me into an ==> Extra page you can open in an extra widow by clicking here - enjoy!

Really cool pics! (thx stonesplanetbrazil, kowalsky, jsosa, gaff, iorr, uc, sdb)

=> Reviews - The Rolling Stones are still something to behold - laswegasweekly.com |

=> here's the audience FLAC from the San Jose gig, May 8? If yes, go to guitars101.com and choose one of the download (mirror) addresses! [thx JZ, UC!]

=> Special guest tonight: John Mayer!

=> Cleveland.com honors the current tour of The Rolling Stones with a special online reprint of one historic reviews from Stones shows in the last 50 years. They'll publish one review each day leading up to Sunday, May 19, when they'll post several more and unveil a big, special Rolling Stones section online and in Arts section of the printed Plain Dealer.

=> ABKCO issues yet another release while the Stones are still hot in the news: 3 classic albums on 180 gram clear vinyl - see Rolling Stone for more on this.

May 11 - Las Vegas, MGM, Katy Perry guest tonight

1. Get Off of my Cloud
2. It's Only Rock 'n Roll
3. Paint it Black
4. Gimme Shelter
5. You Got Me Rocking
6. Beast Of Burdon with Katy Perry
7. Emotional Rescue
8. All Down The Line
9. Doom & Gloom
10. One More Shot
11. Honky Tonk Women
    Introductions
12. Before They Make Me Run
13. Happy
14. Midnight Rambler with Mick Taylor
15. Miss You
16. Start Me Up
17. Tumbling Dice
18. Brown Sugar
19. Sympathy for the Devil
    Encores
20. You Can’t Always Get What You Want (with the Green Valley High School Choir)
21. Jumping Jack Flash
22. Satisfaction

==> I have put that shows' better VIDEOS so far known to me into an ==> Extra page you can open in an extra widow by clicking here - enjoy!

Great pics! Thx to many at sdb, iorr, kcryer, stoneslib and many more!

May 8 - Gig #3 San Jose today!

1. The Intro is running right now, lights down
   "Ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome the Rolling Stones!"
   GET OFF OF MY CLOUD
2. IT'S ONLY ROCK 'N' ROLL
   
3. PAINT IT BLACK
4. It's All Over Now with John Fogerty!
5. Gimme Shelter
6. No Expectations - by public vote!
7. Let It Bleed with Bonnie Raitt!
8. Emotional Rescue
9. Bitch
10. One More Shot
11. Honky Tonk Women
    INTRODUCTIONS
12. Before They Make Me Run
13. Happy
14. Midnight Rambler with Mick Taylor
15. Miss You
16. Start Me Up
17. Tumbling Dice
18. Brown Sugar
19. Sympathy For The Devil
    Encores
20. You Can't Always Get What You Want with Choir
21. Jumping Jack Flash
22. Satisfaction with Mick Taylor!

=> Special guests tonight? Well, how about John Fogerty and Bonnie Raitt??? And Mick Taylor got his second spot: after joining in on Midnight Rambler, he joined in again for the last encore, Satisfaction!

==> I have put that shows' better VIDEOS so far known to me into an ==> Extra page you can open in an extra widow by clicking here - enjoy!

Some pics: Final Bow with Mick Taylor (and very rightly so!)| 27 x the band on stage [thx RubyFriday! sdb] | Bonnie Raitt plays a mean slide guitar on Let It Bleed | John Fogerty joins the band on It's All Over Now! | Some Merch ... | Ronnie: "So great to see Billie Joe Armstrong official backstage at the gig tonight ~ enjoy the gig Billie Joe!" | Ronnie: "Just arrived at hp pavilions with Charlie Watts ~ off to sound check now... " | [thx pDog, RO!] Yes, we got the right tip, it seems: John Fogerty's and Bonnie Raitt's gear arrived already!! | Place to meet [thx BV, iorr!]: The Brit Pub is in the patio just behind the Britannia pub. Same establishment, just outside... | Ronnie and Mick having a laugh backstage May 7 | The band with Tom Waits backstage May 6 ...

... still some time until the show starts... so how about re-visiting Oakland, May 5?

==> I have put that shows' better VIDEOS so far known to me into an ==> Extra page you can open in an extra widow by clicking here - enjoy!

May 7 - Washington added, Rolling Stone Cover, Reviews

==> June 24 date has been added for Washington DC, Verizon Center. Tickets will be on sale at Monday, MAY 13, 10AM EST and will be available at rollingstones.com. Citi cardmembers will have access to presale tickets beginning Friday May 10 at 10AM EST through Citi’s Private Pass Program. For complete presale details visit www.citiprivatepass.com. Also included as a part of the general on sale, are a variety of ticket prices including over 1,000 tickets at $85 (including service charges) - so go there and let's keep our fingers crossed!

==> The Rolling Stones made it again - they are on the cover of the Rolling Stone! Here's the band talking about the covershoot:

==> Also on Rolling Stone you can enjoy a band-friendly article called "Love and War Inside the Rolling Stones - How the band endured drugs, booze, tragedy and each other to bring back the greatest show on earth" (here's the print version).

But there have been other, not so friendly reviews of the shows so far. Most of them ponder the subject of poor ticket sales. A 'source' from the band is cited with this: "... Total disaster. Too expensive and no vibe on the shows … it's a terrible way to go out ... What's the band gonna do? Say we're not going to play if you touch our gross?" Here are some of them, if you like: Rolling Stones face pay cut as poor sales force them to slash US ticket prices (Guardian.co.uk). That article also says: "The band has no new material to tour behind and its new management has allowed ticket prices, not the show, to become the story.". See also: Dailymail.co.uk, NME.com or Ultimate Classic Rock.

May 5 - Gig #2 Oakland!

==> I have put that shows' better VIDEOS so far known to me into an ==> Extra page you can open in an extra widow by clicking here - enjoy!

1. The Intro is running right now, lights down
   "Ladies and gentlemen, will you please welcome the Rolling Stones!"
   GET OFF OF MY CLOUD
2. IT'S ONLY ROCK 'N' ROLL
   "Hello Oakland! Welcome! How many people are actually from Oakland? It's nice to be back with you. This one's called..."
3. LIVE WITH ME (3 songs into the setlist and they already have 2 changes... that's promising!)
   "I looked out the window this morning and saw something very strange: people walking! We'd been in Los Angeles for a month!"
4. PAINT IT BLACK
5. GIMME SHELTER with Lisa Fischer
   "We're gonna do a blues for you next, a very old blues"
6. LITTLE RED ROOSTER with Tom Waits !!!!
   "Tom Waits! Thank you very much Tom! What about that!"
   "Blues and country!"
7. DEAD FLOWERS
8. EMOTIONAL RESCUE (2. time they play that song live)
   "Thank you! Thank you very much! Are you feeling good? Are you ready!"
9. ALL DOWN THE LINE
   "This one's called ..."
10. DOOM AND GLOOM
11. ONE MORE SHOT
    "Wow, thank you so much. Are you ready for a little bit more?!"
12. HONKY TONK WOMEN
    "Thank you very much everybody! I'd like to introduce you to everyone up with us tonight..."
    INTRODUCTIONS
    Keith: "It's great to be back. It's great to be anywhere! How you doing alright? On with the show. It's good to see you all again."
    
13. BEFORE THEY MAKE ME RUN
14. HAPPY (Ronnie on pedal steel guitar)
15. MIDNIGHT RAMBLER with Mick Taylor
    "Thank you Mick Taylor!"
16. MISS YOU
17. START ME UP
18. TUMBLING DICE
19. BROWN SUGAR
20. SYMPATHY FOR THE DEVIL
    "Goodnight everybody!"
    ENCORES:
21. YOU CAN'T ALWAYS GET WHAT YOU WANT
    with the San Jose State University Choraliers
22. JUMPIN' JACK FLASH
23. SATISFACTION

thx Tarantulaman: Emotional Rescue:

THX Jomo! Little Red Rooster with Tom Waits and All Down The Line, Happy:

May 4 - LA Aftermath

=> Wheeeww, what a night it was. The band sounded really well, crisp and clear. They did 23 songs - not bad for a bunch of old farts, hehehe. Especially Emotional Rescue was well received (see & hear video below) as this was a first for that song. Factory Girl also was one of the more rare songs in the setlist. And if apart from that all you get Midnight Rambler with Mick Taylor, too, you've almost arrived Stones heaven with one show. Well, Keith Urban was a treat, exchanging licks with Keith playing his tele (Keith played his Les Paul Junior). And of cause there was Gwen Stefani joining the band on Wild Horses - but she forgot her lyrics-part and had to mumble her way through that song, that was kinda odd. But at least she did know the refrain... and well, her singing didn't really add very much to the song IMHO ... Complaints? Of cause, there's always people complaining this and that, but I'm not too fond of all the wailing. Oh, ticket prices: As Mick has spoken aut sharply against the secondary ticket merket, they now tend to publish tickets for $85,- before the shows in order to counter high ticket prices: the promoter AEG announced that a new block of more than 1,000 $85 seats (some of the cheapest on offer) were made available for last-minute purchase.

HOWEVER, I would not hesitate to suggest to The Rolling Stones something one hears in almost every comment the fans utter: Please give Mick Taylor more than just one song in the set!!! During rehearsals the band had plenty of numbers with Taylor - so why you not just boldly grab that opportunity and give the band and us that extra shot of salvation, please! :-)

=> Celebs? This is LA, so there were plenty! Of course, there was Jack Nicholson, but he is there for the Lakers anyway, as Mick said. Then there were Pierce Brosman, Nicole Kidman, Melanie Griffith, um, David Hasslehoff and even Monica Lewinsky ... pics and more of this at thesun.co.uk. Other reviews: LA Times, guardian.co.uk, bilboard, CNN-report about the tickets issue

==> I have put this shows' better VIDEOS so far known to me into an ==> Extra page you can open in an extra widow by clicking here - enjoy!

Official video from LA's show:

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July 20, 2011(and for eternity) - The Rolling Stones, Sticky Fingers And The Lost Photo Session

Ok, this comes a bit late. But since there are no more news about the possible gigs for Hide Park or anything like a tour in 2012 right now, I thought we could use the occasion and look back over yonder...

Recently, a treasure of photographs were discoverd after photographer Peter Webb's negatives went missing after shooting the Stones for that monster record "Sticky Fingers". Then, out of nowhere, they are re-discovered after a gap of almost 40 years. Let's have a look... oh man, have a look at Keith's eyes ...

=> THX to lsShuffle, sabotagetimes, independent.co.uk, snapgalleries.com

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