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1 Brown Sugar
2 Start Me Up
3 If You Can't Rock Me
4 Don't Stop
5 All Down the Line
6 Angie
7 You Can't Always Get What You Want
8 Monkey Man
9 Can't You Hear Me Knocking
10 Tumbling Dice
introductions
11 Slipping Away
12 Before They Make Me Run
13 Sympathy for the Devil
B stage
14 It's Only Rock and Roll
15 Little Red Rooster
16 Midnight Rambler
Main stage
17 Gimme Shelter
18 Honky Tonk Women
19 Street Fighting Man
20 Jumping Jack Flash
encore
21 Satisfaction
[Edited by Stonesdoug] |
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| VoodooChileInWOnderl |
Pix from Rolling Stones official website by Anthony Matilde
Keith's gift by Bill Gibbons
These are by Jake Cohl
Gimme Shelter new screen
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| VoodooChileInWOnderl |
Stones show that time is on their side
Aging rockers make history at Reliant
By KEN HOFFMAN
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle
The first time the Rolling Stones played Houston, they took the stage at rickety Sam Houston Coliseum in 1966 and opened with a song that was an oldie even then, Not Fade Away. They closed the show with what many still consider the greatest rock song ever, Satisfaction.
Not fade away? Not hardly. Thirty-seven years later on a chilly Saturday night, the now legendary, aristocratic Rolling Stones lit a fuse on shiny new Reliant Stadium with a performance that fans will talk about for another three decades.
Satisfaction? Just ask the 46,000-plus fans who jumped out of their seats when Keith Richards slinked onstage and blasted the opening chords of Brown Sugar, while Mick Jagger broke the rushing record at Reliant Stadium with mad dashes from sideline to sideline.
You couldn't take your eyes off these tiny rockers pushing 60 years old. How can they be that thin, that athletic?
In Richards case, that alive? If even half the stories of his drug exploits are true, he's done more needlepoint than Martha Stewart. Saturday night, a beaming, almost healthy-looking Richards threw himself on the floor, rocked into Start Me Up, and kissed his guitar. He laughed and threw guitar picks into the audience. He had silver charms and gadgets tied in his hair. He looked wonderful.
He'll outlive us all.
Jagger bounced like a puppet. Charlie Watts pounded his drums mercilessly, and Ron Wood hit all the right notes and never dropped his cigarette. Science needs to study these men.
Ann Wai was a teenager when she waited in line for hours to see the Stones at Sam Houston Coliseum in 1966. "We sat in front of the stage. It was one of the most memorable times of my life. Mick had incredible magnetism."
Wai is a grandmother now.
And Jagger is a grandfather. So? The Rolling Stones are still acting like kids.
Saturday night's concert drew the rich and mighty of Houston. Pro athletes, newscasters, politicians and business leaders were scattered throughout the crowd. Continental Airlines CEO Gordon Bethune wore a Harley-Davidson jeans jacket in a $350 seat on Richards' side, the fun side, of the stage.
Yeah, those people are rich, now. Wait until they get their credit card bill from Ticketmaster.
Many fans bought Stones souvenir shirts and put them right on. The price of loyalty has gone up, though.
Back in '66, you could have taken your family of six, plus the family of six next door, to see the Stones for the same money it took to buy a T-shirt Saturday night.
David Sander owns a bicycle store, but he wasn't selling Schwinns Saturday night.
"I put a sign on my door that said, `Closed -- went to see geriatric rock `n' rollers.' I've seen the Rolling Stones every time they've been here."
His only problem with the concert this time?
"Most of the women here are my age."
His wife of 21 years will just love reading that.
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| VoodooChileInWOnderl |
Jan. 26, 2003, 12:41AM
Stones fans get their licks
Reliant Stadium show a classic
By MICHAEL D. CLARK
Copyright 2003 Houston Chronicle
The Rolling Stones have spent the first four-plus months of the Forty Licks World Tour mixing hits and album tracks from a four-decade recording career. On Saturday it was Houston's turn to get "licked" as the Stones took over Reliant Stadium for the first concert geared to equal the enormity of the Houston Texans' new home.
Leading into the show it was hard not to sift through the old albums and imagine a dream set list.
How about they open the show with Richards striking the distinctive three notes of Start Me Up, followed by the stressful pacing of Under My Thumb for an early one-two punch. After that they could dig way back for the country romp Let It Bleed and maybe get psychedelic with something like Ruby Tuesday.
Houston's show did not unfold this way, but once it started it didn't matter. As proved by the release of last year's two-disc greatest hits album Forty Licks, the first Stones compilation to span the group's entire career, these rock 'n' roll legends have enough timeless classics to shape a show in countless ways.
The 46,000-plus who came out for show also had an extra dose of adrenaline working for them. They were on hand to first hear what rock `n' roll sounds like under the retractable roof.
Few were disappointed. The notes were crisp as they were absorbed by the concrete walls -- not blaring guitar din as they might have been in cozy arenas. The huge floor area certainly gave the Stones space to spread out the contents of 33 semis full of concert gear.
Those who saw the Stones concert live from Madison Square Garden in New York last week caught a glimpse of the enormity of the main set and satellite stage separated by a bridge across the middle of the audience. That was the indoor set-up adapted to a basketball court. The expanded football field set-up stretched nearly 200 feet across the width of the stadium (the grass had been pulled leaving a concrete base), and shot steel and light fixtures more than 85 feet in the air.
Production director Jake Berry, who has been building stages for the Stones since 1994, says the set-up was bigger than the traveling amusement parks used on the Voodoo Lounge and Bridges To Babylon tours.
The Stones, however, are bigger than life and command this much stage. Huge banks of screens helped sell the image, but Mick Jagger, guitarists Keith Richards and Ron Wood, drummer Charlie Watts, and their nine-piece band could fill the stage without video accessories.
As if the dozens of banks of lights weren't enough, the Stones walked onstage to a massive strobe of blue and red lights. The group returned fire with a rapid drumbeat that steadily grew stronger while light units propelled up the stage wall.
Richards started the show with a signature guitar lick, the multiple chords of Brown Sugar calling the quartet on stage and the concert to order. Jagger, dressed in a gold, waist-length jacket, immediately whipped into his jive rooster walk to the refrains of Bobby Keys' saxophone.
Brown Sugar was followed by Richards opening up the three vibrating notes of Start Me Up to form an opening one-two punch better than imagined. As Jagger dodged and moved, the large billboard overhead gave way to four massive, mobile video screens. Fans in the fourth deck of the south end zone now didn't have to worry about being able to see the stage.
The Stones promised rarities on this tour, but the opening hour was a hit compilation every bit as potent as Forty Licks that seemed to gain momentum with each new choice. The ballad Angie, anchored by Richards' Spanish-influenced acoustic guitar, built to the frustration of You Can't Always Get What You Want.
Trombone player Mike Davis' melancholy prelude echoed the song's despair before Richards' bluesy steel or Jagger's vocals ever had a chance. The energy coming from the audience seemed to charge Jagger. As the song headed for a close, he sped up the tempo with a hand-clap beat while a trio sang falsetto behind him.
Christening the football stadium as a concert venue also appeared to pique Jagger's interest.
"Is it true they're going to bring the Super Bowl here?" he asked a cheering audience.
Eventually, the Stones dotted the set with rarities. During the tour, the Stones have often dedicated nights to certain albums, delving deeper into its tracks than other albums'.
At press time the show was only half over, and not all secrets were known. But the set was already perfect. Not because it was the one I would have chosen, but because it was the one the Stones chose for Houston. Jagger even wore a cowboy hat to introduce the band.
Reliant Stadium proved itself a worthy concert venue, obviously lacking intimacy but definitely an acoustical improvement over the neighboring Astrodome.
After 40 years, the Stones have become an act that moms and dads can enjoy with children (and grandchildren).
Once considered dangerous and a corrupting influence on youth, the Stones are now spectacular family entertainment.
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| Maxlugar |
Nice set list for a stadium.
That is some guitar Billy Gibbons gave Keith. Anyone know any more about it?
Lugar. |
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| Factory Girl |
ZZ Top-did they open? Nice... But, they should have gotten Johnny Winter (health permitting). |
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| FotiniD |
Ronnie looks * FABULOUS *. Is that a Stones watch he's wearing or am I seeing things? |
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| gypsy |
Thanks for sharing the info and photos, everyone!
I get to see them tomorrow night, and reading these reviews gets me even more excited to see them! |
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| Secret |
Max the guitar looks like the work of John Douglas. He paints most ZZ equipment. |
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| Maxmeister |
quote:
Maxlugar wrote:
Nice set list for a stadium.
That is some guitar Billy Gibbons gave Keith. Anyone know any more about it?
Lugar.
It was a great stadium set, with All Down the Line, If You Can't Rock Me, Monkey Man, CYHMK among the horses. Then....Rooster and Rambler on the B instead of all the sing alongs. Primo for a stadium set.
I was more than happy and even a tad enthusiastic. Of course, coming with that was no voice yesterday. My wife loved it.
Rick
DENVER, DENVER, DENVER, DENVER, DENVER!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!! |
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| VoodooChileInWOnderl |
Some pix provided by the ultra super lucky plus C�sar aka Gomper
Gimme Shelter
Keith's new Toy
Li�l Red Roostah!
Looking For C�sar!
Midnight Rambler
Monkey Jagger |
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| L&A |
I like the "noise" on those low-resolution pics. They are great. |
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| 69 Chevy |
I thought the Houston show was pretty damn good for a stadium "hits"show. I caught the tour when it rolled through San Antonio in November and was pleased that the boys mixed up the set list when the returned to Texas. A different opener, closer, and 6 different songs kept it interesting for this long time fan. We had a couple first timers in our group that were equally impressed.
There was a bit of controversy when a Houston Chronicle review mentioned the crisp notes absorbed by concrete walls. A few days' later concertgoers responded in the Sound Off column and commented on the muddy sound. I have to say I agree. I was in the first section off the field looking directly at the stage(almost 100 yards away). The first few songs sounded horrible, but got a little cleaner as the show rolled on. Sounded better than the Astrodome, but still left much to be desired.
If it wasn't the Stones I wouldn't have been at a stadium show, but those boys(and Lisa) still got the Rocks Off the 46,000 there that night!
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