| 20th February 2006 07:57 AM |
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| Gazza |
Roll up! Stones play world's biggest beach party
WHAT a gas. The Rolling Stones brought the carnival spirit early to Brazil last night when they played a free concert to more than a million people on Rio de Janeiro’s fabled Copacabana beach, writes Maurice Chittenden.
They opened one of the world’s biggest beach parties with Jumping Jack Flash, their 1968 hit with lyrics about being born in a crossfire hurricane.
Fire department officials estimated the crowd was more than 1m when the show started but that more people were still coming. Officials estimated that as many as 2m would see the concert.
Some fans had camped out for days to get a prime spot on the 2.5 mile-long beach.
“It’s going to be an amazing show,” said 19-year-old Barbara de Carvalho, a student from Sao Paulo who had camped on the beach since Thursday.
A specially erected footbridge built at a cost of £250,000 took the Stones from their hotel over the beachfront Avenida Atlantica and directly to the stage.
The Stones spent £1m on setting up the gig; the city paid another £500,000, aware of its boost to tourism. A new stage was created especially for the show, decorated with a 45ft high design of palm leaves to add to the carnival theme.
Patrick Woodroffe, the Stones’ lighting designer, said: “I am sure anybody would be nervous going out in front of 1.5m people but there is nobody that does it better than the Stones.”
from "The Times"
http://entertainment.timesonline.co.uk/article/0,,14932-2048097,00.html
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| 20th February 2006 08:00 AM |
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| Gazza |
Rolling Stones bring world's biggest bang to Brazil
Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro
Monday February 20, 2006
The Guardian
With four elongated silhouettes creeping slowly towards the walkway, the atmosphere backstage was one of highly organised panic. "Go up that staircase and make sure they tell us as soon as they go up on the bridge," a bulky American security guard shouted at the huddle of tattooed roadies and ear-pieced bouncers around him.
By the time that message had been translated into Portuguese, the four shadows were already in full advance towards the 20 metre-wide stage.
Seconds later, after a "Ola Brasil!" from Mick Jagger, what had been billed as the biggest rock concert in music history was under way.
Around 1.2 million fans packed on to the sands of Copacabana beach on Saturday to witness the Brazilian leg of the Stones' world tour, A Bigger Bang.
British and Brazilian flags waved in the warm evening breeze as Jagger strutted out from backstage, wearing a long-sleeved silver waistcoat and jet black, hip-hugging trousers.
"Good evening people," he shouted in Portuguese, to wild cheers from the crowd. Thousands looked on from boats moored at the water's edge, with many fans waving antique Stones LPs.
The show, which lasted just under two hours, saw the veteran rockers clatter through their 40-year back catalogue, including tracks such as Jumpin' Jack Flash, Sympathy for the Devil and Honky Tonk Woman. Exhausted fans, many of whom had camped on the beach in the scorching sun to secure a better view, climbed over the security barriers. Others dived in to the sea for a good look.
Rio's military police said only 33 robberies had been registered during the show, despite security concerns. A shoot-out in the nearby Tabajaras favela went unnoticed by the fans, who stretched more than a mile down the beach.
"I'm the only one from my city who came," said Walter Walgong de Alcantara, 35, who had travelled 600 miles from his home in the small town of Salinas.
As the Stones launched into an ear-splitting rendition of Satisfaction to end the concert, the only complaints came from those locked out of the 4,500 capacity VIP zone at the front of the stage. "You'd think they'd find space for me," said 94-year-old Edgar de Almeida, a Brazilian Keith Richards look-alike.
http://www.guardian.co.uk/arts/news/story/0,,1713486,00.html |
| 20th February 2006 09:14 AM |
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| corgi37 |
All over Aussie news last night. Incredulous response. 1 of Melbournes papers ran a virtually full page story. Luckily, its the nations largest seller. So, millions read it over their vegemite and toast. The other daily here in Melb didnt even mention it at all! The Age has a habit of doing that.
Many things on the net too as we all know, many wrong too. I think Aljazeera said they opened with IORR! Stupid Muslims!
And i just gotta say - What a hot MILF, yummy mummy Luciana is!
Also noticed Gazza, the list of big concerts. I can dig why Woodstock & Isle of Wight or Monteray not mentioned (they were festival held over several days) but no mention of Hyde Park or even Altamont!)
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| 20th February 2006 09:45 AM |
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| maumau |
also in the headlines of italian tv news
sounds like a bigger bang  |
| 20th February 2006 10:54 AM |
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| jb |
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Jumacfly wrote:
When I read that Keith and Ronnie have never played so great im really LMAO....
You are 100% correct. They are playing great this tour..I have loved every show!!! Bu tto say playing better than ever is pure fantasy!!! Ronnie Keith 75-81 the best....but yes, they sound great this tour.
Lastly, Mick Taylor is a beautiful person both inside and outside. Simply b/c age and weight have taken a toll on his once beautiful , angel-like face, is no reason to diss him. I listen evwery day to those Tyalor era boots, and while Ronnie did keep the band together, no one has ever elevated the band to the pure musicianship that MT did..those songs rocked the fuck out of anything any band ever played!!! The man should be revered, not made fun of b/c of his weight. |
| 20th February 2006 10:58 AM |
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| Jumacfly |
quote:
jb wrote:
You are 100% correct. They are playing great this tour..I have loved every show!!! Bu tto say playing better than ever is pure fantasy!!! Ronnie Keith 75-81 the best....but yes, they sound great this tour.
Lastly, Mick Taylor is a beautiful person both inside and outside. Simply b/c age and weight have taken a toll on his once beautiful , angel-like face, is no reason to diss him. I listen evwery day to those Tyalor era boots, and while Ronnie did keep the band together, no one has ever elevated the band to the pure musicianship that MT did..those songs rocked the fuck out of anything any band ever played!!! The man should be revered, not made fun of b/c of his weight.
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| 20th February 2006 11:13 AM |
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| Sir Stonesalot |
I had Mick Taylor booked to play at my birthday party last year....but he refused to go on because I forgot the 2 dozen chocolate iced donuts promised in his contract rider.
It seems that he had already beat me to Dunkin Donuts, and had cleaned out Krispy Kremes as well! There were no chocolate iced donuts left in the whole tri-county area!
Here's the kicker...I still had to pay him his $50.00 appearance fee.
But before he left he ate half of my birthday cake, and four fried chickens! |
| 20th February 2006 11:17 AM |
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| jb |
quote:
Sir Stonesalot wrote:
I had Mick Taylor booked to play at my birthday party last year....but he refused to go on because I forgot the 2 dozen chocolate iced donuts promised in his contract rider.
It seems that he had already beat me to Dunkin Donuts, and had cleaned out Krispy Kremes as well! There were no chocolate iced donuts left in the whole tri-county area!
Here's the kicker...I still had to pay him his $50.00 appearance fee.
But before he left he ate half of my birthday cake, and four fried chickens!
You love Mick Taylor or you would never have sent me all of those great boots!!! He also has a full head of hair which ain't no wig!!! |
| 20th February 2006 12:41 PM |
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| Jeep |
Pictures from "O Globo" slideshow
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| 20th February 2006 12:51 PM |
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| gustavobala |
great photos
more, more.... |
| 20th February 2006 01:08 PM |
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| Jeep |
Another collection from "O Globo", this time staring the crowd :
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| 20th February 2006 02:34 PM |
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| gimmekeef |
The pics give you some semblance of how freakin enormous this thing really was......wow.... |
| 20th February 2006 02:56 PM |
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| jb |
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gimmekeef wrote:
The pics give you some semblance of how freakin enormous this thing really was......wow....
878, 712 attendees' |
| 20th February 2006 03:07 PM |
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| glencar |
Totally Omaha, man. |
| 20th February 2006 03:10 PM |
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| jb |
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glencar wrote:
Totally Omaha, man.
My Mom went to Brazil a few years ago..she loved it..but all private beach/tours as visitors were warned not to go to any areas without hotel security. An 8 hr flight. Glad to hear no major problems among the approx 878,212 attendees' |
| 20th February 2006 03:10 PM |
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| gustavobala |
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878, 712 attendees'
i don´t believe jb, sincerely, 1,200,000 according to policy, 1,300,000 according to firemen
the financial return was of 20 million dollars to the step that the city hall spent about 2 millions, the remaining lode of the sponsors (companies: claro, globo, motorola and others.... |
| 20th February 2006 03:14 PM |
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| jb |
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i don´t believe jb, sincerely, 1,200,000 according to policy, 1,300,000 according to firemen
the financial return was of 20 million dollars to the step that the city hall spent about 2 millions, the remaining lode of the sponsors (companies: claro, globo, motorola and others....
Has the Argentinian shows sold out yet? As for the 1.2 million, the initial 2 million figure was wrong....the 1.2 was also an estimate. My people(on the ground say 800-1Mi) so I will go with 888, 919 |
| 20th February 2006 03:28 PM |
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| gustavobala |
but this estimate now was not an error... they calculates for the busy area, jb!
how much to the 2 million, I agree that it was an enormous error |
| 20th February 2006 03:34 PM |
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| gustavobala |
quote:
jb wrote:
My Mom went to Brazil a few years ago..she loved it..but all private beach/tours as visitors were warned not to go to any areas without hotel security. An 8 hr flight. Glad to hear no major problems among the approx 878,212 attendees'
well, we must exactly be the animals that pronounce for the press
only remembering that in altamont: of 300,000 -> 4 deaths
in Rio (with its violence) of 1,200,000 ->0 DEATHS had died
and children was born
debtor for its attention
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| 20th February 2006 03:57 PM |
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| Jumping Jack |
Ft L is wide open!!! |
| 20th February 2006 06:07 PM |
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| GotToRollMe |
Thanks for the great photos, Jeep! |
| 20th February 2006 06:17 PM |
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| FPM C10 |
from the Culture Vulture:
Rarely can the smell of marijuana smoke have wafted so freely beside the glistening swimming pool of Rio de Janeiro's chicest hotel, the Copacabana Palace, writes Tom Phillips in Rio de Janeiro.
And with A-list celebrities pouring through the hotel's art deco corridors until the early hours of today, it could have meant only one thing: the Rolling Stones were in town.
Billed as the biggest gig in the world ever, well over a million people packed onto the increasingly filthy sands of Copacabana to watch the 55th gig of the Stones' latest world tour, A Bigger Bang.
In truth the party began days ago as multi-accented fans from across the globe poured into Rio, shelling out wallet-busting sums on nearby hotels or, as with many, simply sleeping on the beach. "Sou muy louca," enthused 41-year-old Japanese fan Sonoko Nimura in broken Portuguese. It turns out he has seen at least 300 Stones shows, including all 54 dates of this latest world tour.
By 9.40pm last night, when Jagger finally swaggered out onto the gigantic stage wrapped in a tight silver waistcoat, the crowds were in ecstasy. "Olá Rio," shouted Jagger, after the bone-shuddering rendition of Jumpin' Jack Flash which opened the show. "Olá Brasil."
If there was a down side it was not the sex or the rock and roll, but the drugs. One British fan, appearing to have sampled too much of the local nose candy, decided to bestow a sloppy kiss on a six-foot plus security guard, after said bouncer kinldy volunteered to take a picture of the gurning Stones devotee. The guard stared at him briefly and looked to the ground in furious bewilderment. Under an hour later Culture Vulture saw the very same fan being escorted from the party by several of the embarrassed bouncer's colleagues.
Leaping from costume to costume, Mick seemed not to care. With police helicopters and giant Zeppelins zigzagging over the stage, and over-crowded cruise ships crawling up to the beach, the boy from Kent became, for one night only, Copacabana's answer to the Girl from Ipanema.
"You were maravilhosos," he bellowed at the end of the show, with water bottles hailing down on the VIP area that flanked the front of the stage.
And then, with a Kent-accented "boa noite" from Mick, it was all over. The 4.500 "veepees", as Brazil's richest of the rich are known, slithered off to a whiskey-soaked after show party at John Simpson's favorite hotel and the remaining thousands of us squeezed through the packed streets of Copacabana or simply collapsed on its urine-stained curbs.
High point of the night: Mick Jagger's final appearance on the stage, clad in a white Brazil flag t-shirt, pouting his way through Satisfaction. "He knows it's the best country in the world," shouted one suddenly patriotic fan.
Low point of the night: Keith Richard's less than tactful declaration to the crowds that: "It's good to be back - it's good to be anywhere".
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| 20th February 2006 06:29 PM |
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| Gazza |
quote:
corgi37 wrote:
Also noticed Gazza, the list of big concerts. I can dig why Woodstock & Isle of Wight or Monteray not mentioned (they were festival held over several days) but no mention of Hyde Park or even Altamont!)
a nonsensical list, and quite selective. They listed Oasis at #10 with 125,000 at Knebworth (it was over 200,000, slightly more than the Stones show there) I could have listed about 7 or 8 STONES concerts alone with higher figures than 125,000 (Roundhay Park, Leeds in 1982 - closing show of the tour - attracted 150,000 for example)
Watkins Glen is listed as its a one day event (as was Sarstock) but not the IOW or Woodstock. Like you say, Altamont or Hyde Park should be listed if the Copacabana show was.
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| 20th February 2006 06:46 PM |
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| PeerQueer |
Ok - as to the disagreement over actual numbers in attendance - I made a few well-placed calls down that way and the actual figure is about 1.25 million bodies crammed into the beach area, adjoining hotels, rooftops, alley ways, steets, the water, etc.
Not the 2 millions that was initially advertised, but a hell of a lot of folks watched and/or heard the show...
The show itself is garnering world-wide positive reviews and has given Stones-related interest a considerable little boost. The Stones themselves are expected to net about $7 million for one night's work - not bad! (Considerably more than they will earn off sales of a Bigger Bang by the way...)
PR-wise, between this concert and the Super Bowl appearance, the Stones are currently atop the world-wide rock music mountain, momentarily supplanting U2.
Nice job to our boys!
Bring on Europe... |
| 20th February 2006 10:45 PM |
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| sammy davis jr. |
I am stunned that the boys pulled this gig off- with virtually no problems. And a good performance. My hats off to "the wrinkly rockers"!!!! In the big picture, it is a great time to be a Stones fan. Sure, the performances aren't always the best, but their stamina alone is unbelievable. And I know first hand they can still bring it live. |
| 20th February 2006 10:50 PM |
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| PeerQueer |
I know first hand they can still bring it live.
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Yes they can - better than most, and at 60-plus years of age to boot! |
| 21st February 2006 01:53 AM |
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| Altamont |
Can you imagine how much fun it would be to watch the Stones play on a beach while partying on a boat?!
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| 21st February 2006 06:05 AM |
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| corgi37 |
I'm a bit out of the loop. How come Luciana is no longer Morad? She get married? |
| 21st February 2006 08:53 AM |
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| Bruno Stone |
Well, her entire name is Luciana Gimenez Morad. Here in Brazil we know her as Luciana Gimenez. If you read any brazilian paper she's called that way. She is Luciana Morad in the rest of the world, I think. Beautiful woman... Nowadays she dates the vice-president of the brazilian Tv channel "Rede Tv", a small and bald guy, but very rich |
| 21st February 2006 09:15 AM |
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| Gazza |
quote:
sammy davis jr. wrote:
I am stunned that the boys pulled this gig off- with virtually no problems. And a good performance. My hats off to "the wrinkly rockers"!!!! In the big picture, it is a great time to be a Stones fan. Sure, the performances aren't always the best, but their stamina alone is unbelievable. And I know first hand they can still bring it live.
They did everyone proud on every level last Saturday |
