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Topic: Singapore 26/3 setlist up on IORR! Return to archive
03-26-03 01:06 PM
Monkey Woman Read it here:
http://www.iorr.org/tour03/singap2.htm
03-26-03 02:27 PM
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03-26-03 03:11 PM
Monkey Woman Amazing pics!!! Look at Keith and Ronnie... They seem so young, so happy... Rock 'n roll made flesh!
03-26-03 04:15 PM
sandrew What's with the headdress Keith is wearing? I love it.
03-27-03 05:09 AM
luxury1 yeah--sandrew. That's the second time I've seen Keith wrap his do-rag like that. I like it too--makes him look younger.
03-31-03 12:42 AM
VoodooChileInWOnderl Cover Story: They just keep on rollin'
Errol De Cruz

March 31: It was an awesome Rolling Stones that mesmerised the crowd across the Causeway last week, defying age and gravity as they showed why they are still the indisputable superstars of rock and roll. ERROL DE CRUZ reports.

THEY had guaranteed that no two shows would sound the same and they kept to their word. The Rolling Stones, the greatest, longest-lasting and hardest-working rock band in history, played two superb shows in Singapore last week, pulling capacity crowds on both nights.

During their show at the Indoor Stadium on Wednesday night, a mood of near-delirium reigned and that's not easy to elicit in the disciplined, regimented Lion City.

Fans, close to 8,000 of them, roared as soon as frontman Mick Jagger dished out the first lines of his controversial hit Brown Sugar because it was the smoke signal they'd been waiting for.

Earlier on the World Licks Tour 2002-2003, China had banned a few songs, including Brown Sugar, much to the surprise of the band. When they heard about it in Japan, guitarist Keith Richards said: "I don't know why they've banned the songs."

So, when the band - vocalist Mick Jagger, drummer Charlie Watts, and guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood - opened Wednesday night with it, 8,000 fans started celebrating in anticipation.

"No two nights would be the same," a spokesman said. "The Stones have rehearsed 130 songs just to ensure they keep their word."

Production director Jake Berry, however, begged to differ. "They didn't practise 130 songs," he said in Singapore, the afternoon after the second show. It was more like 200, he said, not that it mattered any more.

"That's how professional the Rolling Stones are," he added. "They were practising seven hours a day, five days a week, for six weeks."

There was, however, something that did matter. "Everywhere else in the world, especially in the United States and Britain, the Stones knew what people wanted and how they would deliver it.

"But not in Singapore," he continued. "Mick had no idea what was going to happen here."

But frontman extraordinaire that he is, Jagger took precious little time to lock in on the crowd's mood, hooked onto it, quietly spread the word around as he pranced about onstage and then led the Rolling Stones in an electrified charge.

Sure, not everyone went away fully satisfied with the set list, considering that they didn't do such memorable standards as Wild Horses, You Can't Always Get What You Want and Ruby Tuesday.

Sure, the acoustics at the Indoor Stadium are, as one Singaporean writer put it, as appalling as ever. But every time a superstar group comes around, we expect them to play every damned song they've recorded. I remember when Bob Dylan played Kuala Lumpur and everyone took umbrage at his not doing Blowing In The Wind.

In the case of the Rolling Stones' visit to Singapore, however, it was different. No one was really sure that they would keep their dates in Asia.

First, there was a war going on on the other side of the world. Second, there was the killer pneumonia scare in the region with deaths reported in China, Hong Kong and Singapore.

As things turned out, Singapore had Lady Luck on her side. On Thursday morning, hearing that the killer pneumonia situation was escalating, the Rolling Stones cancelled Hong Kong.

"We're in total limbo about Shanghai and Beijing right now," Berry revealed.

The World Licks Tour 2002-2003 is the most unusual tour the Rolling Stones has done. It's also the first time any band has done anything of the kind.

"They're doing big concerts, arenas, indoor stadiums and even small clubs and theatres on this tour ... it's never been done before," said Berry, who's been with the Stones since 1994.

"We had to make sure that the experience would be the same, regardless of the size of the venue."

The story is that the Stones wanted to feel once again what they felt in the good old days when they were just beginning to cut records and make headlines ... the small clubs, getting close to people, getting the local stars to sit in and jam ... that kind of thing.

So far, it's been a rip-roaring success. They had U2's Bono in Chicago, Johnny Lang in New York, Solomon Burke in Los Angeles and AC/DC brothers Malcolm and Angus Young in Sydney.

On this tour, the largest venue was a stadium which held 55,000 and the smallest a theatre where they played to about 2,000 people. We can only imagine how everyone else felt.

In Singapore last Wednesday, the mood was electrifying. The fans, greying and growing, were in awe of their idols. They screamed and cheered every time they recognised a song.

Journalists admitted to throwing down their pads and pens to stand on chairs and rock. Cameramen, who were only given all of two songs to get the job done and get out of the pit, were doing the same, albeit minus the chairs.

When the Stones rolled into Honky Tonk Woman, pandemonium broke out even before Richards could finish his famous guitar intro. You could see his satisfied grin when they recognised it, and (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction drew the same response.

Wrinkled, ragged and rugged, the Rolling Stones are between 55 and 64 years old. The baby is Wood and he's been with the band for 35 years. One of the best rhythm guitarists around, he plays a mean lap steel guitar.

Then there's Watts, long-regarded as the time-keeper of rock, the only drummer impressario Dave Clarke had in mind when he staged his historical American Bandstand that starred the one-and-onlies of showbiz; rock steady hands keeping everything in perspective from the back, taking occasional instructions from Jagger.

Prowling the stage like a beast of prey with his deadly silver and pink Fender Stratocaster was the other naughty boy of the band - Richards, who proudly shares what the world calls a love-hate relationship with Jagger.

And of course, the man behind and in front of it all - the one and only Mick Jagger, born with pouty lips that have become world famous. The one who spends a whole two hours working the crowd into a frenzy everywhere the Stones roll. The one who defines the musical term "front man", the one who keeps walking the border, on stage and off.

Put the four together and you have a band that works hard, plays hard and rocks even harder. The awesomest band in the history of rock and roll. The Rolling Stones.
03-31-03 04:54 PM
Madafaka Great Pix!

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