June 30 – Ontario show is over – here’s the aftermath – the press, videos and pictures

You were there? Got some review or story to tell? Well, SEND IT TO ME! 🙂

The Stones:

The Press

torontosun.com – PERPETUAL MOTION: Rolling Stones rock cottage country
exclaim.ca – Rolling StonesBurl’s Creek, Oro-Medonte ON, June 29 – gallery at instagram
globalnews.ca – Canada Rocks with the Rolling Stones: Here’s what happened at the show
narcity.com – Some Fans Outraged As The Rolling Stones’ Only Canadian Concert Ended In A Traffic Nightmare
cbc.ca – ‘Bad boys of rock’: Rolling Stones perform for thousands in Ontario

cp24.com – Massive crowd watches Rolling Stones – perhaps for last time in Canada
ctvnews.ca – Start ’em up: Rolling Stones to rock Ontario this weekend with only Canadian date
oronto.citynews.ca – Rolling Stones take stage for possibly last time in Canada

Some videos

Stinger_7 – some videos and pictures (Instagram)

City News:

Global News:

Official setlists:

June 29 – The Rolling Stones play Canada again!

What a joy to see the band playing live and so well the last two gigs. The band’s on fire and athough it’s their 57th year as a band playing live, they sound better than ever. Like in Europe, they mix the guitars way up front, exspecially so on JJF or Street Fighting Man – it just rings in your ear and it comes over really heavy. Old dudes play Rock’nRonn in your face and it’s rough, dirty and loud! – Just as it should!

So let’s get dressed up for tonight and hope for some decent streams to follow the band and the lucky fans at the show!

LIVE FEEDS: Facebook I  (Satisfaction) // Facebook II // Periscope ()

SETLIST: (as we have only very few streams tonight, this setlist might get changed later…)

1.  Street Fighting Man
   
2. Let’s Spend the Night Together
   
3. Tumbling Dice
4. Sad Sad Sad
5. She’s A Rainbow (vote song)
6. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
7. Angie (b-stage)
8. Dead Flowers (b-stage)
   
9. Sympathy For The Devil
10. Honky Tonk Woman
    – Introductions –
    
11. Slipping Away
12. Before They Make Me Run
13. Miss You
14. Paint It Black
15. Midnight Rambler
16. Start Me Up
17. Jumping Jack Flash
18. Brown Sugar
    – encores –
    
19. Gimme Shelter
20. Satisfaction

=> Ronnie greets via Twitter:

The Press:

ctvnews.ca – Start ’em up: Rolling Stones to rock Ontario this weekend with only Canadian date
washingtonpost.com – With Rolling Stones’ return, Keith Richards looks for peace and quiet — on stage
thestar.com – The Beaches take their swaggering new tunes into their gig opening for the Rolling Stones

Here’s some pics:

June 28 – Toronto prepars for the only Canadian concert for this year’s tour…

2 Videos from yesterday from local tv-channel cp24.com:

Interview with a fan:

Interview with the mayor:

=> Song vote is up for Ontario:

• She’s A Rainbow
• Live With Me
• She’s So Cold
• Shattered

Go here and cast your vote!

=> Keith has entered the Stones plane to get to Canada (again!) and greets:

Onward to Toronto! Looking forward to Burl’s Creek, our only concert in Canada! Happy to be back.

As barrietoday.com writes, “Work is well underway at Burl’s Creek Event Grounds in Oro-Medonte Township in preparation for this weekend’s highly anticipated Rolling Stones concert.” – they also give these infos:

• On-site camping opens at 7 a.m. on Saturday, followed by day parking at 11 a.m. The event gates open at 2 p.m.
• Music is scheduled to get going at 2:45 p.m., with One Bad Son on the SiriusXM Stage, followed by Sloan at 4 p.m.
• The Beaches open on the main stage at 5:30 p.m., with The Glorious Sons going on at 7:15 p.m.
• The Rolling Stones are expected to hit the stage at 8:45 p.m.
• After the Stones, there will also be a late-night party featuring Dwayne Gretzky on the SiriusXM Stage.

The eagle has landed… (thx Kevin Prentice, Instagram)

This is how the plane looks like. If you want to follow it’s tracks, looka here…

June 27 – Ok, it’s here – the complete second show in Chicago and for this tour

Thx to YouTube and many friends, here are the YouTubes so far known to me about the show in Chicago, June 25, 2019.

Usually I rate the completeness and the quality of sound higher than that of the picture when there are different videos to choose from. Hope you agree.

Ok, here comes the show – enjoy!

1) Jumping Jack Flash

2) It Only Rock ‘n Roll

3) Tumbling Dice

4) Bitch

5) Ride ’em On Down

6) Monkey Man (vote song)

7) You Can’t Always Get What You Want

8) Play With Fire

9) Sweet Virginia

– Over to main-stage –

10) Sympathy For The Devil

11) Honky Tonk Woman

– Introductions –

12) Slipping Away

13) Before They Make Me Run

14) Miss You

15) Paint It Black (Mick: “I think we play PIB first!? Second night and ony 1 fuck-up”)

16) Midnight Rambler

17) Start Me Up

18) Brown Sugar

– Encores –

19) Gimme Shelter

20) Satisfaction

June 26 – Chicago II aftermath

You were there? Got some review or story to tell? Well, SEND IT TO ME! 🙂

What a great concert! This time, there were fewer streams, but nevertheless, I/we could follow basically the whole set.

Hilarious moment was, when Keith started with Midnight Rambler although he had been handed the guitar for Paint It Black (Telecaster with capo on the 2nd fret) and the whole band, although a bit puzzled, joined in. Charlie bashed on in and Mick sang the first two lines, although apparently a little irritated. While singing, he went over to Chuck and he was heard to ask Chuck: twice “Is it the wrong key?”

Then the band stopped and Mick grinned and went back to center stage – “Sorry, I’m sorry…” Then he hugged Keith who came towards him because he, too, had realised that there was something wrong. Mick said: “It’s alright, Keith … it’s ok …” and to the audience: “It’s only the second night … and it’s only one fuck-up!” And then Keith also greets the audience and Mick goes on: “I think, we’re supposed to be doing Paint It Black!” Then Keith plays the intro and the band rolls on.

I just love them! 🙂

Have a look at this here:

You can also have a closer look at Keith’s reaction here which is not seen in the video above – you can see that he immediately had realised that he went wrong…

And here you have Play With Fire from the b-stage:

The Press so far (more coming): noise11.com // patch.com – great review for both Chicago shows //

June 25 – Chicago II – LIVE

LIVE-STREAMS: PERISCOPE I (Debbie’s back!) // PERISCOPE II // Facebook (YCAGWYW, B-stage) // Facebook II – (Jeffrey – Miss You) // FACEBOOK III (PIB, MR, SMU, BS) // FACEBOOK IV (live Gimme Shelter, Satisfaction, the bows & SEE YOU SOON!)

The setlist:

1. Jumping Jack Flash
2. It Only Rock ‘n Roll
3. Tumbling Dice
4. Bitch
5. Ride ’em On Down
6. Monkey Man (vote song)
7. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
   – Over to B-stage –
   
8. Play With Fire
9. Sweet Virginia
   – Over to main-stage –
   
10. Sympathy For The Devil
11. Honky Tonk Woman
    – Introductions –
    
12. Slipping Away
13. Before They Make Me Run
14. Miss You
15. Paint It Black (Mick: “I think we play PIB first!? Second night and ony 1 fuck-up”)
    
16. Midnight Rambler (coming up next, Keith started it too early, hehehe …)
17. Start Me Up
    
18. Brown Sugar
    – Encores –
    
19. Gimme Shelter
20. Satisfaction

=> Support act Whiskey Myers is now on stage!

=> Some hours before, they did the soundcheck and they rehearsed these songs:

• Bitch
• Monkey Man
• It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll
• Ride Em On Down
• Sweet Virginia

Again, it’s going to be an early wake call up for me: as I’ll join in to the fun as the Stones play their second gig in Chicago tonight, I will get up at 1:30 or 2:00 AM over here at my home in order to be there in time to update the Stonesnews_pages.

Some tours ago, I swore to myself, that I won’t miss a show of this band as long as they still play live. Up to now, I could fulfill this oath and I intend to keep it! 🙂

So tonight we’ll get treated with another show and hopefully many nice streams via Periscope or Facebook as before, so that we can follow the show even if we’re not there in person.

=> They have a great poster for tonight’s gig: a beautifully colored Telecaster!

Meanwhile, Ronnie has shared with us the sectrets of his warming-up procedure:

And the band tweeted yesterday:

Night 1 in Chicago on the No Filter Tour! Can’t wait to do it all over again tomorrow

Last, but not least, Pat Rainer tweeted a nice pic, commenting it thus:

Rock n Roll is alive and well. Thank you for a great night of music

Well, he definitely is right here!

June 25 – The english tabloid The Sun issued an interview with Ronnie two days ago.

Ok, that’s not particularly the latest news, but then I seem to have overlooked that bit. But it is quite nice and thus recommended to read, much more so because it’s not just like 10, 15 lines of text but quite a bit more to read. So here are just two little exerpts:

Ronnie on Mick:

The doctors said they’ve never operated on an athlete at 75 before — we had a really good laugh about that. [ … ] He’s just so fit, he sets aside three hours a day to do exercise and that’s done him plenty of favours in later life. He’s superhuman really.

Ronnie about (new) music:

It’s like a medicine. We don’t like to stop working. All being well, there’ll be a new album and a new tour. [ … ] It will be great — but let’s get this one over with first.

thesun.co.uk has the complete article, that also appeared at foxnews.com

June 25 – there’s a new Stones-book for us!

It’s called “CAN’T GIVE IT AWAY ON SEVENTH AVENUE” and is written by Christopher McKittrick.

The subtitle reads: THE ROLLING STONES IN NEW YORK CITY.

Data:

• Paperback: 256 pages, $12,60  at Amazon
• Kindle: Amazon
• Barnes&Noble: NOOK Book (eBook), $9,99
• Publisher: Post Hill Press (25. Juni 2019)
• ISBN-10: 1642930393
• ISBN-13: 978-1642930399

And here is the complete info:

A complete history of The Rolling Stones in New York City.

When the Rolling Stones first arrived at JFK Airport in June 1964, they hadn’t even had a hit record in America. By the end of the decade, they were mobbed by packed audiences at Madison Square Garden and were the toast of New York City’s media and celebrity scene.

More than fifty years later, the history of New York City and the Rolling Stones have entwined and paralleled, with the group playing in nearly all of the Big Apple’s legendary venues. Along the way Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, and the rest of the Stones have left an impact on the culture of the city, from the turbulent “Fun City” of the 1960s and ’70s through the twenty-first century. The evolving career of the Stones has often reflected the cultural changes of the city, as the Stones and their music were the center of social and political controversies during the same era that New York faced similar challenges.

Can’t Give It Away on Seventh Avenue: The Rolling Stones and New York City explores the history of the group through the prism of New York. It is a highly detailed document of the dynamic and reciprocal relationship between the world’s most famous band and America’s most famous city as well as an absorbing chronicle of the remarkable impact the city has had on the band’s music and career.

June 22 – The song vote for the next gig is up!

The Rolling Stones have again set up the song vote for the next gig in Chicago, June 25.

And it’s a tough one, again:

• Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
• Harlem Shuffle
• Just My Imagination
• Monkey Man

So just go there and vote:

June 24 – just added: Chicago I – the complete show in videos

Thx to YouTube and many friends, here are the YouTubes so far known to me about the show in Chicago, June 21, 2019.

Usually I rate the completeness and the quality of sound higher than that of the picture when there are different videos to choose from. Hope you agree.