Day: June 19, 2019

June 19 – short column in the Daily Herald

Sound check: Rolling Stones resume rescheduled tour with Chicago launch

by Brian Shamie

Can’t stop the Stones

Mere months after the Rolling Stones announced the postponement of the band’s “No Filter Tour” due to frontman Mick Jagger’s heart surgery, the seemingly unstoppable musical legends are back in action. The band launches the rescheduled tour dates with two performances at Chicago’s Soldier Field Friday, June 21, and Tuesday, June 25.

7:30 p.m. (gates open at 5:30) Friday, June 21, and Tuesday, June 25, at Soldier Field, 1410 Museum Campus Drive, Chicago. Tickets start at $65.50. (312) 235-7000 or soldierfield.net.

https://www.dailyherald.com/entlife/20190619/sound-check-rolling-stones-resume-rescheduled-tour-with-chicago-launch

June 19 – Production rehearsal: that’s what Ronnie calls it:

2120Joe [iorr] posted the list of songs they rehearsed so far yesterday:

• Tumbling Dice
• Street Fighting Man
• Under My Thumb
• Sad Sad Sad (2x)
• Video testing
• YCAGWYW (just short, no guitars)
• Angie
• Dead Flowers
• Sympathy – just short
  – about a quater of an hour pause –
• Keith set: You Got The Silver, Bevore They Make Me Run
• Out Of Control
• Ride’em On Down
• Mercy Mercy (2 times, short)
• Harlem Shuffle

Another of our friends, swimtothemoon, posted that Mick was not holding back and that his vocals as well as his harmonica playing “were both spot-on and full of energy” – well, that indeed sounds very promising and is very welcomed!

June 19 – Again, we can vote for one song out of four which the band will play in Chicago!

This time, you can choos from among these:

1. Out of control
2. When the whip comes down
3. Respectable
4. You got me rocking

Go and vote: [RollingStones.com] · [Twitter.com] · [www.Facebook.com] · [www.Instagram.com]