Month: May 2022

The song vote for Madrid has changed!

I can’t remember to have witnessed this before… 🙂
Two days after the Stones gave us this choice for the song vote:

• Wild Horses
• Angie
• Ruby Tuesday
• Fool To Cry

they now have changed that to another selection of songs to vote for. Now, we see these four songs to vote for:

Beast Of Burden

• No Expectations
• Shine A Light
• Fool To Cry

So only Fool To Cry has weathered the change in this list. Well then, let’s go there once more and vote!

Two days before tourstart, the band rehearses on stage at the venue.

The Stones stick to their usual habits. They rehearse weeks before at some secret place and then, just some days before the opening night, they play the new stage which has just been set up. Before this, it’s just sound checks; the gear is unpacked and run through all possible tests you can think of. This is mostly done by the road crew and their personal technicans, checking the guitars, bass, drums and keyboard settings. Then the band takes a visit and first soundchecks are done. During this, at some point, the lightshow and pyros are given a run-through, usually in the evening.

Then, shortly before the opening night, they usually do a run-through a complete show, the dress rehearsal. Like, playing a full set like those they will play on the actual tourdates. And today, we got the list of those songs, they played in Madrid – all in all they played 19 songs and you can see the list below. Now, as this could be some sort of a spoiler to some folks, you can choose whether to see the list or not. Just hit the “Read More” link if you want to know, which songs they played. Otherwise, leave it alone… 😉

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1. Street Fight Man
2. 19th Nervous Breakdown
3. Sad Sad Sad
4. Tumbling Dice
5. Out of Time
6. Beast Of Burden
7. You Can’t Always Get What You Want
8. Living In A Ghost Town
9. Honky Tonk Women
10. Happy
11. Slipping Away
12. Miss You
13. Midnight Rambler
14. Start Me up
15. Paint It Black
16. Sympathy For The Devil
17. Jumping Jack Flash
    – encores –
18. Gimme Shelter
19. Satisfaction

THX! to 2120Joe, Domonkos [IORR]

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Opening acts in Madrid will be two Spanish bands: Sidonie and Vargas Blues Band featuring John Byron Jagger (son of Mick’s brother!)

Keith was kind enough to share some of the opening notes of HTW with us.

He plays that intro with his precious 1953 Fender Tele. It’s tuned to open G and has only 5 strings (the lower E is skipped). Even from that short piece you can tell what a warm and genuine sound this guitar has. Only added is a little distortion and there you are.

I wonder, if that was filmed from the Madrid stage already… they should do rehearsals on the new stage there these days!

The Rolling Stones are in Amsterdam for rehearsals.

They will go through a lot of songs, as they always do. When the tour starts, in the end, they will play a number of songs they have to play because the huge majority of the folks in the stadium as well as the press would be very disappointed.

Sure enough, usually, some slightly lesser well known songs will be strewn in at every show in order to give it a special taste but also in order to keep the band sort of entertained… 😉

Standing in front of Rembrandt van Rijn’s ‘Jewish Bride’ we see Ronnie and Keith visiting the famous Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam, yesterday.

Of course, this is a special visit for Ronnie as an artist. But Keith does sketches, too. However, it’s very nice to see both of them well and enjoying culture! Go to this article of ad.nl and have a look at thos 2 nice pictures, showing Keith and Ronnie together with the director of the Rijksmuseum, Erik van Ginkel and on the second picture, with an employee of the Rijksmuseum – obviously a happy fan…

As fot the short text in Dutch, Google renders:

The Rolling Stones appear in Rijksmuseum: ‘What an honour’
They will only be in the Johan Cruijff Arena in Amsterdam next month, but The Rolling Stones couldn’t wait to visit the Netherlands. Keith Richards and Ron Wood even paid a visit to the Rijksmuseum, much to the delight of business director Erik van Ginkel.

Erik van Ginkel stands between Keith Richards and Ron Wood with a big smile on his face. The director of the Rijksmuseum did not meet them spontaneously; the world famous men decided to visit his museum to soak up some culture.

Thanks, Gerard, for the tip!!

=> Interested in the picture ‘Jewish Bride’? Well go to the museum, there’s more info!

As you can see from the previous post about the El Mocambo, we have to wait until Friday, May 13 for the official release of the the full set from the March 5 1977 show and three bonus tracks from the March 4 1977 show.

Now, the band has released 2 more tracks we can digest before the official release: ‘Tumbling Dice’ and ‘Hot Stuff’ – both recorded at the pair of secret gigs at the 300-capacity El Mocambo venue, Toronto, Canada in March 1977.

Here they are, enjoy!!

Tumbling Dice

Hot Stuff