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Yet Another “New” Rolling Stones Live album

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Live at the Wiltern 2002 (Los Angeles)

On the Forty Licks tour The Stones played theatres in a number of cities worldwide. In certain cities they would play a stadium show, an arena show and a theatre show.

I was lucky enough to see 4 of these theatre shows, all in different countries. Boston, Stockholm, London and Utrecht. It was amazing to see them close in such intimate venies, some of my most memorable concert going experiences.

They did more interesting setlists too, Mick is never going to leave out all the hits, but at this show they didn’t play Satisfaction. Miss You or Sympathy for the Devil to name but 3. This is one of those theatre shows with a pretty interesting setlist. No Parachute Woman though which I heard in Boston. šŸ™‚

“Jumpinā€™ Jack Flash”
“Live With Me”
“Neighbours”
“Hand of Fate”
“No Expectations”
“Beast of Burden”
“Stray Cat Blues”
“Dance, Part 1”
“Everybody Needs Somebody To Love” (with Solomon Burke)
“Thatā€™s How Strong My Love Is”
“Going To A Go-Go”
“Thru And Thru”
“You Donā€™t Have To Mean It”
“Canā€™t You Hear Me Knocking”
“Rock Me Baby”
“Bitch”
“Honky Tonk Women”
“Start Me Up”
“Brown Sugar”
“Tumbling Dice”

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    • Some friends got me tickets for the 2002 show in Boston. In 2003 I was living in Switzerland so it was relatively easy to get to the other countries just needed to be diligent as to when the tickets would go on sale, often at very unsocial hours. I was also a member of an online Stones group and we would help each other out. Including stadium and arena shows I saw 11 Stones gigs that summer, including 2 more countries, France and Switzerland!

      • Reward for effort and geographical proximity.

        The most I have seen was 4 shows of a tour , admittedly rapid succession as all in Oz but I found all the performances blurring. The patter , the moves , all a bandā€™s tropes became more glaring.

        Still Iā€™d gave taken 4 Stones theatre shows in 4 countries anytime.

        • I saw them play 50 different songs over that summer, but The Stones are the type of band that can deliver familiar songs in such a way that some nights when they really gel you get a different experience compared to going through the motions (relatively), why I kept going back for more

  3. That’s a perfectly good set. I (genuinely) love it when artists have such a back catalogue that they have to leave out a few classics as there are other classics or surprises to fit into the set. Keeps a gig interesting.

  4. I have not seen them very much and a slightly detached observer but it seems odd to me that they ignore so much of their Brian Jones era material. Where is She’s a Rainbow? Is Paint it Black often in their set? Is Mick embarrassed by the slightly gauche lyrics? Where is Time is On My Side? 19th Nervous Breakdown? Get Off My Cloud? How often do these occur?

    • Not so frequently, but to be honest they’ve been ignoring the Brian Jones era since 1972 or so. If you look at the set list from things like Brussels Affair or Ladies and Gentlemen, then they have very few 60s stuff: Jumpin’ Jack Flash, Sympathy for the Devil and Midnight Rambler and that’s about it.

      In the last 10 years’ they’ve played stuff like Let’s Spend the Night Together, Ruby Tuesday, She’s a Rainbow and a few others, but they’re not regulars.

    • Are you basing this on one live album setlist?

      All have been played, expect (I think) Time is On My Side relatively recently (this century). She’s a Rainbow has only been played live a handful of times in their history. Paint it Black has been played many times this century. I have seen The Stones 28 times since 1982, my spread sheet (oh yes!), tells me I have heard at least one song live from every studio album with 2 exceptions Satanic Majesties and Dirty Work (not counting the last 2 albums). I missed She’s a Rainbow when it was played (internet request I think).

      As these days they play less than 20 songs a night then they have to leave quite a lot out from a 60 year career. Some will always want certain songs to be played, but that means others won’t be.

      This is the setlist from the last full show they played (Berlin 2022), it includes Paint it Black

      Street Fighting Man
      All Down The Line
      Tumbling Dice
      Rocks Off
      Out Of Time
      Fool To Cry
      You Can’t Always Get What You Want
      Ghost Town
      Honky Tonk Women
      You Got The Silver (Keith)
      Happy (Keith)
      Miss You
      Midnight Rambler
      Paint It Black
      Start Me Up
      Gimme Shelter
      Jumping Jack Flash
      Sympathy For The Devil
      Satisfaction

      At least 5 tracks from Brian Jones era (up to Beggars Banquet) He also played on You Got the Silver and Sympathy on Let it Bleed so we get 7 actually in this setlist

      • Depends on the show/tour. Some Girls has been a large source of their live material. Think I have heard 7 or 8 different tracks from that album live. I consider it the most Ron album they have released, his first full one with the band.

        • Yes of course, and at the risk of a Python-esque ‘yeah, but APART from Some Girls…’ you’re right.

          Mind you, if you were to compare each setlist for Mick Taylor years v Ron Wood years, that’d tell quite the story.

          • In general, yes, as most would agree their peak was from Beggars Banquet to Exile on Main St where Taylor was present on 3 of those albums so they come up a lot.

            Just making a point that their setlists are not always as predictable as some suggest, perhaps a bit more these days for obvious reasons, but there is still the odd curveball.

            Here’s a show I saw in Boston, MA in 1999, 19 songs and 13 different albums represented (9 from Ron W era, maybe 10 if we include IORR which he allegedly wrote)! In total I have seen them play 114 different songs which would be less than, say, Springsteen, over a similar no. of shows, but more than many acts of their vintage

            Jumping Jack Flash
            Bitch
            You Got Me Rocking
            Respectable
            Honky Tonk Women
            Memory Motel
            Saint of Me
            Some Girls
            Paint It Black
            You Got The Silver (Keith)
            Before They Make Me Run (Keith)
            Out Of Control
            Route 66 (B-stage)
            When The Whip Comes Down (B-stage)
            Midnight Rambler (B-stage)
            Tumbling Dice
            It’s Only Rock’n Roll
            Start Me Up
            Brown Sugar
            Sympathy for the Devil (encore)

  6. Arenā€™t the Rolling Stones just a tribute band these days? Two fifths of the original line up remain and one of those mimes his guitar playing to the tunes an out of sight musician is playing

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