It's Only Rock'n Roll - No. 36 - May 1999
The Rolling Stones Fan Club of Europe

This issue of IORR is dedicated to the No Security tour. From Jan. 25 to April 20, the Stones played 34 shows in 26 cities, including one show in Toronto, Canada, and the rest in USA.

The No Security tour was set up so that the Stones could "stay warm" for the postponed UK shows. All shows were performed in arena sized venues, normally used for sports like ice hockey and basket ball. A total of 590,000 fans paid an average of $109 per ticket, totalling gross ticket sales of 65 million US dollars.

The Stones did two weeks of rehearsals at The Fillmore in San Francisco, and checked out quite a few "new" songs. Thursday Jan. 21 and Friday Jan. 22 they rehearsed at the Henry J. Kayser arena in Oakland, and on Saturday 23rd they did the final rehearsals at the Fillmore. This is a selection of songs they were rehearsing in San Francisco, not performed later on during the No Security tour:

Angie

Ain't Too Proud to Beg

Around and Around

Emotional Rescue

Gunface

Hang Fire

I Go Wild

Jump on Top of Me

Little T&A

Love Is Strong

Rocks Off

Under My Thumb

These are the statistics of the tour, i.e. what songs they played, and how many times each of the songs were performed:

All down the line 1

I just wanna make love to you 1

Ruby Tuesday 1

Dead flowers 1

Shine a light 2

Undercover of the night 2

Fool to cry 2

I got the blues 4

Gimme shelter 6

Sweet Virginia 8

You don't have to mean it 9

When the whip comes down 11

Just my imagination 11

Get off of my cloud 11

Memory motel 13

Thief in the night 13

Bitch 13

Moonlight mile 14

Live with me 19

Before they make me run 23

You got the silver 23

Respectable 29

Saint of me 31

Tumbling dice 32

Honky tonk women 34

You got me rocking 34

Brown sugar 34

Sympathy for the devil 34

Midnight rambler 34

Some girls 34

Route 66 34

It's only rock `n roll 34

Jumpin' jack flash 34

Paint it black 34

Out of control 34

Start me up 34

Also, this issue is dedicated to the 1999 European Tour. Enjoy the shows!