We are now 20 shows into the A Bigger Bang tour, excluding the Toronto warm up concert, so I decided to compare the songs played on this tour to the Songs played at the same point on the Bridges tour, since it was the most recent tour behind a new studio album.

Excluding the 2 warm up concerts and the short show in Port Chester, the 20th show on the Bridges tour was Los Angeles night 1.

So far, there have been 41 different songs played on the current tour, which is pretty similar to 1997. At this point on that tour, they had played 39 different songs in the 20 regular tour shows, plus 2 additional songs in warm up concerts.

On that tour they went on to play around 60 different songs through 1998 and a total of 76 songs by June 1999.

Following are lists of the songs played so far in 2005 and the songs played at this point in 1997. There are 17 songs in common between the 2 tours.

A Bigger Bang:

1. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
2. Get Off Of My Cloud
3. 19th Nervous Breakdown
4. Paint It Black
5. Ruby Tuesday
6. Jumpin' Jack Flash
7. Sympathy For The Devil
8. Honky Tonk Women
9. Live With Me
10. Midnight Rambler
11. You Can't Always Get What You Want
12. Brown Sugar
13. Sway
14. Wild Horses
15. Bitch
16. Dead Flowers
17. Rocks Off
18. Tumbling Dice
19. Sweet Virginia
20. All Down The Line
21. Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
22. Angie
23. Ain't Too Proud To Beg
24. It's Only Rock 'N" Roll (But I Like It)
25. Miss You
26. Beast Of Burden
27. Shattered
28. She's So Cold
29. Start Me Up
30. Waiting On A Friend
31. You Got Me Rocking
32. The Worst
33. Out Of Control
34. Rough Justice
35. Rain Fall Down
36. Back Of My Hand
37. Oh No Not You Again
38. Infamy
39. Get Up Stand Up
40. Mr. Pitiful
41. The Night Time Is The Right Time

Bridges To Babylon through first 20 regular shows:

1. The Last Time
2. (I Can't get No) Satisfaction
3. 19th Nervous Breakdown
4. Under My Thumb
5. Let's Spend The Night Together
6. Ruby Tuesday
7. She's a Rainbow
8. Jumpin' Jack Flash
9. Sympathy For The Devil
10. Factory Girl
11. Honky Tonk Women
12. Gimme Shelter
13. Love In Vain
14. Let It Bleed
15. You Can't Always Get What You Want
16. Little Queenie
17. Brown Sugar
18. Bitch
19. Sister Morphine
20. Dead Flowers
21. Tumbling Dice
22. Shine A Light
23. Star Star
24. It's Only Rock 'N' Roll (But I Like It)
25. Memory Motel
26. Fool To Cry
27. Crazy Mama
28. Miss You
29. Far Away Eyes
30. All About You
31. Start Me Up
32. Waiting On A Friend
33. Wanna Hold You
34. Rock And A Hard Place
35. You Got Me Rocking
36. Flip The Switch
37. Anybody Seen My Baby
38. Out Of Control
39. Saint Of Me

plus Little Red Rooster and Shame Shame Shame in the 2 warm up shows.

Bridges appears to unearth a few more real gems (Little Queenie, Crazy Mama, Factory Girl, She's a Rainbow), but with Sway and Sweet Virginia alone, the ABB tour is stacking up nicely. And of course that could do more gems on Licks because as you point out, they had NO new album to back up (only played Don't Stop...which is now a gem that ought to be played at some point!)

"but with Sway and Sweet Virginia alone, the ABB tour is stacking up nicely."

Each has only been played once and word is "Sway" left much of the audience indifferent at best.

"Don't Stop" is now a gem?

The bar must now be pretty low.

R Wrote:
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> "but with Sway and Sweet Virginia alone, the ABB
> tour is stacking up nicely."
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> Each has only been played once and word is "Sway"
> left much of the audience indifferent at best.


and how many times had the ones on B2B been played at this point?

martingo Wrote:
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> "Don't Stop" is now a gem?
>
> The bar must now be pretty low.


It was pretty well-received on the Licks tour. I wouldn't want it played every night...actually, now that I think of it...I wouildn't want to be at the one show where they played it as a rarity...therefore, you're right...I retract it!

If they ever play Don't Stop again,I think it will be in a country that didn't get a Licks Tour concert such as Mexico etc..

4tylix Wrote:
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> martingo Wrote:
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> > "Don't Stop" is now a gem?
> >
> > The bar must now be pretty low.
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> It was pretty well-received on the Licks tour. I
> wouldn't want it played every night...actually,
> now that I think of it...I wouildn't want to be at
> the one show where they played it as a
> rarity...therefore, you're right...I retract it!
>
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4tylix -- if you dig it, I hope they play it for you!

dont stop is a gem on that bangalore 03 dvd

> 4tylix -- if you dig it, I hope they play it for
> you!

no, no...it's a good tune, but there are 50 others on front of it for rarities I'd prefer to hear.

Thanks for the comparison; it's interesting... can't quite characterize the difference. Somehow the Bridges gems seem more appealing, but I think that's just a matter of perspective. There were 2 more pre-'68 tracks then. Wish they'd go back to that era more often.

Didn't they do "Not Fade Away" regularly on a recent tour?

Only if you consider 1994/95 recent.

I think they should bring "Don't stop" back in place of say IORR or YCAGWYW.
Get some more post 70s stuff in there.



kyle m

Have you ever lent somebody $20 and never seen them again? It was probably worth it.

I do consider that recent. Steel Wheels forward is all one era to me.

"Don't Stop" ended up being a pretty good live number, IMO. Good 3-guitar interplay. I don't see how it would substitute for the songs you mention, though, which are very different, even from each other.