FOr those of you who actually saw the Rolling Stones in concert this past summer in Europe and England, with the perspective of a little time, what show did you enjoy most?



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-10-23 19:32 by stonesrule.

Copenhagen , Denmark fifth of august !

they sure blew the roof off at Hamburg and the second London show
Warsaw was amazing too (no roof to blow off, though!) and Duesseldorf - ohhhh my -
and that last London show was so freakin special in so many ways ...
ahem, i mean: i enjoyed the hell out of all of 'em - that's what they're for

Saw a number of shows and Hamburg knocked me sideways!
A total scorcher of a concert. Best Stones gig for me yet.

I flew from the US to see the Slane show so... Slane

custom55 Wrote:
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> I flew from the US to see the Slane show so...
> Slane


Ditto that.

I have to say Lyon...

belgrade, bucharest, and london #1.

St Petersburg

Slane was the best

1st night at the 02.

1st night, 1st row at the O2!

Saw Madrid & El Ejido, and they were the night and the day. Madrid was horrible (Keith was really in bad shape) but El Ejido was great (all of them were great, Keith OK)

Nijmegen.

The intense thunderstorm and torrential downpour forced Van Morrison to leave the stage early
after 2 songs and seek a safe haven, while most of the fans on the field dug their heels in the mud and roughed it.
Pure chaos. I love Dutch weather!

But the stubbornness of the fans paid off. The skies cleared and the Stones came on to perform
one of the best performances I've ever seen from them.

The only downside? My nice new leather shoes were ruined.

Gothenburg with this killer version of Midnight Rambler of course and according to one source Keith supposedly "OD'ing on alcohol". Copenhagen as close runner-up.

The last show at o2- She was hot!

But then i didn't see the o2 second show!



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I've heard from people that attended several euro shows that Copenhagen and Oslo were among the best shows. Luckily, I was at the Oslo show.

1st o2 show

Slane was a good for a big show.

sc uk

Copenhagen.

All down the line in Paris! Wow......

The show in Rome!

The shows in London!

Slane to me was a mess, but I guess that was the arrangement itself, and not the Stones.

I saw two of them: Bucharest and Slane.
I have to agree with something I read here on IORR a few weeks ago, that the band was at top speed during July, in the middle of the tour.
Watching a lot of concert movies on youtube and comparing various shows in various moments of the tour I will say that Bucharest was one of the best shows in the tour ( regardless the fact that it had only 18 songs ).
Keith was not in top physical form in Bucharest, struggling to keep up in 40 degrees celsius, but he played excellent, including a fancy and delicious Brown Sugar intro
Add to that a very good venue in Bucharest ( old football/athletic stadium, wide opened, with beautiful sound, no echo at all ) and a superb crowd ( more than 60 000 , hot and cheerful.
From the band's total energy and tempo, I may say Slane Castle was a little bit lower. But there we had a beautiful location and a very special event to remember, a lot more than a regular show.
Keith was a lot better, head up, very good performance. For sure the best You Got The Silver in the whole summer ( I may say I compared YGTS from most of the shows ).
If you were just a bird sitting in the far up corner of the concert venue, my guess is that everybody's choice would be Bucharest, Belgrade and Slane, each of them for different reasons.

Belgrade.

Musically, the second London-show has been may be the best show, at least the best out of the seven shows, I saw. The problem is that an arena-show isn't that burning than a stadium-show. From this point of view, Hamburg was the best.
Anyway, for the atmospere, the great weather, the nice stadium, the concert, I enjoyed most, was Frankfurt, although the sound was not good, but the show was great. Never heared such a loud explosion as here.

London 02 second show.....

When the guitars pumped the loco grind....the drums went
thump.....that MickyBoy prance and then that massive full
on push after he sangggg ..."Won't you be my little baby for a while"



ROCKMAN

2nd Night at the O2...........inspired performance

Copenhagen
Slane
London 2

London 02 2nd night

London o2 second show;
ROME;
The scandinavian shows - except Helsinki, which I didn't attend.

BUDAPEST for the atmosphere!!

Hairball Wrote:
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> Nijmegen.
>
> The intense thunderstorm and torrential downpour
> forced Van Morrison to leave the stage early
> after 2 songs and seek a safe haven, while most of
> the fans on the field dug their heels in the mud
> and roughed it.
> Pure chaos. I love Dutch weather!
>
> But the stubbornness of the fans paid off. The
> skies cleared and the Stones came on to perform
> one of the best performances I've ever seen from
> them.

Went to Nijmegen, intense rain, nice show, Keith off track, but anyway it
was head, heart and balls all the way!
>
> The only downside? My nice new leather shoes were
> ruined.

'Doo doo doo Heartbreaker'

capsula Wrote:
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> Saw Madrid & El Ejido, and they were the night and
> the day. Madrid was horrible (Keith was really in
> bad shape) but El Ejido was great (all of them
> were great, Keith OK)


I thought Madrid was absolutely brilliant. Much was made by some of Keith's mishaps to make it sound like he was all over the place for the whole show, but that simply wasnt the case. He was certainly a bit 'fragile' physically, but aside from butchering the solo on HTW and messing up the words of 'Happy' he played fine.