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Compare the repetitive setlists of the early seventies with today's is nonsense. they were in their heyday then, playing their latest, strongest stuff, in a catalogue that was not even 10 years old. That ended in 78. 81 was an added chapter to that but also a hint to what they could and would in fact be from 89 on.

New songs were limited to a smaller part of the setlist and basically at the beginning. Start me up was the last "new" song to make it to the "warhorses" part of the gig. It began the era of the "obscure" tracks to dig out from catalogue. There was the acoustic set in 95, the web choice in 97 and so on.

The best part of this was in 2002/2003 with the 3 venues per town idea + the album theme idea, even if it was early limited to the usual suspects. Of course i'd love to hear Parachute woman or She smiled sweetly and I think that to throw Till the next goodbye or Out of time in the list instead of Wild horses or Iorr once in a while could do no harm to the crescendo

Fact is that Mick thinks and design the setlist as a crescendo plus he is the one that sings (has to remember the lyrics) and feel more comfortable if he does not have to "think" about the lyrics and focus on the "working the crowd part" with his body and choreography. That is why he, and they, need a "safe" setlist at this point and at their age.

Fact is that it works very well on most nights and I have never left a gig unsatisfied (1990, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2014)

Post scriptum: I have seen the whole MR for Adelaide





so may I enlist among the "Lame Crowd Moaners"? It's incredible to see the work of Mick and the band AND all those people standing motionless, arms folded and silent... but hey, I'm italian and was at the Circo Massimo..

I was SHOCKED to see a couple in row ten sitting down throught all of Midnight Rambler while Jagger worked the crowd on the catwalk only a few feet away and Taylor was TEARING it up on guitar. WTF?
I was jumping out of my skin at that moment.
They were wearing the VIP lanyards, as were many near the front, all of which seemed to be spectators rather than participants of the concert. Why does jagger work so hard if he wants us to sit there moitionless...
But that's the kind of crowd you get up front with tickets at those prices.

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SW/UJ tour used a significant number of songs that had not been played live with any regularity in the past. Does anyone else feel that it all seemed pretty sterile though, when you look back at the videos from 1989-90?

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Can anyone tell me of a better rendition live, of Wild Horses, since the iconic definitive 1976 Knebworth performance as seen on RollingStonesVEVO?

More than one person has said the Adelaide performance is the best since Knebworth.
Please correct me if I'm wrong.

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Compare the repetitive setlists of the early seventies with today's is nonsense. they were in their heyday then, playing their latest, strongest stuff, in a catalogue that was not even 10 years old. That ended in 78. 81 was an added chapter to that but also a hint to what they could and would in fact be from 89 on.

New songs were limited to a smaller part of the setlist and basically at the beginning. Start me up was the last "new" song to make it to the "warhorses" part of the gig. It began the era of the "obscure" tracks to dig out from catalogue. There was the acoustic set in 95, the web choice in 97 and so on.

The best part of this was in 2002/2003 with the 3 venues per town idea + the album theme idea, even if it was early limited to the usual suspects. Of course i'd love to hear Parachute woman or She smiled sweetly and I think that to throw Till the next goodbye or Out of time in the list instead of Wild horses or Iorr once in a while could do no harm to the crescendo

Fact is that Mick thinks and design the setlist as a crescendo plus he is the one that sings (has to remember the lyrics) and feel more comfortable if he does not have to "think" about the lyrics and focus on the "working the crowd part" with his body and choreography. That is why he, and they, need a "safe" setlist at this point and at their age.

Fact is that it works very well on most nights and I have never left a gig unsatisfied (1990, 2003, 2006, 2007, 2012, 2014)

Post scriptum: I have seen the whole MR for Adelaide





so may I enlist among the "Lame Crowd Moaners"? It's incredible to see the work of Mick and the band AND all those people standing motionless, arms folded and silent... but hey, I'm italian and was at the Circo Massimo..

I was SHOCKED to see a couple in row ten sitting down throught all of Midnight Rambler while Jagger worked the crowd on the catwalk only a few feet away and Taylor was TEARING it up on guitar. WTF?
I was jumping out of my skin at that moment.
They were wearing the VIP lanyards, as were many near the front, all of which seemed to be spectators rather than participants of the concert. Why does jagger work so hard if he wants us to sit there moitionless...
But that's the kind of crowd you get up front with tickets at those prices.

I was in Row A and we had corpses in the 2 rows behind us SITTING during Rambler. I almost called security on them.
They of course jumped up for Miss You.
When OOC was on they sat and looked disinterested.
It looked like a lot of 'event' people who weren't even Hot Rocks fans were at the shows.