I love you guys.

riffhard72 Wrote:
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> I'd LIKE it to be RJ, but who knows??!!! I just
> hope they'll drop SFTD completely!

I'd like to hear Rough Justice as opener too... to me it's their strongest rocker in years and very passable as a "stones opening song"...

A bit surprised you would like SFTD out of the setlist completely... it's an amazing tune for an Arena... During 40 Licks the Stones played Comiskey Park in Chicago, prolly 50-60,000 in attendance... I just remember the subways full of people chanting the SFTD "whooo whooo" after the concert...

And in the auditorium show, the 2-punch of SFTD and Gimme Shelter back to back was one of the very highlights of the tour.

HTW or Sympathie

DandelionPowderman Wrote:
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> <If it's Rough Justice, won't that be the first
> "new album" opening song on a tour since.... when
> ?>
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> 1971 - Dead Flowers


I don't recall Dead Flowers being the opener for the 71-72 Sticky Fingers tour...

I saw them twice on that tour (KC and St. Louis)... the opener for both was "Brown Sugar"...

What about the Tattoo You tour timeframe... did they open w/ Start Me Up ?

DP - you may be thinking they opened with Dead Flowers because it's the lead track on the Leeds boot - they didn't open with it - that's an incomplete disc.

Tattoo You tour opener was Under My Thumb

This one will be ...

I have no idea - don't really care - but I will be there!

based on tonight's dress rehearsal at Fenway, you can pretty much rule out SFTD - it closed the set. HTW still seems to be in the running - it was rehearsed early and late in the set. My hunch is the Stones are intentionally trying to keep folks guessing during the rehearsals - as it should be.

See the set list on the updated Boston page. Then you will see what the opening song is...

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Bjornulf

we'll see - i'm not convinced "that" will be the opener - I think the boys are trying to keep the public guessing. Also, it appears that no b-stage set was rehearsed...so those tunes promise to be a surprise, still...



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stonew todd-do u know t&a! he thinks u talk too much!

he and I are quite close

lmao! i think our buddy stalked u and found out u are 2 people (or more) wrapped up in 1

I think it maybe JJ. It was not rehearsed. It would be great to have a live version which starts like the studio version. I have only ever heard this live with keith starting off with the main riff. Also maybe slow it down a tad. They play it too fast and it ruins the the power of the riff.

Personally I'd like too see GS open. A faster more rockin version than the blues variant we have had lately.