Yes agreed, Ronnie louder with more distortion, but it's needed, this sounds like a guitar band again.

Can we just assume the band fancied abit of an Exile night which is why Keith played Happy too

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Yes agreed, Ronnie louder with more distortion, but it's needed, this sounds like a guitar band again.

i agree change for the better

also i'm done with the videos tonight just replaced most with better ones and filled in the missing songs

good night

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Yes agreed, Ronnie louder with more distortion, but it's needed, this sounds like a guitar band again.

i agree change for the better

also i'm done with the videos tonight just replaced most with better ones and filled in the missing songs

good night

You are a real trouper, all your uploads are appreciated by all of us, get some shut eye mate, take care.

A beautiful version of Happy. Keith sings really well.

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Yeah, a big hand to ProfWolf for providing the links here. It is so easy for me just to wake up and catch what my favourite had been up to there in America in previous night..

- Doxa

Jagger was on great form so I am not sure why SSOH of dropped.

He was drinking a lot, I noticed, but then it was a hot Georgia evening.

Roll on!

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Yeah, a big hand to ProfWolf for providing the links here. It is so easy for me just to wake up and catch what my favourite had been up to there in America in previous night..

- Doxa

They're so fantastic for faraway eyes here in London to see come the morning after the night before, thank you Professor Wolf!

Yes, I'm loving Ronnie's solos and as someone else has said, Keith's incredibly grungy, dirty guitar. And on the likes of Tumbling Dice, which is sounding so fresh and great, I love Chanel's way of doing the backing vocals dialing DOWN the soul/vibrato (like on the repeated It's a gas' from JJF) so it's clean and clipped and kind of in uniform - it holds back and does more as a result.

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Jagger was on great form so I am not sure why SSOH of dropped.

He was drinking a lot, I noticed, but then it was a hot Georgia evening.

Roll on!

Usually it would be due to saving his voice but i didn't get the impression he had any vocal problems.
But to drop SSOH and Keith singing three songs means something was not 100%.



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So now that both the band and Ronnie have released images of the Atlanta set list that were pre-typed (and pre-painted) beforehand, we now know that there was no technical conspiracy. The inclusion of "Happy" and the exclusion of "Sweet Sounds" were both predetermined.

I didn’t notice anything off with Mick. I thought he did some more dancing than just strutting side to side on stage. Keith in fine form on Happy. Loved the Sweet Virginia/Dead Flowers duo. Like 2019. Off to Philadelphia now!

Keith did 3 songs, inc. Happy.. hence they canned SSOH

Great night in Atlanta! Thank you so much for your warm welcome

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I liked that Happy, also the mini "acoustic" countryish set

Any insight of what happened that caused the change in the set?

Keith's joking before Happy sounds like it was something out of the blue and not planned before

does someone know something?

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I liked that Happy, also the mini "acoustic" countryish set

Any insight of what happened that caused the change in the set?

Keith's joking before Happy sounds like it was something out of the blue and not planned before

does someone know something?

Yes, its called duping the audience.

As I sit here at the airport waiting to head back to DC I will say this was the most unique song set so far.

Not sure why they dropped Cloud but I would prefer it over Only Rock and Roll.

The mini acoustic set was interesting. Sort of a flashback to earlier years where they did a bit of this on the B Stage.

Three Keith songs was a plus. Glad to hear Happy.

Definitely missing Heaven. It's got a good vibe to it.

My guess is that Mick was not up to par. Only Rock N Roll has more of the backing singers than Cloud and without Heaven it seems to add up. Plus the 3 Keith songs was similar to when I saw their last real Arena show when Mick was sick.

One thing I will say. The guitar band I grew up loving is showing they are still a guitar band. They have cranked up the guitars in the mix.

What a great way to open the show. They open the roof and then the Stones hit the stage. It was like a prelude to their introduction.

I still prefer Wide World to Mess it Up.

Let's hope Rambler stays in the rotation. I prefer it to Miss You which I feel just doesn't have the same groove as it used to. A tad over played and definitely too drawn out.

Next stop Philly.

Whatever the situation was last night I hope all the band is in good health and 100% for the rest of the tour!

Now that the event has passed and this is no longer compromising information, does anyone know what hotel the Stones stayed at this time? Usually the fans discover and it ends up not really being a secret, but this year I never heard.

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So we do have 19 songs. Wonder if Mick is a bit under the weather. Either way great to hear 3 songs from Keith!!

I doubt Mick is under the weather. But his voice and vocal cords might feel strained. The reason why Keith did three tunes. My take is that the Rolling Stones could do a 20 date schedule in 40 days. That each concert would be followed by one day off. The reason they don't do this, is that Micks voice needs resting. So that reality is that each concert is followed by three days off, and on rare occasions two days. During their leisurely tour.
Is it true that Keith flies home via private jet after each performance? That his days off are spent resting in Connecticut?



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Maybe Chanel was feeling a little off and that was why they didn’t do sweet sounds of heaven?!

Review by Alwyn Welch

At the halfway point in the 2024 tour, Atlanta is the last show in the south-east of the US – just as the summer is heating-up. With a metro population of over 6 million it is not surprising that there is a demand for Stones shows – now 3 in 9 years. The city was named after a railway company, recognising its position as a communications centre in this part of the US. It’s a modern city, well spread out, with few older buildings: both sides burnt-down many of the original structures during the Civil War 160 years ago.
The Mercedes-Benz Stadium, almost S-Class in quality, had it’s roof open due to the not-too-hot weather and a desire for better sound. That worked, the sound near the front was excellent again. That roof opening was a show in itself, with an iris-like circular motion as the crescent shaped roof elements moved to create a circular hole through which the cooling Georgia sky could be seen. They moved until almost the whole of the circular roof was open to the heavens.

Why is the stadium so named? Well the US HQ of Mercedes is in town, and they have a huge factory 200 miles east in Alabama. I guess the brand advertising is more helpful in Atlanta than Tuscaloosa, or maybe the local Execs like the hospitality opportunity…. The organisation and security at the stadium was competent enough to meet the Mercedes reputation. In particular they acted with speed when a lady in front of me fainted during the show. The folks in Sindelfingen (look it up) should take note that the venue sponsorship is in alignment with their quality brand.

Atlanta has now seen 13 Stones shows, dating back to 1975, a late start. Two were at the tiny Fox Theatre, the second of which was the first show where “local” Chuck Leavell played with the band. I say “local” because although he was born in Alabama, he has lived for many years near Macon (pronounced may-con in these parts, not mac-on as in France). He had many guests present at the show this year: Chuck is a popular musician and arboriculturist in these parts, as well as a very decent individual. Mick mentioned Chuck as a local resident, and also that their first visit to Atlanta was during Ronnie’s first tour: “he’s still learning” was the quip.

It was around 9pm when the lights dimmed, the shadowy images of Mick & Co. appeared on the screens, and the dulcet (ish) tones of Matt Clifford announced the arrival on stage of the main attraction for the 60,000 people in the stadium. It was no surprise to see Keith stride confidently into the middle of the stage and hammer out the start of Start Me Up.

We’d had a hint of a change to the normal running order when someone saw a setlist before the Stones came on stage, and Keith was due to play three songs. I’ve seen, and heard, that Richards extravaganza once before. It was in Las Vegas in 2016 when Mick’s voice had been damaged by the dust of the California desert during the Coachella gigs. So we were watching Mick with very keen interest as he bounded on stage.

In the first few songs it was clear that Mick was struggling at times. I’m sure that the vast majority of the audience would not notice, but he was avoiding high notes and minimising his use of words at times. His face grimaced when heading back to his sniffle station, and he had to abandon his harmonica introduction to song vote winner Sweet Virginia. During the falsetto verse ending in Mess It Up he gestured to Chanel to deliver the notes alone. But most obvious to regular Stones watchers was the incredible support given by Bernard. He really worked hard at Atlanta, shadowing Mick’s vocals with the benefit of 40 years of experience such that you had to watch stage left to see it happen.

Remarkably Mick is such a great performer, and I guess has such stubbornness over delivering a great show, that the only other obvious sign of an issue was Keith’s extended section. Keith told us something like he was doing three songs “due to the Band’s request”. I am 100% convinced that they were protecting Mick’s voice. They also dropped Sweet Sound of Heaven. If anything Mick’s singing got even stronger as the show progressed – I hope he took enough care and is back to feeling 100% for the next gig.

So the set list was a little different in Atlanta. The four starting rockers of Start Me Up, IORR, Let’s Spend the Night Together and Angry set the gig off with its usual pace and power. More very strong guitar playing from Keith and Ronnie, and powerful bass and drums that felt a bit higher in the mix.

Then we had a country section. Sweet Virginia won the song vote, and the screen showed the numbers of votes for that winner and what I assumed would win: Wild Horses. I have never seen that before. I think that, as Mick noted, this was because there were exactly 11,000 votes separating those songs. I did wonder whether some attempted Georgia voting shenanigans were at play for a few seconds… some people do attempt to fix the vote in these parts, allegedly.

As I mentioned before, Mick fluffed the harmonica intro, threw said instrument away, and looked at his bandmates in frustration. Tim Ries did a great sax solo, and the band did that 1972 song proud. Then we got Dead Flowers, a slightly extended version, and lots of backing vocals with Bernard, Chanel, Chuck and Keith: all lending Mick a hand. Ronnie played a cracking solo and by this time I had to dig deep to recall that Mick was under the weather voice-wise.

Dice was a nice as ever, and this led into another rocking version of Mess It Up. YCAGWYW followed with the audience also helping on the vocals. There did seem to be a few empty seats at the back and upper sides of the stadium, but the cheering and singing and general response from the assembled masses certainly sounded as strong and enthusiastic as any this year.

The band was introduced with a special pat on the back from Mick to Keith, and a huge cheer for Chuck, Ronnie and Keith. Mick and Bernard had a special interaction, I guess of mutual respect. We then had great versions of Tell Me Straight and Little T&A. When Keith announced Happy there was a really big cheer, and it’s first outing this year was excellent: very good lap steel guitar playing from Ronnie and vocals from the riff-meister himself. Like several songs in Atlanta I thought they extended the instrumental parts a bit, to good effect.

After Sympathy, which Mick largely sang alone, and Honky Tonk Women, where he mimed more of the words, I was very surprised to hear the opening instrument duelling of Rambler. I assumed, wrongly, that we’d get a safer Miss You: wrong again! We heard another extravaganza of blues rock; lots of great harmonica, guitars and piano. A snippet of “Hellhound on my Trail”; perhaps a little less audience prompting than usual; and lots of rocking and dancing in the faster sections. The came Shelter, with Keith sitting at the start as is always the case now, and another superb Chanel/Mick duet.

It occurred to me that Keith was only offstage, or sitting, for perhaps 2 minutes of the 2 hour show. Such stamina: its not only Mick who is a physical phenomenon. Ronnie sat for a minute or so at one point, and again seems to be exercising his hands: maybe a bit more physio needed? Then the band raced into Paint It Black, which I noticed has a great light show reinforcing the pounding drum beat and sense of depression from the lyrics. There are so many elements to this show that it is easy to miss some.

Keith then hammered out the introduction to JJF, and the main set came to a rocking conclusion. I thought he was trying to get the band out of the chorus riff to the final verse riff towards the end, but the band was refusing to follow, and it needed a bit of a nod from Mick to trigger that final blast on the open-tuned Telecaster. Despite their 2 hours on stage the band seemed keen to continue.

The encore was briefer, with no Sweet Sounds of Heaven – I could understand why this was omitted, but I really missed it’s emotion. The audience had lit up their phones as if in anticipation, and we had to be content with Satisfaction.

Looking at the faces as the tens of thousands walked out of the venue, I think contented and satisfied would describe well the feelings of that mass of people. Another great gig had been experienced, which in my mind was all the more outstanding due to the points mentioned earlier in these notes. We have now had 39 songs played in 10 gigs: no fixed setlists here, even if we need more from Hackney Diamonds please.

The experience of this band shone through in Atlanta; their insistence that the show must go on; and the result was that any issues were more than overcome, which if anything highlights their collective and individual capability. A sincere thank you is due to everyone involved in another fantastic evening. The caravan now moves up the north east margins of the US to Philadelphia.

WTF is Ronnie playing during the solo of SMU? That was atrocious! He's laid some clams over the years with SMU but that's possibly the top clam of them all!

Don't say that, you'll get in trouble
The solo is perfect.

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smu sounds off

something about the guitars

Because you listening on an I Phone that is being recorded on an I phone.

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smu sounds off

something about the guitars

On RS' Facebook-page there's a comment that it was probably the poor acoustics of the MB Stadium that caused the wrong sound.

The acoustics are not good at MB stadium especially in back or the upper level.

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smu sounds off

something about the guitars

On RS' Facebook-page there's a comment that it was probably the poor acoustics of the MB Stadium that caused the wrong sound.

nice review by Alwyn Welch above, thanks for posting

Keith sang six songs (backing + lead vocals).
I like it!

The opportunity to see The Rolling Stones is something that I rarely pass on. It is something I’ve been doing with friends and family going back to Cleveland in August 1994 for Voodoo Lounge. Tonight, in the midst of moving from Texas to Maryland, I was able to meet a friend in Atlanta for the show - an event that tens of thousands would attend - my second of this tour (after a great show in Las Vegas) and a week before a large family and friend reunion in Cleveland next Saturday night.

Having attended Las Vegas, and having followed on IORR, I was generally familiar with the show, but knew that the band was playing well and coming up with surprises every night. Tonight was no exception. Start Me Up, IORR, Let’s Spend the Night Together and Angry all sounded great. The double whammy of Sweet Virginia and Dead Flowers was a great pairing. I’m always glad to hear new songs, and Mess It Up is great live. I was really happy to hear the audience go wild for Ronnie’s solo on You Can’t Always Get What You Want - well deserved.

For a few years it seems that Keith Richards can, in some ways, make or break a show. I always enjoy seeing him and the band, but like anyone, he has off nights. Tonight was not an off night. Little by little I could tell Mick was not feeling well (moving great, but not singing and talking in a higher register as usual). Maybe because of this, Keith sang a lot of backup, smiled a lot, looked happy and engaged, and sang 3 songs tonight. He had his eyes on Mick like I haven’t seen before.

If Mick didn’t feel well, it didn’t show on Midnight Rambler. What an excellent performance, with great harmonica, guitars, vocals, dancing. This was a highlight, especially since I much prefer this to Miss You.

I expected to hear Sweet Sounds, but after seeing Mick spit on stage all night, his lower vocal register singing, and Keith’s 3 songs, it made sense when they went into Satisfaction.

I was on the fence about going to this show - having just seen the Stones last month, and going to see them again next week - but I’m really glad I did, because this was an excellent show.

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I would like to say something that may seem banal... but when the Stones get on stage they are real, authentic and above all they convey that sense of fun that other bands don't convey. They experience their mistakes and limits with fun and carefreeness. Many rock bands and artists should take them as an example.

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smu sounds off

something about the guitars

Because you listening on an I Phone that is being recorded on an I phone.

no i'm listening on a pc with a good soundcard thru quality headphones at high volume (as usaul) not sh-tty iphone speakers

the sound is present in multiple videos at multiple angles and places in the stadium

it sounds like ronnie's guitar is louder and more distorted then normal

perhaps it was wrong to say that it sounded off it just sounds different

agree with gls though not his best solo but he had a couple other nice ones thru the show

but i kind of like the extra distortion in the guitar sound on smu



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