By new material I mean stuff from the last twenty years or so.

The set list always gets bogged down in the early 70's albums.

Before you say it. I agree that is the bands best period, but I think they should perform more of the stronger material from Steel Wheels on.

It seems once that tour is over they move on to the next tour throw on 3 or 4 tunes from the new cd and nothing but stuff from the early 70's and a few tunes from the late 70's early 80's.

The band should be playing these pretty popular/well know songs on a semi regular basis.

1/ Saint of Me (popular tune from B2b)
2/ You Got Me Rocking (which is about the only song from this era they play a lot)
3/ Out of Control (great live)
4/ Love is Strong (popular tune)
5/ Don't Stop
6/ Rock + A Hard Place
7/ Mixed Emotions
8/ Highwire
9/ Like a Rolling Stone
10/ Out of Tears
11/ I Go Wild


Plus, they should ALWAYS be playing at least 5 new songs from the latest cd.

1/ Oh, No Not You Again
2/ Rough Justice
3/ Back of My Hand
4/ It Won't Be Long
5/ Streets of Love (it was the single)
6/ This Place is Empty
7/ Sweet Neo-con (They had the balls to write it they should have the balls to play it)


Don't get me wrong I love the old stuff, but by mixing in more of the "new stuff" their concerts wouldn't resemble an oldies tour.

Much of their new music is very good. It clearly is not as good as the Exile/Sticky Fingers era, but it still quality work.

The Stones are still a viable act + their set list should reflect this fact.

first show has just ended...and the firsti defeatist has appeared....sad

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Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

I didn't know the show just ended.

In no way is this meant to be a defeatist post. Just a suggestion.

i know....:-)

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Oh, give me the beat, boys, and free my soul
I wanna get lost in your rock and roll and drift away

James Kirk, I totally agree with you!

The problem is they only do 19-20 songs. If they were still doing 25 song sets, there would probably be more variation with Brian Jones era and later era songs.

They can't do that , they're trying to please the everday fan ,

They want to hear the old warhorses , For thode of us who have attended many shows it may be passe but , you gotta look at the big picture . Think of that kid in the photo from tonights show < Maybe an old warhorse was all he knew and he's happy . I'd have been happy to have been there . Instead I played golf and didn't play very well at all .