Updates on RO thanks to Beast

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1. Start Me Up
2. You Got Me Rocking
3. Rough Justice
4. Bitch



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-07-28 23:15 by bv.

Thank you Beast, thank you Gazza

5. She's So Cold
6. You Cant Always Get What you Want
7. Midnight Rambler

From Beast - "a great "Shes So Cold". WORST fúcking crowd ever. I'm in the front corner on Ronnie's side. All sitting down. I refused to do so.."



Edited 1 time(s). Last edit at 2007-07-28 21:03 by Gazza.

Thanks for the updates!
Hope the crowd doesn't ruin the concert for Beast!

Lorenz Wrote:
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> Thanks for the updates!
> Hope the crowd doesn't ruin the concert for Beast!

That WON'T happen, she was in the Rattlesnake Inn earlier........

Manofwealthandtaste Wrote:
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> That WON'T happen, she was in the Rattlesnake Inn
> earlier........

Well, then nothing can spoil the fun, I'm sure!

"Show is fantastic, but such a LAME crowd, and the security wont let anyone on the grilles, let alone on the rail. Grrrrr."

8. I'll Go Crazy

Wow, great set list so far! Too bad the crowd isn't too crazy, I thought they would after soo long without The Stones....

9. T Dice
10. You got the silver
11. T & A

Little T&A! Yeeeeah! Great! Feels good to know that Keith is still capable to shake his set up a bit!

Aha ... T & A. Had a text message from Beast a few minutes ago saying she had heard them rehearsing this whilst she was eating their food an' slurping their wine in the Rattlesnake Inn. Good choice KR ... good choice !!

12. Miss you

It seems to be a fast show. Keith must be riffing hard and rough. Can Charlie follow The Master....

13. It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (b-stage)
14. Satisfaction (b-stage)
15. Honky Tonk Women (Back to main stage)

phd Wrote:
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> It seems to be a fast show. Keith must be riffing
> hard and rough. Can Charlie follow The Master....


Theyve been onstage since about 18.30 UK time

16, Sympathy

(wish theyd started or finished with this one, but what the hell..)

Gazza Wrote:
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> phd Wrote:
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> > It seems to be a fast show. Keith must be
> riffing
> > hard and rough. Can Charlie follow The
> Master....
>
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> Theyve been onstage since about 18.30 UK time
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> 16, Sympathy
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> (wish theyd started or finished with this one, but
> what the hell..)

<<< wish theyd started or finished with this one, but what the hell .. >>>

Agree, it would have been fitting, but from what Beast is describing of the audience ... perhaps it would've been lost on 'em ?

First pictures of this night





The Rolling Stones lead singer Mick Jagger performs during a concert on their 'A Bigger Bang' tour at Palace Square in St. Petersburg, Russia, Saturday, July 28, 2007.(AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky)

Cheers, Marco

About the audience i'm not so surprised.
As i was in Budva half of the peolple (600 rooms) were russians and these guys are so sad : all "stone faces" à la Poutine.
I can understand they don't want to talk to me bue even between them you couldn't see pleasure.
The woman holds his babe without a smile, they eat like robots and so on...

AP Photo/Dmitry Lovetsky

Cheers, Marco

From RO

1. Start Me Up
2. You Got Me Rocking
3. Rough Justice
4. Bitch
5. She's So Cold
6. You Can't Always Get What You Want
7. Midnight Rambler
8. I'll Go Crazy
9. Tumbling Dice

10. You Got The Silver
11. Little T & A

12. Miss You (to b-stage)
13. It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (b-stage)
14. Satisfaction (b-stage)
15. Honky Tonk Women (Back to main stage)

16. Sympathy For The Devil
17. Paint it Black
18. Jumpin' Jack Flash

19. Brown Sugar (encore)

Cheers, Marco

marclaff Wrote:
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> About the audience i'm not so surprised.
> As i was in Budva half of the peolple (600 rooms)
> were russians and these guys are so sad : all
> "stone faces" à la Poutine.
> I can understand they don't want to talk to me bue
> even between them you couldn't see pleasure.
> The woman holds his babe without a smile, they eat
> like robots and so on...


This is seriously on the verge of hate speech.I've been to Russia many times and many of them are complete opposite to how you described them.

As for the lame audience.Unfortunately, Russian promoters charge a lot for the FOS area tickets and I guess most of those tickets were bought by some rich Russian snobs who have no idea about the stones.I witnessed this at some other acts' shows I saw in Russia.I feel sorry for the real Stones fans in Russia who couldn't pay out 200 bucks to see their favourite band from close.

Well keith broke "T & A" back out so can "Connection" be far behind.

Oh Keith why didn't you bring up Little T and A earlier?Wanna hold you is a good song but it just pales in comparison to Little T&A

Looking at the Keith's picture, it seems I was right : riffing hard on " killing the tsar".....

This was the best show of the summer for sure. And it was the best performance of the tour. And the largest crowd at least 100,000 of which half were for free and many paid 1,000 Rubel which is 30 Euro i.e. 40 us dollars. Cheap cheap cheap. The crowd was great. The "sitting down" bit I read about above must be a local thing. They were absolutely into the show. And the "venue" was absolute beautiful. Unique buildings surrounding a large place/square in historic beautiful St Petersburg. Keith did his best opening parts on Rough Justice, it reminded me of his previous highlight in Russia, see my report about Flip The Switch in Moscow 1998: [iorr.org]

Indeed it was a great great show and a great great crowd. Mick, Keith and Ronnie were running around on the B-stage like maniacs. They wanted this to be a great show. Keith was 100% sharp and concentrated all through the show. The security style was changed 180 degrees vs. the previous show in Russia 1998, when they had 1200 uniformed police all over. Now there were suit and tie style security, firm but nice. Nothing on sale anywhere except for special t-shirts. Total of 10 - ten - toilets for thye entire crowd. But it was a great show.

It is now half an hour past midnight here in St Petersburg and I need a beer or two. Then I will write a detailed report with some great photos here soon after. I made some fantastic photos because it never went dark, twilight during the encore.

Bjornulf

Thanks for the update Bjornulf- how cool it is to have you representing us all over the world and giving us your viewpoint-

John

The stones must feel very proud to have played there and to have put on a good show. You can see it in those pictures.

Interesting, now that I'm curious about more reports

Good to know the crow was on and not bad as reported before!

Keith The Beast Wrote:
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> Good to know the crow was on and not bad as
> reported before!

Seems to be like in Brno - some people and me thought they were very lame, others said they rocked. Interesting thing also about the huge crowd - I thought it was all seated and didn't think that many would attend the concert.


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