The Rolling Stones planted 4 trees in the park before concert. This park (literaly along concert palce) whose name is ‘’Park Of PeaceAnd Friendship’’ arisen at 1961 for First Conference of Independent countries which took place in Belgrade, belong patronation of Josip Broz Tito (very important figure in Serbian history). So there is a plants by Nehru, rasta Selasie, Naser and many others.
Belong any tree was cardboard with name of the member of Stones, but now only names of Jagger and Watts remain. But this 2 stems without names are in better condition than Jaggers which started to drain. Unfortunately no one of trees have no chance to survive becasue in Belgrade are now hell temperature with 38-40C. (July 15.2007.)

smile: beautiful scrapbook of a great event, Voja! thanks for posting that
(wasn't that the show where Keith put his moustache back in his pocket?)

He was ''clean'' about moustache 100%!

Marvellous photos. Love that one of the b-stage.

Fantastic pictures!!

really great thank's

Very nice. Great photos. Thanks!

thanks for the pix !

one year ago, our summer vacation on the jaz beach and then a one night stay in belgrade for the stones.

great memories of a stones summer

BELGRADE (http://www.chuckleavell.com/_blog/?m=200707)
Unfortunately, we won’t get to explore Belgrade very much on this trip. We’re here today to do the show, then leave tomorrow. Rose Lane, Lynn and Carol did go out for a short spin while I got some exercise.
You could see the stage from our hotel….which was located in a big park. I decided on running in that direction as it looked like there wouldn’t be much traffic around the area. So after some stretching I took off, running right past the gate that leads into the venue and the stage. Running past that for a while I ran into some fans that asked for a couple of signatures and pictures….they were nice and didn’t want to disturb me and I didn’t mind taking a short break to do it. They were from Holland and had come to a few shows already. I ran on and soon came to a river….there are two main rivers in Belgrade…the Danube and the Sava. They come together in the middle of the city. I don’t know which one was on, but I enjoyed running alongside it for a good 20 minutes or so before turning back towards the hotel. When I got about to the gate where the gig was, I felt another sharp cramp in my left calf…just as I had a couple of weeks before in Barcelona. Damn, strained it again. I stopped quickly and tried to walk it off and stretch it out….and it did improve, but there was no doubt that I’d re-injured it and would have to lay off of it for a while.
I limped back to the hotel which fortunately wasn’t that far and cleaned up to get ready to go to the gig.
At the show was the normal routine…and I knew that Mick wouldn’t want to be terribly adventurous with the set list, so I drew up a selection that I felt he would agree with, and he did. All of these current places are going to have to be pretty “tame” on the presentations as we’ve either never or rarely played in them, and Mick wants familiar songs and ones that folks can sing along to. Belgrade, Bucharest, Budapest, Warsaw, St. Petersburg….but I think he’ll get a bit tired of doing the same ‘ol thing soon and maybe I can get at least a “Monkey Man” or “Sway” in somewhere. But likely that won’t change much until we get to the Scandinavian countries where we played last year. I personally hate playing such similar lists every night and hope I can get him to open up some…we’ll see.
Anyway, we were pleased that we had such a great crowd to play to….they were ready to rock and there were a lot of them. I believe it must have been close to 45,000. We went on to a wonderful reception, and Mick did very well with the Serbian language and communicating with the audience. The show was smooth and fun, even if it didn’t contain any bold moves. No doubt the crowd was pleased…and it was a joy to play in this part of the world where we’ve never played before. One funny thing did happen during “Can’t Always Get What You Want”. Keith started the song and Lisa immediately looked over at me and said…“Is that the right key?!!” I quickly checked and found that it wasn’t….we always do it in “C”, but Keith was playing it in “B”. Lisa has perfect pitch and had heard the difference straight away, thank heaven! The mishap wasn’t Keith’s fault….he had been handed a guitar with the capo (a small device that clamps on the strings of the guitar and that can be moved around to allow for playing more easily in different keys and for other purposes) in the wrong place….a half step down from where it was supposed to be. I quickly hollered at Ronnie….“…he’s playing it in B!! in B!!”…and also told some of our stage crew to go tell Darryl the same. We all adjusted without much problem…but it did keep us on our toes to have to play the song in a key we’ve never done before!
Back at the hotel Lynn and Carol came down for a short time…but Rosie and I had to deal with the packing thing, so we didn’t make it a long hang. Soon we were off to bed.
We woke up about 11am on Sunday….and I knew I wouldn’t be running today. My calf felt a little better, but was telling me not to try anything that would pressure it. I thought about going to the gym to push some weights around, but felt a bit tired and decided to make it an easy day. We piddled and puttered for a little while….but being bored after a bit we decided to at least go out and walk some. I had noticed a sign that said something like “gallery” in Serbian not far from the hotel and suggested we go see if there was anything to it. But as soon as we got outside, the heat hit us pretty hard. We did indeed walk there, but it turned out to be nothing…and what little stores where there were all closed. So we walked back the Hyatt and peered in a few of the shops that were on the lower level of the lobby for a few minutes before paying our bill and going back to the room to wait for the leave.

man, you just made my day - I'm in that pic, so is my girlfriend - we are on the very right. do you have it in a higher resolution perhaps?
Brings back great memories, loved the city of Belgrade

I see you both, Lorenz!

Great pix, Voja - thanks!

thanks, lol! I look like i'm in serious pain, close to tears

...and you could testify that there was crowd of 75.000, not as C.Lavel said 45.000. I think he was so much with wrong keys and diidn't noticed.

Yeah, I'm quite sure that was more, yes! And fantastic mood
I had my complaints about setlist and such - but now I only remember the good things

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BELGRADE (http://www.chuckleavell.com/_blog/?m=200707)
One funny thing did happen during “Can’t Always Get What You Want”. Keith started the song and Lisa immediately looked over at me and said…“Is that the right key?!!” I quickly checked and found that it wasn’t….we always do it in “C”, but Keith was playing it in “B”. Lisa has perfect pitch and had heard the difference straight away, thank heaven! The mishap wasn’t Keith’s fault….he had been handed a guitar with the capo (a small device that clamps on the strings of the guitar and that can be moved around to allow for playing more easily in different keys and for other purposes) in the wrong place….a half step down from where it was supposed to be. I quickly hollered at Ronnie….“…he’s playing it in B!! in B!!”…and also told some of our stage crew to go tell Darryl the same. We all adjusted without much problem…but it did keep us on our toes to have to play the song in a key we’ve never done before![/b]
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That's interesting. I've heard bootleg recordings from the 70's where I'm sure Keith started playing something in the wrong key. One that sticks out in my mind is a version of "Jumping Jack Flash" from the '76 European tour. He must have had the capo on at the wrong fret and the whole band was off throughout the first verse. You can hear the point in the song where he corrected it because the song really took off after that. I think it's interesting that they decided to just go on and play "You Can't Always Get What You Want" in B instead of trying to flag Keith down before the verses started, but then again, it's not that difficult to play and would be easy to transpose from C to B on the fly.

theyll tour again , there's no doubt , and the most possible days are late 2009 or 2009 spring.
they can do it , i'm sure , just after watching them many times live and watching the faces of these people in belgrade .
rolling stones is simply a dream for people , no matter what age you have.

Angie, the dog, looks pretty sad....I guess because she couldn't go to the show.

.....and was Lisa having a wardrobe malfunction? Lorenz, well, I hope your kidney stone came out okay, that looked painful.

Thanks for the great photos Voja.

Bravo Vojo,sjajne slike!

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thanks, lol! I look like i'm in serious pain, close to tears

Yeah, and I look like I only have teeth on the front, hahaha! Still, I simply love it! Thanks for uploading the photos, Voja, they are all beautiful!

I like to see people so happy to watch the band and taking so much pleasure. After all nothing else matters (age, records, rehab). We want the Stones (and Lisa's breast).
Great pics.