NO SECURITY TOUR -1999
OAKLAND, CA - January 25, 1999 - Opening Show
OAKLAND, CA - January 25, 1999 - Opening Show
Setlist
Review by Steve Portigal
Steve Portigal's Quote in the San Francisco Chronicle
Reuters' Report
Pictures from the San Francisco Chronicle
Link to videos from the concert
01. Jumpin' Jack Flash
02. Live With Me
03. Respectable
04. You Got Me Rockin'
05. Undercover
06. Moonlight Mile
07. Shine A Light
08. Some Girls
09. Paint It Black
10. You Got The Silver
11. Before They Make Me Run
12. Out Of ControlSmall Stage:
13. Route 66
14. I Just Want To Make Love To You
15. Honky-Tonk Women
16. Saint Of MeMain Stage:
17. It's Only Rock'n'Roll
18. Start Me Up
19. Brown SugarEncores:
20. Midnight Rambler
21. Sympathy For The Devil
Jumpin'Jack Flash
Came out angry and ENERGETIC - Keith played most of this in that angled crouch waaay down low...very cool. Major cool stuff for the Keith fans.Live With Me
bobby sounded good, but I think (was it this song?) they didn't cue the mic properly.Respectable
Mick came out with the red guitar, and I said to Lindsey "respectable?" and
it was. Don't fuck my wife! He saved that line til the very very end of the
song. And they managed to bring it off prretty well, slower than the recorded version, but pretty cool.You Got Me Rockin'
Keith played the first solo - I always thought it was ronnie, who played the outro.Undercover
Better than 89. Still nowhere near enough guitar on it.Moonlight Mile!!!!!
"keith-what's the name of this one?"
This was verrry nice. Was reminded of Mick playing the guitar in "Performance" -- he played the intro, dueting with Keith on guitar. This is clearly a Mick song. And he sang it so sweet, way up high. Amazing.Shine A Light!!!!!
Very nice for all concernedSome Girls - intense and unedited
This just blew me away - Mick started to rage again here, putting all the delivery into the lines as if, well, yeah, he meant it. keith laughed
at him at the end of the song.Paint It Black
You got the silver
So sweet! really nicely done. Ronnie on a pedal steel, Blondie on guitar, keith playing slide (!)rather sparingly.Before They Make Me Run
Really incredible dueling guitars between Keith and Ronnie at the end - the body language said it all - squaring off and wailing.Out Of Control
Oh man.
A cage appears. Mick is in it. He struts the cage for the first verse, singing all the slow quiet bits, and then goes nuts in the cage for the chorus, just incredible - how does he do it? There's no space, he's performing, he's strutting, he's literally out of control, and then by the next chorus he breaks out of the cage and hits the entire stage, out of control. No chicken dance, just dancing, and singing and guitars. In my fave part of the song, just before Mick's harp solo, Keith did his bit, playing that 999-esque stuff, and then that incredible lead - he did it again, i was in heaven. Mick goes into his harp solo, and Keith runs over and goes into his guitar bit to cover - the 999 chords - where he's just pulling them out of his guitar one by one and almost throwing them at Jagger, taking his hand off the guitar, stnading over him with the guitar - very intense. Very fucking intense.I am sure this cage won't survive. The show is pretty gimmick free.
But don't let anyway tell you it was anything but amazing.Small Stage
Route 66
Mic problems-o-rama.
Yeah, Mick seemed to jerk one off its cable, and then ran to another mic stand. He also missed his cues a few times during the show, which was kinda cool, actually.Just Want To Make Love To You
Honky Tonk
This was neat on the small stage, had a differnet feel to it. The backup singers came strolling out (catwalk, no bridge as you know) as the song started. They didn't seem to have enough mics, or places for mics, so they all kind of hung. Bernard sang with Daryl. Blondie played cowbell. And Lisa strutted and then ran to Mick for the chorus.Saint Of Me
This started while Jagger was on the b-stage, still. Nice long improv'd intro. Very cool.IORR
Start Me Up
Keith did the intro, slooowllly, several times. Odd. they weren't ready I guess.Brown Sugar
Encores:
Midnight Rambler
A very spare version of this song - it was cool - seemd to sum up the show for me - the focus was clearly on Mick, Ronnie, Keith, and Charlie. The body language, they were all focused on just in front of the drums, making eye contact, cueing each other, and just keeping it pretty minimal.I really liked it.
Talk-in 'bout the mid-niiiite <CRASH>RAMBLER (never heard Mick say 'rambler' at that point in the song)
Sympathy
A few things - this was Mick's show - he came out with such energy and intensity - physically intense, vocally right on, he played guitar like he was a GUITAR PLAYER. He is not the Mick who's job it is to make sure everyone hits their cues ("c'mon!") or the posuer of "out of tears" - he's
an artist with somethign to say that he feels that he belives and that is through the music of the Rolling Stones - that is the impression I got. Ronnie needs to get into it and Keith is a bit laid back except beginning and end.Sound was okay, not enough chance to hear all the guitars.
The opening just blew me away - it was a 3-4 minute "no security" video intro - a montage of some futuristic bascstage, where the security cameras are monitoring the Stones slow progress down hallways and elevators towards the stage, very very cool. i want a copy of this. It just fucking freaked me out.
Many good moments I can NOT remember. I loved this show.
Steve
Steve Portigal's Quote in the San Francisco Chronicle - Jan.26, 1999
...The Rolling Stones still (seemingly by their own choice) have to do what Dylan, the Dead, Springsteen, and so many other enduring acts didn't have to do - satisfy their fans, and the world at large. I suspect there might not be a "Satisfaction" or a "Sympathy for the Devil" this tour. Which would be great for the serious fan...it's enough already with the songs that get played on the radio...the fans who have stuck with them, who buy their albums, who travel for concerts, who know the names of the band members (and the supporting players), who at least claim to really *understand* what it's all about are looking for the band to stretch out, to do something dangerous, different, and exciting. Of the 9 Bridges to Babylon shows I saw, I found the last 1/3 (the "greatest hits" section) to be relatively uninspiring most of the time. The first part, where they'd mix it up, throw in some new songs, throw in some rare songs, rotate the setlist around, take chances was just absolutely stunning each time.
So for many people, seeing them pump out "Tumbling Dice" is as you put it, a tradition. For the fans (who I'd admit don't make up the majority of 60,000 seat arena) there's something special, something personal. For some it's sex, it's the pure desire that Mick, or Keith, or Ronnie (depending on one's tastes) spurs through voice, through instrument, and body language.
I think the band as a live act is totally stunning. There's something that happens when all those individuals, with their conflicting styles, start rocking - it works, even when it doesn't work. The gestalt of the music and the event is tremendously exciting. It makes me jump up and down in a frenzy, it makes me sing, and it makes me close me eyes and be swept away.
I think the cultural relevance of the Stones is a challenge to sort out - they've been a household word for just so incredibly long, both as the individual personalities and as a musical phenomenon, and we all know who they are and what they're about at some very small level. And that's a very sustaining buzz.
Reuters' Report by Dean Goodman
Tuesday, Jan. 26, 1999Jagger Shares His Private Woes On New Stones Tour
OAKLAND, Calif. (Reuters) - Even an ugly marriage breakup has its lighter side.
Rolling Stone Mick Jagger, fighting a divorce petition by wife Jerry Hall amid reports that a 29-year-old Brazilian model is carrying his child, slyly referred to his woes Monday in a song the band had never before performed in
public.On the first night of the band's latest North American tour, the Stones dusted off ``Some Girls,'' the title track to their 1978 album, a song that now seems oddly prescient.
``Some girls give me children, I only make love to them once,'' Jagger, 55,
sang, while the audience cheered.Not surprisingly, Jagger, who hardly ever talks about his private life, opted not to get too confessional with the 18,500 fans who packed the Oakland Arena.
In keeping with tradition, he spent much of his unbridled energy singing and
running around the indoor stage, keeping between-song banter to a minimum.
``This is the best time I've had in a while,'' he exclaimed at one point,and fondly recalled how it seemed ``only like the day before yesterday''that the band had performed four shows at the adjacent Oakland Coliseum in 1997.
The Oakland stop is the first of 33 shows the band will play in North America for its ``No Security'' tour, the title referring to its recently released live album. The tour wraps April 12 in Chicago, and is scheduled to resume in Europe at the end of May for about a month.
It marks the first time since 1964-66 that the band has toured North America in three consecutive years. Since this tour is taking place in winter, the Stones are bypassing their traditional outdoor stadium haunts in favor of more intimate indoor arenas.
Given the special nature of these shows, the Stones peppered their economical two-hour set with rarities such as ``You Got the Silver,'' which
was sung by guitarist Keith Richards, and the cover tunes ``Route 66'' and "`I Just Want To Make Love to You.''``Moonlight Mile'' was another song never performed in public before. Jagger, who picks the band's set list every night, told Reuters last October the band would play a greater variety of songs on this tour.
Notable absentees were ``Miss You'' and ``(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction,'' which the band has performed at every show since 1978 and 1981, respectively.
The Stones also abandoned their traditional gaudy set designs, pyrotechnics and inflatables in favor of a sparse stage ringed around the back and sides by steps adorned with yellow and black cordon stripes.
The sole concession to stage wizardry was when a cage dropped from the ceiling and briefly enclosed Jagger during his performance of ``Out of Control.''
As they did on their 1997-98 ``Bridges to Babylon'' tour, they performed three songs from a small stage in the center of the arena midway through the show.
In contrast with audiences at their European shows, the Stones audience skews older, and Monday's was no exception.
As usual, fans flew in from across North America and from such countries as
Norway, Sweden, Germany, France, the Netherlands, Britain and Japan.
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