Set List:
1. Satisfaction
2. Let's Spend the
Night Together
3. Flip the Switch
4. Gimme Shelter
5. Ruby Tuesday
6. It's Only R&R
7. Saint of Me
8. Out of Control
9. Miss You
10. Like a Rolling Stone
(with Bob Dylan)
11. You Don't Have to Mean it
12. Wanna Hold You
13. Little Queenie
14. I Just Wanna Make Love to You
15. You Got me Rockin'
16. Sympathy for the Devil
17. Tumbling Dice
18. Honky Tonk Women
19. Start me Up
20. Jumpin' Jack Flash
Encore:
21. You Can't Always Get What You
Want
22. Brown Sugar
13, 14 and 15 on center stage
The pictures below were sent by
Jair Motta. Click to see a larger image.
More Pictures
of the Stones in Rio (party and hotel)
Review:
The night couldn't have been better.
Mild weather, no rain and full moon right above the
crowd!
The concert was at the Praça da Apoteose, it's not a stadium but a wide place with seats on both sides just like in a stadium. There is where the Carnival parades take place.
At 9:50pm the lights went off and only the stage was shining with its blue lights. Then the loud roar across the stadium. The huge curtains open and we see the wonderful screen, the explosion, fire, some images and suddenly, together with the first notes , Keith's image on the screen. What was expectation until then, turns into madness, screams and jumping that makes the whole place vibrate and then sing together with Mick "I can't get no.... Satisfaction".
The energy, the vibration, the feeling
the Stones transmit is undescribable and unbelievable!.
Keith and Darryl playing wonderfully
next to each other. Mick looking even better than in Voodoo
(what does that guy take????)
After a 6 hours trip from S.Paulo
to Rio and some trouble to find the place (as we don't know Rio very well),
my daughter Vivi and I, finally arrive in the exact minute the lights turned
off.
We try to walk our way in through
the crowd but when we arrive to the middle it's impossible to walk farther
than that. We are on the right side, so also far away from where
the smaller
stage will be later.
"Let's Spend the Night Together" comes next. Great! When the song finishes Mick says, in a funny mix of Spanish and Portuguese: "boa noche", "every year I like you more.... the beautiful women the beaches". He takes off his blue jacket and says "now we're gonna do "Flip the Switch". He is wearing a long sleeves yellow shirt. The energy doesn't seem to slow down for a single minute.
Mick thanks and they start playing Gimme Shelter. The sound, which wasn't very good until then (but no one seemed to care about it) gets better. Lisa in a long black dress, with a red and golden robe on top of it, gets the applauses before Mick joins her and they sing sensually together.... It's just a kiss away, it's just a kiss away....
Mick puts on his yellow jacket and wiping off the sweat o his face, says in Portuguese "now we're gonna slow down" and they start playing "Ruby Tuesday" for an audience in complete ecstasy.
They don't "slow down" for long,
so the next song is "It's Only R'n'R" and again the vibration
with the audience singing and jumping
as crazy. I can see Keith smiling for the first time now.
Mick gets the acoustic guitar and announces a new song: "Saint of Me". It's difficult to say which was the best moment of the night but certainly one of them was during this song. Keith is not smoking but Ron seems to smoke for both of them.
While putting on the silver jacket, Mick announces "Out of Control". The audience follows him during the slow begining of the song, clapping hands. Mick plays harmonica Keith by his side. Tim Smith gets claps with the trumpet. Then the explosion.... the lights, the effects on the screen, Mick stripping off and throwing away his yellow jacket, starts dancing as crazy across the stage. All at the same time and driving the audience mad once again.
At the end of this song Mick asks
in Portuguese: "do you want to sing with me?" The answer is
a loud "YESSSSS" and while they handle him the red Fender (Fender?
sorry, I'm not good at that....) they start playing "Miss You".
Keith, Ron and Bernard chatting and playing in front of Charlie while
Mick and Lisa do their sexy show. Keith is smoking now. Mick
puts his arm around Lisa's neck and kisses and licks her face.... ahhhhh!
She strokes and pulls his hair softly. Mick says: "are you
ready"? and repeats the question in Portuguese.....
oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh
oooh oooh, oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh oooh, oooh oooh oooh oooh.
I don't think there was a single soul who was not singing at that moment.
Bernard playing tambourine (?)
next to Chuck. Time for Bobby Keys getting the applauses with his
solo while Ron plays by his side. Mick and Lisa having fun.
She pushes him, he laughs. The song is over and Mick says:
"vocês são demais"! (you are great!) and asks:
tudo bom?, tudo bem? (everything
ok?).
"We are gonna do a song we
wrote..... I mean, Bob Dylan wrote".... and Bob comes in wearing a white
hat. He starts singing and the crowd bursts in screams again.
Mick joins and everytime they get to "how does it feel..." it seems the
place will explode with the jumping and scream. This was absolutely
GREAT! Mick plays harmonica, Bob with Ron and Keith on each
side, on the guitars. They all seem to be really having fun.
Then Mick and Bob sing together again, smiling all the time and the audience
singing really loud with them.
This is amazing if you consider
Brazil is not an English speaking country and where only very few people
speak English. The song ends with Mick playing harmonica.
Then Mick introduces the band. Ron is cheered and makes a little clown show. Charlie introduced by Mick as "o tranquilo" (the quiet one) gets the longer applauses and stands up more than once to thank in his usual shy way. O cigano selvagem (the wild gipsy) Keith's applauses are not that long but louder than anyone else's followed by screams which he thanks in his traditional way (stroking himself with his fists). Keith plays and sings "You don't have to mean it" backed up by Lisa and Bernard. Ronnie on keyboard and Blondie on guitar. The next song is "Wanna Hold You". Keith is great in both.
Darkness, mistery and then the blast!
the huge bridge unfolds, the center stage comes up, and here they come
through the bridge over the screaming crowd again. The 3 songs
they sing there are "Little Queenie", a bluesy version of "I Just
Wanna Make Love To You" (beautiful!) and "You Got Me Rockin' ".
Mick singing and dancing around the stage all the time. They throw
him shirts, he throws them back. Someone throws a Rio soccer team
shirt (Flamengo).
Mick gets it, looks at it and keeps
that one.... Someone else throws a brazilian flag. Mick
dances swinging it in the air and then keeps it too. Some british
flags can also be seen waving in the audience around the stage.
It was impossible for us to get close to the small stage at that moment, but we saw the opportunity of doing something different..... Walk our way to the front while the crowd was all focused on the center stage. And we did! We got right to the front (not the center, that would be too much luck...) on the right arm of the main stage! (Keith's side). In the meantime, the audience that was a little more quiet during "I Just Wanna Make Love to You", explodes again with "You Got Me Rockin' ".
Then Sympathy's drums and they all
walk back through the cat-walk, except Mick who spends some time there
dancing back and forth. On their way back Keith gets a cap that someone
throws to him. He takes it. Mick dresses the long yellow
jacket and starts singing.
Madness again, specially when it
comes to "please to meet you, hope you guess my name...."
and Mick is followed by the crowd
singing. They might not know the whole lyrics but know very well
that part.
The best is still to come.... (at least for me). Mick comes dancing our way to the right arm of the stage and dances right in front of us, less than 10ft away!!!!!!!!! Ooo, who, who Ooo, who, who Ooo, who, who Ooo, who, who. This was the first time I heard something louder than the crowd: my heart beating!!!! WOW!!!!!!!!!!!!!
Next, Tumbling Dice and just the
first notes were enough to start all the vibration again.
Thousands of people jumping as
mad but when the song ends Mick still asks in Portuguese:
"are you having fun?" as
if there were any doubts about it....
And as if all that wasn't
enough, next comes one of the "horniest" (wonder if I can use that
word for a song, but that's the only one that comes to my mind.....) beginings
of a song ever!
"Honky Tonk Women"! Keith
on the keyboard with Chuck, Mick comes down the stage and dances close
to the audience driving the security guys crazy.
Then Keith plays only 3 notes of
the next song and stops. Those 3 notes were enough for the blast
once again. He wipes his face and starts playing again..... "Start
me Up".
Mick comes our way again and right
in front of us sings: You made a grown man cry....
Needless to say the one who is
writing this goes wild....
Mick puts on dark glasses (he is
wearing a red T-shirt now). Explosions and fire on the stage and
even a bigger explosion on the crowd when "Jumpin' Jack Flash" starts!
Now it's Keith who comes down close
to the audience while Mick comes once again in front of us, dancing and
waving his arms. Fireworks in the end and they say goodbye.
The stage is dark now but, of course, no one moves a single inch from its
place. Just a lot of noise calling them back.
And they come back.... to
literally "devastate" with "You Can't Always Get...." followed by "Brown
Sugar" while the whole place is covered with the silver and golden
"snow"....
Sorry... my English is very poor
to describe what this was. I ran out of words to do it.
I will never forget it and I'm
happy for all those who saw them for the first time and now know what a
"REAL" rock'n'roll band is!
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