The stones concert of last night was an amazing experience to watch. The paradiso was converted into a studio-like arena with loads of mixing desks, lots of cameras en equipment, and a broad stage covered with voodoo lounge-like panter cloth.

The stones came on almost an hour late, and the small crowd was on its feet at the first notes they played.

They seemded to be very relaxed, and put on a great show, playing 19 songs almost non-stop.

I cant give a complete setlist, but there were many surprises, like a great performance of "the spider and the fly", "shine a light" and to everyones surprise a great rendition of dylan's "like a rolling stone"

The whole band was present, including backup singers Bernard Fowler and Lisa Fisher,Darryl Jones and Bobby keys of course (without his usual leather suit) and Chuck Leavell, and the horn section they had on their american tour. There were no unexpected guest performances, except for their producer Don Was playing organ on "shine a light"

Their playing was of exellent quality, a mix of both acoustic and electric. It was definately not a complete "unplugged concert" though, as keith brought out his gibson TV special very soon, and ron wood was playing his firebird and gibson jazz-guitar more than his acoustic. Mick Jagger was running up and down the small stage, bringing the crowd to exctacy.

Highligths for me were great versions of "wild horses", "sweet virginia" and a duet of Lisa Fisher and Jagger singing "gimme shelter"

Luckily there were no vip-tables with dull people in front of the stage, just stones fans only inches apart from the band.

The atmosphere was also great, no incidents, no stage-diving or whatever, even though the crowd was so close they could touch the stones.

A third concert will be held on sunday the 28th, but absolutely no tickets will be available. vip-night maybe??

It will be a great album and video, thats for sure!

Hans

At last the Greatest Rock'n Roll Show on earth was in Stockholm. The Stones started yesterday evening (june 3:rd) at 9.45 and played until midnight. Everything was rocking from the beginning, the weather was good, the sound was excellent and they were better than I've ever heard them before. That includes both bootlegs and the concerts in Sweden 1982 and 1990.

Here is the setlist:

Erik D

I'm still very excited after the Stockholm weekend. Here's some impressions, with help from Sweden's newspapers:

Stones celebrated Ronnie's and Charlie's birthdays with a big party on thursday night with around 100 people present.

At the soundcheck on friday night, Stones played:
Like a Rolling Stone, Can't Get Next to You, Shine a Light, Slipping Away, The Worst

After the soundcheck, Jagger headed east for the island Lidingo, where he visited the restaurants Sophies Bar, Biblos and Embassy (is he eating much or what?

The european leg of the Lounge started with a bang in Stockholm on saturday night. Rolling Stones was in a very good mood and did a spectacular show at the stadium built for the 1912 Olympic Games. I and 34,999 other people (Stones broke U2's 1993 audience record for the venue) enjoyed a great set of 132 minutes.

The night was cloudy, but rather warm. Robert Cray opened with 45 minutes of good blues. Scandinavia and Holland are lucky to have the ace guitarist as the special guest. Some rain was falling during Cray's set.

There were thousands of people outside the stadium who couldn't get a ticket. While the normal ticket was 330 crowns, scalpers were doing business for 800-1500 crowns.

Per Gessle and Marie Fredriksson (i e Roxette) was seen at the VIP section. Many people had parents and/or kids with them. I've never seen 70-year old people at rock shows before! And some were dancing! The times are really a-changing.

Personnel around the show: 450 in the tour crew, 350 from promoter EMA-Telstar, 150 from the venue, 50 cops and 30 nurses.

Mick said Stones had enjoyed their Stockholm visit much, and they are staying there until tuesday. After the Helsinki concert, they leave straight for Oslo.

Charlie got the usual long ovations during the introduction. "Slipping Away" and "Wild Horses" were touching songs, and "HT Women" and "Sympathy" had some tremendoes playing from chief riffmeister Keith. Bobby K, Chuck L and the other sidemen added some great parts to the show. Jagger spoke a lot of swedish, greeting the people who were coming from Gothenburg and Malmo.

WH was a pleasant surprise, while "Satisfaction" is much better now than on the 1990 shows. "Like a Rolling Stone", "a song Dylan wrote for us" (said Mick before the song :) was performed excellent, and Jagger's harmonica solo at the end of the song was one of the highlights in the show.

Keith messed up the beginning of "Before They Make Me Run" and they had to re-start it after a few seconds. Very few people sang along to this song, this was also the case with "Respectable" and "Monkey Man".

Stones were back at the hotel 15 minutes after the show, and there was a big party with many celebrities (top model Emma Sjoberg, former MTV-Europe VJ Rebecca De Ruvo and others). Before the show, there was a Voodoo VIP Party with 900 people invited.

Stones were brilliant. The best concert I've been to. EVER. See you in Helsinki!

Jens Backlund
Turku, Finland

LONDON - The earliest known recording of Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, pounding out Chuck Berry riffs in a friend's living room, is expected to fetch up to 55,000 pounds ($89,000) at auction on May 25, Christie's said Wednesday.

The reel-to-reel tape of the teenage jam session gives the first taste of the Rolling Stones sound which revolutionised popular music in the 1960s. It is being hailed by music experts as one of the most important early artefacts of rock ``n' roll.

The tape, made in 1961 and lasting for 30 minutes, includes among its 13 tracks songs that became Rolling Stone favourites, like ``Little Queenie.''

Snatches of the tape were played by Christie's. It crackled into life with the coarse swagger of Richards' electric guitar joined by the unmistakeable sound of Jagger's voice.

``The rock-solid rhythm of Richards' guitar and the confident play of Jagger's voice were, and still are, the core of the Rolling Stones' sound, and it's breathtaking to hear them in the context of a teenage jam session,'' said Peter Doggett, a rock 'n' roll consultant to Christie's.

The unidentified vendor, now a British senior civil servant, was a school friend of Jagger who borrowed his parents' tape recorder for the session. He dug the tape out of a cupboard late last year as his teenage daughter was a Stones fan.

The other musicians on the tape were almost certainly Dick Taylor, founder of the Pretty Things, and Allen Etherington and Bob Beckwith. Together with Jagger and Richards, the band called themselves Little Boy Blue and the Blue Boys.

Chuck Berry covers dominate the recording, which is described as ``surprisingly good'' and made in two sessions. There are also versions of Elvis Presley's favourite ``You're Right, I'm Left, She's Gone'' and Ritchie Valens' ``La Bamba.''

Other Berry tracks are ``Around and Around,'' ``Beautiful Delilah,'' ``Down the Road Apiece'' and ``Johnny B. Goode.''

``The tape is extremely rare as their first known recording. It shows their influences, what they were doing then and establishes a sound. The formation of the fledgling Stones is there,'' Carey Wallace, a Christie's specialist, told Reuters.

She said the buyer could be a fan, a record company or even one of the Rolling Stones. ``Harsh, trebly but utterly compelling, it's the earliest existing record of the sound that revolutionised '60s rock,'' Doggett said.

The next year, 1962, the Rolling Stones were set up, played London's Marquee club and became the capital's hottest band.

The auction will sell other rock memorabilia such as John Lennon's suede jacket, featured on the Beatles' 1965 Rubber Soul album. It could make up to 22,000 pounds ($35,460), experts say.

The sale also includes Marc Bolan's passport, belts, scarves and belongings of guitar maestro Jimi Hendrix and letters from Bob Dylan to a woman in Chicago.

Christie's regards the sale of the tape as ``quite a coup.''

Last year rival auction house Sotheby's sold a tape of Lennon singing two songs at a church fete in 1957 to the EMI group for 70,000 pounds ($113,000).

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