NO SECURITY TOUR -1999

 
Setlist:

01.  Jumpin' Jack Flash
02.  Live With Me
03.  Respectable
04.  You Got Me Rockin'
05.  Tumbling Dice
06.  Memory Motel
07.  Sweet Virginia
08.  Some Girls
09.  Paint It Black
10.  Honky Tonk Women

Band Intro

11.  You Got The Silver
12.  Thief In The Night
13.  Out Of Control

Small Stage:
14.  Route 66
15.  Just My Imagination
16.  Midnight Rambler
 

Main Stage:
17.  Saint Of Me
18.  It's Only Rock'n'Roll
19.  Start Me Up
20.  Brown Sugar

Encore:
21.  Sympathy For The Devil
 

 
Review by Davis McGregor

JJF
LWM
Respectable
YGMR-Mick strips to body shirt
Tumblin Dice
Memory Motel-Mick not on keyboard, Keef singing harmony as well as "She
gotta mind of her own"
Sweet Virginia-Mick on acoustic
Some Girls-"white girls", sang first verse twice (forgot lyrics)
Paint It Black-Keef on Telecaster, no "Electric Guts"
Honky Tonk Women

Band Intro
You Got The Silver-Keef "Take care of yourself, I know I am"
Thief-I really wanted BFTMMR but I'll settle for this-Sounded great
Out Of Control-with cage, kind of skanky, he "breaks out" after the
second verse

B stage-I was about 15 feet away from the B stage.  My brain was doing the Ego OHMYGOD thing.  My wife kept pulling me back so I wouldn't get dragged off by security.  There were probably 50 security people within a 10 foot radius of the B stage.  No chance of crashing it at all.  There were people selling roses and a lot of them got thrown, plus a few bras and a pair of panties that hit Keef in the face.  He didn't look real pleased.  This was as close as I ever will probably be to the Stones and I soaked it up like a sponge.  My wife said I just had this real happy smile on my face.

Route 66-First 30 seconds sound problems
Just My Imagination-OHMYGOD
Midnight Rambler-OHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGODOHMYGOD

Saint of Me-By this time my legs were starting to give out.  Lotta Oh Yeahs at the end.
IORR-beginning the tourist section
SMU
BS-Charlie just whangs it.  I'm not someone who usually notices drums but SHEEIT.

Encore
SFTD-Mick, if you're listening to me, the horns suck.  This is not a horns song.

If you had to ask me what made this one special, I would say it was Ronnie.  The two shows I saw on the B2B tour he seemed like he was just going through the motions.  Tonight he was just wailing.  At times he was almost carrying Keef along.  I still carry a torch for Mick Taylor but tonight I guess I let the torch pass.

And as I sagged exhausted on a concrete pillar outside of the arena after the show waiting for my wife, a small piece of glimmer floated over on the wind and landed at my feet.

Goddamit, I'm going to Salt Lake.

d
 
 

 

Review by Tom Roach
Setlist was almost identical to Sac.

TD instead of Undercover, and Thief instead of YDHTMI. Show started very well; lots of energy from the band and the crowd.

Built thru TD, then took a breather thru Demory Motel (we remember Amsterdam).

Sweet Virginia was excellent, and had the crowd going again.

Some Girls was in your face! Major attitude and nastiness.

Then, the first really high point for me... THE BEST DAMN VERSION OF PIB I've ever heard! Followed by an edgy HTW, then the second high point. Silver was absolutely wonderful. Keef and Ronnie just take it to another level. Thief, with Ronnie's daughter joining Lisa was very good.

Small stage; take no prisioners. Route 66, Imagination, and a fucking brilliant version of Rambler. At this point, the show was rapidly moving up in my all time best list. An incredible, incredible show.

Unfortunately, they seemed to run out of gas. Saint was very mediocre, and IORR sucked. They butchered it. I think there was a problem with the monitors, because Bernard, Lisa, Blondie, and even Ronnie were off from Charlie for a song or two. This just does not happen!

SMU was just as bad for a while, but they saved it. I don't know if they got the problem fixed, or have just played so long with each other that they can play without hearing each other. It wasn't noticeable to most people around me, so maybe I'm just being critical(and spoiled).

BS and Sympathy were routine.

All in all, an EXCELLENT show. Mick seemed a little winded towards the end, but really put on an awesome show. Keef was Keef, Charlie was Charlie, and Ronnie and the rest were very, very good. 6th row seats off the floor on Ronnie's side near the small stage. First Stones show with my sisters since Boulder '81.

What a GREAT TIME!!!
 

Tom
 
 

Review by Mark Harden
from The Denver Post - 02.03.99

Jagger proves time is on his side
He's past the age most men in his business retire. But he's still at it, and he's still at the top of his game. Mick Jagger is the John Elway of music - certainly not in the way he conducts his personal life, but in his astounding longevity in his chosen profession. For years he has shattered our expectation of aging rockers.
Tuesday night, at the Rolling Stones' first indoor rock concert in Denver in 27 years, the 55-year-old Jagger proved he is still Jumpin' Jack Flash, the leering devil who spins lurid tales of lust and pain, hunger and vulnerability.
For more than two hours, Jagger pranced, danced and strutted while his grizzled mates Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood blasted the sold-out audience of 16,000 with solid rock.
As with Denver's favorite quarterback, retirement talk swirls around Jagger. Would he, could he keep it going at age 60? Jagger wasn't making any promises Tuesday. But as he burst onto the stage all manic, jittery energy, his rope-thin body coiling under his T-shirt and black jeans, he laid to rest any questions of whether a rocker can be relevant at a grandfather's age.
The "No Security'' tour, on which Tuesday night's show was the third stop, seems to be about proving just how deep the Stones' bag of tunes is. And out of that bag came such tawdry delights as "Sweet Virginia'' from the "Exile on Main Street'' album and Richards' snaky chestnut "You Got the Silver.''
Guitarists Richards - his hair festooned with what looked like fishing lures - and Wood stung with their playing, and Watts was sensational, firing off rifle shots during "Respectable'' and "Start Me Up.''
The stage was a stripped-for-action industrial wonderland of gray slabs and caution tape. The money evidently went into the lighting (overhead rigs that stretched half the length of the arena) and sound (a separate phalanx of peakers loomed over the mini-stage that jutted into the crowd).
It was on the mini-stage that, late in the show, the Stones offered covers of "Route 66'' and "Just My Imagination'' as well as a searing attack on "Midnight Rambler.''
Jagger showed no sign of being slowed by his recent bout with the flu, which forced the cancellation of two shows in San Jose, Calif.
The singer's newly fortified badboy image - thanks to his split from wife Jerry Hall and talk that he's impregnated a young Brazilian model - lent pungency to some of his lyrics, such as the reference to "all the special pleasures of doing something wrong'' in "Saint of Me'' late in the show.
In "Some Girls,'' he even reworded the last lines to say, "Some girls give me children/I only made love to them once.''
Since their first Colorado show in Fort Collins 30 years ago, the Rolling Stones have provided the state with many memorable rock 'n' roll moments. A 93-foot-high cobra and a 72-foot-wide Elvis dominated the stage in 1994 when the band played at Mile High Stadium in its last concert in Colorado.
Bryan Adams opened Tuesday night's show with a 45-minute set. The Canadian rocker wisely passed over his schmaltzy movie soundtrack ballads and served up short orders of thumping rock, but he seemed curiously unengaged.
 
 

 

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