 Amsterdam Arena, Amsterdam
on Tuesday 19th of August 2003.
First show in Amsterdam with 52.000 seats. Many of our members, including
secretary Blue Lena attends this show.
Set list:
Brown Sugar - You Got Me Rocking - Don't Stop - Rocks Off -
Wild Horses -You Can't Always Get What You Want - Paint It Black - Saint Of Me -
Miss You - Slipping Away - Before They Make Me Run -
Sympathy For The Devil - Starfucker - I Just Wanna Make Love To You - Street
Fighting Man - Gimme Shelter - Honky Tonk Women - Start Me Up - Jumpin' Jack
Flash - Satisfaction.
 Review
Amsterdam Arena:
By BLUE LENA
On Tuesday the 19th it was time for Amsterdam Arena, and since Rotterdam
Stadium was so good, I was looking forward to this one. Both nights were to be
filmed. Well, "You Can't Always Get What You Want" and they played it,
and it was true. Little did I know at the time that Mick was already sick, I
couldn't tell too much from his performance per se, but overall something was
missing from this show from start to finish. Anything that could go wrong did,
starting with the very opening chords. Keith came out too late onto the stage
after the intro music had ended, he proceeded to hit the chords, but there
seemed to be no sound at first, then he seemed to just be hitting anything to
test for sound, and the sound came on with some horrible noises from his guitar
and before he could even get back into Brown Sugar Mick was on stage beginning
to sing...whoa, it was a major fuck-up. I laughed though, but I felt bad for the
band. Other things went wrong through the evening, lyric problems, missed chords.
The crowd was very lame, Rotterdam kicked Amsterdam's ass. I only saw about the
first 10 rows of the pitch going mad, the rest of the pitch was still, with the
exception of a few numbers like "Miss You" and "Satisfaction".
Security was too tight. I got to my seat and was immediately told to sit down by
two chicks behind me, so I immediately left my seat not wanting to relive
Houston in '98 when I was thrown out for 3 songs for standing up. Luckily a nice
venue security lady told me to go down to the rail & stand, so I did, fire
code for blocking the stairs does not seem to matter there. But then within 4
songs someone else was telling me to move,so I inched down the railway toward
the stage and pretty soon was front of the rail starting with "Miss
You", which was 9 songs into the show. The best songs for me were
"Rocks Off", "Paint it Black", and "Starfucker" on
the B-stage. Although Keith did a fabulous version of "Slipping Away"
while being filmed in 360 degrees by 3 camera men, he even added extra lyrics
in! Even the confetti machine went off too early. All in all, the show was
somewhat uninspiring by both the band and the crowd...I think some crowd
enthusiasm would have helped the band that night in light of Mick's condition.
Mick really pulled through it well...and he went straight to the hospital in
London when the show ended.
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