 Copacabana,
Rio de Janeiro, Brazil,
on Saturday, February 18th. 2006. The most spectacular show ever
from Stones, and with an audience of about 2.000.000 people in the audience at
Copacabana. The event were a gigantic show of technic knowledge and although the
show was so huge, the sound were excellent. For first time we had a live
updating on our messageboard runned by Blue Lena, which seemed to had success.
Set list:
Jumping Jack Flash - It's Only Rock'n'Roll - You Got Me Rocking - Tumbling
Dice - Oh No Not You Again - Wild Horses - Rain Fall Down - Midnight Rambler -
Night Time Is The Right Time - Intros - This Place Is Empty - Happy - Miss You -
Rough Justice - Get Off Of My Cloud - Honky Tonk Women - Sympathy For The Devil
- Start Me Up - Brown Sugar - You Can't Always Get What You Want (encore) -
Satisfaction (encore)
Reviews:
RIO DE JANEIRO, Brazil - The spirit of carnival arrived a week early in
Brazil with a free Rolling Stones concert before a crowd of over 1 million
people at Copacabana Beach.
The band opened the Saturday night gig with "Jumpin' Jack Flash,"
cheered on by fans who had staked out spots before the enormous stage.
Fire department officials estimated the crowd was over 1 million at the
show's start but that more people were coming. Officials estimated that as many
as 2 million could see the concert.
"It's going to be an amazing show," said 19-year-old Barbara de
Carvalho, a student from Sao Paulo who had camped on the beach since Thursday.
"I've waited for this all my life."
Photographers and fans also crowded around the Copacabana Palace hotel where
the Stones have been staying since arriving here Friday.
Fans said the guitarists Keith Richard and Ron Wood appeared from time to
time on the penthouse balcony to wave at them.
A specially erected footbridge took them from the hotel, over the beachfront
Avenida Atlantica and directly to the stage.
On Friday Mick Jagger met with his 6-year-old son Lucas, but disappointed fans who
thought the Stones might turn out to see the boy's mother, the TV talk show
hostess Luciana Jimenez, when she appeared as a featured dancer during a
rehearsal for a samba group Friday night.
The city deployed 10,000 police officers — about three times the usual
contingent for New Year's, said Ana Maria Maia, Rio's subsecretary of special
events.
Earlier this month, three people were crushed to death and 38 injured in Sao
Paulo when thousands of fans surged through security barriers at an autograph
session for the Mexican band RBD.
This is the Stones' third visit to the country but the first time the band
has played for free in Brazil, where few can afford tickets to see top
international acts.
Fans were also camping outside Sao Paulo's Morumbi stadium on Friday, hoping
to be among the first into Monday night's concert by the Irish band U2.
Organizers were overwhelmed by crowds when the U2 tickets went on sale Jan.
16. Police were called in to restore order when some infuriated fans threatened
to break into the stores where tickets were being sold.
One who won't have to wait in line to meet lead singer Bono is Brazilian
President Luiz Inacio Lula da Silva. He invited the activist-rock star to lunch
on Sunday in Brasilia, the capital.
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