 Fenway Park, Boston
on Tuesday, August 23rd. 2005.
Tuesday night show at Fenway had almost a sellout as well with 30.050 people
attending the show.
There were only one other song compared to the opening show on Sunday. That
was too bad according to many hundreds of fans interviewed after the show.
Set list:
Start Me Up - You Got Me Rockin' - Shattered - Tumbling Dice Rough
Justice -
Back Of My Hand - Beast Of Burden - She' s So Cold - Bitch - Night Time -
Intros - The Worst - Infamy - Miss You - Oh No, Not You Again -
Satisfaction - Honky Tonk Women - Out of Control - Sympathy for the Devil
- Jumping Jack Flash - Brown Sugar
- You Can't Always Get What You Want (encore) - It's Only Rock'n'Roll (encore)
Reviews:
Stones are solid in showmanship and their set list
By Steve Morse, Globe Staff | August
24, 2005
The Rolling Stones completed their two-show siege of Fenway Park with another
over-the-top display of staging and music last night. The sound was better, the
lighting was more coordinated, and any glitches from day one were far less
apparent. And day one was already pretty flawless by opening-night standards.
It's hard to critique last night's show if you hadn't seen it before. However,
if you caught the Sunday opener, you couldn't fail to notice that it had an
almost identical set list. The only change was substituting the song
''Bitch" for ''Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)" about midway
through the show.
It seems that the Stones are going to use a more rigid set list on this tour,
after really mixing it up on their last world tour. That was especially true in
Boston in 2002 when they moved from the FleetCenter to Gillette Stadium to the
Orpheum in succession. Fans got used to a rotating set list -- and it was a bit
of a shock to see things fall back into rigidity at Fenway. They even did the
same four new songs from their forthcoming album, ''A Bigger Bang," yet it
would have been nice to see them debut some others.
That said, the show was still phenomenal. It's shaping up to be easily the
best stadium tour by the Stones since 1988's ''Steel Wheels." The Stones
are already the Dorian Grays of rock 'n' roll -- most are in their 60s but they
perform like musicians half their age -- and this new tour is their most
animated spectacle yet. Singer Mick Jagger was all over the Fenway outfield last
night, racing along catwalks on each side the stage, and up flights of stairs to
an overhead perch for ''Sympathy for the Devil," as jets of fire shot up
from the top of the 90-foot-high stage (which looked like a futuristic airport
terminal with two balconies in back full of standing-room-only patrons) with
such intensity that fans could feel the fire's heat well into the crowd.
The Stones were clearly on a mission to prove they could still rock. With
celebrity guests Whoopi Goldberg, John Kerry, and Sox owner John Henry in the
house, the Stones blistered through their first three songs (''Start Me
Up," ''You Got Me Rocking," and ''Shattered") in tight-combo,
clubland fashion. These featured just the core unit, allowing guitarists Keith
Richards and Ron Wood to interact with swashbuckling glee. It wasn't until the
fourth tune, ''Tumbling
Dice
," that the band's backup singers and four-man horn section made an
appearance.
The unquestioned highlights last night were the punky oldie, ''She's So
Cold" (which the Stones have rarely performed) and the rip-roaring blast of
tunes done on the B stage in the middle of the field: ''Miss You," the new
rocker ''Oh No, Not You Again," the venerable ''(I Can't Get No)
Satisfaction" with Jagger prancing like a madman, and concert staple ''Honky
Tonk Women." Fans around the B stage were dancing as though it were closing
time at Avalon.
The Stones again excelled with their Ray Charles tribute on ''Night Time is
the Right Time" (featuring a smoking duet between Jagger and backup singer
Lisa Fischer while photos of the classy Charles were shown on the 60-foot-high
video screen). They also soared on the climactic troika of ''Sympathy for the
Devil," ''Jumpin' Jack Flash," and ''Brown Sugar" before the same
encores of ''You Can't Always Get What You Want" and ''It's Only Rock 'N'
Roll."
Bottom line: The Stones had definitely improved from the first night, as had
opening act Black Eyed Peas, which delivered its party funk with more confidence
and style.
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