 Petco
Park, San Diego, California on Friday, November 11th. 2005. The
Petco Park show with around 45000 people had a warm up by Toots and the Maytals.
Set list:
Start Me Up - You Got Me Rocking - She's So Cold - Tumbling Dice - Oh
No, Not You Again - It Wont Take Long
- As Tears Go By - Midnight Rambler - Rocks Off - Night Time - Intros - Slipping
Away - Infamy - Miss You - Rough Justice - Get Off Of My Cloud - Honky
Tonk Women - Sympathy For The Devil - Brown Sugar - Jumpin' Jack Flash -
You Can't Always Get What You Want (encore) - Satisfaction (encore)
Reviews:
Rockers bring new energy to old songs, creating magical night
By George Varga
UNION-TRIBUNE STAFF WRITER, November 12, 2005
Petco hits home run as a concert venue, say rock 'n' rollers
The skies stayed clear and dry, but that didn't stop the Rolling Stones from
stirring up a heady, music-fueled storm at Petco Park last night.
Appearing before a near-capacity audience of 43,000 under a moonlit sky, the
English superstars delivered a thundering, two-hour performance. They began with
"Start Me Up" and concluded with encores of the gospel-tinged
"You Can't Always Get What You Want" and a stadium-shaking "Satisfaction,"
with a generous array of other old favorites and some winning new songs in
between.
JIM BAIRD / Union-Tribune
Last night's Rolling Stones concert in Petco Park as seen from the Omni Hotel
downtown. The first nonsporting event at the Padres ballpark played out under
clear skies and before 43,000 fans.
The result was a triumph for the group, whose "World's Greatest Rock
Band" moniker still seems well-earned, and for Petco itself, which was
hosting its first concert in its two-year history and generally came through
with flying colors. The sound quality was exemplary for a stadium concert, and
the giant video screen at the center of the stage afforded fans in even the most
distant seats a clear view.
"It's great to be here because this is the first show you've ever had in
Petco Park. This is virgin territory," lead singer Mick Jagger told the
crowd between the band's third and fourth selections, the hard-rocking "She's
So Cold" and the rollicking "Tumbling Dice."
This was the Stones' first area performance since a late 2002 show at what was
then the San Diego Sports Arena, and their first stadium concert here since a
memorable, rain-soaked gig at Qualcomm Stadium in early 1998.
Though not quite as unforgettable as that electrifying show in a downpour of
rain, it was still a night to remember. Rather than coast on automatic pilot or
simply stroll down memory lane, Jagger and company acted very much like a band
that wants to be judged on the quality of its current concert performance and
latest album, the aptly titled "A Bigger Bang," and not just on its
storied past.
Monitors showing singer Jagger towered over the fans. The stage stood nine
stories.
the Stones are the undisputed elder statesmen of rock 'n' roll. That's assuming,
of course, that the term "statesman" can be applied to guitarist Keith
Richards, 61, a man whose swaggering demeanor, tousled hair and chain-accented
stage attire are at marked odds with the urbane appearance of gray-haired Stones
drummer Charlie Watts, 64.
Prior to his riveting, mid-concert vocal showcase of "Slipping Away"
and "Infamy," Richards playfully addressed the audience.
 Good
evening, ladies and gentlemen â?" you have to say that," he said.
"I don't know whether you are or not. I don't give a damn. That's your
problem."
Yet, while not all of the Stones' members may be aging as gracefully as some of
their peers, they combine decades of craft and experience with a youthful,
garage-band fervor that sets them apart from anyone else in rock.
It is this combination of poise and finesse with rough and tumble spunk that
helped make their Petco concert a winner. That, and one of the richest
repertoires any band could ever hope to have.
With Jagger â?" still hyperactive and improbably skinny at 62 â?"
providing the vocal and visual focal point, the Stones found their groove almost
from the outset. They delivered "Start Me Up" in an unhurried manner,
in contrast with the too-fast-for-comfort version in their Tuesday night show at
the Hollywood Bowl.
The band also benefited greatly from the solid support of its one-woman, six-man
supporting group, in particular singer Lisa Fischer, who delivered some sizzling,
Tina Turner-esque wails during an impassioned version of Ray Charles'
"(Night Time Is) The Right Time."
As with any Stones performance, there was a compelling moment in which the
concert passed from being merely very, very good into something that approached
magic. Last night it came with the band's eighth selection, "Midnight
Rambler."
The longest number of the night at 12 minutes, it allowed the group to flex its
instrumental muscles as Jagger blew some mean harmonica and Richards and fellow
guitarist Ron Wood, the band's youngest member at 58, traded slashing riffs with
infectious enthusiasm.
From there, the Stones soared higher and higher, as they ripped through
"Rocks Off," "Miss You," "Sympathy for the Devil,"
"Get Off My Cloud," a revamped "Jumpin' Jack Flash" and more.
New songs, such as "Rough Justice," "Oh No Not You Again"
and "It Won't Take Long," were delivered with equal fire and
commitment. It was a welcome indication that â?" even if this is their
final tour (as some music industry veterans are predicting) â?" the Stones
want to go out with a bang, not a whimper.
Classics that the band first recorded as many as 40 years ago were delivered
with so much energy and excitement that they took on new life, as Jagger
strutted to and fro, and the band dug deep to find new dimensions in songs that
many in the audience sang along with, word for word.
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