 Delta Center, Salt Lake City, Utah
on Tuesday, November 22nd. 2005. At the 20.000 seated arena the
Stones gave a great show to the Salt Lake City fans yesterday night
Jason Mraz did the warm-up great again.
Set list:
Start Me Up - You Got Me Rocking - She's So Cold - Tumbling Dice - Rain
Fall Down - It's Only Rock'n'Roll - Wild Horses - All Down The Line - Night Time
- Intros - Slipping Away - Infamy - Miss You - Routh 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:
The Rolling Stones start S.L. up
Some devotees paid over $300 a piece for tickets
By Pat Reavy, Deseret
Morning News
It's only rock and roll, but a whole lot of Utah fans like it.
One of the music world's largest icons, the Rolling Stones, returned to Salt
Lake City on Tuesday night. And when the Stones come to town, it's more of an
event than a concert.
Fans started lining up outside the Delta Center more than 90 minutes before
the doors even opened.
Ashley Hortman, who bought tickets for herself and her boyfriend as a gift,
started waiting in line about 4 p.m.
"I just felt like being nice," she said.
Nice could be a slight understatement with ticket prices topping out at $350
each.
Contributing to the circus-like atmosphere, 100 South, between 300 and 400 West,
was blocked off to make room for the dozens of semi-trailers and tour buses
parked in a scene reminiscent of when Ringling Bros. comes to town.
Denver, Colo., resident Jim Borgel routinely travels to southern Utah with
the Beasley family each Thanksgiving. This year, their RV, with its Rolling
Stones banners hanging on the sides, made a stop first in Salt Lake City.
"We wouldn't have been to Salt Lake City if it weren't for the
Stones," Borgel said.
Eleven-year-old Charlie Beasley's dad is such a big Stones fan that he named his
son after the Stones' drummer, Charlie Watts.
Charlie Beasley, 10-year-old Matthew Borgel and 12-year-old Ryan Beasley, all
seeing the Stones for the first time Tuesday night, agreed "Satisfaction"
is their favorite song. It was one of the first songs Charlie learned all the
lyrics to, thanks to his dad constantly playing the record at home.
In addition to new fans, there were also a large number of Rolling Stones
concert veterans at the Delta Center. Joe Vukovich has already seen the Stones
once on this tour, in Portland, and drove down from his home in Butte, Mont. to
see them again Tuesday.
"I'd travel with them my whole life if I could afford it," he said.
"It's a very good show. Mick looks like he's 20. They're as good as they've
ever been."
Utah fans know Stones' shows don't happen often in Utah. Tuesday was the
band's third appearance in the Beehive State since 1994, but only their fourth
since 1966, when they played at Lagoon.
Outside the Delta Center, network television crews hustled to get everything
in place for the band's live national appearance from the Delta Center on the
American Music Awards. Inside, fans checked out the souvenir stands, looking at
the latest trademark lips-and-tongue apparel before taking their seats.
When the lights went down and Keith Richards played one of the most famous
guitar riffs in rock history, "Start Me Up," fans on this night got
what they needed and what they wanted.
| Rolling Stones can still Deliver 'Satisfaction'
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The latest Rolling Stones
tour rumbled through Salt Lake City on Tuesday promising "A Bigger
Bang" to celebrate the legendary band's latest album of the same
name. And with the flashy stage, explosive guitar riffs and power-packed
set list, the Stones largely delivered on that promise.
The long-running group mostly stuck to a pleasing
greatest-hits set, calling up different eras of the Rolling Stones'
history with the occasional addition or subtraction of a horn section or
set of backup singers. In essence, though, Stones Mick Jagger, Keith
Richards, Charlie Watts and Ronnie Wood carried the
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Mick Jagger belts it out during
the Rolling Stones concert at the Delta Center Nov. 22, 2005.
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show with their unmistakable magnetism and a catalog of classic riffs
that dares the listener not to break out in a frenzy of air guitar.
That was true right from the outset when Richards,
aka "the Human Riff," bounded toward the front of the stage
ripping out the intro to "Start Me Up," one of the most
recognizable songs in the rock canon. Hardly a song passes at a Stones
concert that isn't a classic, though, and energetic takes on "You
Got Me Rocking" and "She's So Cold" led into one of the
best performances of the night on "Tumbling Dice." As the
Stones built up the song at its outset, the four-piece
horn section and three-singer backup troupe arrived for the first time
to create a memorable take on the tune from "Exile on Main
Street."
"Rain Fall Down," the first of just two
songs played from the new "A Bigger Bang" album, gave the band
a chance to work out a groove-heavy, reggae-tinged track, with Jagger
thrusting his sinewy figure about the stage. "It's Only Rock 'n'
Roll" followed up, before the band slowed things down for a
poignant "Wild Horses," with Jagger in fine vocal form.
"All Down the Line" brought back the horn section before a
memorable version of Ray Charles' "Night Time Is the Right
Time" and Richards' brief stint on lead vocals for "Slipping
Away" and "Infamy."
The Stones closed with a flurry of hits including
"Sympathy for the Devil," "Brown Sugar" and "Jumping
Jack Flash" before an encore that delivered "You Can't Always
Get What You Want" and "Satisfaction."
With Wood's tasty guitar parts and Watts' incredibly
steady beats adding to Jagger's natural showmanship and Richards'
repertoire of insistent licks, the Stones showcased how, even with the
band members in their 60s, they still have the gift for creating rock
magic.
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