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• Song played from tape Charlie Watts Tribute Play Video
• Street Fighting Man Play Video
• You Got Me Rocking Play Video
• 19th Nervous Breakdown Play Video
• Tumbling Dice Play Video
• Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker) ( by request ) Play Video
• You Can't Always Get What You Want Play Video
• Living in a Ghost Town Play Video
• Start Me Up Play Video
• Honky Tonk Women ( followed by band introductions ) Play Video
• Connection ( Keith Richards on lead vocals ) Play Video
• Slipping Away ( Keith Richards on lead vocals ) Play Video
• Miss You Play Video
• Midnight Rambler ( with "Come On in My Kitchen" snippet ) Play Video
• Paint It Black Play Video
• Sympathy for the Devil Play Video
• Jumpin' Jack Flash Play Video
• Gimme Shelter Play Video
• (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction Play Video

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• Gimme Shelter
• Midnight Rambler
• You Can't Always Get What You Want
• Street Fighting Man
• Sympathy for the Devil
• Honky Tonk Women
• Jumpin' Jack Flash
• Paint It Black
• 19th Nervous Breakdown
• Tumbling Dice
• Doo Doo Doo Doo Doo (Heartbreaker)
• Living in a Ghost Town
• (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
• Slipping Away
• Start Me Up
• You Got Me Rocking

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When the Rolling Stones Returned for the ‘Steel Wheels’ Tour

The Rolling Stones had spent much of the '80s on the sidelines. Despite increasing friction between Mick Jagger and Keith Richards, the band kept putting out albums – but to relatively lukewarm reactions. Touring, however, was another story.

By 1989, the Rolling Stones hadn't played a live show in seven years.

Their longest concert drought (before or since) officially ended on Aug. 31, when the Stones launched the Steel Wheels North American Tour at Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. (Technically, the drought ended a couple of weeks earlier at a  warm-up show  in New Haven, Conn.)

This tour was named for their new album Steel Wheels , which was released to enthusiastic reviews two days earlier. Jagger and Richards had patched up things earlier in the year, then started to write and record a record that felt like "classic Stones." Meanwhile, Jagger (in his mid-forties at the time) was consistently pressed on whether this would his band's final tour – a line of questioning that seems increasingly ridiculous decades later.

Besides, Jagger, Richards, Ron Wood , Bill Wyman and Charlie Watts had a ready answer in the form of a marathon, 28-song opening date.

After kicking off the show with the one-two combo of "Start Me Up" and "Bitch," Jagger showed he could hold up better than the power equipment – which blew a generator during "Shattered," the third song of the evening. Within minutes, the power returned and the Rolling Stones regrouped, carrying on with the Steel Wheels  cut "Sad, Sad, Sad." But they'd superstitiously drop "Shattered" from subsequent shows.

The set list represented just about every Stones era, from early blues covers (Willie Dixon's "Little Red Rooster" from back in 1964) to psychedelic experimentation ("2000 Light Years From Home") to country rock ("Dead Flowers") and even some '80s material ("Undercover of the Night"). Richards gave Jagger a break down the stretch by fronting the band for a couple of his own songs ("Happy" and "Before They Make Me Run") before Jagger returned to take it home with wall-to-wall hits ("Brown Sugar," "Satisfaction," etc.).

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This being the Stones' first big tour since 1982, spectacle wasn't sacrificed. The band took the stage amid crackling fireworks and roaring flame towers – both of which would become de rigueur on future tours. They also introduced what might be the most garish stage decorations in rock history: a pair of giant inflatable barflies that flanked the stage during "Honky Tonk Women."

As the mammoth tour continued, the Rolling Stones seemed to only gain momentum. "We're keeping our fingers crossed, and I'll hit the wood here, but, yeah, they're getting better every day," he told Rolling Stone . "The band's really winding up now."

He also called 1989 a "dream year" for the Stones, and predicted that the North American tour would become a worldwide one in 1990. In fact, it did, although it was rechristened the Urban Jungle Tour before hitting Europe.

As dates flew by, the Rolling Stones recorded a live album ( Flashpoint ), broadcast a live pay-per-view special, one that was later edited into a prime-time concert special for Fox, and filmed an IMAX movie ( Rolling Stones: Live at the Max ) that was the first feature film completed with only IMAX cameras.

In some ways, the Steel Wheels dates marked the start of a new way of touring. It was the Stones' first tour with backing vocalists Bernard Fowler and Lisa Fischer and the first American trek with keyboardist and musical director Chuck Leavell. And, of course, it makes the first in a line of record-breaking, arena-sized blowouts that would continue into the new millennium.

None of those subsequent tours, however, would include the band's founding bassist Bill Wyman as a full-time member. Wyman decided he'd had enough and quit the band after the 1989-90 concerts. In this way, the Steel Wheels tour was both the beginning and the end of a Stones era.

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Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour

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The Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels Tour was a concert tour which was launched in North America in August 1989 to promote the band's album "Steel Wheels"; it continued to Japan in February 1990, with ten shows at the Tokyo Dome.

The European leg of the tour (which featured a different stage and logo) was called the "Urban Jungle Tour"; it ran from May to August 1990.

These would be the last live concerts for the band with original member Bill Wyman on bass guitar. This tour would also be the longest the band had ever done up to that point, playing over twice as many shows as their standard tour length from the 1960s and 1970s.

The tour was an enormous financial success, cementing The Rolling Stones' return to full commercial power after a seven-year hiatus in touring marked by well-publicized acrimony among band members.

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Tour Background [ ]

A Steel Wheels pre-tour 'surprise show' took place on August 12, 1989 at Toad's Place in New Haven, Connecticut with a local act, Sons of Bob, opening the show for an audience of only 700 people who had purchased tickets for $3.01 apiece.

The official Steel Wheels Tour kicked off later that month at the now-demolished Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. During the opening show in Philadelphia, the power went out during "Shattered" and caused a slight delay in the show. Jagger came out and spoke to the crowd during the delay.

The Stones returned to Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada and played two sold out concerts at B.C. Place Stadium.

Fan reaction for tickets was unprecedented. One local radio station 99.3 The Fox even had a man (Andrew Korn) sit in front of the station in a bath tub filled with brown sugar and water for free tickets to the concert. Total attendance was 6.2 million.[citation needed]

The stage was designed by Mark Fisher with participation of Charlie Watts and Mick Jagger. Lighting design was by Patrick Woodroffe.

Canadian promoter Michael Cohl made his name buying the concert, sponsorship, merchandising, radio, TV and film rights to the Steel Wheels Tour. It became the most financially successful rock tour in history up to that time.

Rival promoter Bill Graham, who also bid on the tour, later wrote that " Losing the Stones was like watching my favourite lover become a whore ."

Performances from the tour were documented on the album "Flashpoint" and the video, "Live at the Max" both released in 1991.

The opening acts for the tour included Living Colour, Dan Reed Network, Guns N' Roses and Gun.

In August of 1990, an extra concert in Prague, Czechoslovakia, was added. Czechoslovakia had overthrown the Communist regime nine months earlier and The Rolling Stones' concert was perceived as a symbolic end of the revolution.

Czechoslovakia's new president Václav Havel, who was lifelong fan of the band, helped to arrange the event, and met the band at the Prague Castle before the show. The expenses were partially covered by Havel and by the Czechoslovak Ministry of industry.

The attendance was over 100,000. The band chose to donate all the revenues from this gig (over 4 million Czechoslovak korunas) to the Committee of Good Will, a charity run by Havel's wife, Olga Havlová.

Set Lists [ ]

For the opening night of the "Steel Wheels Tour," the setlist was as follows (all songs composed by Jagger/Richards unless otherwise noted):

• "Start Me Up"
• "Shattered"
• "Sad Sad Sad"
• "Undercover of the Night"
• "Harlem Shuffle" (Relf/Nelson)
• "Tumbling Dice"
• "Ruby Tuesday"
• "Play With Fire" (Nanker Phelge)
• "Dead Flowers"
• "One Hit (to the Body)" (Jagger/Richards/Wood)
• "Mixed Emotions"
• "Honky Tonk Women"
• "Rock and a Hard Place"
• "Midnight Rambler"
• "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
• "Little Red Rooster" (Dixon)
• "Before They Make Me Run"
• "Paint It Black"
• "2000 Light Years from Home"
• "Sympathy for the Devil"
• "Gimme Shelter"
• "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)"
• "Brown Sugar"
• "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
• "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (encore)

For the final night of the "Urban Jungle Tour" (the last Rolling Stones concert with Bill Wyman) the band played:

• "Harlem Shuffle"
• "Street Fighting Man"
• "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
• "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (encore)

Other songs played on the tour:

• "Almost Hear You Sigh" (Jagger/Richards/Jordan)
• "Blinded By Love"
• "Boogie Chillen" (Hooker)
• "Can't Be Seen"
• "Factory Girl"
• "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Dixon)
• "Salt of the Earth"
• "Terrifying"
• "Indian Girl"

Tour Dates [ ]

Personnel [ ].

The Rolling Stones

• Mick Jagger – lead vocals, guitar, harmonica, percussion
• Keith Richards – guitar, vocals
• Ronnie Wood – guitar
• Bill Wyman – bass guitar
• Charlie Watts – drums

Additional musicians

• Matt Clifford – keyboards, backing vocals, percussion, French horn
• Bobby Keys – saxophone
• Chuck Leavell – keyboards, backing vocals and musical director
• Bernard Fowler – backing vocals, percussion
• Lisa Fischer – backing vocals on the North American & Japanese tours only
• Cindy Mizelle – backing vocals on the North American & Japanese tours only
• Lorelei McBroom – backing vocals on the European tour only
• Sophia Jones – backing vocals on the European tour only

The Uptown Horns

• Arno Hecht – saxophone
• Bob Funk – trombone
• Crispin Cioe – saxophone
• Paul Litteral – trumpet
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Rolling Stones Wrap Up U.S. Tour With Eric Clapton, Axl Rose, John Lee Hooker

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T he Rolling Stones closed the first leg of their tumultuously successful Steel Wheels tour with three shows at the 16,000-seat Convention Center, in Atlantic City, New Jersey, the smallest venue the band played in its three-and-a-half-month jaunt across the United States and Canada. The highlight of the three nights was the December 19th date, which featured guest appearances by Eric Clapton , legendary bluesman John Lee Hooker and singer Axl Rose and guitarist Izzy Stradlin of Guns n’ Roses . The show was broadcast live on cable television on a pay-per-view basis. At a suggested retail price of $24.95, the concert is being called the most successful pay-per-view music show so far.

With a kind of crazed appropriateness, the Convention Center shows were presented by Trump Plaza, owned by Donald Trump, the perfect person to place the cherry on the cake of a tour as distinguished for its marketing as for its music. It was an odd experience indeed to wander the plush corridors of the casino hotel as gamblers caroused to the apocalyptic strains of “Gimme Shelter” wafting over a sound system more accustomed to Muzak. However successful the pay-per-view sales are — and that success must be seen in relation to a medium that has yet to fully establish its viability — tickets for the concert could still be had at show time, and scalpers were offering $40 ducats for $30. Ticket prices for the three Atlantic City shows ranged from $40 to $250.

After the crowd counted down the seconds to show time on the 19th, the Stones took the stage at full power, opening with “Start Me Up” and leaning immediately into “Bitch” and “Sad Sad Sad,” as they have throughout the tour. A trio of background singers, the Uptown Horns, saxophonist Bobby Keys and keyboardists Chuck Leavell and Matt Clifford were on hand, as usual, to provide musical support. The evening shifted direction for the first time when, after nine songs, Jagger announced, “They’ve come all the way East to get their tattoos touched up,” by way of introducing Rose and Stradlin. The duo joined the Stones for a ragged but strong rendition of “Salt of the Earth,” from Beggars Banquet. It was the first time the Stones had ever performed the song live.

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The Stones then resumed their standard set, ripping through “Rock and a Hard Place,” “Mixed Emotions,” “Honky Tonk Women” and “Midnight Rambler.” After a lovely, lyrical reading of “You Can’t Always Get What You Want,” Jagger declared, “We’re gonna play the blues for you now,” and brought out Eric Clapton , who contributed a blazing guitar solo to the Stone’s sensual rendition of Willie Dixon’s “Little Red Rooster.” Clapton remained onstage to help Keith Richards and Ron Wood fire up an insistent groove underneath John Lee Hooker ‘s moaning vocal on the classic “Boogie Chillun.” The Stones took advantage of the large television audience to include five songs from the album Steel Wheels in their twenty-seven song set.

In what must be considered the quotidian miracles of their tour, the Stones once again in their incomparable finale blew away all the distractions of their innumerable business deals, dubious partnerships and obsession with spectacle. Their performances of “Sympathy for the Devil,” “Gimme Shelter,” “It’s Only Rock ‘n Roll,” “Brown Sugar” and “(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction” — with a fierce “Jumpin’ Jack Flash” for the encore — simply could not have been more compelling. Cameras rolling or not, no one onstage was smiling or mugging; the band was far too busy unleashing a formidable display of sheer rock & roll might.

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On the next night, the tour ended, after thirty-two cities, sixty shows, 3.2 million concertgoers, about $140 million in revenues and consistently ecstatic review. It appears likely that the Steel Wheels juggernaut will roll into Japan and Australia early this year and then to Europe in the summer, though no spokespeople for the Stones will confirm those reports.

This is a story from the February 8, 1990 issue of Rolling Stone.

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The Rolling Stones ‘Steel Wheels’ Tour with Guns N Roses and Living Colour

The Rolling Stones “Steel Wheels” Tour launched across North America in 1989, promoting the “Steel Wheels” album. It later went to Japan and Europe. This was the band’s last live tour with their original member Bill Wyman, who played on the bass guitar.

The opening acts on the tour consisted of Living Colour, Dan reed Network, Guns N Roses and Guns. In interviews with the L.A. Times, Guns N Roses credited much of their inspiration and learning to The Rolling Stones. The tour was a giant success, making lots of money and filling arenas across the world. It was a return to glory for The Rolling Stones, who had previously been on a seven year hiatus. For four shows in October, The Rolling Stones performed at the Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum. The crowd was an estimated 95,000, raging from teens to older groupies of The Rolling Stones.

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Well, it’s about time The Rolling Stones got around to this tour in their archives. It was big in every way you could imagine: big stage, big setlist, big dance moves by Jagger, big juicy guitar licks by Richards, big harmonies and big celebrity guest stars. It was their first tour after a long hiatus so, honestly, it had to be big. Anything else would just be anticlimactically mediocre. 

So here we finally have it – a DVD/Blu-Ray of the Rolling Stones at the tail end of their American leg of the Steel Wheels tour, filmed in Atlantic City, New Jersey, December 1989. Appropriately titled Rolling Stones Steel Wheels Live , this remixed and remastered concert film may not contain any bonus material of backstage peeks or talking head interviews but it does carry one heck of a punch with over two hours of music, twenty-seven songs in all. If you saw a show on the tour, then you know this was an exhausting yet exhilarating thrill ride of a concert. To finally have it in pristine sound and vision is a delectable cherry on top of the proverbial milkshake. It’s available in several fun collectable formats, like a 4-LP colored vinyl, as well as the usual DVD/Blu-Ray with CDs.

The Steel Wheels tour ran from August 31, 1989 (opening in Philadelphia) to August 25, 1990 (ending with two shows in London). It was the Stones first US tour since 1981, despite releasing Undercover in 1983 and Dirty Work in 1986. Jagger and Richards, who were having a bit of a tiff during this interval, were focusing on solo material and touring on their own with new bandmates. It was following their induction into the Rock & Roll Hall Of Fame in January 1989 that the old lads got back into Rolling Stones rhythm, recording and releasing Steel Wheels by August of that year. The tour was announced in July in New York City and Q Magazine belted out: “Lock Up Your Grandmothers!” a play on the old 1960’s headlines to lock up your daughters. And it would be bassist Bill Wyman’s last tour with the Stones (he officially departed in 1992).

The setlist itself was a great amalgam of songs by the Stones throughout their career, including five tunes from the new album: “Sad Sad Sad,” “Rock & A Hard Place,” “Mixed Emotions,” “Can’t Be Seen” with Richards on vocals, and an excellent rendition of “Terrifying.” “We can’t keep recycling the old ones,” Jagger quipped upon introducing one of the newer tunes. They also pulled out “2000 Light Years From Home,” off 1967’s Their Satanic Majesty’s Request , and from Beggar’s Banquet , “Salt Of The Earth.”

To add some fun to their set, Axl Rose and Izzy Stradlin from Guns N Roses, who had opened for the Stones at their Los Angeles gigs, showed up to guest on “Salt Of The Earth;” Eric Clapton brought some extra blues juice to “Little Red Rooster” (you should check out Clapton performing “Yer Blues” with Richards and John Lennon at the Stones Rock & Roll Circus, 1968) and who hangs out to play with blues legend John Lee Hooker on “Boogie Chillen.” Both Clapton and Richards can be seen in the background on the latter looking almost like two kids having the time of their lives playing guitar with Hooker; which goes to show, legends also have idols.

Highlights include the aforementioned “Little Red Rooster,” the gem in this collection of songs with Jagger on harmonica, Ronnie Wood on slide and Clapton’s solo at the end; Richards’ nastily scrumptious licks on “Bitch” and his sparking on all cylinders solo on “Happy;” the Jagger/harmonica – Richards/guitar combo that electrifies “Midnight Rambler;” the new “Terrifying” and the old “2000 Light Years From Home;” even “Satisfaction” is elevated to more than just a sing-a-long – it’s an extravaganza here; and just seeing Wyman onstage again with the Stones is such a treat (check out when Jagger pulls him towards the front of the stage during “It’s Only Rock & Roll,” where you get one of those rare smiles from the Quiet One).

Other notable mentions: Jagger calls “Ruby Tuesday,” “The sort of romantic song you can hold hands on;” Bobby Keys plays some fantastic sax solos throughout while Chuck Leavell gets his Keith Emerson/Rick Wakeman game on during “2000 Light Years From Home;” backup singer Lisa Fischer is, as always, a harmonic treasure; Jagger turns “Paint It Black” a little too posh (not their best live version) and the band seems to rush through “It’s Only Rock & Roll;” but overall, Charlie Watts is perfect. You can’t ask for a better, more consistent drummer than this man. 

So if you love the Stones and have been wanting to see something be released from the Steel Wheels tour, you’ve now got it. I’d buy this in a heartbeat, with no regrets.

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ROLLING STONES SET DATES FOR `STEEL WHEELS' TOUR

By deseret news.

The Rolling Stones have announced their "Steel Wheels" national tour will start Aug. 31 in Philadelphia and end Dec. 3 in Toronto, and most of the dates are already sold out.

Stones promoter Ron Delsener told a news conference the Rolling Stones, who have been rehearsing in the small Connecticut community of Washington, will kick off their 19-city tour Aug. 31 in Philadelphia."Steel Wheels" is the first Stones tour since 1981 and is expected to earn $65 million.

The Stones, who had been rehearsing for weeks at Wykeham Rise School in rural Washington, Conn., commandeered a small club in New Haven, Conn., a week ago for a surprise start to their tour. The club was already filled by the time the band members took the stage, rocking for 700 fans with good connections to the rumor mill who paid $3 apiece for an hourlong, greatest hits-dominated set.

As of his announcement, most of the group's performances around the country were sold out, he said.

Here is the group's concert schedule, which is still subject to changes:

Aug. 31 and Sept. 1, Philadelphia; Sept. 3 and 4, Toronto; Sept 6, Pittsburgh; Sept. 8, 9 and 11, East Troy, Wis.; Sept. 14, Cincinnati; Sept. 16, Raleigh, N.C.; Sept. 17, St. Louis; Sept. 19, Louisville, Ky.; Sept. 21 and 22, Syracuse, N.Y.

Sept. 24 and 25, Washington, D.C.; Sept. 27, Cleveland; Sept. 29, Oct. 1 and 3, Boston; Oct. 5, Birmingham, Ala.; Oct. 7 Ames, Iowa; Oct. 21 and 22, Los Angeles; Oct. 26 and 28, New York City; Nov. 18, Tampa, Fla.; Nov. 21, Atlanta; Nov. 25, Jacksonville, Fla., and Dec. 3, Toronto.