ROCKS OFF SETLISTS

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BY GARY GALBRAITH

(with Gerardo Liedo)

February 11 or 12, 1990 © Mikio Agriga

Part 1: 1990 STEEL WHEELS JAPANESE TOUR

1990 Japanese ‘Steel Wheels’ Tour overview

After an eight-week break, the Steel Wheels extravaganza rolled into Tokyo as the Rolling Stones were finally allowed to play in Japan. The band had been previously refused entry in 1973 due to Mick Jagger having a drug conviction but his hugely successful solo tour there in March 1988 was instrumental in paving the way for a visit by the Stones in 1990. To call it a ‘tour’ is a bit disingenuous – it consisted of ten shows over two weeks at the massive 50,000 capacity Tokyo Dome, with the band playing 23 songs per night.

Aside from the songs on ‘Flashpoint’, the full show from the penultimate concert on 26^th February – originally aired on Japanese TV and radio and subsequently heavily bootlegged - was released officially in July 2012 as part of a series of six archive downloads to mark the band’s 50^th anniversary and then as a DVD, Blu-ray and 2-CD in October 2015. The show on 24^th February, which had been filmed as a dry-run for the 26^{th of} February telecast had also been widely bootlegged on video and was itself released in full (2-CD and DVD) in Japan 2017 and then worldwide in September 2020 as a bonus DVD on the ‘Steel Wheels Live Atlantic City New Jersey’ boxed set. The remaining 8 shows circulate as decent audience recordings.

Number of shows – 10

Number of shows in circulation – All

Recommended shows - 24^th and 26^th February (see above). The 26^{th of} February show is one of the best stadium shows of the band’s career and certainly a strong candidate for their best stadium show of the decade.

Personnel: Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts. Ronnie Wood and Bill Wyman with Chuck Leavell (keyboards), Matt Clifford (keyboards & french horn), Lisa Fischer, Bernard Fowler & Cindy Mizelle (backing vocals), Bobby Keys (tenor sax) and The Uptown Horns – Bob Funk (trombone), Crispin Cioe (alto sax), Arno Hecht (tenor sax) and Paul Littereal (trumpet)

Concert listing

No.	Date	City	Country	Venue
1	14-Feb	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome
2	16-Feb	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome
3	17-Feb	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome
4	19-Feb	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome
5	20-Feb	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome
6	21-Feb	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome
7	23-Feb	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome
8	24-Feb	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome
9	26-Feb	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome
10	27-Feb	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome

Setlists

	14-Feb	16-Feb	17-Feb	19-Feb	20-Feb
	Tokyo, Japan	Tokyo, Japan	Tokyo, Japan	Tokyo, Japan	Tokyo, Japan

1	Start Me Up	Start Me Up	Start Me Up	Start Me Up	Start Me Up	1
2	Bitch	Bitch	Bitch	Bitch	Bitch	2
3	Sad Sad Sad	Sad Sad Sad	Sad Sad Sad	Sad Sad Sad	Sad Sad Sad	3
4	Harlem Shuffle	Harlem Shuffle	Harlem Shuffle	Harlem Shuffle	Harlem Shuffle	4
5	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	5
6	Miss You	Miss You	Miss You	Miss You	Miss You	6
7	Ruby Tuesday	Ruby Tuesday	Ruby Tuesday	Ruby Tuesday	Angie	7
8	Play With Fire	Angie	Almost Hear You Sigh	Angie	Rock And A Hard Place	8
9	Rock And A Hard Place	Rock And A Hard Place	Rock And A Hard Place	Rock And A Hard Place	Mixed Emotions	9
10	Mixed Emotions	Mixed Emotions	Mixed Emotions	Mixed Emotions	Honky Tonk Women	10
11	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	Midnight Rambler	11
12	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	12
13	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	Little Red Rooster	13
14	Can’t Be Seen	Can’t Be Seen	Can’t Be Seen	Can’t Be Seen	Can’t Be Seen	14
15	Happy	Happy	Happy	Happy	Happy	15
16	Paint It Black	Paint It Black	Paint It Black	Paint It Black	Paint It Black	16
17	2000 Light Years From Home	2000 Light Years From Home	2000 Light Years From Home	2000 Light Years From Home	2000 Light Years From Home	17
18	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	18
19	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	19
20	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	20
21	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	21
22	Satisfaction	Satisfaction	Satisfaction	Satisfaction	Satisfaction	22
23	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	23

	21-Feb	23-Feb	24-Feb	26-Feb	27-Feb
	Tokyo, Japan	Tokyo, Japan	Tokyo, Japan	Tokyo, Japan	Tokyo, Japan

1	Start Me Up	Start Me Up	Start Me Up	Start Me Up	Start Me Up	1
2	Bitch	Bitch	Bitch	Bitch	Bitch	2
3	Sad Sad Sad	Sad Sad Sad	Sad Sad Sad	Sad Sad Sad	Sad Sad Sad	3
4	Harlem Shuffle	Harlem Shuffle	Harlem Shuffle	Harlem Shuffle	Harlem Shuffle	4
5	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	5
6	Miss You	Miss You	Miss You	Miss You	Miss You	6
7	Ruby Tuesday	Ruby Tuesday	Ruby Tuesday	Ruby Tuesday	Ruby Tuesday	7
8	Almost Hear You Sigh	Play With Fire	Almost Hear You Sigh	Almost Hear You Sigh	Angie	8
9	Rock And A Hard Place	Rock And A Hard Place	Rock And A Hard Place	Rock And A Hard Place	Rock And A Hard Place	9
10	Mixed Emotions	Mixed Emotions	Mixed Emotions	Mixed Emotions	Mixed Emotions	10
11	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	11
12	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	12
13	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	13
14	Can’t Be Seen	Can’t Be Seen	Can’t Be Seen	Can’t Be Seen	Can’t Be Seen	14
15	Happy	Happy	Happy	Happy	Happy	15
16	Paint It Black	Paint It Black	Paint It Black	Paint It Black	Paint It Black	16
17	2000 Light Years From Home	2000 Light Years From Home	2000 Light Years From Home	2000 Light Years From Home	2000 Light Years From Home	17
18	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	18
19	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	19
20	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	20
21	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	21
22	Satisfaction	Satisfaction	Satisfaction	Satisfaction	Satisfaction	22
23	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	23

			Full show released as ‘From The	Songs 1-16 and 19-23 broadcast on	Songs 7 & 23 released on ‘Flashpoint’
			Vaults Extra – Live In Japan Tokyo	Japanese TV April 1990 and songs	(Apr 1991)
			Dome 1990.2.24’ (2-CD & DVD) (March	1-2,9-11,15-18,20,22-23 in Sep. 1990.	Song 23 released as a 7’ and CD
			2017) (Japan only)	Broadcast live in full on radio.	single (Nov 1991) (Europe)
			Released worldwide on DVD as a	Full show released as ‘Live At The
			bonus disc on the ‘Steel Wheels Live	Tokyo Dome’ stonesarchive.com and
			- Atlantic City New Jersey' boxset	google.com download (July 2012)
			(Sep 2020)	and then as ‘Live At The Tokyo Dome
				1990’ 2-CD, blu-ray & DVD (Oct 2015)
				Song 18 released on ‘Flashpoint’ (Apr
				1991) and on ‘High Wire’ 12’ single
				(UK) (Mar 1991)

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