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BY GARY GALBRAITH

(With Gerardo Liedo)

2003 LICKS TOUR – Asian Tour

Keith backstage room, Tokyo dome © Sergei (our insider during the whole tour!)

On this tour, the Stones played 3 types of setlists according to the type of venue, sometimes with all three in the same city. The setlists are therefore colour coded thus:

Arena shows (hite) :

Stadium shows (red) :

Theatre / club shows (yellow) :

Songs performed on a b-stage at the arena and stadium shows are asterisked (‘*’)

2003 Australian & Asian ‘Licks’ tour overview

With barely a few days off, the Stones flew on to Sydney to kick off a two-month long tour leg which took in 18 shows in Australia, Japan, Singapore and (for the first time) India. There were no shows in New Zealand this time and the 8-date Australian leg consisted of one theatre and two stadium shows in Sydney plus arena shows in Melbourne and Brisbane. The opening night at Sydney’s Enmore Theatre was a humdinger, with the Stones opening with ‘Midnight Rambler’ for the only time ever and being joined onstage by Angus and Malcolm Young on what would be the first of their six guest appearances on three continents that year. The Japan leg consisted of a mix of arena and indoor dome shows before the Stones returned to Singapore for the first time since 1965 for two shows and then closed the tour leg with a pair of stadium shows in India. In between, the Stones were again thwarted in their long-held ambition to play China – on this occasion not by bureaucratic issues but by the outbreak of the SARS pandemic, which resulted in the four planned concerts there all having to be cancelled. Another planned show in Bangkok had to be cancelled for logistical problems. Unfortunately for the band’s fervent fanbase in Latin America, there would be no shows in that region on the Licks tour, primarily due to unstable economic conditions.

Nothing from this tour leg has been released officially. However, most of the show in Bangalore on April 4^th was broadcast on TV in India and circulates on video. The Stones manage to put on a pretty decent performance despite having to play in almost monsoon-like conditions. The bootleg DVD isn’t called ‘Dripping Away in Bangalore’ without good reason.

Number of shows – 18

Number in circulation – 15 (missing are Mumbai and both Singapore shows)

Recommended shows – Sydney (Enmore Theatre), Tokyo (Budokan Arena), Yokohama.

Personnel – Mick Jagger, Keith Richards, Charlie Watts and Ron Wood with Darryl Jones (bass), Chuck Leavell (keyboards), Bernard Fowler and Lisa Fischer (backing vocals & percussion), Blondie Chaplin (backing vocals, percussion & occasional guitar), Bobby Keys (tenor sax) and The New West Horns – Tim Ries (sax , Michael Davis (trombone) and Kent Smith (trumpet).

Concert Listing (this part)

No.	Date	City	State / Province / Country	Venue
23	10-Mar	Tokyo	Japan	Nippon Budokan
24	12-Mar	Yokohama	Japan	Yokohama Arena
25	15-Mar	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome
26	16-Mar	Tokyo	Japan	Tokyo Dome
27	20-Mar	Osaka	Japan	Osaka Dome
28	21-Mar	Osaka	Japan	Osaka Dome
29	24-Mar	Singapore	Singapore	Stadium Tertutup Singapura
30	26-Mar	Singapore	Singapore	Stadium Tertutup Singapura
31	4-Apr	Bangalore	India	Palace Grounds
32	7-Apr	Mumbai	India	Brabourne Stadium

Setlists

	10-Mar	12-Mar	15-Mar	16-Mar	20-Mar
	Tokyo, Japan (Budokan)	Yokohama, Japan	Tokyo, Japan (Tokyo Dome)	Tokyo, Japan (Tokyo Dome)	Osaka, Japan

1	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Street Fighting Man	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	1
2	You Got Me Rocking	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	Start Me Up	Start Me Up	You Got Me Rocking	2
3	Live With Me	If You Can’t Rock Me	You Got Me Rocking	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	Start Me Up	3
4	Let It Bleed	Don’t Stop	Don’t Stop	Don’t Stop	Don’t Stop	4
5	No Expectations	Monkey Man	Rocks Off	All Down The Line	Rocks Off	5
6	Rocks Off	You Got Me Rocking	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	Angie	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	6
7	Everybody Needs Somebody To Love	Ruby Tuesday	Bitch	Monkey Man	Bitch	7
8	Worried About You	Loving Cup	Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’	Midnight Rambler	Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’	8
9	Midnight Rambler	All Down The Line	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	9
10	Slipping Away	Tumbling Dice	Slipping Away	Slipping Away	Thru and Thru	10
11	Before They Make Me Run	Slipping Away	Before They Make Me Run	Happy	Before They Make Me Run	11
12	Start Me Up	Happy	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	12
13	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	Sympathy For The Devil	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll *	When The Whip Comes Down *	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll *	13
14	Rock Me Baby	Start Me Up	Little Red Rooster *	Mannish Boy *	Let It Bleed *	14
15	Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’	Honky Tonk Women	Midnight Rambler *	You Got Me Rocking *	Midnight Rambler *	15
16	Honky Tonk Women	Satisfaction	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	16
17	Tumbling Dice	Mannish Boy *	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	17
18	Brown Sugar	When The Whip Comes Down *	Street Fighting Man	Street Fighting Man	Street Fighting Man	18
19	Satisfaction	Brown Sugar *	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Satisfaction	Satisfaction	19
20		Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Satisfaction	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	20

	No b-stage. Whilst this was an arena
	show (13,000 people), the format had
	more in common with the theatre shows
	from this tour as it was the smallest
	concert in Japan.

	21-Mar	24-Mar	26-Mar	4-Apr	7-Apr
	Osaka, Japan	Singapore, Singapore	Singapore, Singapore	Bangalore, India	Mumbai, India

1	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	Brown Sugar	1
2	Start Me Up	Start Me Up	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	2
3	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	You Got Me Rocking	You Got Me Rocking	Start Me Up	Start Me Up	3
4	Don’t Stop	Don’t Stop	Don’t Stop	Don’t Stop	Don’t Stop	4
5	All Down The Line	Rocks Off	All Down The Line	Rocks Off	All Down The Line	5
6	Wild Horses	Sweet Virginia	Let It Bleed	Angie	Angie	6
7	Monkey Man	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	Angie	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	You Can’t Always Get What You Want	7
8	Midnight Rambler	Bitch	Live With Me	Bitch	Monkey Man	8
9	Tumbling Dice	Can’t You Hear Me Knockin’	Midnight Rambler	Miss You	Miss You	9
10	Slipping Away	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	Tumbling Dice	10
11	Happy	Slipping Away	Thru and Thru	Slipping Away	Slipping Away	11
12	Sympathy For The Devil	Before They Make Me Run	Happy	Before They Make Me Run	Happy	12
13	Mannish Boy *	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	Sympathy For The Devil	13
14	Like A Rolling Stone *	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	Midnight Rambler	Midnight Rambler	14
15	You Got Me Rocking *	It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll	Start Me Up	Gimme Shelter	Gimme Shelter	15
16	Gimme Shelter	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	You Got Me Rocking	You Got Me Rocking	16
17	Honky Tonk Women	Street Fighting Man	Street Fighting Man	Honky Tonk Women	Honky Tonk Women	17
18	Street Fighting Man	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Satisfaction	Street Fighting Man	Street Fighting Man	18
19	Satisfaction	Satisfaction	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Satisfaction	Satisfaction	19
20	Jumpin’ Jack Flash			Jumpin’ Jack Flash	Jumpin’ Jack Flash	20

		No circulating recording other than	No circulating recording	No b-stage for this show.	No circulating recording
		song 7, which was only broadcast as a	No b-stage for this show.	Concert rescheduled from Apr 11 2003.	No b-stage for this show.
		video upload by rollingstones.com.			Concert rescheduled from Apr 14 2003.
		No b-stage for this show.	Following this show, four scheduled	Songs 1-4, 6-8, 10-15, 17, 19-20
		The Singapore shows were in an	concerts in China were cancelled due	broadcast on ‘Rolling Stones Licks’	Following this show, a concert at
		arena sized venue (7,000) but the	to the outbreak of the SARS pandemic.	S-Max (Indian TV) 31-May 2003.	the Impact Arena in Bangkok, Thailand
		show format was closer to that of	These were :	Songs 3 (incomplete) and 14 were	scheduled for Apr-10 was cancelled due
		a stadium setlist (minus the b -	Mar 28 & 29 Hong Kong Convention	released on ‘Rolling Stones Exclusive	to technical problems in Mumbai with
		stage)	Centre, Apr 1 – Shanghai Grand Stage	Fan Club DVD’ (August 2005)	the crew’s plane. The concert had
			Apr 4 – Beijing – Workers Gymnasium	Song 9 was only broadcast as a video	previously been rescheduled from Apr-8
				upload by rollingstones.com	after the Chinese dates were cancelled.
				The remaining songs (5, 16 & 18) are
				not in circulation.