I'll be damned SCL.
The first song that came to my mind was "You Got the Silver" on No Security.
Ft Lauderdale, March 5th 1999.

Good thread!

LJ.

ps. I reacted like a goddamn fool too!!!!!!!!!! Some people with me just stood and shook their heads. I stood and cried.

I wish I didn't read setlists and that I didn't know which guitars are for which songs. I don't think I've ever been suprised by a song selection.

" I was thinking about this last week when I went to McCartney and he pulled out a couple of great nuggets I didn't expect. Now relate that to a Stones concert you've been too. Out of nowhere they play a great nugget you didn't expect to hear and go holy shit,that was awesome.  "

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I never expected to hear Harlem Shuffle played live and they did it in Atlantic City, I think it was 1989. It was a complete surprise. MICK was grooving to Shake a tail feather baby and I still dont know what that means, is it a scarf made of feathers?

I got the biggest Holy Shit moment on may 21st, 1990 when they took the stage with Start Me Up. First Stones gig I saw..it was a magical moment. Basically I turned into a Stones freak then and there. I had arena tickets and a bunch of bikers I knew made sure me and my mate had excellent spots somewhere in the front.

In 1995 they did some great sets in the Netherlands and by then I was fortunate enough to buy tickets for all the shows (save the Paradiso ones. I don't want to talk about it). The extra gigs the Stones did in Rotterdam at the end of the summer had outrageous sets. I have fond memories of Shine A Light.

1998: the Amsterdam Arena is a horror soundwise, but it was the first time my future wife tagged along. She really wanted to hear Memory Motel. I thought it was impossible (I wasn't online back then), so when they played it we were amazed. She was lucky btw: on a different night the song got butchered by Dave Matthews.

2003: club gig in Utrecht for 50 euro's. Nuff Said.

2006: after a great time during the Cologne show, my wife and I decided to get some tickets for the Amsterdam Arena. Sounded better than during Licks, but they played Sway. I had promised myself to propose if they did that, so it's a good thing she agreed.

2007: in Nijmegen we were flushed by a storm first, but when the Stones came out they gave a kick arse show with Sweet Virginia as the ultimate highlight.

Another Holy Shit moment was at Giants Stadium Sept 2005. My daughter was with me, we had decent floor seats. So I asked her what song she would like to hear most, and my daughter says her favorite song is HEARTBREAKER. I told her no way in hell, no chance. So that night the STONES played it, which was really cool, she got to hear her favorite song! That was a shocker.

Bitch wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2010 at 8:19am:


A lot of people have covered it, my favorite from the 60's was Mitch Ryder & The Detroit Wheels, But Ike & Tina Turner does a great version of it.
"http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dnwlHnvWH4Q"

July 15th 1972 Maple Leaf Gardens Toronto as house lights dim for my first ever show. Then again 4 hours later for the second show of the day!

'I Got The Blues' played at a public concert for the first time ever in Hartford in 1999 (they'd only played it before at the Marquee TV special in '71)

There havent been THAT many mega-surprises to be honest. Even in the pre-internet era (which for me was every show I saw before 1998) I usually had a good idea of what they were playing by the time I got to see them perform. The song choices at Shepherds Bush featured a lot of off the wall choices - but a security lady had showed me the setlist just before the show began and I couldnt resist taking a peek.

'Angie' at Slane in '82 was one I remember as being a big surprise and a pleasant one as it was the name of my girlfriend at the time. 'No Expectations' in Lisbon with Ana Moura was somewhat out of the blue as well, as was 'Thru and Thru's live debut at MSG in 2002.  

I suppose I should say though that the biggest 'what the fuck?' moments were Keith singing an a cappella version of 'Loch Lomond' in Glasgow in September 2003 (quickly followed by the crowd joining in and then going nuts), and then following it six days later in Dublin with 'Its A Long Way To Tipperary'......

BUT.. for sheer goose-bump factor, nothing will top that moment at Ronnie's Drury Lane show in March 2005, when he said 'If you wanna dance - you'll need a good teacher', hit the intro to 'Dance' and then from stage left out strutted Mick Jagger ...

Even now five years later, the roar from the crowd on the recording of this show still makes the hair on the back of my neck stand up. Every time.

Only seen them once, but it was the first 20mins of the gig.

I saw them at Slane in 2007 on ABB and start me up was the opener. It was just amazing, i'd never seen such a spectacle and i can still remember keith strutting out nad hearing the really metallic sounding chords and jagger. But the 'holy shit' moment was the first 20mins of the gig i just kept saying to myself 'that cant be keith' 'that can't be mick' - it seemed impossible that i could be seeing them in front of me - only other gig i had that at was seeing the stooges for the first time in montreux 2006. i couldnt believe i was seeing them.

another holy shit moment at stones was them playing dead flowers; not for any great affection for the song, which i think is a good song from one of my favourite albums, but it just seemed to come from nowhere, i didnt expect it - and maybe another was keith singing i wanna hold you, that was pretty cool

All down the line in Dubendorf '06 was a complete surprise, and it totally rocked. But the real holy shit moment was the b-stage set. I was right by the rail, with no one in front of me, Keith looking straight at me, playing Get off of my cloud. It was unreal.

Listening to the boot of the show quite often. It was a damn good show!

Two near-orgasmic, deceptively simple moments come to mind; Mick jumping HIGH in perfect sync with the first Charlie bish-bash in March 23rd, 1999's 'Midnight Rambler' in Boston....PERFECT, and when Keith passed inches in front of me in January 2006 on the floor in Boston, right in front of the B-stage....it was also nice sitting IN FRONT of Janet and LeToya in Sunrise, FLA back in February 2006...