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.  "

< ---------- Emotional Rescue !!!!!!


Not YET , .......... Little Fella ( Lil' Fijikins  .... oh , Little Fiji  , Lil' Fijikins )

JJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJJACKY !

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...

When I was standing shoulder to shoulder with Charlie Watts and could not speak to him. Now Ronnie was another story.

Sweet Virginia In Sweet Virginia, and see Them In the Limo Leaving, Seeing "The Hand" out the Window With THE Ring...you know the "RING"..

LadyJane wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2010 at 4:27pm:


LJ..did you see me run past headin for the stage? It musta been 100 degrees that Sunday nite in the old Aud. Then off to Toronto for shows Tuesday and Wednesday....the good old days!!!

For me it was that musical intro to Hal Ashby's 'Coming Home'. "Out of Time" is probably the best pop song ever. Maybe. I don't know. Maybe after two beers I shall let you know.

Holden wrote on Apr 3^rd, 2010 at 11:58pm:



Yes.  We originally had seats towards the end of the floor, but our section was eliminated in the final stage set-up.  We got third row instead!

For me it's Sway.

'95 Voodoo Lounge concert at Football Park in Adelaide.......Far Away Eyes.......so many other great moments but that one sticks in my mind cos it was my 1st Stones gig.

82 AND 90 I kind of knew the set list from boots as it rarely changed. Although Chantille Lace and Angie weren't expected and Factory Girl at Manchester 90 was a suprise.

My 1st genuine shock was Connection,Like a Rolling Stone and Slipping away Sheffield 9/7/95 - pre internet

also All about you 1999

The Licks tour - The excellent Glasgow set lists and Salt of the Earth Twick 20/9/03

ABB - Sway and She was Hot

scuk

corgi37 wrote on Apr 5^th, 2010 at 3:10am:

Tell me buddy, what did you do with the bottle, was it used, does it have Mick's DNA?
That's the kind of thing you got keep. Right?
I remembewr some chick selling a n Elvis water bottle for big bucks. Got know what kind of water was he drinking?

Question for LJ or Gimmekeef or anyone else at the 75 Aud show.  I seem to recall the flat lotus and Mick popping up through the hole in the stage during HTW, but my memory is very hazy and I was a bit medicated at the time.  He was definitely wearing the striped white PJs with a leather jacket and it remains to this day the best show I have ever seen including the Toronto show and Rich Stadium the same year.  The 'Ooo is December are a close second.

Are there records as to which stage was in which city or any Buffalo photos?

... hearing 'Winter' performed twice during Toronto rehearsals in '02.

Lazy Bones wrote on Apr 6^th, 2010 at 10:56am:

Really. I never knew they even rehearsed it. That would be a son of a bitch moment if they ever played that live.(and I didn't get to hear it).

Riffhard wrote on Apr 5^th, 2010 at 9:07pm:

I never even had a shot at a ticket as it went on sale at what 2am? and sold out in an hour?

The water bottle was indeed used. He had a drink and squirted/threw it into the crowd. It arced beautifully, coming right for me. I still have it. I've just been too lazy to get it mounted.

Great story's everybody. Enjoying them a lot.Please keep them coming. This may not qualify as a holy shit moment and I'm not sure if I've mentioned on here before. But a good story I think. It was the Licks tour. My brother and his wife bought a ticket for me at Pac Bell Park. Since it was close to my birthday. Nov. 9,2002. We walk into the place and take are seats with no problem. I'm enjoying a solid 2-3 songs of Sheryl Crow. Then somebody walks up and says your in our seat. Well we check our tix and are convinced we are in the right seats. So an usher comes down and looks at our tix. Well we had the right seats,but the wrong night. Turns out,we had tickets for the night before. They said you can't stay in these seats,but are welcome to walk around and stand wherever is possible. Amazing they didn't kick us out and considering this was my birthday present. We walked around for a few minutes while I fumed and cursed out my brother. But between him and his wife.They are equal parts idiot and genius. My sister in-law says that the head of security is the brother of one of her girlfriends. We go to security and somehow convince them to call the head of stadium security. They do get a hold of him and he does come up to meet us. He laughs at our predicament,then takes us down to his office underneath the stadium. He tells his staff our predicament. They all get a good laugh at us. But,then they pull out seating chart. Look at it and say,well their are some sections that weren't filled after they put the stage up. So we went from semi-decent left field seats. To seats on the field. Which turnned out to be very near the B-Stage....And when they played Let it Bleed on the B-Stage. Your's truly was a very happy camper.

So many to chose just one but the last holy shit moment was Mick and Keith singing at the end of Far Away Eyes in Shine a Light 

I say all 16 shows I have seen were holy shit moments. To see them right before my eyes has always blown me away. But I guess the top moment was during the Bridges To Babylon tour back in '97. The Stones had played 4 nights in Oakland and I had gone to all four shows. On the final night I had second row and had had a few beverages and when Keith finished playing "All About You" he thanked the crowd and said "God bless you all." I yelled back "God bless you Keith!!!!!" He looked right at me and pointed. Very cool moment I will always remember that. I've often wondered if there is a recording of that show that picked my yell up or perhaps a video.

luxury wrote on Apr 10^th, 2010 at 7:18am:



Explain . . .

luxury wrote on Apr 10^th, 2010 at 7:18am:

GotToRollMe wrote on Apr 8^th, 2010 at 12:15am:


Sorry, not IFC - Encore Cinema.

tangerine bowl, orlando 1981 1st time seeing them, about halfway thru the set (tumbling dice) midsong keith woke up like somebody shoved an ice cube up his ass (sorry gram) and my rock n roll 101 schoolbus was over the cliff, ain't
looked back since ...

Another classic holy shit moment was during LICKS here in Melbourne. Took pics of the band etc. My wife got a hi-5 from all the band, i nearly got busted for taking snaps - but the holy this moment was i was right behind Daethgod and i didnt know it at the time!

Got some cool shots of the back of his dads head though.

"Midnight Rambler" on the B-Stage at San Jose 1 in 04/1999 - man that was something, pure rock !

OK my first holy shit moment was my first Stones concert at MSG July 26, 1972. My friend Gail's older brother was going to the show and he had 2 extra tickets. I asked my dad if I could go and he said NO. YOU ARE TOO YOUNG! So of course I disobeyed and we went to The Garden to see the STONES! We had 2nd row center seats, and we stood on top of our chairs during the entire show screaming, dancing and going nuts! I fell totally in love with the 2 MICK's! The show was awesome! It was MICK's birthday that night, and at the end of the show they wheeled out a big cake and several bottles of whisky and champagne. MICK shakes up a bottle of champagne and sprays it into the audience, spraying me and Gail until we were completely soaked! MICK was laughing at us, took a drink out of the bottle and sprayed us again. We were laughing too but when I got home my dad smelled the liquor on me and started yelling at me for drinking! So I told him it was MICK JAGGER's chamagne, and he was actually relieved that I wasnt drunk so he forgave me for going to MSG. That's the night I fell in love with MICK JAGGER. I bought the Sticky Fingers album and would lie in my bed zipping and unzipping the cover imagining MICK was in bed with me. That started my MICK fantasies which carried me through a lifetime. I only found out a few years ago it was not MICK in the tighty-whities, but Andy Worhol's protege!

Hi everyone,
My first "Holy shit" moment!!...
Maple Leaf Garden's '75...
16 years old... bazaar bus trip...didn't know what to expect...
arrived late...(missed most of Chukka Khan...(hope I spelled her name correctly!( though it doesn't really matter))...
Then ...F***...I have been a Stones fan ever since:)

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