Setlist :

1. Start Me Up
2. It's Only Rock 'n' Roll
3. You Got Me Rocking
4. Tumbling Dice
5. Emotional Rescue
6. Angie
7. Doom & Gloom
8. Paint It Black
9. Honky Tonk Women

intros
10. Slipping Away (with Mick Taylor)
11. Before They Make Me Run

12. Midnight Rambler  (with Mick Taylor)
13. Miss You
14. Gimme Shelter (web vote)
15. Jumpin' Jack Flash

Encores
16. Sympathy For The Devil
17. Brown Sugar
18. You Cant Always Get What you Want
(with the Al Khubairat Singers)
19. Satisfaction (with Mick Taylor)

those rich Sheikhs deserve to be Omaha'd. Any of our team over there?

by facebook messaging he said they were shit.
I asked why, but so far no reply....

edit:

he's being a sarcastic asshole...

now he says: "Mick is epic. They are brilliant"

They are getting Omaha'd, but we are still getting "the tingle".

pain it black he says..

(but he's not willing to do the setlist fior me

12. Midnight Rambler (with Mick Taylor)
13. Miss You

14. Shelter (fan vote winner)
15 JJF.

I think I dozed off just reading the setlist.

SweetVirginia wrote on Feb 21^st, 2014 at 12:28pm:



allah be praised!!
if they would have gotten silver train we wouldnt have been "happy"

Main set over after just 15 songs. Jesus wept.

Encores now

16. Sympathy For The Devil
17. Brown Sugar
18. You Cant Always Get What you Want
(with the Al Khubairat Singers, according to reports)

I didn't think that you'd make a crude comment!

Looks like theyre going to play a four song encore. First time ever, I think.

19. Satisfaction (presumably with Taylor - as yet unconfirmed)

Abu Dhabi got a cyber vote??

Perhaps interesting that the setlist says "abu dhabi #1".
Combined with the promoter making a special
announcement a couple weeks ago that there would
NOT be a second show, probably means that a second
show was at least considered, but demand did not
justify it...



P.S. The "setting sun" stage may be banal, but it is
also quite appropriate I think. 

' ...... anyone hear from brother jb ?     '


YES !!!!  :


" Abu dsi ( ' sic  '  ) did not sell out! About 24, 763. "

SweetVirginia wrote on Feb 21^st, 2014 at 12:56pm:

http://gulfnews.com/arts-entertainment/music/rolling-stones-let-go-raw-energy-in...


Entertainment | Music



Mick Jagger delivered the raw intensity fans have loved since 1962 as Rolling Stones launched their big tour

Apparently, I did not miss too much in today's setlist watch...

The one-liners on here were more entertaining...

Voo!! much better set list

Du Arena, Yas Island, Abu Dhabi,UAE  - February 21, 2014 © and special thanks to Neville Hopwood

Our band is the greatest.  And I know some of you are skeptical of this idea, or maybe even offended by it, but we are higher quality human beings than non-Stones fans.  There is a certain symbiosis in our association with their greatness.

Mick Jagger delivered the raw intensity fans have loved since 1962 as Rolling Stones launched their big tour

By Natalie Long, tabloid! EditorPublished: 23:37 February 21, 2014

Image Credit: Arshad Ali/Gulf News

Clad in tight black jeans, a black satin shirt and sparkling red jacket, frontman Mick Jagger delivered the wiry energy fans have loved since the band started in 1962. Jagger, with bandmates Keith Richards, Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts, launched their '14 On Fire tour' in the UAE.

Abu Dhabi: The UAE has been waiting a long time for the Rolling Stones to perform so it was only right the British rockers took the stage a few minutes early for their Abu Dhabi  debut on Friday night, kicking things off with the aptly titled hit Start Me Up.
Clad in tight black jeans, a black satin shirt and sparkling red jacket, frontman Mick Jagger delivered the wiry energy fans have loved since the band started in 1962. Jagger, with bandmates Keith Richards,  Ronnie Wood and Charlie Watts, launched their '14 On Fire tour' in the UAE.
Storming through all the songs a fan would have wanted to hear, the foursome - plus a full band and even a choir that came on for the second encore - gave fans young and old everything expected from a Stones gig: swagger, laughs and plenty of rock 'n' roll.
"Mara-haba" hollered Jagger by way of greeting, before sharing what the band have been up too since arriving in Abu Dhabi on Monday: Emirates Palace, the falcon hospital and a trip to Ferrari World. And if you thought performing for two hours, aged 70, was the most impressive thing Jagger can do, get this: The singer proceeded to ask if there was anyone from Sharjah in the house. Then Ajman, Ras Al Khaimah and all the Emirates, getting the biggest cheer for Dubai. His pronunciation was flawed but his connection to the crowd faultless.


Richards too, had his moment to shine, with the legendary hellraiser singing two songs after telling the crowd "I'm happy to be here". Then: "I'm happy to be anywhere."
Any worries the band - a collective 208 years old - would be a geriatric version of their dynamic younger selves were quickly dispersed: a freakishly youthful Jagger moved as he did 40 years ago, his swaggering walk intact as he repeatedly stalked the 40-metre runway that took him to the centre of the crowd. Yes their faces are pretty craggy, but that's the only thing to show, it's 2014 and not 1964.

Fans in the UAE were asked to vote for their favourite song for the band to play, which turned out to be Gimme Shelter, but easily the biggest crowd pleasers of the night were the final song Satisfaction, mid-set classic Paint It Black and Brown Sugar. As promised, former member Mick Taylor joined them, for two tracks, and as good as the music was the camaraderie - real or not - portrayed by the men on stage.
There appeared to be no complaints in the crowd, which spanned the likes of German super fan Ulroch Schorer, who was watching the Stones for the 164th time, to 14-year-old Nicole, a Filipino- American who came with her mum and dad from Saudi Arabia for the show. "We came for her," said dad Norman, who himself saw the band 38 years ago. "It was amazing," said Nicole. "I couldn't ask for more".




http://gulfnews.com/arts-entertainment/music/rolling-stones-let-go-raw-energy-in...

Wouldn't be a Stones article without a combined age reference.  I think journalists do it as an inside joke at this point.

Posted on our message board in Spanish, thanks Roger!

Right!

"you'll rock surer"

Born to be a Stones fan

Any truth to the rumor that Lisa ( was required?) to wear a hijab ( not to be confused with a burka) ??

Edith Grove wrote on Feb 21^st, 2014 at 3:59pm:

Oh no you didn't! 

nankerphelge wrote on Feb 21^st, 2014 at 5:18pm:


Presuming they mean Ulrich Schroeder, yes, he's a very well known fan.  Completely off the deep end in his fandom as you'd expect and even owns a Stones museum!

http://www.timeslive.co.za/entertainment/celebrity/2012/04/30/rolling-stones-mus...

One of the reasons I like Rocksoff is that there is very little censorship, but that comes at a cost sometimes. Namely, it's sad and pathetic that on the day that the Stones break ground by playing a new area of the world, the same tired old jokes (often bigoted and racist) are trotted out. The laziest form of humor is the bigoted kind.

Not a single cover on the whole setlist.

They shoulda done Steppenwolf's Magic Carpet Ride.

Voodoo Chile in Wonderland wrote on Feb 21^st, 2014 at 5:55pm:


And when all the setlist bitching is done and the one liners run out,
I still get the tingle, the lump in my throat and the tears down my cheeks when the lights go down and they hit the stage.

And for this I feel so blessed to still have this Band on the road.

I Like it!

They revised "Emotional Rescue" for this tour.... Darryl has a cool phaser effect on his bass and Charlie is following the original arrangement of only doing the bass drum during the verses....sounds closer to the original. 

What a waste of a Taylor
http://youtu.be/9X0ctGRLIdU

This is all I saw of Midnight Rambler on youtube, but THIS is the Rolling Stones. They enter zones sometimes where everything may not be technically perfect but the feel and tone are so amazing that it's almost transcendental. The interplay between the two Micks is quite wonderful:

NOT ONLY DID KEITH MIX IT UP, BUT THAT'S MICK T ON STAGE PLAYING AND SINGING SLIPPING AWAY!!!!!!!!! I DON'T SEE IT AS A WASTE OF MT CORGI, I SEE IT AS HOPE FOR MORE!!!

HTW was played!!!





Here's Ronald strolling on the beach!

Gazza wrote on Feb 23^rd, 2014 at 12:59pm:

Somebody in the Shidoobee FB group implied they are contractually obligated to play certain songs. Never heard that before.