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Friday, October 07, 2005

Rolling Stones in Charlottesville

Show start: 8:48pm

1. Start Me Up
2. It's Only Rock'n Roll
3. Shattered
4. Tumbling Dice
5. Rough Justice
6. Ruby Tuesday
7. Sweet Virginia !!!! with additional sing-along after the song had ended
8. All Down the Line !!
9. Night Time is the Right Time
--- band intros, thru Ronnie.
Time: 9:43pm
"We have to take a 10 minute break, according to the authorities". Band leaves the Stadium, they bring in bomb sniffing dogs, clear out the stage people entirely, and vacate everyone in the first third of the field and the seats at the ends of Mick's catwalks.
Time: 10:38pm
10. Miss You (to second stage)
11. Oh No, Not You Again
12. Get Off My Cloud
13. Honky Tonk Women (from second stage)
14. Sympathy
15. Paint It Black
16. Midnight Rambler!
17. Brown Sugar
18. Jumping Jack Flash
19. You Can't Always Get What You Want (encore)
20. Satisfaction (encore)

Show end: 11:48pm

Thanks to this site for the set list.

With respect to the bomb scare, I was going to write some kind of meditation on the Age of Uncertainty and Terror; etc., but now I think it was probably just some drunk jerks prank-calling 911. I do admire the band for coming back out and playing for another hour and a half; some of which was in the rain and some was out in the crowd (where the bomb dogs had not been). The Stones are consummate professionals-- the show was fantastic-- it could not have been any better. No expense was spared; from five-story high stage to video screens to lights to pyrotechnics.

Given the splintering and specialization of pop culture, there will never be another band that is this universally popular. They deserve every bit of their popularity.

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