1989 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour

1989 Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour

-This tour helped to promote the band's recently released Steel Wheels album
-Continued to Japan in February 1990, with 10 shows at the Tokyo Dome.
-That show featured a different stage and was called the Urban Jungle tour, which ran from May-August 1990.
-This would be the last tour with Bill Wyman as bassist

History
-A pre-tour 'surprise show' took place on August 12, 1989 at Toad's Palce in New Haven, Connecticut.
-The official Steel Wheels tour kicked off later that month at the now demolished Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.

-During the show in Pennsylvania, the power went out when the band was performing "Shattered" and caused a delay in the show. Jagger started talking to the people in the audience during the delay

-The stage was designed by Mark Fisher along with help from Mick Jagger and Charlie Watts

-Performances were later documented on the album Flashpoint and the video Live at the Max, both released in 1991

Tour band

• Mick Jagger: lead vocals, guitar, harmonica
• Keith Richards: guitar, backing vocals
• Ronnie Wood: guitar, backing vocals
• Bill Wyman: bass guitar
• Charlie Watts: drums, percussion

Additional musicians:

• Matt Clifford: keyboards, French horn
• Bobby Keys: saxophone
• Chuck Leavell: keyboards and musical director
• Bernard Fowler: vocals
• Lisa Fischer: vocals on the North American & Japanese tours only
• Cindy Mizelle: vocals on the North American & Japanese tours only
• Lorelei McBroom: vocals on the European tour only
• Sophia Jones: vocals on the European tour only
• The Uptown Horns:
1. Arno Hecht: saxophone
2. Bob Funk: trombone
3. Crispin Cioe: saxophone
4. Paul Litteral: trumpet

For the opening night of the Steel Wheels Tour the setlist was as follows (all songs composed by Jagger/Richards unless otherwise noted):

1. "Intro: Continental Drift"
2. "Start Me Up"
3. "Bitch"
4. "Shattered"
5. "Sad Sad Sad"
6. "Undercover of the Night"
7. "Harlem Shuffle" (Relf/Nelson)
8. "Tumbling Dice"
9. "Miss You"
10. "Ruby Tuesday"
11. "Play With Fire" (Nanker Phelge)
12. "Dead Flowers"
13. "One Hit (to the Body)" (Jagger/Richards/Wood)
14. "Mixed Emotions"
15. "Honky Tonk Women"
16. "Rock and a Hard Place"
17. "Midnight Rambler"
18. "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
19. "Little Red Rooster" (Dixon)
20. "Before They Make Me Run"
21. "Happy"
22. "Paint It Black"
23. "2000 Light Years from Home"
24. "Sympathy for the Devil"
25. "Gimme Shelter"
26. "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)"
27. "Brown Sugar"
28. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction"
29. "Jumpin' Jack Flash" (encore)

For the final night of the Urban Jungle Tour (the last Rolling Stones concert with Bill Wyman) the band played:

1. "Start Me Up"
2. "Sad Sad Sad"
3. "Harlem Shuffle"
4. "Tumbling Dice"
5. "Miss You"
6. "Ruby Tuesday"
7. "Angie"
8. "Rock and a Hard Place"
9. "Mixed Emotions"
10. "Honky Tonk Women"
11. "Midnight Rambler"
12. "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
13. "Little Red Rooster"
14. "Before They Make Me Run"
15. "Happy"
16. "Paint It Black"
17. "2000 Light Years from Home"
18. "Sympathy for the Devil"
19. "Street Fighting Man"
20. "Gimme Shelter"
21. "It's Only Rock 'n Roll (But I Like It)"
22. "Brown Sugar"
23. "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
24. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (encore)

Other songs played on the tour:

1. "Almost Hear You Sigh" (Jagger/Richards/Jordan)
2. "Blinded by Love"
3. "Boogie Chillen" (Hooker)
4. "Can't Be Seen"
5. "Factory Girl"
6. "I Just Want to Make Love to You" (Dixon)
7. "Salt of the Earth"
8. "Terrifying"
9. "Indian Girl" Hannover 23.May 1990

Studio 54

Studio 54

Address: 254 West 54th Street
City: New York City
Owned  by: Roundabout Theatre Company

-Highly popular discotheque from 1977-1991.

Early Years
-Was originally the Gallo Opera House, built by Fortune Gallo in 1927 for his San Carlo Opera Company.
-In 1937, the Federal Theatre Project leased it for it's productions and changed the name to the Federal Music Theatre.

CBS Studio 52
-In 1943, CBS Radio bought the theatre to use it, renaming it Studio 52. They used this theatre for radio broadcasts.
-From the 1940s-1970s, they used the location for radio broadcasts and TV shows, such as:

1. What's My Line?
2. The $64,000 Question
3. Password
4. To Tell the Truth
5. Beat the Clock
6. The Jack Benny Show
7. I've Got a Secret
8. Ted Mack's Original Amateur Hour
9. Captain Kangaroo

-In 1976, CBS moved most of it's broadcasts to the Ed Sullivan Theatre.

Nightclub era

-When CBS began marketing the building in 1976, various interests in art and fashion would show it being turned into a nightclub. 

-In 1977, Studio 54 was transformed into a nightclub by Steve Rubell and Ian Schrager. Took only 6 weeks and $400,000 to transform the once theatre into a hip nightclub

-Rubell and Schrager hired Ron Doud as interior designer and Brian Thompson as lighting designer. Jules Fisher and Paul Marantz, 2 well known Broadway theatrical set designers, helped convert the theatre into a dance floor and created moveable, theatrical sets and lights using the original theatrical fly rails.

-Within a month of it opening, it closed because it was selling liquor without a license. 

The Scene

-Among the many celebs to visit the club, some included:

Michael Jackson

Mick and Bianca Jagger

Rick James

Liza Minelli

Jerry Hall

Mikhail Baryshnikov

Cher

Deborah Harry

Famous celebs included

Diane Keaton

Frank Sinatra

Warren Beatty

Woody Allen

Henry Winkler

-Studio 54 was known for mixing normal people with celebrities.

-Studio 54 closed on February 4, 1980 with a big final party. Among the guests were Sylvester Stallone, Richard Gere, Jack Nicholson, Reggie Jackson, where Diana Ross serenaded the guests

Studio 54 Radio

-On August 15, 2011, Sirius XM Radio launched a 24/7 Disco channel based on the Studio 54 theme.

-On October 18, 2011, Sirius XM Radio held a special "One Night Only" party at the club's original location to promote the new channel. In order to win tickets, callers had to call into the station and share their memorable Studio 54 experiences. For the night, it featured the signature sun and "man on the moon" props, along with shirtless waiters. The event featured many of the original staff

-And also in the crowd were quite a few celebs, such as:

-Cameron Diaz

-Keith Richards

-Kevin Bacon

Top 10 Winter Songs

According to the Ultimate Classic Rock Facebook page. Here are the Top 10 Winter songs.

L-R: Freddy Mercury(Queen), Alice Cooper, Mick Jagger(The Rolling Stones, still cute at 68!!)

#10
-Cold as Ice: Foreigner
-From Foreigner(1977)

#9
-Sure Got Cold After the Rain Fell: ZZ Top
-From Rio Grande(1972)

#8
-Snowblind: Black Sabbath
-From Vol. 4(1972)

#7
-Hazy Shade of Winter: Simon & Garfunkel
-From Bookends(1968)

#6
-Wintertime Love: The Doors
-From Waiting for the Sun(1968)

#5
-Snow Blind: Ace Frehley
-From Ace Frehley(1978)

#4
-Trapped Under Ice: Metallica
-From Ride the Lightning(1984)

#3
-Raped and Freezin': Alice Cooper
-From Billion Dollar Babies(1973)

#2
-Winter: The Rolling Stones
-From Goats Head Soup(1973)

#1
-A Winter's Tale: Queen
-From Made in Heaven(1995)

Aerosmith: Boston-based Hard Rock

Ever notice that Steven Tyler and Joe Perry, who are the lead singer and lead guitarist for Aerosmith are like the American versions of British-born lead singer Mick Jagger and Keith Richards of The Rolling Stones? Steven Tyler and Joe Perry are the major hotties in Aerosmith in my opinion!!!

These 2 r close enough to kiss, eww!