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

The Rolling Stones

US Tour 1981

-Tour of the US to promote their newly released Tattoo You album

History
-Mick Jagger was initially not interested in another tour, but guitarists Keith Richards and Ronnie Wood were anxious to tour.

-Most shows later employed a cherry picker and the release of hundreds of balloons at the end of the show.

-This tour was one of the higher paying tours

-One of the sponsors for the tour was Jovan Musk. This was at a complete odds with The Stones bad boy image.

-This would be the last tour the Stones do together as band until 1989

The usual set list was:^[10]

1. "Under My Thumb"
2. "When the Whip Comes Down"
3. "Let's Spend the Night Together"
4. "Shattered"
5. "Neighbours"
6. "Black Limousine"
7. "Just My Imagination (Running Away with Me)"
8. "Down The Road Apiece"
9. "Mona" (played only at JFK Stadium 26 September)
10. "Twenty-Flight Rock"
11. "Going to a Go-Go" (first played 3 November)
12. "Let Me Go"
13. "Time Is on My Side"
14. "Beast of Burden"
15. "Waiting on a Friend"
16. "Let It Bleed"
17. "Tops" (Played 25 September, 27 September, & 3 October)
18. "You Can't Always Get What You Want"
19. "Little T&A"
20. "Tumbling Dice"
21. "She's So Cold"
22. "All Down The Line" (Only Played 18 Times)
23. "Hang Fire"
24. "Star Star" (Only Played 10 Times)
25. "Miss You"
26. "Honky Tonk Women"
27. "Brown Sugar"
28. "Start Me Up"
29. "Jumpin' Jack Flash"
30. "(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction" (played 25 September; 3 October; 11 October until end of tour) [Encore]
31. Street Fighting Man" (played from 25 September-9 October) [Encore]

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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)

The Faces

The Faces

Origin: London, England
Genres: rock, blues-rock
Years Active: 1969-1975, 2009-present
website: http://www.the-faces.com/

Members
-Ronnie Wood
-Kenney Jones
-Ian McLagan
-Glen Matlock
-Mick Hucknall

-English rock band formed in 1969 by members of the Small Faces- Ian McLagan(keyboards), Ronnie Lane(bass), Kenney Jones(drums, percussion)- were joined by Ronnie Wood(guitar), Rod Stewart(vocals), both from the Jeff Beck Group

-New lineup was named Faces.
-They released 4 studio albums and toured regularly until the autumn of 1975, although Stewart alos pursued a solo career and during the band's final year, Wood also toured with The Rolling Stones, with whom he later joined.

-In May 2010, Faces talked of plans to reform with Simply Red vocalist Mick Hucknall
-On Dec. 7, 2011, it was announced they were to be inducted into the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame along with the Small Faces

History
-The first band among these guys was called Quiet Melon, which featured Ronnie Wood's older brother Art Wood.
-With the addition of Wood and Stewart, the band renamed themselves Faces. The "small" part was dropped because the 2 newcomers were quite tall, Ronnie Wood was 5'8'' and Rod Stewart was 5'9''.
-As Rod Stewart's solo career started off, the band felt overshadowed by this.

Post-Faces
-Wood joined The Rolling Stons as a full member after Mick Taylor up and quit

Influence on music
-Their only real rivals were that of The Who and The Rolling Stones, Faces enjoyed alot of influence on later rock music.

Discography