Inside the Rolling Stones' New Stadium Tour: Hot Rocks and Deep Cuts - RollingStone.com
"Thank you very much, San Diego, you were bloody wonderful. " Mick Jagger shouted from the stage at Petco Park on May 24th. The Rolling Stones had just finished t he first night of their 15-date Zip Code stadium tour , delivering well over two hours of rock & roll – from the raucous "Jumpin' Jack Flash"... "I was enjoying myself," Jagger says when he calls two days later. "Usually, the first two or three shows, the band feels they're not quite on," he says. Sidebar Four nights before the San Diego show, the Stones faced a different test: playing every song from 1971's Sticky Fingers , some of which they haven't touched in a decade or more, during a last-minute club gig at Los Angeles' 1,200-capacity... "We're all high on the fact that we actually did it," says Ronnie Wood. Jagger says the band put in extra effort in rehearsals, knowing that the gig was being filmed for potential release. "We had to revisit tunes that we don't do very often, and we had to make sure they worked really well," he says. "We worked quite hard on 'Sister Morphine' and 'I Got the Blues. "Small gigs in the beginning are almost a tradition to the Stones," says Richards. Source: www.rollingstone.com
