The Rolling Stones    

                Madison Square Garden, New York City   -    Sep. 13 2005

  1. Start Me Up
  2. She's So Cold
  3. You Got Me Rocking
  4. Tumbling Dice
  5. Rough Justice
  6. Back Of My Hand
  7. 19th Nervous Breakdown (Mean Version)
  8. Bitch
  9. All Down The Line
  10. Get Up Stand Up
  11. The Worst  - Vocals : Keith
  12. Infamy  - Vocals : Keith
  13. Miss You       B-Stage 
  14. Oh No, Not You Again      B-Stage 
  15. Satisfaction       B-Stage 
  16. Honky Tonk Women Stage moving back during song
  17. Sympathy For The Devil
  18. Paint It Black
  19. It's Only Rock & Roll
  20. Jumping Jack Flash
  21. You Can't Always Get What You Want
  22. Brown Sugar


I arrived in NYC the day before the show, and in the morning of the concert, I was given the opportunity to see some of the fashion shows taking place at Bryant Park during the New York City Olympus Fashion Week.

The day's 1st show was a designer called Tibi, at 9:30 AM, and as a sign, the whole show took place with a remix of the Rolling Stones' She's A Rainbow.

At the end of the afternoon, I was glad to see Stones fans I hadn't seen since 2003 in a bar close to the MSG. People were there from France, Canada, The Netherlands, Germany, Ireland, and, of course, a lot of american fans from the Shidoobee board, including Stonesdoug himself.

I entered the MSG while Alanis Morissette was on stage and stayed looking at the new merchandising, waiting for her to end her set.
The Garden was packed, an Ameriquest blimp was flying around, and the Stones really took their time, hitting the stage at 9:50 PM.
The concert's intro is really well made, and when Keith appeared and started Start Me Up, the whole Garden wents crazy, despite the fact that Ronnie messed up with his guitar solo. Next came a song I was looking forward to listening : She's So Cold, a song they had not performed live since 1982. Good version, but once again, Ronnie still not at his best. I don't know why, but after these 2 songs, he woke up and played very well on the rest of the concert.

Keith performed a great solo on Tumbling Dice, before Mick announced that this show was the 20th sold out concert of the Rolling Stones at the Garden since the beginning of their carrer.
Rough Justice and Back Of My Hand also were a live première for me, and I think they even sound better on stage than on the CD.

The night's biggest surprise came right after the 2 new songs, with a song that only the happy fews from the Phoenix Theatre show in Toronto had heard before : the 2005 rendition of 19th Nervous Breakdown, entitled "Mean Version" by the Stones themselves. The song is played much slower than the original version, in a blusier way, and most of the people really loved it.

The next highlight was All Down The Line. It's hard to explain, but this rocker made me feel like seeing the Stones in a club. The song was awesome, Ronnie played really good on it, and at the end, Keith was on his knees and kissed his guitar.
Then came the Marley-Tosh cover : Get Up Stand Up. Huge response from the audience. The song started with photos of Bob Marley on the screen, and the audience went so much into the song that the Stones even restarted the song at the end.

 During the band introduction, Mick introduced Ronnie "Rehab" Wood and Charlie "Wacko" Watts. Then came the songs by Keith. The worst was nice, with Tim Ries giving a jazzy color to it, and Infamy sounded pretty good.

On the B-stage, Shattered was supposed to be played, but the Stones started Satisfaction. I did not know by then that they were supposed to play Shattered, but something was obviously wrong in how Keith's guitar was sounding.

The last great highlights of the show were Paint It Black and the 1st encore, a long rendition of You Can't Always Get What You Want.
This was my 1st Bigger Bang Tour show, but I was already happy to have made the journey to New Nork.