Rolling Stones News - The Rolling Stones are an English rock band. Their early mission was to share their enthusiasm for rhythm and blues, but they were received as symbols and leaders of rebellious youth. The first settled line-up consisted of Brian Jones on guitar and harmonica, Ian Stewart on piano, Mick Jagger on lead vocals and harmonica, Keith Richards on guitar and backing vocals, Bill Wyman on bass and Charlie Watts on drums. Jones founded and led the band, but Jagger and Richards assumed leadership after becoming the primary songwriters. Jones' increasing physical and mental troubles forced his departure from the band two weeks prior to his drowning death in 1969. Since Wyman left to pursue other interests in 1993, full band members have been Jagger, Richards, Watts and guitarist Ronnie Wood who joined in 1975, replacing Mick Taylor (who had followed Jones). The Rock and Roll Hall of Fame inducted the Rolling Stones in 1989. Rolling Stone magazine ranked them fourth on the "100 Greatest Artists of All Time" list and their album sales are estimated at more than 200 million worldwide.
Rolling Stones SetList 2013
Get Off of My Cloud
It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (But I Like It)
Paint It Black
Gimme Shelter
All Down the Line
Far Away Eyes
Sway
(with Mick Taylor)
Doom and Gloom
One More Shot
Can't You Hear Me Knocking
(with Mick Taylor)
Honky Tonk Women
(followed by band introductions)
You Got the Silver
(Keith Richards on lead vocals)
Before They Make Me Run
(Keith Richards on lead vocals)
Midnight Rambler
(with Mick Taylor)
Miss You
Start Me Up
Tumbling Dice
Brown Sugar
Sympathy for the Devil
Encore:
You Can't Always Get What You Want
(with the USC Thornton Chamber Singers)
Jumpin' Jack Flash
(I Can't Get No) Satisfaction
(with Mick Taylor)
Popular Rolling Stones album
A Few songs off of their debut:
High And Dry: there's an ironic. almost hokey spin to the lyrics, but also a definite Appalachian hillbilly feel to Mick's vocal twang, the sharp pine of the tune, and the almost one-man-band stop feel of the rhythm. It's a hillbilly sh*tkicker in some ways, and also in some ways looks forward to some of the most country-colored Jagger/Richards songs that would appear on future albums, like Beggars Banquet's Factory Girl. What separates this from pure country corn is the blues harmonica heard throughout the song.
Under My Thumb: a cocky-sounding Jagger plays the part of the triumphant narrator well, singing in a sexy, slurring R&B coo, punctuating lines like "Under my thumb's a squirming dog who's just had her day," and "under my thumb, she's the sweetest pet in the world/ it's down to me 'oh yeah] the way she talks when she's spoken to" with breathy ad libs like "oh that's what I said," and "said it's all right/feels all right." He uses breath as a form of percussion years before T.Rex's Marc Bolan employed a similar technique.
