Rolling Stones – 1989.08.29 – Dress Rehersals – Veterans Stadium – Philadelphia, PA – SBD 2CDS A

Disc 1:
(1) Tuning/Intro Music (2:47)
(2) Start Me Up (4:00)
(3) Bitch (3:27)
(4) Shattered (3:31)
(5) Sad Sad Sad (4:08)
(6) Undercover of the Night (5:23)
(7) Harlem Shuffle (5:04)
(8) Miss You (6:38)
(9) Tumbling Dice (5:48)
(10) Play With Fire (3:15)
(11) Dialogue with crew (2:43)
(12) Ruby Tuesday (3:45)
(13) Dead Flowers (3:48)
(14) One Hit (To The Body) (false start) (1:22)
(15) One Hit (To The Body) (6:38)
(16) Dialogue with crew (1:02)
(17) Mixed Emotions (5:44)
(18) Honky Tonk Women (4:40)
(19) Rock and a Hard Place (5:54)

Total time: 79:42

Disc 2:
(1) Noodling (2:23)
(2) Midnight Rambler (7:42)
(3) Noodling (3:50)
(4) You Can’t Always Get What You Want (8:10) =>
(5) Little Red Rooster (4:35)
(6) Before They Make Me Run (4:35)
(7) Happy (3:31)
(8) Paint It Black (3:55)
(9) 10,000 Light Years From Home (5:42)
(10) Sympathy For The Devil (5:56)
(11) Noodling/dialogue (3:01)
(12) Gimme Shelter (5:30)
(13) It’s Only Rock and Roll (4:33)
(14) Brown Sugar (4:29)
(15) Satisfaction (5:51)
(16) Jumping Jack Flash (5:18)

Total time: 79:05

notes
This is an excellent soundboard of the final rehearsals for the Stones’ 1989 “Steel Wheels”
tour. When kicking off a tour, they typically spend a few days in advance rehearsing in the
opening city, and they generally rent the stadium several nights prior in order to conduct full
run-throughs of the first night’s set. I believe this setlist is more or less the same as what
they used to open the tour. “Shattered” was dropped from the set after the opening show, so
having a board version of this song from 1989 makes this worth the download.

This is more or less the raw board tape from that night’s rehearsal.
All of the songs are complete and the band is in good form. It would seem in many ways like a
real show (including the points after several songs where Mick thanks the non-existent audience)
except for the total absence of crowd noise and the occasional breaks for the band and crew
to work out logistics. I tried to isolate the longer sections of noodling and discussion
so that you can omit it if you choose.