(Soundboard FLAC)
The Rolling Stones
Downsview Park
Toronto, Canada
Wednesday July 30, 2003
Sbd recording
bootleg: VGP-354
CD1
01 - intro Dan Akroiyd
02 - Start Me Up
03 - Brown Sugar
04 - You Got Me Rocking
05 - Tumbling Dice
06 - Don't Stop
07 - Ruby Tuesday
08 - You Can't Always Get What You Want
09 - It's Only Rock'n Roll
10 - Miss You (with Justin Timberlake)
11 - Introductions
CD2
01 - The Nearness Of You (Keith)
02 - Happy (Keith)
03 - Sympathy For The Devil
04 - Rock Me Baby (with Angus and Malcolm Young from AC/DC)
05 - Honky Tonk Women
06 - Satisfaction
07 - Jumping Jack Flash (encore)
Various bands : 2:00pm - 5:00pm
Justin Timberlake : 5:30pm - 5:50pm
The Guess Who : 6:10pm - 6:40pm
Rush : 7:05pm - 7:40pm
AC/DC : 8:05pm - 9:15pm
The Rolling Stones : 10:00pm - 11:40pm
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Pre-show information
The Rolling Stones flew into Toronto directly from Prague shortly after 7pm Monday night Toronto time. They are expected to fly back to Europe directly after the show tonight.
Gates opened 8am this morning, and there are expected to come around 450,000 people, all ticket buyers for the show tonight, which will make this event the biggest paying rock show ever.
Show comments
"We are all here for a weired reason", Keith said. "Toronto is now booming", Mick said. Mick was so busy thanking the nurses and healt personel, and also the armed forces of Canada and US all over the world, who watched the show live, that he forgot his main job. But Keith rushed over to tell him that there was a band to introduce, and after that Keith was on.
Luckily this great event, the largest rock concert in history, was taped and broadcasted, so you will for sure get a copy if you work on it. So I will comment on those things you may not see on the tape...
It is strange to be in a crowd of half a million people. The number of people who walk side by side you through the gates at 2pm, eight hours before the Stones are on, and the dust and feel about it, makes you think about the scenes from Woodstock and Altamont. People came in masses, all the time, all day, through three gates. There were speakers and monitors spread out all over the place, so even if only the first 150,000 or so could see clearly what happened on stage, the others could enjoy the sound and the visuals anyway. But I would not say it is the perfect way to see a rock show. This was more of an event. In fact, the guy next to me on the underground back home said: "They should do this every year!"
"Ruby Tuesday" was beautiful, and a nice surprise. Justin Timberlake made a nice dancing partner for Mick on "Miss You", but he seemed to be in a different league. There were thrown empty bottles on stage when Mick and Justin were up front dueting, and as they danced on further back to the stage, Keith did some stage police work. He walked up front, you could see the anger in his eyes, he did some pointing and waving with his hands, and he made this "you are braindead" pointing to his head, and there were no more bottles coming on stage.
It was the largest stage I have seen ever, with TORONTO in large letters on the top, and with the Stones tongue covering the middle "O". Two large monitors on either side, and a large backdrop of the red maple leaf flag behind the entire stage, which made most of the visuals read colored through the show.
"Rock Me Baby" with Angus and Malcolm was very popular, and Keith touched everybody with his statement "I Love You Toronto", before he dedicated "The Nearness Of You" to all the nurses. And even if some people started to leave during Satisfaction and JJF, I was surprised that most of the crowd stayed to watch the entire show, including the most fantastic fireworks being done in a long time at a Stones show.
PS. I was sure there would be no scalpers tonight, but as we came off the underground there were a few scalpers who offered tickets at $5 each. It was not sold out, and face value was $23. Also, Angus did his usual "strip show" during the AC/DC set, but now the AC/DC surprise letters on his pants were replaced by the maple leaf.
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