I suspect they’ll all go, and the band will come out to that London stage to prove that even with Charlie gone, they are still the Stones. A dystopian decade later, and amid a terrifying new European war, a cost of living crisis and the lingering impacts of the pandemic, there are still tickets up for those that want them for Hyde Park SIXTY. This time around, with the big six-oh rising up to meet them face to face, what do the Stones have to fight to prove this time round? That they’re bigger than Sixty? That time waits for no one, but does linger for them? That they still like it? According to some English tabloids, concert sell-outs are not as instantaneous as they were for the band a decade ago. When they have something to prove, proof is given. Long-time band associate and former Xpensive Wino Steve Jordan has stepped up to Charlie Watts’ drum seat and the Stones tour of a Covid-ravaged US last year – while other bands and solo acts were falling to the wayside – was a remarkable revitalisation of the surviving band and its spirit, with the three principles – Jagger, Richards, Wood – more than stepping up to the mark in terms of power and focus as they honoured their bandmate and performed with more intensity and heft than they had in a long time. In the past year, the Stones have had to come to terms with death, who briefly joined their line-up to lead away beloved drummer Charlie Watts shortly before their pandemic-delayed No Filter US tour was about to start last summer. Now, after the long, dislocated years of pandemic and lockdown, they are likely to be greeted with a heroes’ welcome again, as the shadows lengthen over the rock'n'roll years, hoary figures lurching into the light from an age of myth, survivors from times long gone but still long in the memory.
They were greeted like returning heroes in 2013, especially amid uncertainty that they’d even get back together at all. Something does happen to this band when they feel they have something to prove Then they’re back in the UK towards the end of June for the first of two London shows at Hyde Park – the scene of their triumphal 50th anniversary return after a long performance lay-off following 2007’s A Bigger Bang tour. That was the year they bade farewell to Britain before decamping to the south of France to make Exile on Main Street. ^ Shipments figures based on certification alone.The Stones will stop by in Munich’s old Olympic Stadium, which dates, like quite a chunk of their set list, from the early Seventies, before SIXTY’s opening UK date in Liverpool, the band’s first gig there since 1971. * Sales figures based on certification alone. " Third Stone from the Sun" (Jimi Hendrix) - 6:10."Hug You, Squeeze You" ( John Lee Hooker) - 3 44." Texas Flood" ( Larry Davis / Joseph Wade Scott) - 9:30." Mary Had a Little Lamb" ( George 'Buddy' Guy) - 3:15."Tell Me" ( Chester Arthur Burnett) - 3:08." Voodoo Child (Slight Return)" ( Jimi Hendrix) - 6:39.The performance was later released in 2014 on the album Stevie Ray Vaughan: The Complete Live Collection, with two bonus tracks, Howlin Wolf’s You’ll Be Mine, and Vaughan’s own Rude Mood. It was also released as a DVD on December 21, 1999, with interviews from drummer Chris Layton and bassist Tommy Shannon. The film was recorded at the El Mocambo club in Toronto, Ontario during the band's Texas Flood Tour. Live at the El Mocambo is a live video by Stevie Ray Vaughan and Double Trouble.
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