Kick Ass Rock N Roll
“Honky Tonk Woman”
Miami, Florida / Orange Bowl
November 16, 1989 — It was the day before my birthday when I saw the Rolling Stones in the Miami Orange Bowl, one show in their 1989 North American Tour. I was fortunate enough to be sitting in the second row. From there, as the band broke into “Honky Tonk Woman,” I was surprised looking up to see two roadies, high up in the scaffolding on both sides of the large stage. Soon, two enormous inflatable dolls rose 40 feet into the South Florida night sky, and began to writhe slowly to the honky tonk groove. From a distance, I’m sure it appeared that the “women” were being moved by the tropical breeze, but in actuality, it was the two roadies, with their backs to the crowd, hidden behind the dolls, kicking each in their inflatable ass.
— dave hogerty (originalnoise.org)
Rolling Stones
Mick Jagger (Vocals)
Keith Richards (Guitar, Vocals)
Ronnie Wood (Guitar)
Bill Wyman (Bass Guitar)
Charlie Watts (Drums)
additional musicians
Matt Clifford: keyboards, French horn
Bobby Keys: saxophone
Chuck Leavell: keyboards, musical director
Bernard Fowler: backing vocals
Lisa Fischer: backing vocals
Cindy Mizelle: backing vocals
Lorelei McBroom: backing vocals
Sophia Jones: backing vocals
The Uptown Horns:
Arno Hecht: saxophone
Bob Funk: trombone
Crispin Cioe: saxophone
Paul Litteral: trumpet
Orange Bowl
Set List
Start Me Up
Bitch
Sad Sad Sad
Undercover of the Night
One Hit (To the Body)
Tumbling Dice
Miss You
Ruby Tuesday
Play With Fire
Dead Flowers
Rock and a Hard Place
Mixed Emotions
Honky Tonk Women
Midnight Rambler
You Can’t Always Get What You Want
Before They Make Me Run
Happy
Paint It Black
2000 Light Years From Home
Sympathy for the Devil
Gimme Shelter
It’s Only Rock ‘n’ Roll (But I Like It)
Brown Sugar
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction
Starting at the Top
• So meteoric was Living Colour’s launch, that the band was confident releasing “Time Tunnel,” a biographical documentary, just two years after emerging out of NYC’s “downtown” punk scene.
From its infancy at CBGB, to playing stadiums with the world’s most enduring and legendary rock n roll band, Living Colour, from the beginning was PLAYING LOUD AND (ALWAYS) SAYING SOMETHING.
• The video here is a 15-minute segment of “Time Tunnel,” in which the band discusses its relationship with the Rolling Stones, opening the Steel Wheels North American Tour, and its rock n roll initiation on the road, performing before crowds larger than most bands (even the successful) ever experience.
Also included in the clip is an energized playing of “Cult Of Personality” (Living Colour’s first Grammy Award) in Oakland, California, and ends onstage with the Stones in Montreal (Quebec, Canada), with “It’s Only Rock N Roll,” the Steel Wheels tour’s final encore performance.
Kick-Ass Rock N Roll in The Orange Bowl
The Continuum
Opening with “Freedom Of Expression (F.O.X.),” a warning of “falsified news,” followed “Program,” an equally pointed critique of reality TV, and including covers of Biggie Smalls’ “Who Shot Ya” and Marvin Gaye’s “Inner City Blues,” SHADE makes it clear, that after 30 years, Living Colour is STILL ALIVE AND WELL.
