Saturday, Oct 21, 1989
The Rolling Stones
With Guns N' Roses
Also on the bill: Living Colour
- Date
- Saturday, Oct 21, 1989
- Show time
- 3:30 PM
- Venue
- Los Angeles Memorial Coliseum
- City
- Los Angeles, CA
- Seating
- Tunnel 8 South
- Face value
- $30.50
- Promoter
- MTV Presents
- Sold by
- Ticketmaster
Steel Wheels tour. Also on the bill, recovered from setlist.fm's record of who played this room that night. setlist.fm stores no running order, so the slot each act played is unknown.
What they played
- 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 Keith Richards on lead vocals
- Happy Keith Richards on lead vocals
- 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
Encore
- Jumpin' Jack Flash
25 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.
What Guns N' Roses played
- It's So Easy
- Mr. Brownstone
- Out ta Get Me
- Move to the City with Matt McKagan & the Suicide Horn Section
- Patience with I Was Only Joking (Intro)
- My Michelle
- Slash Guitar Solo
- Rocket Queen
- Knockin' on Heaven's Door Bob Dylan cover with intro of Only Women Bleed
- Welcome to the Jungle
- Sweet Child o' Mine
- Paradise City
12 songs, from setlist.fm.
What Living Colour played
- Middle Man
- Desperate People
- Pride
- Memories Can't Wait Talking Heads cover
- Should I Stay or Should I Go The Clash cover
- Funny Vibe
- Broken Hearts
- Glamour Boys
- Open Letter (to a Landlord)
- Cult of Personality
10 songs, from setlist.fm.
The moment
Steel Wheels was the Stones' first American tour in eight years, sold as the comeback of the decade, and the Coliseum run was its Hollywood stand — with Guns N' Roses, the most dangerous band alive that fall, opening. Three nights before this one, on the same stage, Axl Rose stopped the set to threaten a breakup if his bandmates kept 'dancing with Mr. Brownstone.' So John walked in mid-soap-opera: rock's past headlining, rock's chaotic present opening, Living Colour on the bill, all for $30.50.
From the time
- Steel Wheels/Urban Jungle Tour
“The 1989 comeback machine — then the highest-grossing tour ever staged — whose Los Angeles run doubled as Guns N' Roses' public unraveling.”