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

  1. Start Me Up
  2. Bitch
  3. Sad Sad Sad
  4. Undercover of the Night
  5. One Hit (To the Body)
  6. Tumbling Dice
  7. Miss You
  8. Ruby Tuesday
  9. Play With Fire
  10. Dead Flowers
  11. Rock and a Hard Place
  12. Mixed Emotions
  13. Honky Tonk Women
  14. Midnight Rambler
  15. You Can't Always Get What You Want
  16. Before They Make Me Run Keith Richards on lead vocals
  17. Happy Keith Richards on lead vocals
  18. Paint It Black
  19. 2000 Light Years From Home
  20. Sympathy for the Devil
  21. Gimme Shelter
  22. It's Only Rock 'n' Roll (but I Like It)
  23. Brown Sugar
  24. (I Can't Get No) Satisfaction

Encore

  1. Jumpin' Jack Flash

25 songs, from setlist.fm. Contributed by whoever was standing there taking notes.

What Guns N' Roses played

  1. It's So Easy
  2. Mr. Brownstone
  3. Out ta Get Me
  4. Move to the City with Matt McKagan & the Suicide Horn Section
  5. Patience with I Was Only Joking (Intro)
  6. My Michelle
  7. Slash Guitar Solo
  8. Rocket Queen
  9. Knockin' on Heaven's Door Bob Dylan cover with intro of Only Women Bleed
  10. Welcome to the Jungle
  11. Sweet Child o' Mine
  12. Paradise City

12 songs, from setlist.fm.

What Living Colour played

  1. Middle Man
  2. Desperate People
  3. Pride
  4. Memories Can't Wait Talking Heads cover
  5. Should I Stay or Should I Go The Clash cover
  6. Funny Vibe
  7. Broken Hearts
  8. Glamour Boys
  9. Open Letter (to a Landlord)
  10. 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

The stub