The Rolling Stones played the very rare ‘Silver Train’ live at their final Australian show in Brisbane last night (November 18, 2014).
Including last night’s performance ‘Silver Train’ has only ever been played seven times by The Rolling Stones, three times on this year and four times in 1973. It has never been performed live by the Stones in the USA.
‘Silver Train’ featured on the Stones 13th album ‘Goat’s Head Soup’, released in August 1973. The song was also the B-side of the single ‘Angie’.
Mick Taylor, who was the guitarist for the Stones on Goat’s Head Soup’, performed the song with the band at the Brisbane Entertainment Centre.
The Rolling Stones wrote ‘Silver Train’ years earlier and started demoing it originally for the ‘Sticky Fingers’ album in 1971. Johnny Winter was given a demo of the song and released it before the Rolling Stones on his ‘Still Alive and Well’ album. Taylor also recorded a version of the song for the ‘Too Hot For Snakes’ album with Carla Olsen in 1991.
Rolling Stones setlist Sydney, November 12, 2014
Jumping Jack Flash (single, 1968)
It’s Only Rock ‘N’ Roll (But I Like It) (from It’s Only Rock N Roll, 1974)
You Got Me Rocking (from Voodoo Lounge, 1994)
Tumbling Dice (from Exile On Main Street, 1972)
Silver Train (with Mick Taylor) (from Goats Head Soup 1973)
Bitch (from Sticky Fingers, 1971)
Paint It Black (from Aftermath, 1968)
Honky Tonk Women (single, 1968)
You Got The Silver (with Keith on lead vocals) (from Let It Bleed, 1969)
Before They Make Me Run (with Keith on lead vocals)(from Some Girls, 1978)
Happy (with Keith on lead vocals) (from Exile On Main Street, 1972)
Midnight Rambler (with Mick Taylor on guitar) (from Let It Bleed, 1969)
Miss You (from Some Girls, 1978)
Gimme Shelter (from Let It Bleed, 1969)
Start Me Up (from Tattoo You, 1981)
Sympathy For The Devil (from Beggars Banquet, 1968)
Brown Sugar (from Sticky Fingers, 1971)
ENCORE
You Can’t Always Get What You Want (from Let It Bleed, 1969)
(I Can’t Get No) Satisfaction (from Out Of Our Heads, 1965)
Previous setlists: Adelaide, Perth 1, Perth 2, Melbourne, Sydney, Hunter Valley
The next Rolling Stones show is Auckland, New Zealand, November 22, 2014.
View the Noise11.com Rolling Stones Melbourne photo gallery by Ros O’Gorman
Read the Noise11 Rolling Stones Melbourne review
