The Rolling Stones prepared for the start of the 2013 leg of the ’50 and Counting’ tour with an intimate gig at the Echoplex Club in Echo Park on Saturday night.
Charlie Watts, The Rolling Stones (photo by Ros O'Gorman)
The show was announced at 12:30pm that afternoon and tickets went on sale 30 minutes later but fans who queued were disappointed by the ballot system.
Regardless of when fans arrived at the El Rey Theatre to buy the $20 ticket they were made to wait for hours and then go in the draw for tickets to the 300 capacity club. One friends of the Stones were taken care of the number of real fans who managed to get a ticket to the show were in the minority.
Those who did got to see a few surprises including the addition of ‘Little Queenie’ back in the set for the first time in 15 years.
Here is the setlist for The Rolling Stones at Echoplex, Echo Park Saturday, April 27, 2013:
You Got Me Rockin’ (from Voodoo Lounge, 1994)
Respectable (from Some Girls, 1978)
She’s So Cold (from Emotional Rescue, 1980)
Live With Me (from Let It Bleed, 1969)
Street Fightin’ Man (from Beggars Banquet, 1968)
That’s How Strong My Love Is (O.V. Wright cover)
Little Queenie (from Get Yer Ya Yas Out, 1969)
Just My Imagination (from Some Girls, 1978)
Miss You (from Some Girls, 1978)
Love In Vain (from Let It Bleed, 1969)
Midnight Rambler (from Let It Bleed, 1969)
Start Me Up (from tattoo You, 1981)
Brown Sugar (from Sticky Fingers, 1971)
Jumpin’ Jack Flash (single, 1969)
