Sunday, 13 October 2019

1994-1995 Voodoo Lounge World Tour

The tour to support the Voodoo Lounge album (equivalent to a double LP, their first since Exile on Main Street) commenced in summer 1994. Opening with 'Not Fade Away', their first US single from 1964, 30 years earlier, the set list included a generous helping of the tracks from Voodoo Lounge, various oldies not played since the 1960s or early 1970s ('It's All Over Now'), several tunes never recorded or played live (the Temptations 'Can't Get Next to You', Bo Diddley's 'Who Do You Love?' with the man himself joining them on stage), and Robert Johnson's 'Stop Breaking Down', covered on Exile in 1972.

After some abridged shows in Japan they were off to Europe where aficionados were treated to the set lists of their dreams whenever the Stones played smaller venues like the Paradisio in Amsterdam, the Olympia in Paris, and Brixton Academy in London. The band went back as far as some unreleased tunes from their earliest recordings like 'Down in the Bottom', 'Still a Fool', and 'Little Baby' as well as tunes they hadn't played for decades like 'The Spider and the Fly' and 'Connection' (Keith's first lead vocal on a Stones album, which he'd done on his 1988 solo tours).

An obscure tune 'Jump On Top of Me', recorded for the movie Pret a Porter, was also played at the Paradiso. Here it is:

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