![]() ![]() Lighting design was by Patrick Woodroffe.Ĭanadian promoter Michael Cohl made his name buying the concert, sponsorship, merchandising, radio, television, and film rights to the Steel Wheels Tour. The stage was designed by Mark Fisher with the participation of Charlie Watts and Mick Jagger. One local radio station, 99.3 The Fox, even had a man (Andrew Korn) sit in front of the station in a bath tub filled with brown sugar and water for free tickets to the concert. ![]() Fan reaction for tickets was unprecedented. in Canada and played two sold out concerts at B.C. Jagger came out and spoke to the crowd during the delay. During the opening show in Philadelphia, the power went out during "Shattered", and caused a slight delay in the show. The official Steel Wheels Tour kicked off later that month at the now-demolished Veterans Stadium in Philadelphia. ![]() The group performed a pre-tour 'surprise show' that took place on 12 August 1989 at Toad's Place in New Haven, Connecticut with a local act, Sons of Bob, opening the show for an audience of only 700 people who had purchased tickets for $3.01 apiece. A 25-member entourage, as well as a security force larger than the surrounding towns, was hired to support the band. The Rolling Stones began pre-tour preparations in July 1989 at the Wykeham Rise School, a former boarding school for girls in Litchfield, Connecticut. The tour was an enormous financial success, cementing The Rolling Stones' return to full commercial power after a seven-year hiatus in touring marked by well-publicized acrimony among band members. This tour would also be the longest the band had ever done up to that point, playing over twice as many shows as their standard tour length from the 1960s and 1970s. These would be the last live concerts for the band with original member Bill Wyman on bass guitar. The European leg of the tour, which featured a different stage and logo, was called the Urban Jungle Tour it ran from May to August 1990. The Rolling Stones' Steel Wheels Tour was a concert tour which was launched in North America in August 1989 to promote the band's album Steel Wheels it continued to Japan in February 1990, with ten shows at the Tokyo Dome. Steel Wheels Tour/Urban Jungle Tour Tour by The Rolling Stones ![]()
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